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Must Have iPad Applications
The App Store has brought out a bunch of apps for the iPad. While there are many that were already available for the iPhone, they will look much better in the larger iPad. There are many new ones too. The costs are a bit high to what you would usually find in the App Store.
1. News and Social
NYT Editor’s Choice:
This app shows you what the ‘New York Times’ looks like on the iPad. It is free. There may be hidden subscription charges.
USA Today:
This app shows you how the ‘USA Today’ looks like on the iPad. This is free but there may be hidden subscription charges.
WSJ:
The Wall Street Journal has launched an app to allow its followers on iPad to read the paper. It is a free app. There may be hidden subscription charges.
AP:
This is a really good app. It includes video, image and text content as well. It has an unorthodox design. This is another free app.
NPR for iPad:
This is a digital version of the NPR. There is text and photo news along with the audio. It is a free app.
Popular Science:
The tease at the App Store hints that this is not only a magazine scan. Rather it has been influenced by the amazing concept that surfaces in December. This app costs $5.
BBC:
This old broadcaster is now on iPad with its very own app. There is all the BBC’s news coverage. This includes print, video and radio.
Bloomberg:
The app for all of you with a business sense. Your iPad can become a finance terminal with this app. It is free for now.
StumbleUpon:
You can use your Stumble Upon account for simple link sharing and discovery. It is a free app.
Instapaper:
The app that lets you save anything that you have come across online in a cleaned-up format for later use. It costs $5.
NewsRack:
NewsRack worked great for the iPhone as an RSS reader. The great news is that if you have already paid $5 for the iPhone version, then the iPad download is absolutely free.
Feeddler:
Feeddler is a free app that will cover all the basics if you do not want to spend money for a feed reader.
Fluent News:
Some of you might not like the RSS readers. If that is the case, then Fluent is your thing. It will make your daily news to be a little guided into a single interface. This app is free.
Accuweather Cirrus:
The app that will make you an expert weatherperson. It includes prediction and reading. It is free.
Tweetdeck:
Tweet deck worked great with the iPhone. It takes the column-based desktop app, and adapts it to the iPhone’s screen. The end result is in either two column (a portrait) or three column (landscape) modes.
AIM:
AIM is the AOL’s instant messaging app. It looks pretty stunning. This app is free.
IM+:
The app that will let you do some serious multi-protocol messaging. That includes Live, Facebook and Yahoo, among others. This app is for $10.
Loopt Pulse:
This app provides localism. Find out what is going on around your sofa, right from your sofa. It is free.
Dash Four:
Foursquare on the iPad might sound like a strange idea now. Yet it won’t seem so strange the next time you are in Starbucks, with your iPad. This app costs $2.
Craigsphone:
While the Craiglist website is a disaster, the Craigslist iPad app looks great. It is free.
2. Entertainment and Video
Netflix:
An app that provides Netflix streaming over Wi-Fi. You should first have a NetFlix account that costs around $9 a month these days. After that, you can have thousands of brilliant TV shows and movies in your hand. The app is free.
ABC Player:
ABC Player is one of the first TV apps available in the store. It has made a promising start. It provides an amazing slick interface for the ABC video content that is available on their website. This app is free.
Marvel Comics:
An app that turns your iPad into a comic book for real. It provides a free reader but the comics have to be paid for.
iBooks:
iBooks is the Apple’s ebook store. It is the best thing yet for iPad ebooks. There is no competition for now, but Amazon and Barnes will be hoping to change that soon.
NBA Game Time Courtside:
An app that provides you with a full and interactive dashboard for all the basketball games that you watch. It is a joy for all the basketball fans. It is absolutely free.
MLB At Bat:
It is an app that enables you to watch the live games like the iPhone version. The extra bit added is that it simulates the games you are unable to watch due to blackout or licensing issues. There are also statistics at hand. It costs $15.
ESPN ScoreCenter:
For all of you out there who like to eat, drink and sleep sports, this is the app for you. It provides a constant feed of sports information. There are the specific game scores like on the iPhone app, but the iPad app has been enhanced to include scores of columns, frames and panes. If you love sports, it costs a mere $5.
Yahoo Entertainment:
Yahoo Entertainment pulls info from the vast network of Yahoo sites. It has complete TV listings, videos and entertainment news. It has been amazingly designed, and it is free so it is definitely worth a download.
SoundHound:
SoundHound is a song recognition app with a difference. It has an immensely fast recognition engine. It does not only ID any music that is playing, but also provides lyrics, charts, music discovery and full playlist playback. The charts are based on what people are Idling and not based on buying statistics. It is for $5.
Shazam:
It is an app that provides song recognition. Still, it will not recognize your own singing voice or humming like SoundHound can. Also, the song recognition ability is not as good. Still, it is a free app so you can try it.
Pandora:
The Pandora’s iPad app is sticking to its basic customized radio feature. It provides artist info along with your playlists. Read More
50 Free iPhone / iPad Apps
There are different kinds of apps introduced as soon as after the launching of iPhone 3GS in market. Some of these apps are free and some are paid one. Most of freely available iPhone 3G / 3GS applications can be obtained from various resources. One can easily enhance the functionalities of his iPhone without any cost. These free iPhone 3G apps can be selected according to choice and requirement.
1. A Personal Assistant
It gives an assistance to manage the personal online accounts. This app provides facility to monitor credit card transactions, banking and investment accounts. It is working well with most of the banks including Chase, United, Bloomberg, Bank of America and many others.
