dinsdag 3 april 2012

My list of useful iPhone Apps

GoodReader®
Price: 3,99 €
Rated 4+
GoodReader® is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad - the #1 selling non-Apple app for iPad in USA in 2010!
The "PDF Reflow"-function is great to reflow text so that it fits on your iPhone screen

GoodReader has earned its accolades by the way it handles huge PDF and TXT files, manuals, large books, magazines, and renderings of 100 mb and more with great speed. The ability to mark-up PDFs opens up new doors to GoodReader users who can now use typewriter text boxes, sticky notes, lines, arrows, and freehand drawings on top of a PDF file.

Besides reading, you can also sync your files with remote servers:
• sync with iDisk, Dropbox, SugarSync and any WebDAV, AFP, FTP or SFTP server
• sync entire folders or individual files separately

GoodReader not only supports massive PDF and TXT files, but also handles the most popular file types:
• MS Office - .doc, .ppt., .xls
• iWork ’08/’09
• HTML and Safari webarchives
• High resolution images
• Even audio and video!

imo instant messenger
Price: Free
Rated 4+
With imo instant messenger, it’s easy to stay in touch with friends on your existing IM accounts. imo currently supports:
Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Skype, MSN, ICQ/AIM, Yahoo, Jabber, Hyves, VKontakte, Myspace, and Steam.
- No need to create a new account with imo
- Group messaging and photo sharing
- Voice IMs turn your iPhone into a walkie-talkie
- Push notifications sent for one week after you close the app
- Concurrent sessions on different devices
- Send pictures and video clips
- Searchable chat history

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Flipboard: Your Social News Magazine
Price: Free
Rated 4+
Named Apple's iPad App of the year and one of TIME's Top 50 Innovations, Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you. Flip through your Facebook newsfeed, tweets from your Twitter timeline, photos from Instagram friends and much more.

Fill Flipboard with the things you like to read, from niche blogs to publications like Rolling Stone and Lonely Planet, and use Instapaper or Read It Later to save articles to read later. Flipboard creates a single place to enjoy, browse, comment on and share all the news, photos and updates that matter to you.

In addition to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, you can flip through your newsfeeds and timelines from Google Reader, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Flickr, 500px, Sina Weibo and Renren on Flipboard.



GPS Navigation 2 - skobbler (US/CAN)
Price: $0.99 + All maps$9.99
Rated 4+
★ BRAND-NEW: The next skobbler generation including optional offline mode upgrade
★ True voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation at an unbelievable price
★ One of the most successful navigation apps in the App Store with more than 1.5 million users worldwide
★ Germany’s best-selling navigation app for years


This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
Top In-App Purchases
You need these In-App Purchasable Maps if you donot want to use GPRS data connection (Fe. abroad)

North America$5.99
All maps$9.99
Wallace & Gromit$3.99
Europe$5.99
Italy$3.99
France$3.99
South America$5.99
Germany$3.99
UK$3.99
Ireland$3.99



Agenda Calendar
Price: 0,79 €
Rated 4+
Has WEEK - view that is not available in standard Calendar















Fast Keyboard • Universal Text Editor
Price: Free
Rated 4+
Fast Keyboard is a text editor that gives you a special keyboard and amazingly high productivity.

Plus ★ Dropbox synchronization ★ Undo/redo buttons ★ Facebook ★ Search ★ Precise selection ★ Tumblr ★ Twitter ★ SMS ★ File tags ★ Key statistics ★ Word/line/character counting

On top of the standard iOS keyboard, you will get two rows of additional keys, including numbers, symbols, unicode symbols, frequently used words, and even email/article templates.

Now you don't need to constantly switch between the letter keyboard and the number keyboard. And you can type with fancy symbols: π,☆,÷,♥,♬ and so on.

Transfer text to -Email, Facebook or Twitter with one touch. Copy text to be able to Paste the text to any other App.




Kindle
Price: Free
Rated 4+
The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to read Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You’ll have access to over 1,000,000* books in the Kindle Store plus hundreds* of newspapers and magazines. Amazon Whispersync automatically syncs your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across devices (including Kindle), so you can pick up your book where you left off on another device.

Touch a word for: Dictionary Lookup or Annotate (Highlicht, Comment)
Kindle can read documents of the following formats: .mobi .prc .azw .txt .pdf
ePub-books (epub format), PDF and Word documents can be converted on a PC with the free Calibre software. Converting PDF and Word can be read as-is, but converting gives you the benefits of text-reflow and dictionary-lookup.
Amazon Kindle is also available for PC / Laptop. On PocketPC, WIndows Mobile you can use MobiReader ( .mobi format only )



Dropbox
Price: Free
Rated 4+
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your iPhone and iPad and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.

