The iPad is hot Many college students will be hopping
onto the bandwagon, and so we asked our friend Ryan Wood, a graduate of theUniversity
of Findlay in Ohio, and now working at 148Apps.com, for some his top picks for college
students. (Reviews of the apps listed below are available at
148Apps.com.)
Here are some of the winners:
1. Dictionary.com. (Price:
FREE) This made the list of top iPhone apps and is a must have for the
iPad as well. Added functionality and an updated inventory of almost 1 million
words makes this app a great companion in the college atmosphere. The entire
dictionary, as well as the added thesaurus, is available offline. Additional
features are available during Wi-Fi connectivity.
2. Pages. (Price:
$9.99) With Pages, Apple has created an extremely powerful word processing
application on a mobile device. Containing Templates, advanced layout tools,
and easy-to-use touch commands, Pages makes putting together papers easy and
efficient. Pages also offers the ability to export documents to Pages '09 for
the Mac, Microsoft Word, or PDF, ensuring compatibility regardless of what your
specific campus uses.
3. Numbers. (Price:
$9.99) Numbers is the spreadsheet version of Pages, with the same
compatibility and feature list offered with its word processing counterpart. It
makes creating spreadsheets on the go simple and effective. Numbers offers
exporting compatibility with Numbers '09 for the Mac, Microsoft Excel, and
PDF.
4. The
Elements: A Visual Exploration. (Price: $13.99) This one is a
little pricey, but for anyone with a science major, it's a must have. This
powerful gem of an app provides detailed information in high-definition
graphics for each element on the periodic table. See visual representations of
each element, read about their specific attributes, and find examples of them
in day-to-day life, all from the convenience of the iPad. As a political
science undergrad, I still found myself mesmerized at the detail of this
app.
5. Things for
iPad. (Price: $19.99) Things for iPad is another return hit from
the best iPhone apps for college students. It's the most expensive app on the
list, which made putting it on this list difficult. Then I remembered what it
was like to have 18 credit hours, six clubs, fraternity meetings, dates,
studying, campus events ... you get the idea. Things for iPad provides the same
great time management that the original Things did, in a bigger, prettier,
easier to use iPad-specific format. You'll be remembering which club event is
where and how much time is available to cram for that economics midterm in no
time.
6. Articles
for iPad. (Price: $0.99) Articles provides a
gorgeous user interface to help search Wikipedia on the go. I appreciate the
debate about Wikipedia's relevance on college campuses and was told by plenty
of professors not to use it. That said, it provided me with excellent starting material
and a great list of resources to investigate all information. Added
functionality, such as shaking the iPad to bring up a random posting, makes
Articles fun even on those days that you're bored and trying to find something
to do in your dorm room.
by Lynn F. Jacobs, Jeremy S. Hyman
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