Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Etiquette Apps

The following apps are not just about e-Etiquette, but trying to teach any kinds of manners, be it table manners, business manners, or golf manners. I've found an assortment of these apps, but unfortunately most of them are either books or a set of flip cards made into an app. Some have a few functions they perform in order to help the owner of the app 'behave' in a civilised manner.
I downloaded the iOS apps to play around with them and see how the user can interact with them.

Some iOS Apps that I found:

Etiquette for all occasions: Learn to do what is right on a dinner table, a business meeting. Learn the basics of etiquette for personal social situations. You can also bookmark your favourite etiquette.
Golf Etiquette: Provides 31 key etiquette tips, 9 essential rules and 79 glossary items on golf.
International Business Etiquette: Understanding other people's languages, cultures, etiquettes and taboos is of great value to the traveller or visiting business person.
Fine Dining Etiquette: Covers introductory steps, seating arrangements, napkin usage, ordering guidelines, table settings, silverware, and after meal suggestions.
Out of the Box Training Game: Consists of 56 interactive dog training activities, easy-to-follow guide with training technique instructions and tips on which rewards will best motivate your dog to learn, dog training scorecard to track your progress.
Etiquette Bell: Makes toilet noises when most convenient for you int he public bathroom. This app is a way to save water on needless flushes. Turns out, that such 'bells' even exists as a real product in public bathrooms in Japan, Korea.

Some Android Apps:
Cinema Etiquette Lite: Switching into vibration mode, triggers the lowest brightness and it automatically restores into it's original state after 3 hours.
Business Etiquette Lite: Switching into silence mode, sends an SMS 'in the meeting' if you get a call, and restores it to original state after some hours.
Week Manners Trial: You can set the silent mode for any day/timing in the coming week.
Etiquette: Put your phone into Airplane mode or silent ringer and Etiquette will prompt to restore the mode after a specified amount of time (up to 24 hours).
Privacy Screen Filter: Displays the filter on the screen, and prevents the peep from surroundings.
FlipSilent: Put the phone face down, the "silent mode" will be activated. When you are in a meeting, or ready to sleep.

UVA Silent Widget Camera: Can take photographs in silent mode.

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