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Best Free Business Apps
for the iPhone
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Dragon
Dictation
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Save typing and use your voice to
text or email your friends, send notes and reminders to yourself,
update your Facebook status or tweet to the world, faster and quicker
when you are on-the-go. Supports a multitude of global languages.
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CardMunch
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Tired of business card scanning
apps that are more of a hassle than they're worth? This one is sure to
please. Just capture and image of the card, and real humans (no, not
in your iPhone!) will transcribe the info with guaranteed accuracy and
send the info back in minutes. Contacts can be added to your iPhone
address book, can be sent a follow up email, and can also be invited
to your LinkedIn network.
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GateGuru
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Enjoy receiving real-time flight
status information (including push notifications), view your TripIt
and KAYAK itineraries, view/post airport security wait times, view
airport food, shops and services reviews. Quickly search and sort by
rating or location. Bookmark airports and post to Facebook, Twitter,
foursquare and Gowalla to keep your network posted on your travels.
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Mindjet
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If you are a more visual than
linear thinker, Mindjet lets you enter ideas, tasks, and meeting notes
into intuitive visual maps that help you organize concepts and
prioritize action items. Create new maps or import them from Mindjet
Connect. Easier to see than explain, Mindjet offers lots of options
for creating, moving, linking, and copying entries and formatting
their appearance. Access to PDF, Word, Pages, Excel, Numbers docs
stored in Mindjet Connect. Synchronize with Dropbox, export to PDF.
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Scan
Pages
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Turn your iPhone into a mobile
scanner and convert captured images into PDF documents. Scan Pages
organizes and cleans your images creating crisp, clean files. Combine
multiple images into one PDF file and store in GoogleDocs, Evernote,
Dropbox or share via email.
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Image
To Text
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ImageToText extracts editable
ASCII text from images, and share the results by email or Evernote.
Take a picture of a document then send an email to yourself. You'll
receive the image and a text file with the editable text. English only
supported.
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Best Free Books for the
iPhone
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iBooks
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Download many of your favorite
books from the included iBookstore. Sort your books on your bookshelf
or browse them in a list sorted by title, author, or category and
organize your books and PDFs into personal collections. Swipe left or
right to jump between Collections. Easily adjust your screen
brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment.
Personalize font size and pick from six type faces. Keep your
bookmarks, notes, and your current page wirelessly in sync between
iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with the automatic bookmark syncing
feature. Add PDF documents from Mail, or add books in the
industry-standard ePub electronic book format to iTunes and sync them
to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
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Best Free Education
Apps for the iPhone
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NASA
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The official NASA (United State
National Aeronautics and Space Administration) app offers videos,
picture of the day, launch information and countdown clocks, mission
information, and a vast collection of images. 3G or Edge network
connection required.
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TED
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TED (Technology, Entertainment,
Design) is a nonprofit started in 1984 devoted creating a forum for
world's most fascinating people including education radicals, tech
geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus and music legends. It
hosts two conferences annually and a variety of other award-winning
talks and presentation and offers the best talks and performances
free. The entire library of more than 900 TEDTalk videos are available
for browsing and searching in both online and offline modes. Bookmark
or download your favorite TEDTalk for playback anywhere. Tune in to
TEDRadio for instant, one-click access to a continuous stream of
TEDTalks audio. Share favorite talks and playlists with your friends.
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Fractile
Plus
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If you find math scary and all
its complex equations unsightly, then this app will warm you up to the
beauty of mathematics. A fractal has been defined as "a rough or
fragmented geometric shape can be split into parts, each of which is a
reduced-size copy of the whole." Huh, you say? Think of it as a
reduced-size copy of the whole, much in the way that broccoli
romanesco repeats its pattern in a fascinating
kaleidoscope. Fractile Plus explores the famous Mandelbrot set which
is based on a very simple mathematical formula, yet has amazing
complexity. Zoom in up to 10 trillion times magnification to find
intricate spirals, flaming tendrils, and a seemingly endless smaller
repetitions of the set itself. Save high-res images up to 13
megapixels. Optimized for the retina display. No ads!
