Many of us will be using either iPhone, iPad or iPod, and we are searching for the best applications to install from the sea of applications in the Apple App store. So, I took the time and dug up some application that I feel to be important for all iPhone, iPad and iPod users. Please check the application and let me know your thoughts on these.
Retro Camera
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Size : 5 MB
Price   : $1.99.
Category: Photography
Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai
Seller: CLBITZ Ubiquitous Communications Inc.
IPhone apps that stimulate the effects of classic cameras are fairly common, and the photos you take can make for great conversation starters. If you want something a bit more customizable, try Retro Camera. This one lets you take a photo (or choose an existing on in your camera role) and give it a number of effects. Choose from an old film types and frames, blurs, stain effects and even textures. The options could be better labeled, and help bubbles are in obviously poorly translated English, but a little bit of experimentation will work wonders.
XE Currency
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Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later
Size : 0.6 MB
Price : Free
Category: Utilities
Language: English
Seller: XE.com Inc.
XE Currency IA the simplest and cleanest of all the free currency converter apps in the App store. Powered by XE.com, one of the most popular and powerful currency conversion services on the web, the app can handle over 170 currencies. The converter itself is simple to use. You can display your most frequently used units right on top and see converted amounts in each one simultaneously. A simple click flips the conversion the other way around. You can even perform basic math calculations while converting – great for things like restaurant bills. The app can chart fluctuations in a currency’s value by day, week, or even year. Rates are updated constantly, and a recent update has even added precious metals to the list of available options.
Twitterrific for Twitter
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Size : 6.6 MB
Price : Free
Category: Social Networking
Language: English
Seller: The Iconfactory
Now a universal app for both iPad & iPhone, Twitterrific is the friendly, award-winning Twitter client that’s beautiful to look at, easy to use and full of elegant features. Effortlessly read and compose tweets, search Twitter.com, filter message types and much more. It supports Twitter-based searches, conversation threads between users and multiple Twitter accounts and many more.
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Size : 4.2 MB
Price : Free
Category: Social Networking
Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Seller: Facebook
Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start a conversation with Facebook Chat, check your friends’ latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile photos to Facebook while on the go.
Bento for iPad
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Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later
Size : 17.8 MB
Price   : $4.99
Category: Productivity
Language: English
Seller: FileMaker, Inc.
Organize all the details of your busy life in one iPad app! Bento for iPad comes with 25 ready-to-use database templates that can be easily customized to organize virtually any type of information you have. Manage contacts, track projects, plan events and so much more. Bento for iPad is a new version of Bento, the popular personal database from FileMaker – use standalone or synchronize with Bento 3 for Mac.
25 built in templates, Classes, Contacts, Customers, Diet Log, Digital Media, Donations, Equipment, Events, Event Planning, Exercise Log, Expenses, Files, Home Inventory, Inventory, Issue Tracking, Items Sold, Membership List, Notes, Products, Projects, Recipes, Student List, To-do Items, Time Billing, and Vehicle Maintenance.
Pandora Radio
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Size : 3.9 MB
Price : Free
Category: Music
Language: English
Seller: Pandora Media, Inc.
Pandora Radio is your own free personalized radio now available to stream music on your iPhone or iPad. Just start with the name of one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a “station” that plays their music and more music like it.
Already a Pandora user? Even easier. Just log in. Pandora on the iPhone is fully integrated with Pandora on the web. Enjoy all your existing stations – and create new ones right from your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
Netflix
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later
Size : 6.9 MB
Price : Free
Category: Entertainment
Language: English
Seller: Netflix, Inc.
If you have a Netflix account, then this is a must get application for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Just download this free app, and you can instantly watch TV shows & movies streaming from Netflix with the ability to resume and browse movies from your iPad or iPhone or iPod.
Note: Video out is supported on the iPad, iPhone 4, and iPod Touch 4G
Redux Widescreen
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Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later. You must be at least 17 years old to download this app.
Size : 3.3 MB
Price : Free
Category: Entertainment
Language: English
Seller: Redux
Find the funniest and most entertaining videos and images online, hand-picked by the best community of entertainment curators. Filter by category, popularity or curator, view instantly, and discover the next viral trend before your friends.
- Discover videos and pictures from a live stream of content shared by REAL people just like you
- View hundreds of user-created channels ranging in topic from Fail Videos and Cars to Best Movie Scenes and Music
- Share content to Facebook and Twitter in just one tap without leaving the app
- Enjoy browsing and discovering content with a split-screen interface specifically built for the iPad
Box.net
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Size : 4.1 MB
Price : Free
Category: Business
Language: English
Seller: Box.net
The Box.net app lets you easily view, access and share files (5 GB Free) on your iPhone and iPad. Using Box for iPhone and iPad, you can easily, View all your Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs, images and Box Web Documents, listen to audio files and watch videos, share files and folders with anyone, save files to your iPhone or iPad for offline access, add or reply to comments on files and folders, share content with direct links to files and folders, turn folders into shared online workspaces where you can invite others to view, edit or add files and exchange feedback through comments and discussions and many more
SCRABBLE for iPad
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Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later
Size : 12.6MB
Price : $9.99
Category: Games
Language: English
Seller: Electronic Arts
This word playing game from EA comes with multiplayer support and stunning HD-quality Graphics, portrait and landscape modes and many more features.
