For work: Evernote - The single best way (at the moment) to have access to key information *in read and write form* on multiple devices. In my case, that's two Macs, an iPhone and an iPad. In is my note-taking app of choice because it doesn't matter which device I have at hand. All the info is wherever I need it to be. I recently paid for a premium account, primarily to have off-line access to all of my documents, but discovered that its ability to do OCR on uploaded image files is amazing. I took photos of a handful of business cards using my iPhone and uploaded them to Evernote. Even though the photos were taken in landscape, (which means when I look at them in Evernote they're rotated 90 degrees), I can search for a name on one of the cards and Evernote goes right to it. Pretty cool.
Goodreader - Can't beat the price and it has some nice features for working with PDFs. One that is fairly unusual is that you can set a cropping level on a document, so you can eliminate having to zoom in on each page. Goodreader also will extract the text of a PDF, which in some cases makes a long document easier to work with. ReaddleDocs - Purchased this to use on our Board of Ed. iPads because I felt it was a slightly more intuitable user interface. (Of course, that's a subjective evaluation!) It connects very nicely to our secure webdav server for board members to be able to download documents. iAnnotatePDF - Multi-file management not so good, but has the decent annotation functions; I use it to carry around maps of our schools to locate rooms and make notes. (Of course, all of the document readers support any file format that iOS supports natively, which includes iWork and Office documents as well as PDFs.) Numbers - The ability to create a form from a spreadsheet makes Numbers my favorite way to do data entry on the fly. This summer, walking around taking stock of our IWB installations made it worth the $10. Mobile Mouse - Turns your iPad into a remote control for your Mac. Not the same as VNC because the image of your screen doesn't appear on the iPad. It's more like a giant touchscreen TV remote. I have also used Apple's Keynote Remote app (which is still the iPhone/iPod version) to control Keynote presentations. Personal: Reeder - Best RSS reader I've ever used on any platform. Period. Twitterific (Free) - haven't taken the plunge to pay for a Twitter client and this works just fine for me. eReaders - I like Kindle app's ability to keep multiple devices in sync and to share out notes and highlights. I think that opens up some really cool possibilities for book discussions. I also use iBooks because of how easy it is to load ePub files. I have read three e-books in iBooks and haven't paid for a single one. (I realize that other e-readers do ePub, but I've been trying to give iBooks a good test.) Students: We haven't started rolling them out to students in a big way. Our spec. ed. dept bought several this summer but I haven't yet heard any reports. -Tom On Sep 7, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Chris Wherley <chris.wher...@gmail.com> wrote: For those of you that have been playing/working/experimenting longer with the iPad . What is favorite iPad app? For work? Evernote For personal/play? Nook reader For students? Other? | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
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