Now its time for my personal top 10 must have iPad Apps , once again its in no real order:
1. Evernote
The great thing about having a iPad is its integration with my MacBook, and so when I work on my iPad I kinda work on my MacBook – or that I can see my work on my Mac, and yes there are loads of note taken apps that will let you do just that, the great thing about Evernote is it does all this and more. With integration within other apps (so you can take notes directly from them) and a Chrome app its by fair the best note taking / sharing app going and all the different Evernote apps are Free.
Price: Free.
2. BigOven
The great thing about the iPad is its screen, yes you can get cooking apps on your iPhone but you know what – reading from a small screen when your working just isn’t fun. Big Oven is a great app, it has 1000’s of recipes from every style of cooking but whats more, you can also tell Big Oven what you have in your kitchen and it will bring back recipes
Lastly you can add to your shopping list and use the handy planner to plan your meals before you shop – it’s a great time saver.
Can’t remember the price but I think its £10.00 a year so cheap as chips.
Price: £10.00 (a year… I think)
3. Netflix / Lovefilm / Blinkbox
These 3 Video Streaming services cover the best of them, the great thing about the iPad is its screen size, watching a HD film on the go is great and much more enjoyable than on the small screen of the iPhone – I will often use the different services apps on the iPad to browse whats on / available as and when I’m in the mode to watch a movies and its often quicker to open the open then turn on the TV / Computer to check the main site.
If you don’t know BlinkBox is like your cloud based film collection, if you create an account and then link it to your club card any Blue rays / DVD’s you purchase in Tesco’s will appear on you Blink Box account – aka a free digital copy that’s stored in the cloud.
Price: All Free (require a subscription service for Netflix and Lovefilm).
4. Spotify
Yep its a music streaming app, and yep it works on the PC, Mac, iPhone and iPad (and more) but for the iPad I like to keep my storage free for editing photos and videos I may need to watch to on the go so using a service like Spotify is great – endless music over the internet (recommend you use WiFi) with out taken up space on the iPad.
Price: Free (with options to upgrade).
5. Zite
I’m note going to say this again, ok one last time – Good apps for the iPad make use of the extra screen space and Zite is a great app that does just this but for news – just let Zite know the subjects you interested in and it will bring news to you about said subject for free. With the ability to flip from story to story you have a real tactile feel to using the app (like the iBooks app)
Price: free.
6. Numbers
Numbers is Apples version of Excel, it’s not a heavy as Excel but you can do most of the daily work you would want to run in Excel within numbers – it’s not the same as the Mac version but it will sync with the Mac version as well as allow you to store documents within iCloud and share via email.
Some basic functions Number will do: Vlookup, Sum, Graphs, Charts
What I love about numbers – if you need to create a nice looking report for a customer than Numbers is the App for you – it’s so easy to make even the standard chart look interesting (as possible)
Price: £19.99
7. Pages
Just like Excel has Numbers, Word has Pages, again its a light version but do let that put you off, perfect for written letters, blog posts, meeting notes and any other day-to-day word processing need you may have. I use Pages every day for customer meeting notes, why – because I can email a copy direct to the office from within the app, it syncs and stores copies on iCloud and has all the feature you need.
Including: Spellchecking, Left, Centre and Right hand align, Tab, Column, Images, Bullets / Lists and more.
Oh and whats more if you have the Mac version then yep you can start a document on your Mac and complete it on the go or the other way round.
Price: £19.99
8. Keynote
This is the last app that makes up iWorks and its Apples version of Powerpoint – now this is one app that I think is better than the MS Office version, again its light so don’t expect to do massive presentations on this app however if you need to do a 10 / 20 slide presentation then this is the app for you – it’s so easy to create great looking slides with animations that don’t look like you’ve done them on a cheep powerpoint template.
Very quick and easy and as with all the iWork apps it fully sync with the full Mac Version via iCloud and can be emailed as well as being able to open MS documents.
Price: £19.99
Alternative to the above iWorks Apps – CloudOn
No matter how good the iWorks apps are – some times you need the MS version, thats when CloudOn comes in handy – it was free when I downloaded the app and it basically lets you use all the MS Office programs via the Cloud so no massive app but all the power – down side is, you need a decent internet connection and as its Cloud based it’s not the most secure platform.
On the up side – all the function of the main programmes with very little space taken up .
Includes: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint and MS Access.
Price: Free
9. Skype
Not sure what there is to say but if you like to call people, see a nice big pitcher of them but can’t use the iOS app (as well not every one has a iPad) then Skype is the best there is, every one knows it so there isn’t much I can say… Oh you could act out a scene of trigger happy, you know the one, with the big phone… yep “I’m on the phone…”
Price: Free
10. Flipboard
There is nothing better than keeping up to date with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or any other RSS feed then being able to read it like a magazine, that’s what Flipboard lets you do, follow the BBC or news source on twitter and Flipboard will open the link so in effect you’ve created your own living newspaper.
You can post, like, unlike, re-tweet etc all you want within the App as well as add additional subjects that flipbard will find and create your own news feed.
Price: £0.69
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