tech tip

November 30th, 2011

Tech-Tip (App Recommendations)

Application Category Description/Comments

Price

ABC Player Content TV

Free

Bloomberg Content Financial

Free

Editors’ Choice Content The NY Times (Limited Content)

Free

Financial Times Content News

Free

FlipBoard Content Your social magazine – aggregate content

Free

Hootsuite Content Social media tool for Twitter, Facebook & Foursquare

Free

iBooks Content eReader

Free

Instapaper Pro Content Capture web content to read when disconnected from web

$4.99

iWiki HD Content Wikipedia for the iPad

$2.99

Kindle Content eReader

Free

Mint.com Content Financial Agregation (iPhone app)

Free

Netflix Content Movies – Must purchase a subscription

Free

NPR Content News Aggregation – NPR Radio

Free

Pandora Radio Content Music

Free

Pulse News Content Aggregator of news-good interface

Free

Sportacular Content Sports scores and information for college and pros

Free

StumbleUpon Content Content aggregation – humor, art, news and etc.

Free

TED Content Videos of Great Speakers

Free

The Early Edition Content News Aggregation

$4.99

The Economist Content Magazine Subscription – Must purchase a subscription

Free App

The Weather Channel Content Weather

Free

TweetMag Content Aggregate tweets from multiple categories

$4.99

Twitterrific Content Twitter filter – manager

Free

USA Today Content Newspaper

Free

Weather HD Content Great Graphics

$.99

WSJ Content Newspaper – Must purchase a subscription

Free App

Pinball HD Games 5 stars – Even better at the bar!

$2.99

Strike Knight Games Puck Bowling (iPhone version only) Great at the bar!

Free

Color Splash Photo Turn color photos into B/W and color parts for effect

$1.99

Photo Transfer Photo Transfer photos from your computer to iPad

$2.99

Air Display Productivity Use iPad as a 2nd monitor on Mac or in W7

$9.99

Amortize (iPhone) Productivity Amortization program

Free

ArtStudio Productivity Drawing – White Board (Good tutorial & art lesions)

$2.99

BsC-1 Productivity Balanced Scorecard

$24.99

Digits Productivity Calculator with tape

$.99

Documents To Go Premium Productivity Great for creating, editing and reading MS Office Documents-Best yet for integration with MS Office-Worth the Money

$14.99

Dragon Dictation Productivity Voice to text

Free

Dropbox Productivity 2GB of storage in the cloud

Free

Evernote Productivity Searchable notes and notebooks – A must have – works on all iDevices and Windows – A competitor with MS OneNote

Free – Premium $45/year

Find iPhone Productivity Locate iDevices, lock and wipe

Free

GoToMeeting Productivity Mobile app for iPad

Free

GoToMyPC Productivity Remote access to PC (Requires app on PC)

Free

iCloud Productivity Coming soon

IMExchange Productivity To do – tasks and Notes, integrates directly with MS Exchange

Free

iThoughts HD Productivity Mind Mapping

$9.99

Keynote Productivity Presentations

$9.99

LastPass Productivity Pass Word Management (For all of your computers/devices)

Free-$2/M

Lifelike Cards Productivity Send postcards and greeting cards for free with your message and photos

$3.99

LinkedIn Productivity LinkedIn

Free

LogMeIn Ignition Productivity Remote Access to one or more PCs

$29.99

MobileMe iDisk Productivity Part of me.com – Being replaced by iCloud

Free

MobileNoter Productivity Sync with MS OneNote Notebooks (Keeps getting better)

Free

Numbers Productivity Spreadsheet

$9.99

Office2 HD Productivity  

$7.99

Pages Productivity Word processing

$9.99

PaperDesk Productivity Notes and sound recording

$1.99

Priority Matrix Productivity Prioritize to do list  (Covey four quadrants)

$1.99

SharePlus Office Productivity Access to company SharePoint sites

$9.99

Sign-N-Send Productivity Sign a PDF – Retain signature

$1.99

Speedtest X HD Productivity Test bandwidth on Wifi or 3G

Free

1000 Ultimate Experiences Reference Great graphics and lists of places in the world

$4.99

3D Brain Reference Educational – great graphics

Free

AppAdvice Reference Advice on applications and the iPad and iPhone

$1.99

Art Authority Reference Amazing – Well worth the price if you like art

$9.99

IMDb Reference All about the movies & TV

Free

Star Walk Reference Explore the Galaxy – very good

$4.99

WebMD Reference Great for all types of medical information

Free

World Fact Book Reference Research – 2010 Version (Great graphics and stats)

$1.99

Amazon Shopping Shopping cart for the iPad

Free

Amazon.com Shopping Shopping

Free

CraigsPro Shopping Shopping

$.99

eBay Shopping Shopping

Free

Zappos Shopping Shopping

Free

Lynda.com Training Access to Training – Excellent CBT – Reasonably priced training

Free App

FlightTrack Pro Travel Flight status with maps

$9.99

Kayak Flights Travel Travel

Free

Nightstand Travel Alarm clock – good graphics with time and temperature

Free/Premium

OpenTable Travel Restaurant Reservations

Free

 

November 17th, 2011

Tech Tip: If you own an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch then you must upgrade to iOS 5!

Update:   Please note that I’ve been told that for those with an iPhone 3GS…the upgrade may NOT be recommended.  The rumor is that you would be running great new software on an older phone that isn’t equipped for that kind of software.  It could run slow and run your battery down.

 

My friend Debbie told me the other day that I needed to upgrade my iPhone software to iOS 5 so that I could iMessage with her instead of texting.   I obediently did as I was told and boy am I glad I listened to her.   Not only can I now iMessage with her and other iMessage users for FREE with no TEXTING plan but I can do over two hundred other new– way– cool –things with my iPhone 4!!

I was feeling left out when my friend Leigh got the new iPhone 4s but I’m a practical girl and realize it isn’t time to upgrade my phone yet because it still works fine!   Well – my 10 year old figured out that Siri (the voice recognition “girl”) lives in my old iPhone 4 too.  You just have to push and hold the home key and speak to her!   Siri can perform some limited tasks such as dial people from my contacts or play songs.   She is not nearly as sophisticated as the Siri that lives in the iPhone 4s but she’s pretty cool nonetheless!

I wanted to understand more about iMessaging vs Texts and I found a great article that you can click here to read.  iMessaging through an iPod Touch may be an interesting choice for those of you with children that you don’t think are ready for a phone but would like to introduce them to free texting first.

My favorite discoveries of iOS so far are the better camera features, the added photo editing, the notification center and of course the iMessaging.

iOS 5 includes more than 200 new features for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
Here’s a quick look at a few other favorites…see below and click to explore or click to Watch the video

  • Notification Center
  • iMessage
  • Newsstand
  • Reminders
  • Twitter
  • Camera
  • Photos
  • Safari
  • PC Free
  • More features

 

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iOS 5 is compatible with:

iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S

iPod touch 3rd generation
iPod touch 4th generation

iPad
iPad 2

 

 

October 27th, 2011

Tech Tip: iPhone cases