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Learn
HTML Basics
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Learn the basics of HTML, the
codes the pages of the World Wide Web. Sections include Introduction,
Get Started, Basic, Elements, Attributes, Headings, Paragraphs,
Formatting, Fonts, Styles, Links, Images, Tables, Lists, Forms,
Frames, Iframes, Colors, Color Names, Color Values, and Quick List
Reference page.
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Best Free
Entertainment Apps for the iPhone
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Remote
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Control iTunes and Apple TV using
your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad over your Wi-Fi network. Choose
playlists, songs, and albums as if you were right in front of
your computer or Apple TV. From anywhere in your home change a song,
pick a playlist or browse through your entire library. (Text
from iTunes)
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IMDb
Movies & TV
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Watch trailers, browse photos,
find latest releases, explore popular charts, rate movies and share
movie info from a huge resource of more than 1.5 million titles, and
3.2 million celebrities, actors and actresses, directors and crew
members.
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Best Free Finance Apps
for the iPhone
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Bloomberg
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Follow the world's financial
markets in one app. Bloomberg offers news, stock quotes, company
descriptions, market leaders/laggers, price charts, market trends
analysis, and more.
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Best
Value
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Compare the cost of two products
no matter their package quantities, sizes or units. Display costs per
unit and indicates which of the two is a better deal. Supports both
Metric and English measurements. Currently not available in the US.
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Best Games Apps for the
iPhone
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Air
Hockey Gold
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Play with one or two pucks. Play
with someone else, or a computer opponent.
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Words
With Friends
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With a user base of 20 million
people, Words With Friends is certainly one of the most popular word
games. Like Scrabble, build words, and try to triple your score.
Either play with a random opponent from anywhere in the world, invite
your friends to play remotely, or play with a real person beside you.
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Best Free
Healthcare & Fitness Apps for the iPhone
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RunKeeper
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Track how far you went, how long
it took, what your pace/speed was, how many calories you burned, and
the path you traveled on a map. You can sync data with the RunKeeper
website where you can view a history of all of your activities, and
cumulative totals of all of your vital stats. You can also share your
progress with friends by posting your activities to Facebook and
Twitter, and creating a profile page that allows people to view all of
your public activities.
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Fooducate
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Scan UPC barcodes with the
iPhone's camera to search over 200,000 products to make healthier
nutritional choices. See a product's both good and bad highlights.
Learn if an item contains excessive sugar, trans fats, high fructose
corn syrup, additives and preservatives, and controversial food
colorings. Works in United States only.
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iPeriod
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My Cycles tracks ovulation signs
to increase your chance of pregnancy and takes the guesswork out of
tracking your period, predicting your ovulation window, and predicting
your future periods. Track your period, symptoms, medications, mood
and more related to your cycle.
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RxmindMe
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RxmindMe alerts you when you need
to take a prescription. Enter all your prescriptions, setup reminders,
and track your history. Lot of features: nine types of reminders,
quantities count down as you mark your reminders, email prescription
history including importing into Excel, no info uploaded to servers,
passcode protected, and more.
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WebMD
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WebMD provides health and medical
information with tools including Symptom Checker, Conditions, Drugs
& Treatments, First Aid Essentials, and Local Health Listings,
without an Internet connection. (Some features my be limited outside
the United States). Personalize by saving drugs, conditions, and
articles of interest.
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Best Free Lifestyle
Apps for the iPhone
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Grocery
iQ
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Create shopping lists for each of
your favorite stores. Arrange list items in the order items are found
in the store. Email lists, Print coupons from the app, scan barcodes
to add items too. Sync online with free account.
