Top Four Blackberry Applications for Today’s Busy Moms

by Carrie Ostrea

Between kids’ activities, household shopping, managing the family budget, and staying up to date with friends and family, it would require incredible organization and skills just to stay on track. In today’s technology-hip world, a mom is able to accomplish many of these tasks anywhere and at any time with the help of these very useful mom-friendly Blackberry applications.

1. SplashMoney, splashdata.com. Being able to manage the family finances from anywhere is such a time-saver for today’s mom. SplashMoney can give you access to your online bank accounts, including checking, savings, credit cards, and more. You can also reconcile your bank account by downloading your most recent transactions, create budgets, and analyze the family’s spending with customizable reports.

2. Beejive Instant Messaging, beejive.com. Instant messaging is a requirement for moms to be able to keep in contact with friends and family. With so many instant messaging platforms these days, Beejive makes it easy by combining all of your buddy lists and usernames into one very user-friendly program. Whether you use AIM, GoogleTalk, Myspace, MSN, Yahoo, or Jabber, you will be able to have a real-time chat, send emails, and send/receive files.

3. Viigo, viigo.com. The amount of content one has access to with this service is amazing, and the application is free to download. With a very easy-to-use interface, moms will have access to the latest weather reports, Hollywood gossip, local activities and events, travel information, sports scores, their favorite blogs with a RSS reader, and so much more.

4. Appetite, simpleleap.com. Plan the day’s menu and automatically create a shopping list of ingredients. This very intuitive recipe and grocery shopping tool allows you to add and share recipes including pictures of dishes and step-by-step instructions as well as helps organize your grocery list by group items together by aisle and allowing one-touch checking off of items.