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Mobile is the future. In fact, mobile screens will top desktops as the Internet interface of choice by 2015, according to IDC. That’s why we decided to spotlight must have productivity tabley apps for Solopreneurs. As you know, however, the spectrum ranges from entry-level apps to the more advanced tools used by social media savvy, digital natives. What’s more, a mobile tool’s relevance to you as a professional often has as much, if not more, to do with the preferences of the media you target as with your own needs and preferences.

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Mobile is the future. In fact, mobile screens will top desktops as the Internet interface of choice by 2015, according to IDC. That’s why we decided to spotlight must have productivity tabley apps for Solopreneurs. As you know, however, the spectrum ranges from entry-level apps to the more advanced tools used by social media savvy, digital natives. What’s more, a mobile tool’s relevance to you as a professional often has as much, if not more, to do with the preferences of the media you target as with your own needs and preferences.

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1. DropboxSharing Is Caring

Dropbox, a cloud storage service that started out first with the web, has now expanded its product to the iPad. For those unfamiliar with Dropbox, it is a free service that provides 2gigs of space to store and be accessed anywhere with a web connection and across devices. Additional space can be purchased through a monthly fee.

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2. FlipboardEasy on the Eyes

Flipboard is a beautiful alternative to your favorite RSS reader. It is the perfect app to stay in the know on the go when you may not have the time for a more extensive RSS or Facebook reading session. But above all else, Flipboard provides an entirely fresh and new way for you to stay in tune with mainstream and social news on your iPad.

Linked videos, images and articles are displayed directly, making the sharing of them evermore user-friendly. The pages flip like an actual magazine, similar to the turning of pages in iBooks, as opposed to scrolling, promoting more of the skimming approach of magazine reading.

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3. EvernoteYour Mobile Catch-All

Evernote, the popular and ever growing service that allows you to access your digital notes wherever you are is one of the most popular and highest rated iPad apps. If you live life on-the-go and want a single easy way to remember notes aside from bar napkins, then the Evernote iPad App and service is the best solution. The iPhone and iPad apps are free to download. The service itself is free for you to use whether you’re on a mobile device or computer.

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4. TweetdeckKeeping Your Finger on the Social Pulse

With so many social media networks and avenues available for us to connect to the world – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace – it’s so hard to keep track of them all! TweetDeck, an already established social feed aggregator with desktop and iPhone applications, recently released TweetDeck for iPad.

TweetDeck’s look and feel keeps to the same dark black gradient background as the desktop and iPhone versions. Your followers and people you follow fill up every space of the app. Spacing is done perfectly so it’s not overwhelming for you to read. Overall, if you’ve used TweetDeck for your desktop or iPhone, you’re getting same easy access and feel you’ve had elsewhere.

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Adobe Ideas is the free alternative to the essential apps. The app includes the ability to import photos do draw over and includes two layers. The app includes a $4.99 in-app upgrade to include up to 10 layers. The brush size is changed by a simple slider. The slider makes brush size highly customizable. The color selection is just as customizable. The app includes great opacity controls and includes a 50 level undo/redo support. The app can send photos through email or to your photos app. If you are looking for a great free alternative to the essential apps and really don't need all the advanced features, then this is the app for you.

5. Adobe IdeasBlogging on the Go Made Easy

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Reporting the numbers is usually not the highlight of any communicator’s work week. So, of course, you’ll want an easy way to manage your reporting function while away from the office. We suggest you try the Google Analytics app. Google Analytics is available on the iPhone (Analytic), Android (Mobile GA), Windows Mobile (Phonealytics), and the Blackberry (Nomad Analytics). You already likely use Google Analytics, but what will come as a pleasant surprise is how cheap it is to track your PR or marketing campaign on-the-go. All of these versions are free, except for the Blackberry version, which comes in at only $4.99. Go measure that!

6. Dragon DictationReporting to the Client Just Got Easier

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7. IM+ ProTake a Picture, Get a Clue

One thing that’s essential to a mobile, on-the-go device like the iPad is a good chat client to keep in touch with all your friends and co-workers. With IM+ Lite, those needs are satisfied through its feature-filled services. Aside from its plethora of chat features, IM+ Lite includes a robust in-app browser. The convenience of browsing the web and not having to close and re-open the app is extremely useful.

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8. textPlus Free Texting Text FREE & SAVE up to $240 a year!

Free SMS text messaging comes to the iPad with the ad-supported textPlus iPad App. Already popular for iPhone and iPod Touch users who refuse to pay AT&T’s markup for text messaging, textPlus for iPad provides users with mobile SMS texting capabilities in addition to group and community messaging.

Text messaging in textPlus is simple. Message friends from your iPad contact list, manually enter a 10-digit phone number, or message established lists of textPlus users similar to Twitter’s #HASH tag messaging system. Note, additional features such as community messaging and sharing contacts across your other textPlus enabled devices does require signing in and creating a textPlus account.

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If you bank with Chase, the newly released Chase Mobile app for iPad does almost everything you come to need or expect from a mobile banking app. Once logged in, you can monitor your checking/savings account, pay your Chase credit card bill, track transactions, and pay bills from the app if you have set up Bill Pay on your account.

9. Chase MobileYour Bank on your Tablet

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Technology, Education, Design – or simply TED – started in the 1980s to bring together thought leaders and speakers from various professions to discuss social issues, emerging technologies and today has spanned to virtually every topic. TED has always provided these talks and presentations for free. With the latest free TED native iPad app, you can now access TED talks ranging from Al Gore, Evan Williams and Seth Godin all for free on the iPad.

10. TEDEvents Done Right

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