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Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phonesand even the Dropbox website. Dropbox also makes it super easy to share with others.
GoodReader is the super-robust PDF reader for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Mashable describes it as “a Swiss Army knife of awesome!” With GoodReader on your iPad/iPhone, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: books, movies, maps, pictures.
$5.99
Freemium
Managing tasks is generally not a fun way to spend your time. Remember The Milk was created so that you no longer have to write your to-do lists on sticky notes, whiteboards, random scraps of paper, or the back of your hand. Remember The Milk makes managing tasks an enjoyable experience.
Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your notable life using your computer, phone, and the web
Freemium
One touch on your iPhone or iPad lets you remotely access your computers anywhere, anytime and manage your files on the go. Directly control your desktop as if you’re sitting in front of it, access your computer applications as if they were on your iPad, and view or manage files directly from your iPad/iPhone.
$36.99
$5.99
Save web pages for later offline reading, optimized for readability on your iPhone or iPod touch's screen.Great for long articles and blog posts that you find during the day and would like to read, but don't have the time when you find them. Save with Instapaper, then read later when you're commuting, in a meeting, or waiting in line
$12.99$19.99 Pro
Documents To Go is an all-in-one application with support for Microsoft® Word, Excel & PowerPoint, PDF, Apple iWork and other files and attachments. It includes a desktop application to provide 2-way file synchronization and a version with support for Google Docs, Box.net, Dropbox, iDisk and SugarSync is also available.
Pages
Numbers
$12.99 Each
Keynote
With advanced tools for writing and easy page layout, your documents in Pages are beautiful beyond words.
Numbers helps you get more from your data with easy-to-create formulas, one-click charts, and table categories.
New cinematic animations, transitions, and effects in Keynote will keep your audience captivated.
In addition to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, iWork lets you open documents from many sources. Numbers opens CSV, tab-delimited, vCard, and Open Financial Exchange files. Pages opens RTF and plain text documents. All iWorkapplications can export to PDF. Numbers can also export to CSV. Pages can save a file as plain text. And Keynote lets you save your presentation as a QuickTime movie, HTML file, or image file.
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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
Reeder$3.99 (iphone)$5.99 (ipad)
FeedlyFree
BylineFreePro-$3.99 (in app)
FlipboardFree
FeeddlerFreePro-$5.99
FreeZimeo Mags $$
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Kate Freedman◦ Faculty Librarian, La Trobe University Library
◦ K.freedman@latrobe.edu.au
◦ @katejf (twitter)
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