Calculator Boy
My main problem with digital calculators & even iPhone & iPad calculators has always been the lack of a paper tape. I end up with a pencil & paper jotting down notes & figures. What good is that?
Calculator Boy for iPad fixes that for me by giving me a “paper” tape which I can edit, naming the items. I can even email the tape to myself or others.
Great utilities are ones that are easy to use that give you exactly what you need. Calculator Boy fits the bill and you can’t argue with free.
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Name: Calculator Boy
Cost: Free
Seller: Tioga Designs, LLC
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Flipboard is a a new and innovative way to read your favorite information. Flipboard allows you to follow your Facebook, Twitter, and other feeds in a magazine format that is like no other. Why do I like Flipboard? Other than the fact that it’s free, it works seamlessly. Every so often a programmer will write a program that works, and gets out of the way of the user, this is one of those programs.
On my Flipboard I started with some technology information such as wired and then added my Twitter feed. After about 1 minute of searching, I found a feed that is everything bacon… really? A complete feed that talks about nothing but bacon? So needless to say, I added it and have found the recipes and reviews quite useful.
Don’t take my word on it, download Flipboard for free and get to it!
Other features:
- Now with Instagram, a fun & beautiful way to share photos.
- Search across your social networks and blogs with Social Search, the first of its kind.
- Load new content up to twice as fast.
- Discover featured sections curated by Flipboard.
- Reload anytime from Table of Contents, improved Google Reader unread support, and much more.
Name: Flipboard
Cost: Free
Seller: Flipboard, Inc.
Monster Chorus
Monster Chorus for iPad is a monster symphony for iPad that is fun for all ages!
8 little monsters, each one sings it’s own note. Tap a monster to make it sing. Tap them in sequence to create your own monster song!
Name: Monster Chorus
Cost: Free
Seller: ReignDesign
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Life Web Browser
Happy Thanksgiving! Special price from $2.99 to $0.99.
Life Web Browser is available as a universal app for your iPhone and iPad, or as a iPhone-only version, which is always $.99. Life comes preloaded with a number of popular websites -- but the best feature is that it will automatically remember your favorite sites as you use it. A finger swipe to move back and forth (just like photos) makes it easy to navigate between websites. And I love the Queue feature which will load other links in the background while I am viewing.
• Swipe through websites like they are photos
• Queue anything news articles and Google searches
• NEW in v1.5 -- Click the new Open Sites button to view, go to, rearrange, and remove open windows
• NEW in v1.5 -- Pull to Refresh -- Pull the site down and Life will refresh the page.
• Adjacent loading to anticipate your next move -- Life starts downloading the sites to your left and right so you rarely see a loading screen
• Automatically remembers your favorite sites
• 1, 2, and 3 finger gestures -- use 1 finger to scroll the site and swipe to your next window, 2 fingers to pinch/zoom, 3 fingers to go back/forward.
• Visual Bookmarks
• One address bar for URL and Google search
• Google suggestions built into the address bar
• One touch email link button that keeps you in the Life Web Browser
• Full screen web browsing experience. For iPad -- additional Sliced view to see if the windows next you are full loaded.
• Tutorial -- Our innovative tutorial points to all the features right when you open Life for the first time and of course, there’s a tutorial video so you can see Life in action. To get to the tutorial later, simply open your bookmarks and click the Tutorial site.
Name: Life Web Browser
Cost: $.99
Seller: It’s About Time Products
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Tiny Chef
Tiny Chef
Design and run your own restaurant in this cute, fun game! Cook food and watch your waiters serve it! Customers bustle around your restaurant, finding their seats, eating their food, and tipping! Make your restaurant as popular and beautiful as you can. The better your restaurant is, the more you earn!
FEATURES:
- Design your very own restaurant exactly as you like it!
- Unlock tastier and more complex recipes as you level up!
- Serve new recipes to earn more coins!
- Earn Recipe Stars for cooking the same dish multiple times!
- Unlock cookbooks full of exciting new recipes!
- Earn coins in real-time, even while away from the game!
- Lay out your restaurant to help waiters serve all the tables!
- Help your waiters by cleaning tables!
- Cook your dishes instantly when you’re in a pinch with Chef Bucks!
Name: Tiny Chef
Cost: Free
Seller: Brooklyn Packet Co.
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The Feed
The Feed
The Feed is a Google Reader client for your iPad. Power users may find it’s lack of features a problem, but the clean interface makes reading articles very pleasant over a latte.
The Feed’s flexible and uncluttered interface gives you a better overview of everything on the menu while a versatile filtering system and two different zoom levels make content more appetizing and digestible.
And don’t worry about finishing everything on your plate: The Feed uses proportionately sized stacks to illustrate your read and unread items, rather than badges that cause unnecessary stress.
Name: The Feed
Cost: Free
Seller: Ocean Observations
HowStuffWorks
HowStuffWorks
Are you one of the millions of fans of HowStuffWorks.com, our podcasts, our videos, our superstar experts? With the new HowStuffWorks App, you will finally have access to over 30,000 articles, podcasts and videos all in one place!
