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 |
| Content | Your social magazine – aggregate content |
Free |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Productivity |
Free |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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