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Essentials

Pages

$9.99

Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout tool. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works.

Keynote

$9.99

Keynote is a powerful presentation app, redesigned for the iPad. The application gives you even faster ways to create, more captivating ways to present, and smarter ways to share.

Numbers

$9.99

Numbers is the easiest way to make great-looking spreadsheets anywhere you are. Choose from 16 Apple-designed templates to use for home, work, and school. Plan, organize, and analyze anything you can think of.

Cramberry

$2.99

Cramberry is a flash card application that tracks your progress and maximizes study times. Using its intelligent study algorithm, the application both looks and performs stunning. It doesn’t hurt that Cramberry offers over a million public sets for free.

Organization

iStudiez Pro

2.99

iStudiez is a sophisticated student planner. Its interactive agenda allows you to take charge of your schoolwork with notification reminders when assignments and capabilities to sync with the cloud.

iAnnotate PDF

$9.99

iAnnotate turns your iPad into a world-class productivity tool for reading, annotating, organizing, and sending PDF files. Whether you’re taking notes on lecture slides in class or marking up an important business document, iAnnotate’s customization options allow you to streamline your workflow.

Goodreader

$4.99

GoodReader is a super-robust PDF reader. It allows you to read virtually anything, anywhere: it can handle 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.

Dropbox

Free

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Add files to your Favorites for fast, offline viewing; easily upload photos and videos; and share freely with family and friends. Never email yourself a file again.

Google

Free

Optimized for mobile phones, Google’s group of apps enables you to access their services on the go. Apps include their search engine, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Sync, YouTube, and Google Earth.

Mathematics

Graphing Calculator HD

$1.99

Graphing Calculator turns your phone or iPod into an intuitive high-resolution function plotter and scientific calculator.

OmniGraph Sketcher

$14.99

Perfect for quickly visualizing ideas and presenting them, OmniGraphSketcher helps you make elegant and precise graphs in seconds. Using simple multitouch gestures, you get the numeric precision of a charting application—with no complicated equations necessary.

Quick Graph

$14.99

Quick Graph is a powerful, high quality, graphic calculator that takes full advantage of the multitouch display and the powerful graphic capabilities of the iPad and iPhone, both in 2D and 3D. A simple, yet intuitive interface that makes it easy to enter and/or edit equations and visualize them in mathematical notation.

Note-taking

Evernote

Free

Evernote turns your device into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your Mac or Windows desktop.

Bamboo Paper

Free

Bamboo Paper creates a virtual notebook out of your iPad, letting you share your ideas visually with handwritten notes, sketches or doodles. You can write effortlessly with your fingers, or pair the application with the Bamboo stylus for a pen-like feel.

Sundry Notes

Free

Sundry Notes allows you to draw, type text, record audio, and create tables. It has advanced features like real-time collaboration over WiFi, ability to export notes in PDF format, sync capabilities to the cloud, and a full Photoshop-style undo history.

Research

WolframAlpha

Free

With WolframAlpha, you get answers. Access expert knowledge wherever you are, whenever you need it. Use Wolfram|Alpha to discover new information about the world and to breathe expert knowledge into any facet of your life.

Wikipanion

Free

Accessing Wikipedia has never been faster and easier than with Wikipanion, designed for easy, search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Streamline your browsing with history grouped by visit date, and bookmarking that not only bookmarks individual entries, but individual sections within an entry.

Dictionary

Free

The Dictionary.com app delivers trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. No internet connection is needed to search words! The app includes nearly 2 million words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. It also features audio pronunciation, voice-to-text search and Dictionary.com’s popular Word of the Day and Hot Word blog.

Science

3D Medical Images

Specifically designed for the iPad to showcase the high quality images developed by 3D4Medical.com, it contains over 200 medical images that can be displayed for presentation purposes, saved as wallpaper or shared with friends and colleagues.

WebMD

Free

Check your symptoms, access drug & treatment information, get first aid essentials, and check local health listings on the go or at home, from the most trusted brand in health information.

Elements

$13.99

If you think you've seen the periodic table, think again. The Elements: A Visual Exploration lets you experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you've never seen before. This is the US English version of The Elements.

Google Earth

Free

Hold the world in the palm of your hand. With Google Earth, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. Explore global satellite and aerial imagery, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world's population and a third of the world's land mass.

Science 360

Free

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 app provides easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news from NSF-funded institutions.

History

MyCongress

Free

MyCongress is a portal to detailed information about your elected U.S. Congressional officials. Track their news, video and Twitter feeds. Look up their official Open Congress profile or contact them directly. MyCongress helps you get in touch with your government.

