Tag Archives: Must Haves

I bought my iPad2 the other day. I am wowed by it constantly. I am using it for:

• fitness
• an alarm clock
• reading books
• social networking
• taking and editing video
• weather forcasts
• stocks
• syncing and updating my calendar on the go
• translating
• so much more

Already, two teachers today mentioned they wanted one as well and then they asked me the question:

“What apps should I get for it?”

So, here’s my initial list:

• Pages -$9.99 Mac Word Processing
• Numbers -$9.99 Mac Spreadsheet
• Keynote -$9.99 Mac PowerPoint
• iMovie – $4.99 Mac Video Editing
• Calendars – $6.99 Sync Google Calendar – Pocket InformantHD – $14.99 seems like a more slick app actually
• Quickoffice – $14.99 (on sale) Simple Office Quite
• Kobo – FREE Document Reader
• iTranslate – FREE Translator
• Fitness – FREE Fitness Organizer
• iHome+Sleep – FREE Alarm Clock plays music, shows weather, more
• Skype – FREE Video Conferencing
• Friendly – FREE Facebook App
• iLoadLite – FREE Uploading videos to Facebook
• pdf-Notes – FREE PDF Reader
• Tweetdeck – FREE Twitter Organizer
• Bloomberg – FREE Stock Market Reader – Market Scan – Stock Technical Analysis $19.99 a good addition for serious users
• Scan – FREE QR Code Scanner
• TED – FREE Link to TED talks
• Shazaam – FREE Program to Recognize music
• Adobe Photoshop Express – FREE Program to crop and edit photos
• Adobe Ideas – FREE Drawing Program
• IMDB – FREE Link to International Movie Database
• Ebay – FREE Link to Ebay
• Flipboard – FREE Social Media Organizer
• Accuweather – FREE Weather Forcasts
• Social Stats – FREE Quick Statistics of Country Populations
• Photobucket – FREE
• Transport Maps – FREE
• Compass – FREE
• Calculator Pro – FREE
• Dictionary – FREE

I don’t play games, so ask your students which are the best ones out there.

Two recommendations to me:

• Whatsapp $.99 Chatting
• Viber FREE phone calls