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Epicurious
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Search over 30,000 food and drink
recipes by main ingredient, each rated and reviewed. Add recipes to
your favorites, create a shopping list from recipes, share by email,
Twitter, or Facebook and other services.
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Seafood
Watch
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Seafood Watch recommendations
help you choose ocean-friendly sustainably harvested seafood and sushi
at your favorite restaurants and stores in the United States, but is
also useful in other countries. Sushi categories include Best Choice,
Good Alternative, and Avoid. New Project Fish Map feature lets you
contribute to the app by adding the names of restaurants and stores
where you've found ocean-friendly seafood and locate businesses where
others have found sustainable seafood. Also list of “Super Green”
seafood that’s good for you and the oceans.
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Dragon
Go!
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Tired of surly Siri saying,
"I'm sorry, I can't help you with that." or don't have
access to Siri at all? Dragon Go's voice activation can search as well
as access Fandango, Accuweather, Pandora, Yelp, and more. The Dragon
Carousel delivers the best search sites enabling side-to-side
comparison of search results and share them via email, text messages
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Sushipedia
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If you don't know Unagi from
Tobiko, then this app is for you! Includes complete list of popular
sushi, with photos, descriptions, tasting notes, and historical facts.
Search by name and ingredients, or attributes. Find out what's in
season now. Save to your Favorites. Toggle between English and
Japanese names.
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Best Free Medical Apps
for the iPhone
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Drug reference, disease &
condition reference and treatment guide, tables & protocols
reference, daily medical news an alerts, continuing medical
education (CME/CE) activities, unlimited access to all features.
offline access to the clinical reference, multitasking.
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Best Free Music Apps for
the iPhone
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Pandora
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Stream music of your choice based
on name of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and
Pandora will create a "station" that plays their music and
similar in the same genre. Get a free account and enjoy your
saved favorite station on your phone or the web. Not available in
Canada, and possibly other countries.
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Ringtone
Maker
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Tired of same ringtones that
everyone has? Make your own! If you can play it on an iPhone, you can
make it a ringtone. With iOS 5, you can customize the Text tone, Tweet
tone, Alert tone, Mail tone, Calendar tone and Reminders tone. Control
the start time of the song, as well as fading in or out. Create an
unlimited number of new ringtones!
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Best Free Navigation
Apps for the iPhone
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Mapquest
4 Mobile
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Voice-guided, turn-by-turn directions.
Can be used for walking and driving directions.
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Best News Apps for the
iPhone
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Flipboard
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One of my favorite apps and one
of the best interfaces ever! Select to read articles covering This
Week, News, Business, Tech & Science, Video, Curators, Photo &
Design, Living, Entertainment, Sports, Local, Travel, and Style. But
why stop there? You can also access your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
Google Reader, Instagram, Flickr, Tumbler, and 500px accounts. Read
later services include Instapaper and Read it Later. Does it get any
better than this!
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Pulse
News
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Just as Flipboard is a great
magazine aggregator, Pulse News is great for the news. Share stories
from thousands of top news sources, your favorite blogs, and social
networks. Collect your favorite stories and sync them to send to
Instapaper, Pocket, Evernote, and Reader, all in one tap.
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Best Free
Photography and Video Apps for the iPhone
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Adobe
Photoshop Express
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Edit photos on your iPhone easily—touch
to crop, rotate, adjust exposure, saturation, tint, black and white or
contrast, and add artistic effects or borders, then save them or
upload to Facebook or Photoshop.com.
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Photosynth
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Easily make panoramic images and
share them. Panoramas are created in real-time with interactive
capture. Create full-sphere panoramas. Zoom, pan, and rotate panoramas
with the built-in view. Save to the camera roll. Share to Facebook,
Bing Maps, or email.
