Anthony van Geest

Review: BPMN Quick Reference Guide

a.vangeest — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:34:26 +0000

Short summary

The BPMN Quick Reference Guide is a small app that serves as a great reference for BPMN 2.0 modellers.

Personal opinion

I have reviewed Android version 2.0 (Lite) of the app which has recently been released. The app has very nice and clear interface. The main screen displays several categories which can be tapped .

After selecting a category a list with appropriate figures and explanations appears. Scrolling the list is easy. The images are crips and pleasant for the eyes. The explanations are short and effective. Just as it should be in a quick reference guide.

The Lite edition is free, but limited to descriptions of Activities and Gateways. The paid version offers additional descriptions for:

- Lanes and Pools
- Data
- Events
- BPMN examples

Is this app all great than? Well, I’ve only one thing that I like less is the display of a header and footer in the list while scrolling. These appear and disappear all the time which makes the scrolling a bit restless. The problem disappears after tapping one item by the way, so it is a minor issue.

App description

The BPMN Quick Reference Guide app does exactly what you expect it to do. It is an ideal reference guide for BPMN pofessionals.

General Information

Rating: * * * * (4 stars out of 5)

Android market links:
Lite version
PRO version (€ 2,05)
- Author: Julian J Wong
- Version: 2.0
- Target group: BPM, BPMN Professionals

Innovation Twitter List

a.vangeest — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:57:48 +0000

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Review: netMemo

a.vangeest — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:07:39 +0000

As I am on the move regularly, I was looking for a good voice recorder on my Android phone. I selected two Android apps to begin with:

netMemo
Voice Recorder

For now I’m working with netMemo (free) which is very simple. The interface is straightforward and clean. After installation the app offers a short introduction video. Very practical.

netMemo can start recording immediately after starting the app. That’s nice when you are driving for example. The resulting files can be send immediately after stopping the recording. In setting you can select to send the file immediately to your email, but it’s also possible to send it to Dropbox for example (which is my choice of preference at the moment).

I am not very impressed by the sound quality yet, but I’m sure that will depend on the surroundings. Will get back on that later. So far netMemo is a nice app for recording short audio notes. The pro version costs € 1.95 and seems fair to me.

netMemo in the Android Market