Tablet and Mobile

Archive for August, 2010

 

In my last post, I detailed iPad Apps I find essential – here is a small selection of the rest, not necessarily deal-breakers but I’ve chosen to keep them on the iPad and use them on a fairly regular basis.

The Google range of Apps are useful but you should use the separate Google MAPS application if you want to make use of street view.

 

If you want a nice 5-day forecast, get the Weather Channel App – nice imagery, clean information.

 

For news I find a combination of AJE LIVE, SKY NEWS and BRITISH NEWS gives me a rounded picture. Of course AJE NEWS is marginally biased against the west but it’s always handy to see an alternative perspective. If you want to actually CONTROL your SKY HD box, then SKY+ will let you do that, you can’t see what you’re already set up to record as this is a one-way App but you can tell it to record any program on SKY and it will inform your SKY box remotely!

Dropbox – well, that just works. It’s a no-brainer – have it on your PC, drop files to it, have it on your iPad, the files just appear (provided you have a connection of course). It’s the easiest way by far to transfer files.

 

Fruity Slots Deluxe – if you like your one-armed bandits – this is the one… kept my mother-in-law happy for many hours on our last trip to the States.

 

Shareplus Pro – depending how you use Sharepoint (assuming you use Sharepoint) then this package will let you access it in a friendly fashion on your iPad. It does not currently like forms-based authentication so will only work if you’re using normal Windows authentication – but other than that, well worth a look.