Business

App allows you to keep current

Are you looking for a convenient way to display business data next to personal info like upcoming events, incoming e-mails, tweets and news articles?

You might want to check out Status Board, a $9.99 iPad app that lets you configure various panels to display information from your e-mail, calendar and other services along with customized data.

Status Board comes with six built-in panels, displaying the time, weather, events and information from your inbox, Twitter account and RSS feed.

You can also create your own tables and graphs on more personalized data.

For your inbox, Twitter account and RSS feed, you can either have Status Board display incoming messages, tweets or articles, or chart their volume. You can also select from which local calendar Status Board pulls information. You can tap on a panel to change its settings.

You can create a bar graph or table using an Excel spreadsheet and then manually add it to your Status Board.

You can display only one Status Board at once. Although the app’s manufacturer hopes to soon be able to let users switch between boards within the app, for now you can e-mail various Status Boards to yourself or colleagues and clients with the iPad app.