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FotoMag
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More than 150 of the best
photography blogs organized into several categories including:
Photographers, Forums, Digital editing, Gear and News, Lighting, HDR
and Photography business news. Browse individual blogs or browse a
neatly laid out collage of the latest entries from all the blogs
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Camera
Plus
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Nicely designed camera that
offers up to a 5 times digital zoom on your iPhone 4 and 4s, dual
cameras for both photos and videos, flash, anti-shake, tap to focus,
tap anywhere on the screen to take a photo, countdown timer for self
portraits, and cropping. Share photos via Twitter, Facebook, Flickr or
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DrawCast
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Customizable soft and hard
brushes, work on separate layers, blend and blur, many levels of undo
and fully zoomable. Mixing colors allows for unlimited numbers of
colors. Eyedropper tool to select and match colors straight from the
painting. Import photos directly from Facebook, your camera or photo
library, save paintings to Photo Library, and share email, Facebook,
or Twitter.
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Best Free
Productivity Apps for the iPhone
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Dropbox
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It's disappointing that Apple chose not to
allow the iPhone to double up as a handy USB drive on the run, but
Dropbox is almost the next best thing. Upload files from your
desktop and sync them between multiple computers. View, copy, or
email links from your phone.
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Atomic
Web Browser Lite
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So much in a free web browser! If we
could only choose the default browser on the iPhone, it would be
great. What does Atomic Web Browser Lite Offer? Full
screen mode, tabs, multi-touch gesture support, page search, private
mode, image block, rotation lock, font adjustment, search engine plug
ins, bookmark scripts, share links with Facebook and Twitter,
customize full screen view, and Air Print.
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Evernote
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Take notes, ideas, pictures and
recordings with your iPhone, and sync them instantly to your Web, Mac
or PC version. It indexes your notes and recognizes the actual text
within the pictures so that you can easily search.
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TeamViewer
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Remotely access your computers.
Uses multi-touch gestures: left click, right click, drag & drop,
scroll wheel, zoom, change monitors. Keyboard controls including
special keys such as Ctrl and Alt. Remotely reboot, adjust the screen
resolution. Access computers behind firewalls and proxy servers.
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SaiSuke
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A nice calendar with view modes
offering daily, weekly, or yearly views. Previous event title and
locations are remembered eliminating the need to re-type. Synchronize
with iPhone Calendar, as well as Outlook/iCal/MobileMe calendars via
the iPhone Calendar. Note that you can only sync one week in advance
of events.
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SeizeTheDay
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Simple yet robust to-do list
hitting the sweet spot between over complex and simplistic. Set due
dates, reminders, priority, tags, and notes. Works well with David
Allen's Getting Things Done™ system .
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FlexSearch
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Search Google, Bing, Wikipedia,
WolframAlpha, Answers.com, Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus,
About.com, eHow, WikiHow, Youtube, Goog-Images, B-Images, Flickr,
Photobucket, WebMD, PubMed, Healthline, Twitter, LinkedIn, and
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reQall
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Save ideas, to-do items, and
things to remember by voice or text. Lots of flexibility allows
Categories, People, Time or Tags to be listed in Favorites. Record
task by voice using the apps translation or use the iPhone voice
transcription, if you supported on your phone. Automatically organizes
to-do's by recognizing dates, times, locations. Share your entries
with selected contacts using the People tab. Works well with David
Allen's Getting Things Done™ system.
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Simplenote
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Use Simplenote for notes, lists,
ideas and automatically synchronize with your computer and other
devices. Need more power? Can also utilize tags, pins, versions, and
sharing. Check the developer's download page for a variety of other
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Springpad
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What use to be a good note taking
program has morphed in full-ledged collaborative tool similar to
Evernote early this year. So what's the difference? In Evernote's
favor, it downloads your notes so they can viewed when you are
offline; Springpad requires you be Internet connected but doesn't cap
your data transfer to 60MB/month like Evernote does. Springpad has a
nicer user-interface and can scan barcodes. Share your notes on social
networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and email. Both are great apps,
try both and decide what works best, or use both!
