{"id":2697,"date":"2011-10-13T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2021-10-19T06:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:48:29","slug":"13-free-ipad-apps-download-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/13-free-ipad-apps-download-today\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Free iPad Apps That You Should Download Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s amazing how fast the iPad has gone from just entering the marketplace to having a huge place in the market.\u00a0 Just a year and a half since its introduction, and we’re already well past iPad 2<\/a>.\u00a0 Even Rocky didn’t make sequels that fast.<\/p>\n

With it has naturally come a flood of fancy apps designed to heighten your experience of tapping a monitor.\u00a0 We’ll go over here a list of some of the best free ones that we found.\u00a0 In compiling this list, we did leave out most social networking and games apps.\u00a0 For the former, they are pretty much expected anymore.\u00a0 For the latter, we want to help you at least try to maintain the illusion that you didn’t really buy just a very pretty gaming system and call it a necessary business expense.<\/p>\n

Pulse News<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are a lot of news apps available for the iPad, so one of the main determinants for choosing between them is going to be usability.\u00a0 From the ones that we looked at Pulse News scores highly.\u00a0 Articles from multiple web sites are attractively displayed in an easy-to-use mosaic.\u00a0 When you select an article you have the choice of reading a summary or going directly to the web site.\u00a0 The app also lets you save and share stories.\u00a0 User reviews for Pulse News have been strong.<\/p>\n

Gowalla<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mash up the iPad’s features with FaceBook, Twitter, foursquare and Tumblr, and assuming you didn’t take us literally and destroy your tablet, you’ll have Gowalla.\u00a0 You can record your experiences at the places you visit and share your reviews and photos with your friends.<\/p>\n

Clinometer HD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I bet you never thought you could use a computer as an inclinometer.\u00a0 Now I bet that even those of you who don’t really have any use for one will download this just for the heck of it.\u00a0 Clinometer HD measures the angle of slope in two axis down to a tenth of a degree.\u00a0 Did I mention that a cute little bubble appears on your display when you use it?<\/p>\n

Beat the Traffic HD<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s about time that this kind of app started catching on: a driving app that takes into account up-to-the-minute road conditions when calculating your optimal route.\u00a0 Real-time driving speeds and accidents are displayed, as well as traffic camera images from 34 cities.\u00a0 The app also lets you pay it forward by giving you the ability to report incidents.<\/p>\n

Trapster speed trap alerts<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is one thing that Beat the Traffic won’t do, though.\u00a0 Trapster keeps you up to date on \u201cspeed traps, red light and speed cameras, and other wallet hazards\u201d.\u00a0 12 million users currently are tapped into trapster.com.\u00a0 Expected disclaimer: drive safely.<\/p>\n

Grid-In-Hand Mobile Grid<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a different and useful app for the right person.\u00a0 Using Scanfob or some other type of Bluetooth barcode scanner to record an item by its UPC code, Grid-In-Hand helps you keep track of your inventory.\u00a0 The data collected can be transmitted by a number of different methods, including posting to your MySQL database, sending it to your FTP server, or just emailing the results.<\/p>\n

QuickVoice Recorder<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Voice recorders are another set of popular iPad\/iPhone apps.\u00a0 QuickVoice provides the best set of features of any of them that we looked at.\u00a0 The one that people will likely be interested in the most is its ability to create custom ringtones.\u00a0 It also comes with multiple recording quality options, easy single-touch controls, and the ability to sync your files with an external computer.<\/p>\n

SoundHound<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m going to admit to still being just a touch creeped out by this technology.\u00a0 For those of you that aren’t, SoundHound is the most full-featured music recognition app out there. \u00a0It claims to be able to identify a song within four seconds of hearing it.\u00a0 By \u201chearing it\u201d, we don’t just mean listening to it on the radio: you can hum a tune, and it will try to match it.\u00a0 It also allows the requisite social network sharing, will display lyrics as the song plays, and will find your song on YouTube.<\/p>\n

Hipmunk Flight Search<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This app has gotten strong reviews for its ease of use.\u00a0 Hipmunk is different than most flight search apps in that it doesn’t sort first simply by price.\u00a0 Instead it takes into account things like time of travel, number of stops, and so forth, and sorts by \u201cagony\u201d.\u00a0 Don’t you wish that the rest of the world did this more often?<\/p>\n

WebMD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

You won’t appreciate how important an app like this one is until you need it.\u00a0 WebMD lets you input information about what part of you is ailing and gives you suggestions on what the problem could be.\u00a0 That’s not bad.\u00a0 Better is that it contains an encyclopedia of information about drugs and treatments.\u00a0 This is more important to have than you realize: often even doctors lose track of this, as there is so much information in existence that something like a simple drug-condition combination can be easy to miss.\u00a0 Included as well is first aid information and a local doctor locator.<\/p>\n

eBay Motors<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’ve shied away from expected apps specific to long-established web sites, but on this one we have to make an exception.\u00a0 eBay Motors doesn’t merely provide a simple listing like you would get from viewing their web site.\u00a0 Instead it categorizes automobile information so that you can search and organize by various criteria.\u00a0 You can also add information about your own cars to your \u201cgarage\u201d simply by scanning in your vehicle’s VIN.<\/p>\n

Onavo<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s hard to see any good reason not to download this app.\u00a0 Onavo compresses your transmitted data so that you can reduce your data over usage costs.\u00a0 It claims to be able to save 50-90% of your data costs depending on the site being used, and the positive reviews back this up.\u00a0 It cannot yet handle streaming media, though they say that’s coming.<\/p>\n

Fotopedia Heritage<\/strong><\/p>\n

We close our list with an app that’s simple but worth it.\u00a0 There are pictures of just about everything in existence somewhere on the web.\u00a0 Fotopedia focuses on high quality pictures, and couples it with detailed location information.\u00a0 It’s a great app for someone looking to slow down and enjoy the world a bit.\u00a0 Given the typical lifestyle that might require an iPad, this could be well worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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