10+ best apps/tools for iPad to increase productivity

Apple iPad’s larger touch-screen and faster processing capability is always the topic focus of iPad itself. So what can we do with these two tangible key features? As productivity is among the hot topic in people’s business life, let’s roll out top 11 apps for iPad to increase our productivity by good margins.

Pages. Apple Inc. $9.99. Rating: 9/10. Apple’s full-featured word processor for the iPad gives you charts, tables, graphics, and of course, word processing, within an intuitive interface. It shares with the Mac version of Pages, with Microsoft Word, or via PDF. It’s just a very well-done word processor.

Watch video anywhere. Leawo Mac Video Converter. $35 10/10. Have bunch of videos in the format that can not be played on iPad? Chances are this video converter could be the best solution for you.

PDF Reader Pro Edition for iPad. iTech Development Systems. $3.99. Rating: 10/10. Adobe PDFs are just how documents are shared in the modern world, and iTech leads the pack in putting the “portable” into Portable Document Format. If you’re telecommuting via iPad, you’ll need this app.

Things for iPad. Cultured Code. $19.99. Rating: 7/10. How good does a to-do list – sorry, task organizer – have to be, to be worth $19.99? That’s the main argument against Things. On the other hand, it’s beautiful to look at and use, it’s deep and intuitive, and it’s much more than a bullet point list of tasks. You can sort them by various criteria, arrange lists into projects, and keep it all together with Things like with no other app. Still, 20 bucks buys a lot of bits of string to tie around your finger.

Desktop Connect. Antecea Inc. $11.99. Rating: 9/10. “Only connect,” wrote EM Forster, and Antecea took it literally. That’s what Desktop Connect does. Period. Remote control your Mac or PC from your iPad. Browse the web. Access any box on the network. Yes, it’s secure. Buy it.

Papers. Mekentosj BV. $14.99. Rating: 10/10. Science guys: Papers lets you organize scientific papers in your library and retrieve any of them at any time, with all the usual search and annotation functionality you would expect. Plus, it gives you access to eight widely used scholarly databases with millions of available articles.

iQue. Infomato, Inc. Free. Rating: 8/10. iQue is called FORGET on the iPhone, and it’s for forgetful people. Passwords, account numbers, personal info you don’t want to just jot down in a non-password-protected note? No problem. iQue uses associative memory, mimicking the way a normal brain remembers to help your gadget-addled version work properly.

Deskpad Office. Bluegrass Digital Inc. $3.99. 8/10. Pretty much like Post-It notes on your iPad. Pedestrian? Maybe. But how many stickies do you have on your computer monitor? Exactly. Plus, they’re on the inside of the screen, so they don’t fall off.

Office2 Pro. Byte Squared. $7.99. 8/10. Word and Excel. The big kahunas. Oh sure, you can get apps that do things better than Microsoft in any given instance. But these are the formats you want once you’re back in the office – the physical one. Open, edit, or create Word or Excel files on your iPad for $7.99. E-mail ‘em or stick ‘em out on the cloud. Still a little buggy, but you need it.

PrintCentral. EuroSmartz Ltd. $9.99. 8/10. The name says it all. Not everybody’s entirely paperless, so you can’t be either – Yet. Until that day, there’s this app.

HR at your Fingertips. HR Sentry. $1.99. 9/10. HIPAA. FMLA. FLSA. COBRA. Recognize the terms? Then get the App. They’re all in here.

Still take iPad as an oversized iPod? It is time to set your sight straight. Just look at how much business you can do with just your iPad with these productivity apps/tools! Now go and pack them up for your business success now.

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How do you like iPad? Let’s compare it with iPhone

Apple has finally granted his promise to release iPad on April 3rd, with over 30,000 sales on its day of debut, a small triumph over iPhone’s debut sale of 27,000 in 2007. Criticism on iPad has been simmering all around the internet, whether subjective or objective. So how do you like iPad? If you have already purchased one, you are welcomed to share your experience with us down in the comments. If you are awaiting good reasons to buy it, let’s compare iPad with iPhone to find its shines and shades.

