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Coles Shopmate - doesn't find my local store!

 

 

It seems that 'retail' has finally decided that a lot of people own iPhones and therefore they should jump on the application bandwagon.

Coles say that the app will help you....

"Plan your shopping, discover delicious new recipes and stay informed of all the latest weekly specials with Coles ShopMate for iPhone.

Coles Shopmate combines the convenience and range of your local Coles supermarket with a host of powerful take-anywhere features unique to the iPhone. "

All well and good but my local Coles (around 1 kilometre from my house) hasn't hit the database yet and even though it has been open for over four months it doesn't come up in the list of local stores to choose from. That to me I'm afraid is a big 'fail' Coles and makes the application unusable. The store IS on the website database though so a tiny bit of tweaking should put me in the position of being able to properly trial the program.

I think this could be a useful program - recipes, shopping list & specials catalogue combined - has anyone used it? If they had my store would I find it useful? I'd be very keen to hear how it compares with the standard iPhone shopping lists. Is it useful or is it more of a gimmick?

Evernote iPhone App - forget those sticky notes now!

Dear iPhone

Thank you so much for being so incredibly useful! You truly are my spare brain. Today I had to race out the door and I tried after my bad experience on Friday to grab pen and paper just in case something happened while I was outdoors and would be unable to snap photos for any reason. Stupidly I wrote down the wrong phone number or wrote so badly I couldn't read what the numbers were. Hopeless! I was however completely happy when I realised that I had send the information I needed to a note in Evernote on my desktop. I went into the Evernote iPhone app, let it sync and download any changes and voila there was my note with all the information and phone numbers I needed to complete a small but urgent job while I was out.

The Evernote iPhone application has been around for some time but I am now finding the latest version the most exciting of all. The landscape view of notes is fabulous and the app seems very stable and much quicker to access important bits.

Thanks for saving my bacon this time!