The HowStuffWorks app not only gives you instant access to a massive collection of articles and podcasts right on your iPhone or iPod Touch, but also you gives you direct access to our famous podcasters and HowStuffWorks experts! Tweet with the HowStuffWorks crew while you listen!
Stream our amazing popular podcasts while reading any article in the app — or chat directly with the podcasters — even read their newest blog posts. Want to get a new episode ASAP? Set up a push notification and you’ll instantly be the first in the know! All 2,000+ of these great shows are now immediately available in the new HowStuffWorks app!
-Stuff You Should Know: Named as one of the Best of iTunes in 2008 and riding high in the top ten ever since, Josh and Chuck give fans permission to ponder.
-Stuff You Missed in History Class: If you weren’t paying attention, Stuff You Missed in History Class has you covered. Named as one of the Best of iTunes 2008, this one continues to rank high as an audience favorite.
-BrainStuff: HowStuffWorks founder, Marshall Brain, shares quick nuggets of stuff that will make you smarter!
-Stuff Mom Never Told You: In 2009, Stuff Mom Never Told You was named as one of the Best of iTunes and keeps listeners looped in on the stuff that mom forgot.
-TechStuff: The perfect podcast for seasoned techies and novices alike, this show breaks it down in a way that comforts even the staunchest technophobe.
-Stuff from the Science Lab: For the nerd in us all, this podcast will blow your mind.
-CarStuff: HowStuffWorks.com goes behind the wheel and under the hood in this auto-enthusiasts favorite.
Or, check out any of our original video series:
-Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know: Conspiracy theorist? You’re not alone.
-The Stuff of Genius: Join HowStuffWorks founder, Marshall Brain, as he breaks down the evolution of everyday stuff in a fascinating way in this show named as one of the Best of iTunes 2009.
-The Coolest Stuff on the Planet: Named as one of the Best of iTunes 2009, The Coolest Stuff on the Planet lets you take a tour around the most awesome places on Earth, without having to hop on a plane.
Name: HowStuffWorks
Cost: Free
Seller: HowStuffWorks.com
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Rocket Bird
Rocket Bird
One of the best pick up and play free games around! Rocket Bird flies with a rocket on his back, avoiding obstacles like cows, mills, trees, farms…
Your objective is to fly over longest distance catching the stars to fill your tank and to extend your flight.
Avoid many obstacles: cows, mills, farms, trees…
To control your bird, use the accelerometer to move left or right.
Send your scores to check your performance and the worldwide ranking of the best players.
**NEW** Now send your score on your Facebook wall.
Name: Rocket Bird
Cost: Free
Seller: BeTommorrow
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TGI Black Friday
TGI Black Friday
Black Friday (November 26th, 2010) is the busiest shopping day of the year.
Use this app to plan your holiday shopping weeks before Black Friday ads are available in the newspaper. Please check the app frequently for new ads from your favorite stores such as Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Sears and many more.
Features:
- View Black Friday ads for all major retail stores weeks before they are available in your local paper.
- Frequent updates with new leaked ads for your favorite retail stores.
- Push Notifications (The app can alert you when a new ad is posted)
- Downloadable PDF Ad Scans
- Search over 10,000 Black Friday deals across stores and categories.
- Create a personal shopping list to check off items as you purchase them.
- Email your shopping list or individual deals to yourself or others.
- Compare prices for items to confirm you are getting the best deal.
- Shop online for items that may be available before Black Friday.
This app is powered by TGIblackfriday.com and DealCatcher.com, two of most popular shopping resources on the web.
Name: TGI Black Friday
Cost: Free
Seller: eCatcher, Inc.
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StopMotion Recorder
StopMotion Recorder
Make your own stop motion video with StopMotion Recorder – just like claymation right on your iPhone!
Edit, share movie via Mail, Flickr, Twitter (Twitvid), Twitter(yFrog) & Youtube from your iPhone.
Key Features
- The fastest rendering speed.
- Loop & Reverse Rendering.
- Canvas Rotation
- Automatic capture with time interval.
- Manual capture with simple touch on screen.
- Manual capture with clap sound.
- With ‘Preview’, you can change FPS & remove frame by frame. And check how it looks right away.
- With ‘Onion Skin’ feature on manual mode, You can make next shot more smoothly.
- With grid on manual mode, You can check that object is exact horizon or vertical.
- Video can be shared via email, Flickr, Twitter(TwitVid), Twitter(yFrog) & Youtube (Facebook will be included next update).
- Save movie to Camera Roll.
- 8 frame styles available. (Original, Lomography, YellowGel, VintageGreen, Instant, Noir, Sepia, Mirror)
- More Frames are available (Small Size / Low Quality)
iPhone 4 : 400 frames
iPhone 3Gs : 200 frames
iPhone 3G : 100 frames
- Size’ & Quality option changes limitation of frame.
- Super Easy user interface.
StopMotion Recorder requires iOS 4 and can be run on minimum 3G iPhone.
Name: StopMotion Recorder
Cost: $.99
Seller: Graf
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