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iPhone and iPad Apps
I have an iPad but many of my apps also work on the iPhone. Here are my recommendations. All are free unless a price is mentioned and all work on the iPhone unless otherwise mentioned.
1. IMDB (The Internet Movie Database)
2. Netflix
3. CineXPlayer (Plays more video formats than the native iPad app)
4. Flixter (what’s playing in movie houses and access to reviews)
5. HBO
6. PBS
7. XFinity (iPad) if you’re a Comcast customer you must have this
8. SPB TV (iPad) streaming video channels
9. TVGuide (what’s on TV)
10. Fandango (similar to Flixter)
11. AOL Radio (streaming radio)
12. Pandora (Ditto)
13. NPR Ditto plus news
14. AccuRadio Ditto
15. Slacker (Ditto)
16. Radio.com (Ditto)
17. SHoutCast (Ditto)
18. Last.FM (Ditto)
19. Virtuoso (virtual piano)
20.AppShopper (better way to search the Apple App Store and setup alerts
21. FeedlerRSS (RSS Reader)
22.Slate
23.USA Today
24.SkyGrid (News – setup your own keyword searches and alerts)
25.HuffPost
26.AARP (If you’re old like me)
27.Wall Street Journal (if you want a $10/month sub to the paper and online, it’s free – just email me)
28.NYTimes
29.iPhone Life
30.Accu Weather
31. Pulse News
32.How Stuff Works
33.CNN
34.Engadjet (Are you a gadget freak like me?)
35.The Economist
36.iPad Forums
37.IM+ (Instant messaging – all in one AOL, Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc)
38.Twitter
39.Friendly (best free Facebook client)
40.Skype
41. Facebook (I like friendly much better)
42.Linkedin (not really worth keeping on my iPad)
43.Foursquare
44.Flipboard (I think it’s iPad only – reformats Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader etc. to look like a magazine)
45.Textfree (free unlimited text messages but you get a new number you must use – voice as well)
46.Your bank probably has a free app. Ditto for your credit cards.
47.PayPal (if you have an iPhone, you can take a picture of a check and deposit it to your PayPal account electronically)
48.Mint (Free financial app like Quicken – Quicken owns them)
49.Square (they give you a free credit card reader and you can get paid by swiping other people’s credit cards)
50.MenuPages (Menus and reviews of restaurants)
51. OpenTable (Free restaurant reservations and get $1-$10 back for each reservation you make)
52.Yelp (Reviews of restaurants and lots of other places)
53.BigOven (Recipes)
54.Urbanspoon (Restaurant reviews)
55.Entertainment (Only worthwhile if you have the Entertainment coupon book)
56.Southwest Airlines (your favorite airline might also have an app)
57.Booking.com (Hotels)
58.Kayak HD (iPad only)
59.TripAdvisor
60.MetrO (finds how to get from place to place via public transit – Google Maps has a much more extensive feature)
61. The Apple book reader is OK but you can also get Kindle, Nook, Stanza, Borders, Kobo, Google Books, and Free Books
62.Zinio (subscribe to Magazines and read them on your PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android, etc.)
63.Dictionary (same as dictionary.com on the web)
64.Wikipanion (Best free Wikipedia reader)
65.iTranslate (Paste in text and it will translate between languages)
66.Big Calc Free (Calculator for iPad)
67.EZ-Digits (Ditto)
68.Google Earth
69.Zillow (Buying or selling real estate or just wondering what’s your place worth – just look and see how many 100’s of thousand dollars you lost in the last few years)
70.UpNext (3d maps)
71. Translate (you can speak to it as well as paste in text – just hold your phone up to someone who speaks a foreign language you don’t know or speak to it and have it pronounce in the other language!). It even has Yiddish!!!
72.Living Social, Shopkick, and Groupon (Social media for deals)
73.Amazon, Gas prices, Craigsphone, eBay, TheFind, Target, WalMart, Staples, DealExtreme
74.WSOP (Poker)
75.Pinball HD (0.99 I think iPad only)
76.Astraware Casino (0.99)
77.SpellStacker (Like scrabble)
78.PocketGod (0.99)
79.SlotsHD (iPad only)
80.Blackjack
81. SimCity, Scrabble (I got them for 0.99 each on sale)
82.Skee-Ball (0.99 for the iPhone version, more for iPad unless on sale)
83.Pinball Ride
84.Angry Birds
85.IDOS (no longer available – MSDOS emulator to play old DOS games)
86.UPS, Fedex, and USPS
87.Photoshop Express
88.FlickPad (FlickR Viewer iPad only)
89.Kodak Gallery HD (iPad only)
90.Dragon Dictation (speak and it recognizes you and creates text – then you cut and paste it to email or wherever)
91. TeamViewer (iPad only I think) lets you access a PC remotely!!!
92.Catch Notes (A simple notetaking app that synchs with the web based free service)
93.Producteev (simple task app)
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