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