First, let’s see what features of iPad are derived from iPhone.
1. Multiple touch technology.
2. Use iPhone OS 3.x, which does not support Flash animation and multitasking.
3. ARM structured CPU processor.
4. Oil resistant screen.
5. Same extension port at the device bottom, therefore share the same cable wire.
6. Possible for jailbroken.
7. Battery irreplaceable.

Now, these are some distinctions of iPad.
1. 9.7" screen compared to 3.5" screen of iPhone.
2. screen resolution at 1024*768 compared to 320*480 of iPhone.
3. No camera present compared to 320m pixel camera installed on iPhone.
4. Available in WiFi and WiFi+3G versions, neither capable of phone calling.
5. Independent lock button for rotating screen.
6. Extended press volume control button to mute compared to independent mute button on iPhone.
7. Use Micro SIM card compared to ordinary SIM card required by iPhone.
8. Support exclusive HD version apps besides all apps available on iPhone.

iPad is intended to bridge the gap between notebook computers and smart phones. Rather than combat with both in market share, iPad will gradually infiltrate the realm of our daily life and migrate our life style from handwork to computing.

Relative news in company with iPad’s debut.
1. iPhone OS 4.0 is reported to unveil on April 8.
2. Amazon has developed an app for iPad to download its eBooks.
3. Microsoft does not intend to develop Office apps for iPad.
4. Best video converter for iPad is 25% off on sale.

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Five reasons you should have an Apple Tablet iPad

Last week, we have witnessed the debut of Apple iPad. Now I believe people are debating fiercely whether or not to buy an Apple iPad. To be honest, I myself am in the camp of those who are eager to buy an iPad, despite the thumb-downs of people who don’t agree with Apple’s lack of support for multitasking and flash support and more dispensable features. I suggest we look at these five reasons to make Apple iPad a compelling buy before you turn your back at this gadget perhaps someday you should have.

1. Apple iPad obviously outperforms normal netbooks. It is light, thin and sturdy, easily tucked into portfolio or a travel pack. With the latest iPhone OS 3.2, derived from matured iPhone OS 3.1, iPad features faster response and smoother operation than general netbooks. Actually when it comes down to a size that small, a tablet makes more sense in practicality than a netbook. Just imagine the ways you operate them in your hands, which do you prefer, type with one hand or write with one hand?



2. Apple iPad boots very fast, that is, in fifteen seconds or so. To put it at standby mode, it can revive all instantly. It will be very convenient to use at your will without having to wait for a long booting and unnecessarily wearing out the battery. You will appreciate that when you give a hurry presentation but without the embarrassment to hold the audience’s patience. As to battery life, Apple iPad can well sustain a general usage of about 10 hours, a standby state of up to a month, despite the large screen and faster CPU which we see as power gobblers.



3. Hundreds of thousands of full-fledged apps will make Apple iPad a versatile tablet used in as many occasions as possible. You can have iWork to give presentations, process word documents and spreadsheets, just like PowerPoint, Word and Excel do. You can also use it as a map, a GPS device, an HD video player, an e-Reader, a stock chart; or if you like, iPad can be turned into a keyboard, a piano or a pinball table. It is hard to get bored with a device like iPad that is so connected to life.
4. Apple iPad is meant to be a promising device, so the limitations on multitasking and flash support are just temporary. I am sure you will be amazed to know Windows 7 can run on Apple iPad with programs running simultaneously. So the bottleneck is not with iPad’s hardware but the OS software. It is said there will be improvements on these issues in the coming iPhone OS 4.0.



5. Apple iPad is definitely cool and irresistible in the first impression. The hype-thin body dimension and responsive multi-touch operation call out thoughts of Sci-Fi technology. It is like the versatile pads always in science officer’s hand in the Star Trek TV series or the lab tablet which easily swaps control with other computers in Avatar. Maybe someday in the future, we will realize that iPad is the ancestor of all those fascinating pads and tablets. It is now really undeniably cool to lay hands on this future pad prototype.



StarFleet Science Pad in StarTrek TV series



Lab Tablet in Avatar

Apple iPad is a big stone casted in the lake of innovation. It is more innovativeness than powerfulness that compels me to have it. For this is the first debut, we can judge it fairly on its features and shortcomings, but let’s hope it gains market and makes a stand, continues to evolve into a refined tablet that everyone should desire to have.

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