Five Apps: New iOS tools to sharpen your job performance
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Introduction
Introduction
Improving job performance is a pretty broad realm, but werncan all use a little help. You can think of it as boosting mental function orrnsimply finding tools that will help you do a specific task a little faster orrneasier. Studies have shown that memory games can boost brain function, stavernoff dementia, or at least make you smarter in the short term. Whether they canrnbe believed is up for argument, but it can’t hurt. On the task-specific side,rndoing something more efficiently makes everyone’s life a little better.
In this gallery, we look at several new iOSrnapps that can help you boost your job performance. Some of them arernbrain-builders; others are task-specific. We selected these particular task-specific ones becausernyou can use them in a variety of jobs.
Note: This gallery is also available as an article.
Adobe Sketch
Adobe Sketch
Adobe Sketch is a free-form drawing app offering several pen types and a fullrncolor palette.
Babbel
Babbel
Babbelrnhelps you learn languages using a game-like interface. It has 12 languagernoptions (plus your base language).
Babbel
Babbel
You can run the initial Beginner and Advanced levels forrnfree for all languages.
Babbel
Babbel
One of the games has you select the appropriate word from arnmultiple-choice list.
Brainbean
Brainbean
The first game is Letter List, where you try to come up withrnas many words as possible that start with the given letter within the timeframe.
Photoshop Mix
Photoshop Mix
Photoshop Mix is a free Creative Cloud-enabled product from Adobe that gives you arnfew features of Adobe Photoshop on your iPad.
Photoshop Mix
Photoshop Mix
Photoshop Mix contains several preset u201cLooksu201d tornchoose from.
Skitch
Skitch
Here is a map with a few annotations.