After downloading any file in the Dropbox App, Dropbox can show many documents with its internal reader, but you can also choose to open it in another app that can handle the file format (Fe. for PDF GoodReader or Amazon Kindle)




Wiki Offline — A Wikipedia Experience
Price: 7,99 € (1 Database included Fe. Dutch wikipedia)
Rated 4+
Top In-App Purchases (Fe. if you want wikipedia in a second or multiple languages)
1 Database Token0,79 €
5 Database Tokens2,99 €
12 Database Tokens7,99 €


Wiki Offline delivers flexibility and joy for the Wikipedia experience. The full text of all Wikipedia articles are stored to your iPhone/iPad/iPod. You will literally hold the world's knowledge in the palm of your hands. No more worrying about slow internet connections, overage bandwidth charges, or traveling to areas without internet, because with Wiki Offline, Wikipedia will be there for you when you need it.
Join the myriad of scientists, teachers, frequent flyers, vacationers, parents, and knowledge lovers whose lives have been improved by Wiki Offline.

★ Available in English, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, Czech, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Norwegian, Turkish, Thai, Polish, French, Hungarian, Farsi, Japanese, Hebrew, Korean, Swedish, Danish, and Slovak!




Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Price: Free
Rated 4+
America's most useful and respected dictionary.
-->No need to be Online when searching.
In addition to all the definitions from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the app offers voice search – to let you look up a word without having to spell it – along with an integrated thesaurus, example sentences, Word of the Day, Favorites, and more. A great tool for reference, education, and vocabulary building.

The app is free, and supported by ads.

Features:
* Voice Search
* Integrated Thesaurus: Synonyms & Antonyms
* Example Sentences
* Audio Pronunciations
* Word of the Day
* Favorites
* Reader View - lets you hide navigation buttons to see text in full screen
* Recent History - lets you keep track of the words you've looked up




NotesF1 To Do
Price: 3,99 €
Rated 4+
True Notes® To Do synchronization without any third party software.
This is the first true Lotus® Notes® To Do synchronization app. The app uses Lotus® Notes® Traveler server and therefore the user can start to synchronize all Notes® To Do’s (tasks) without any
It has the same Category view as in Lotus Notes
Ask UNESCO-IHE IT for the " Task Management in Lotus Notes and Mobile" tutorial.





Mendeley - Reference Manager (Lite)
Price: Free
Rated 4+

Mendeley (Lite) for iPhone syncs seamlessly with your Mendeley research collection. This means that you can now carry your personal digital library with you wherever you go. The iPhone app keeps your documents organized in just the same way as your online collection, with easy access to all your collections, recently added items and favorites. Combined with search over titles and abstracts you can get to the paper you need quickly.

READ YOUR PAPERS OFFLINE
If there is a paper you want to check out later, you can download it over wifi straight to your iPhone from your online library. It will remain available to read offline at any time, making it easy for you to read what you want, when you want.


SHARE CITATIONS
If there is a paper that you just need to let your colleagues know about right now, you can share the citation to that paper from within the app via email. No more copying and pasting citations, it all gets taken care of at the touch of a button.


KEEP UP TO DATE WITH SHARED COLLECTIONS
Mendeley (Lite) for iPhone also syncs shared collections. Shared collections take the pain out of creating a bibliography with collaborators. As soon as you sync your iPhone collection you will see any new documents that your collaborators have added to your shared collections!


To use the Mendeley (Lite) for iPhone you need to have an account with Mendeley Web (mendeley.com), and you need to add to your library either through Mendeley Web or via Mendeley Desktop.


http://www.mendeley.com/
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
Automatically generate bibliographies
Collaborate easily with other researchers online
Easily import papers from other research software
Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading
Access your papers from anywhere online
Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app
Reference Manager
Generate citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, and LaTeX.

Read and Annotate
Open PDFs and capture your thoughts through sticky notes and highlights.

Add and Organize
Import and organize PDFs from your computer, EndNote™, Papers or Zotero.

Collaborate
Connect with colleagues and securely share your papers, notes and annotations.

Backup, Sync and Mobile
Access your papers on the web, iPhone or iPad.

Network and Discover
Discover papers, people and public groups.