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Best Free Reference
Apps for the iPhone
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Google
Search
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Search the Web with this official
Google Search app and get search results and suggestions instantly as
you type, take a picture with your device camera, or even speak into
your iPhone. Also with easy access to other Google products from the
Apps tab.
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Dictionary
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Search words offline with this
app that includes nearly 2 million words with definitions, synonyms
and antonyms. Extra features include audio pronunciation,
voice-to-text search, hyperlinked words, Word and Question of the Day,
and the Hot Word blog. See also the HD
version for iPad.
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Pocket
(formerly (Read It Later)
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Ever come across an article you'd
like to read but can't at that time on a browser? Add it to your
Pocket list from your PC or mobile, and this app downloads all
articles in the list to your iPad for offline reading. Advanced
features are limited to the paid version.
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GoogleTranslate
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Translate words and phrases
between more than 60 languages using Google Translate. For some
languages, speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations.
Listen to your translations spoken aloud (24 languages), Display
translations in full screen mode to make it easier for others nearby
to read, star your favorite translations and query history for quick
access even when you’re offline
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Wikipanion
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Wikipanion was designed for easy,
search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Your search
history is bookmarked by visit date and includes entries as well as
selections within an entry. Includes table of contents browser, font
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Best Free
Social Networking Apps for the iPhone
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Bump
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Share not only contact
information by bumping two iPhones together but photos, apps, music,
messages, locations, contacts, calendar events; and become
friends on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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Skype
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Enjoy free video calls with front
and rear-facing cameras with anyone else on Skype over 3G or Wi-Fi.
Also has instant messaging and voicemail.
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Twitter
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Follow your interests: instant
updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and
what’s happening around the world. Get short bursts of timely
information on the official Twitter app for iPhone.
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Facebook
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Facebook keeps you connected with
your friends. Start a chat, share photos and status updates, upload
photos.
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LinkedIn
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LinkedIn helps find inside
connections when looking for job, connects with old friends and
colleagues, and provides access to industry experts willing to share
advice. Linked in claims over 135 million professionals use LinkedIn
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Best Free Travel Apps for
the iPhone
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Google
Earth
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Hold the globe in your palm and
tour the world with a wipe of your finger to search for cities, places
and business with millions of geo-located photos and other useful
information. You can also tap the Location Icon to zoom from space to
your current location in just a few seconds.
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Yelp
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Search for reviews of businesses
near you, then narrow it down by neighborhood, distance, price, or
what's open. Browse reviews, add your own! Share on Facebook and
Twitter. Make reservation through Open Table. Look
up addresses and phone numbers then map and call them.
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OpenTable
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Make restaurant reservations and
receive a confirmation at more than 15,000 OpenTable-enabled
restaurants in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom.
OpenTable members earn Dining Rewards Points redeemable for Dining
Cheques good at any OpenTable restaurants.
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KAYAK
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Compare flight, hotel and car
rental deals, track your flight status, view and manage your trip
itinerary, look up baggage fees. Has sliders to narrowing
departure and return time. Seems to me more feature rich than
the iPad version!
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TripIt
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Not only does this app keep track
of all your travel plans, just forward your confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com
and it creates your itinerary for you and syncs with your calendar and
TripIt online! TripIt recognizes reservations from over 3,000 booking
sites including cruises, restaurants, concerts. You can share trip
plans with family or colleagues directly, or via Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Wi-Fi
Finder
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Finds over 650,00 free or paid
Wi-Fi locations worldwide. Filter results by location type, provider,
and save results to favorites.
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XE
Currency
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Converts world currency and
precious metals rates with live currency rates and stores the last
updated, so no Internet connection is needed. Monitor up to ten
currencies, shake to reset rates, pin your base currency for
convenient access.
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Wikihood
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What are the most important
sights to see around you? Is there a museum, castle, park or church
nearby? What persons are related to this place? What's historic? What
do others find interesting nearby (15.000+ ratings). Wikihood
organizes Wikipedia information to enhance your travels. In English
and German.