Real Racing HD
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Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.
Size : 153 MB
Price : $9.99
Category: Games
Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Seller: Firemint Pty Ltd
Real Racing HD offers the most realistic racing experience available on the iPad. It offers multiplayer support via Game Center, leaderboards, many racing modes, 76 events and 48 cars to unlock, this is one of the good racing games out there.
Feeddler RSS Reader for iPad and iPhone
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Size : 4.9 MB
Price : Free
Category: News
Language: English
Seller: Che-Bin Liu
Feeddler is a fast and highly customizable Google Reader client that stays in perfect sync with Google and presents RSS stories in a clean interface. Feeddler is a universal app that supports iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads. It supports multiple accounts, sync with Google Reader, option to rate, email sharing, Facebook sharing and many more. This free version is supported by banner ads.
Skype
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Size : 11.9 MB
Price : Free
Category: Social Networking
Languages: English, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
Seller: Skype Software S.a.r.l.
With Skype on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, you can make and receive calls, and instant message anyone else on Skype, wherever they are in the world. You can also save on international calls and text messages to phones. Skype is free to download and easy to use. With the latest version, you can now call over 3G*, and keep Skype running in the background.
IM+
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Size : 16.6 MB
Price : Free
Category: Social Networking
Languages: English, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Slovak, Spanish
Seller: SHAPE Services GmbH
Now with iOS 4.2 fast app switching! IM+ will keep you connected to GTalk, Yahoo, MSN/Live Messenger, AIM/iChat, ICQ, MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, and Jabber. It also features group chat, speech recognition, custom status and geolocation. No pre-registration required. Just enter your account in the IM network and start the chat right away.
Toodledo – To-Do List
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later
Size : 3.6 MB
Price : $1.99
Category: Productivity
Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
Seller: Jake Olefsky
Toodledo is a powerful task and note manager, for the iPhone and iPad. It will help organize your to-do list and notes, and make you more productive. You can use Toodledo as a standalone application, or you can have it seamlessly synchronize your lists with Toodledo.com, one of the most popular online task managers. You can also import settings from other to-do list in another PDA or application (Outlook, iCal, etc.)
CNBC Real-Time for iPad
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Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later
Size : 3.3 MB
Price : Free
Category: Finance
Language: English
Seller: NBC Universal, Inc.
CNBC Real-Time for iPad is the only free app that delivers Real-Time quotes before, during and after market hours (4am-8pm)…direct from the NYSE and NASDAQ, Real-Time & Historical Interactive Charts, offering custom timeframes from one day to 5 years, including pre- & post-market trading. Now you can access the power of CNBC, right on your iPad. Get all the fast, accurate and actionable news, information and data you need in Real-Time from the network that is First in Business Worldwide.
Only CNBC delivers live, Real-Time Stock Quotes before, during and after stock market hours direct from the NYSE and NASDAQ, company specific news, videos, profiles, returns and key metrics. Plus, CNBC’s exclusive breaking business news allows you to stay on top of the markets, no matter where you are. All this plus interactive charts, US and World indexes (Dow Jones, S&P 500, NASDAQ and more), commodities, currencies, pre-markets, and video-on-demand. You can even create your own personal scrolling ticker & stocks watch lists. It’s all the insight and analysis you need from the network you trust.
Calorie Counter by FatSecret
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Size : 5.9 MB
Price : Free
Category: Healthcare & Fitness
Languages: English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
Seller: Secret Industries Pty Ltd
This application is for health maniacs, who take their calorie intakes very seriously. Calorie Counter is the essential app to simply find nutritional info for the food you eat and easily keep track of your meals, exercise and weight. It also features a food diet to plan your diet, a calendar to monitor the calories you burn, a weight tracker, and a journal to record your progress.
Remote
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.2 or later
Size : 15.2 MB
Price : Free
Category: Entertainment
Languages: English, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
Seller: Apple Inc.
Control iTunes and Apple TV using your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad over your Wi-Fi network. Choose playlists, songs, and albums as if you were right in front of your computer or Apple TV. From anywhere in your home, change a song, pick a playlist or browse through your entire library. With a flick of your finger, you can even control every aspect of the Apple TV user interface. Use your device’s QWERTY keyboard to quickly tap out the title instead of clicking letters on the Apple TV screen. Then keep tapping to play, fast-forward, rewind, and pause to your finger’s content. Remote has been fully optimized to take advantage of the large screen real estate of the iPad as well as the spectacular Retina display in the iPhone 4, and new iPod touch.
Google Mobile App
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Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Size : 8.6 MB
Price : Free
Category: Reference
Languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
Seller: Google Mobile
Google Mobile App can help you search Google quickly using your voice, pictures, and location. Google Mobile App also links to Google’s other applications so that you can easily navigate to them.