Constitution

Free

Senator Sam Ervin pulled one out of his pocket during the Watergate Hearings: Now prepare to own any legal debate with a copy of the US Constitution on your iPad!

The Presidency

Free

The Presidency application is an excellent educational reference for easy access to historical information regarding the 44 United States Presidents. Designed as a reference for Elementary and Middle School students The American Presidency provides the detailed information on each president.

E-reader

Our Choice

$4.99

Al Gore's Our Choice will change the way we read books. And quite possibly change the world. In this interactive app, Al Gore surveys the causes of global warming and presents groundbreaking insights and solutions already under study and underway that can help stop the unfolding disaster of global warming.

Inkling

Free

Inkling is a platform for interactive textbooks, built from the ground up for iPad. It turns paper-based textbooks into engaging, interactive learning experiences while staying compatible with the print book for classroom use.

Art

Inspire Pro

$7.99

Inspire Pro is a painting app like none other. The key feature is the simulation of wet oil paint on canvas, allowing amazing blending effects with five real kinds of brushes. You will be stunned by what you can do with a dry brush!

Live Sketch HD

$1.99

Express yourself with impressive sketches like a pencil on a real paper. This app allows you to create pencil-like thin lines by drawing faster or thicker lines by drawing slower, creating a virtual pencil medium.

Sketchbook Pro

$4.99

SketchBook Pro is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.

Fitness

Fitness HD

Free

The best app for a complete and efficient fitness lifestyle! Features over 700 VIDEO clips of exercises for men and women, 50 Yoga poses with video and audio instructions, a calorie counter, Bodytracker, BMI calculator, and has 40 free ready-made workouts. There are 4 workout programs to choose from and LIVE support available from professional coaches.

LiveStrong.com Calorie Tracker

$2.99

Whether you want to lose, maintain or gain weight, the LIVESTRONG.COM Calorie Tracker will help you achieve your diet and nutritional goals. Our comprehensive online food journal containing over 625,000 food and fitness items. You can look up or track your daily caloric, fat, carbohydrate and protein intake with the click of a button.

News

Flipboard

Free

Flipboard is a fast, beautiful way to flip through the news, photos, videos, and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr, and Instagram. See your social media in a magazine layout that is easy to scan and fun to read, with sections created from your favorite news, people, blogs, and topics. Your Flipboard is everything you care about in one place.

Pulse

Free

Pulse takes your favorite websites and transforms them into a colorful and interactive mosaic. Tap on an article to see a clean and elegant view of the news story. Save stories for reading later across all platforms or sync them with Instapaper, Read it Later and Evernote. Sharing a story via Facebook, Twitter and email is as easy as two taps.

NY Times

Free

Enjoy the award-winning journalism of The New York Times anytime, anywhere, with the enhanced NYTimes app for iPad – now including more content, featuring blogs, videos and slide shows.

CNN

Free

Experience the new CNN App and go beyond breaking news with top headlines, in-depth feature stories, and video. Quickly scan the headlines or immerse yourself in a conversation by commenting on stories and interacting with other readers.

Finance

CNBC Real-Time

CNBC Real-Time 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; and offers custom timeframes from one day to 5 years, including pre & post market trading.

MarketDash

Free

MarketDash from Yahoo! Finance gives you quick, easy access to your investment portfolios and watch lists, wherever you are. Tap to create a customizable list of stocks that you’d like to follow. Swipe to navigate our interactive comparison charts. And hover over stock prices to view them over different points in time. With the large iPad screen, money has never looked so good.

iCurrencyPad

$0.99

iCurrencyPad is not just a simple and elegant currency convertor and calculator. iCurrencyPad also offers an up-to-the-minute exchange rates "electronic board", detailed charts of historical price trends, and much more in a polished, easy-to-use interface.

Fun

Dragon Dictation

Free

Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. You can also dictate status updates directly to your Social Networking applications (Facebook and Twitter) or send notes and reminders to yourself….all using your voice.

Starwalk

$4.99

Star Walk enables you to point your iPad at the sky and see what stars, constellations, and satellites you are looking at in real-time.

Free Translator

Free

This application provides an interface to the free Google Translate API for many languages including Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Garage Band

$5.99

Whether you’re a musical prodigy or just love creating your own walls of sound, GarageBand for iPad gives you all the tools you need to lay down fresh tracks and record music anywhere you go. The app lets you select from instruments designed for Multi-Touch that play and sound like their real counterparts. Record and share your music with ease.

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*Disclaimer: Summaries for applications descriptions are sourced from their respective Apple or developer web page to maintain their marketing integrity.