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Best Free Utility Apps
for the iPhone
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Find
My iPhone
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Locate your iPhone 4, iPad, or
4th generation iPod touch (iOS 4.2 or later required). on a map, send
a message and play a sound for two minutes at full volume (even if
your device is set to silent). Remotely set a passcode lock on your
device, or lock it using your existing passcode, or wipe your device
to permanently erase all of your personal data.
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Planets
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Enjoy a 3D planetarium style view
of the sky as well as a flat view of sky. (Tip: tap the compass icon
in the upper left corner and watch the sky move as your iPhone moves.
Also has rotating 3D globe of planets and the moon.
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Craigslist
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View Craigslist listings
internationally with thumbnail photo previews, maps, and access to
your Craigslist account. Includes multi-city searches, posting with
photos, account management, favorite ads with notes, and maps and
directions.
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Textfree
with Voice
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Unlimited texting and picture
messaging, free numbers available. Facebook Chat. Text from your
computer. Some features work only in the United States.
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RedLaser
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RedLaser searches for low online
from hundreds of thousands of retailers with results from Google,
TheFind, SDC, eBay, Milo.com, Half.com, and Buy.com. Scans UPC, EAN,
UPC-E and EAN-8 barcodes. Also scans QR code including URLs, contact
info, calendar events. Send scanned products as email attachment.
Automatic search localization for USD, EUR, and GBP. You can also
create a QR Code from your contacts, a URL, or text.
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SimpleAnalog
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Simple Analog is a local clock
using hands and not digits. It will also display the day of the week
and optionally the month at a glance. You can set the display to never
sleep. Tap the clock face to cycle through the various display options
available. It supports landscape and portrait modes for display. There
are currently no alarm features for this application, keeping it
simple. Steve would be proud.
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AppShopper
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What's better than a free app?
One that's on sale for free! AppShopper keeps you up to date on the
newest apps, sales and freebies. Organize apps in your Wish List and
get notified when there is a sale or update. Features include view a
list of the top 200 apps, browse ratings and reviews from third party
sites, add apps to your Wish List and get notified of price changes or
updates by email, and share an app's info via Twitter, Facebook, or
email. Keep track of the apps you already own. Also syncs with
AppShopper.com so your Wish List and My Apps are updated automatically
and can be managed in your a web browser.
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FileApp
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Copy files to your iPhone either
wirelessly (by FTP) or via USB (cable). Supported files includes PDF,
MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint), iWork (Pages, Numbers and
Keynotes), OpenDocuments (OpenOffice) (Text, Spreadsheet,
Presentation) basic formatting only, Plain Text and RTF (Rich Text
Format), Images (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and others), Audio (MP3, AAC,
Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV), Video (standard iPhone format : H.264,
MPEG-4), Web Archives, HTML files, and ZIP files. Stores any file sent
from any third party app such as Mail and Safari. Allows file to be
open in other installed apps. File browser allows sorting
alphabetically, by folder, by date, by file type and by latest opened
documents. Includes file search and view by file size and extension.
Delete files from within the application. Portrait and landscape
views.
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iHandy
Level Free
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You can use iHandy Level for
aligning pictures, leveling your iPhone for stills and videos, and
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iDownloader
Free
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Easily download anything from the
web to your i-Device and then view/play the downloaded files or
transfer them to your computer.
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PCalc
Lite Calculator
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PCalc Lite is a fully functional
calculator with may enhancements over the iPhone's ntive calculator.
Includes an optional RPN mode, multiple undo and redo, unit
conversions and constants as well as two user interface themes.
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Best Free Weather Apps
for the iPhone
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Weather
Channel
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Other apps are flashier, but this
is the app I keep to. Offers in-depth weather forecasts for the next
24 hours to 10 days, with innovative maps, active alerts, a video
library and real-time Twitter feeds from Weather Channel Tweeters.
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