2. AllRecipes.com Dinner Spinner
This is an important iPhone version of a well known food site All recipes.com. This site contains a lots of easy and quick food recipes. It includes with number of food expert reviews. One can easily find a recipe for a selected food.
3. Action Method
This is an important task management app. It gives facility to control the tasks on iPhone. Tasks entries can be easily and automatically synched with desktops. This app can also be utilized to manage and organize the contacts into various groups.
4. AIM (Free Edition)
This is freely available version of social networking iPhone app of AIM. It allows someone to connect with friends through EDGE, Wi-Fi or 3G networks. It has many useful features including an optional notice on every SMS receiving and multiple screen configurations. One can be stay connected at every time to view the status, updates and expressions.
5. Balance
This app provides an electronic edition of a paper-based document record. This iPhone app allows someone to monitor the account balances for various transactions. It can be synched with computer through a password protection feature for transactions of an account.
6. Beam Catcher
It is another freely available iPhone app that allows someone to share photos with friends and family.
7. Bump
It is included in the billionth downloadable apps from App store of Apple. It is very simple iPhone app that provides a facility for transfer of contacts from one iPhone to another by somewhat synchronizing two iPhones.
8. Backgrounds
This iPhone app provides a daily cool background on iPhone. One can be searched out over 5, 00 backgrounds from daily added backgrounds. There are more than 30 categories of these backgrounds including Cars, Animals, Models, Space, Sports, Beaches, Messages, Hearts, Explosions, Cities, Sunsets, Flowers, Movies, Funny, Christmas, Guys, Cute, Games, Water Night, Swirls, Buildings, Fantasy, Technology, and much more.
9. Bloomberg
This is nice iPhone app generally used to check the share prices. It facilitates with long and short termed stretched graphs for iPhone users. It provides all the information about each share. One can also get price information of indices, commodity and oil.
10. BBC Reader
One can browse the BBC News streaming using this important iPhone app. It provides a slide show of top story images on iPhones. One can easily access the BBC even in the low reception of a 3G spot.
11. Currency
This is a useful iPhone app generally used for conversion of various currencies. It provides helpful information about rates of different currencies.
12. Comic Touch Lite
One can easily give the comic touch to his photos using this iPhone app. It gives a text editing facility in different balloon shapes for different subject thoughts.
13. Dictionary.com
It is a free iPhone app of Dictionary.com. It provides world-class reference content from Thesaurus.com and Dictionary.com sources. It has more than 80,000 synonyms and 275,00 definitions. It has also an audio punctuation feature, which spell the correct words and pronunciation.
14. Dog Whistler
This is a freely available iPod touch or iPhone app. It is included in the top 10 free iPhone apps. It provides a useful feature for training a dog through different tricks available in this iPhone app.
15. Discover
It is helpful iPhone app for file management. It lets someone to view, manage, transfer and store files through other iPhone or computers in the same Wi-Fi network. It provides a facility to access the public and local servers on internet without or within a Wi-Fi connection.
16. Dictionary
Everyone looks for a dictionary app on iPhone. This is considered a best freely available dictionary app for iPhone users. It has many interesting features including voice and thesaurus.
17. Easy Writer
This iPhone app is certainly helpful to compose emails. It facilitates with a landscape view of alternative interface for typing in the iPhone. It provides a functionality to zoom and pinch the text for adjusting its size. One can easily keep track the text of every incoming text message, call and email.
The Great Big List of 75 Budgeting Tools
It is very important to know about the details of your income and expenses. If you want to know about yourpersonal finance, you should keep an eye on your expense records. Define your expenses in bullets and categorize your income according to your expenses. Also try to save some amount of money that you can use in emergency situations. Fix some portion of your income for your expenses and for some saving account.
Maintain Your Family Budget
Now it is very simple to maintain a budget for your family because there are many advance software available in the market to support you. With the help of these soft-wares, you can easily manage your expenses. You can also save a lot of amount from your monthly income.
Availability of Such Programs
These programs are easily available in local market in form of CDs and DVDs. These programs are available online on internet and you can download such programs from different websites. Some of these programs are free and some are available on trail period. You can use your credit card as well to purchase these programs.
Supported By
You can use these programs on your home PC. They are accessible on both MAC and windows. These are very easy to use and any one can use them and can manage the monthly income according to the expenses.
Top 20 BlackBerry Applications
RIM after a long waiting time finally released its app marketplace. And we have scoured the store to show you the greatest ones.
As many knows BlackBerry App World, Research in Motion’s new mobile app store, already includes 500+ programs. All of which can be added to your handset thru a dandy portal that sets up perfectly on your BlackBerry’s home screen. As it is just been around for a couple of days, the store Is not complete yet. A few users have wavered at first-week bugs like its sluggish functioning, and the requirement for a PayPal account, and some other things.
However, there is lot of time to iron out the particulars. For now, it is simple to browse, purchase, and set up apps and that’s all which really counts, right? We have brought together the finest applications presently available in the store including few of our favorite ones that we think make it there shortly. If you are searching apps that can save—or kill— your time, you are adhered to get just the thing. The greatest thing is: Most of them are absolutely free.
Apps to keep you in Touch and well Informed
Facebook (Free)
Facebook for BlackBerry is not much good for each other-it is actually the same app it was when it was brought out almost a year ago. As a result, it does not manage comments, hidden feed details, or any type of advanced Facebook changes on your desktop. However, the native mobile app still stands as the quickest way to see your friends’ status updates, convey messages, and upload picture easily from your BlackBerry.
