CrimeSpotter
South Africans can now stay more informed on crime and safety issues in their neighbourhood through CrimeSpotter. It combines technology and data from the community, which is then shared.
The idea behind the app is to use South Africans’ eyes and ears to report all crimes and provide any additional information to create a modus operandi and to let others know how they can avoid falling victim to a similar type of crime.
For example, most property crimes can be prevented by taking simple steps, such as locking doors and removing valuables from plain view. If people know that these types of crimes are being reported in their neighbourhoods, they can better prepare their property.
Crimes are instantly mapped and nearby users, police stations and community policing patrols alerted.
Crimes can then be searched or browsed as pins on a map or in a timeline format.
Reporting incidents on CrimeSpotter does not replace an official police report, and is done to alert others and to contribute data to the central crime database.
Platform: Android and iOS
Stockists: Visit the CrimeSpotter site here for downloading instructions
Expect to pay: A free download and incidents can be reported anonymously.
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RocketNet Probe
RocketNet’s Probe application allows its users to diagnose slow Internet connections.
It is designed to take the guesswork out of diagnosing an internal network and points to the exact issue at hand. Most ISPs will tell customers to reboot their routers in the hope this will solve their issues, but downloading this app is claimed to save customers both time and money through its operational efficiency.
The app was developed by Canadian based company RouteThis, to change the customer support experience for both support agents and customers.
With RocketNet Probe, users and agents are able to work together to diagnose the cause of slow Internet connections and remedy the issues to get to the expected level of performance. In addition, customer service agents can securely, remotely and anonymously access customers’ routers to configure their full internal networks.
RocketNet Probe works with any ISP and is not an exclusive service to RocketNet customers.
Platform: Android and iOS
Expect to pay: A free download
Stockists: Visit RocketNet here for downloading instructions.
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Zoho Workplace
Zoho recently announced updates to Zoho Workplace, a software platform that brings together collaboration, productivity and communications tools and integrates them into other business processes.
Created around a business mail and cloud office suite, Zoho Workplace comprises nine integrated applications, built on a common data model and unified through search and AI across a single dashboard, allowing customers to solve business problems quickly and collaboratively.
The updates to Workplace include:
- Mail (Business Mail) – Users can now make audio or video calls within the app, edit document attachments in Zoho Writer, meet online with contacts and access all email accounts from Zoho Mail.
- Cliq (Messaging) – Users can check in or check out and set custom statuses, collaborate with external stakeholders, connect with teams via group audio or video calls and view message-read statuses.
- Meeting (Conferencing) – Users can schedule recurring or one-off meetings and set multiple email reminders from web and mobile devices. Now supporting 16 languages, Meeting is integrated with Zoho Projects, Bookings, CRM, and others.
- Connect (Social Intranet) – Connect integrates with human resource information systems, including Zoho People.
- Writer (Word Processing) – Users can convert documents to fillable forms, restrict comment visibility, gather document engagement insights, and enable an AI-based writing assistant.
- Show (Collaborative Presenting) – Show is integrated with Atlassian, Unsplash, and Humaans, and features an organisation-wide slide library and data linking, allowing users to connect live data to slides.
- Sheet (Spreadsheet) – Users have access to the latest functions for lookup and match and can view historic data with race charts, create drop-downs with predefined values and link cell ranges.
- WorkDrive (Cloud Document Management) – WorkDrive now features unified search and TrueSync, which allows users to access files without worrying about hard drive space.
- ShowTime (Online Training) – ShowTime supports branding and white-labelling. Users can set roles and privileges for their training team and gather training insights.
Platform: Most computers and mobile devices with up-to-date Internet browsers.
Expect to pay: Pricing starts at R45 per user per month for the standard version and R90 per user per month for the professional version.
Stockists: Visit Zoho here to sign up.
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HealthCheck
The Department of Basic Education and E³ recently launched a Covid-19 digital pre-screening risk assessment and mapping tool, HealthCheck, on the TeacherConnect platform.
The TeacherConnect platform is being developed as a way to support teachers by providing access to learning content on WhatsApp.
HealthCheck is the first tool to be available on the TeacherConnect platform and plays a role in helping protect teachers and learners in schools that have reopened.
HealthCheck has already been used at tertiary institutions across South Africa, with almost 3.5 -million checks already completed.
Teachers, non-teaching staff and parents (on behalf of their children) can do a daily HealthCheck through the TeacherConnect platform, where they answer a few simple questions relating to Covid-19 symptoms and risk.
The HealthCheck tool also issues receipts after users complete their pre-screening self-assessment, providing educators, support staff and parents with an endorsed declaration of their risk level, with a validity period of 24 hours.
Platform: Any device capable of running WhatsApp
Stockists: Teachers, parents and learners can access HealthCheck on TeacherConnect 24/7 by saving the number +27 60 060 3333 to their contacts and then messaging the word ‘hi’ to start a conversation or do a HealthCheck.
Expect to pay: A free service
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Nedbank Money App Lite
Nedbank has made digital banking easier, safer and more affordable for entry-level clients with new updates to its Nedbank Money App Lite smartphone app.
The app includes biometric sign-on, either through a fingerprint or face identification, as well as card and PIN registration without the need to go to a branch. It offers chat functionality to contact an agent directly through the app, without having to dial a call centre.
The Nedbank Money App Lite is a progressive web app, which means it never has to be updated, since updates occur automatically online. It also uses less than 5MB when installed on a smartphone.
Customers can use it to buy electricity, data and lotto tickets from their phone at any time of the day.
Platform: Most up-to-date smartphones with more than 5MB of storage space.
Expect to pay: Free to use, but only for those with a Nedbank account.
Stockists: Visit Nedbank here for installation instructions.