It will be September in a heartbeat, and the back-to-school/back-to-work buying binge saturation advertising has already started. Top of mind: school supplies! Doesn’t matter whether you’ve left classrooms far behind, or if you’re heading to a lecture hall soon, everyone shares a nostalgia for fresh new pens and notebooks, and if you’re nerdy like me, fresh new digital toys, …erm, I mean TOOLS!
Here are some very excellent iPad and iPhone apps to up the productivity score of your mobile gadgets, and get you in the mood to hit the books. Happy downloading.
“The PopNotes App creates geo-triggered Post-it® Notes for the digital world. Create and place notes anywhere you want. Choose to leave a note just for yourself or share it with friends, family or everyone. You can even set a note to pop up at a specific time and location.” (Free) x (free)x
“Organize your to-do lists on the go and synchronize them with your free Wunderlist account. View and modify your tasks on Windows, Mac, iPhone/iPod Touch, Android and the web. Share your tasks and lists by email or invite your friends, colleagues or co-workers to work with you.” (Free) xx
“Read It Later lets you save pages to read later, even without an internet connection. Download the entire page complete with images or an optimized text-only view. Once Read It Later has downloaded your content, you can read your list while in airplane mode or in the subway on the way to work. ” (Free, or upgrade to $2.99 pro version) xx
“Time Magazine selected Graphing Calculator as one of the top 10 back-to-school iPhone applications. Gorgeous, powerful, yet easy to use, Graphing Calculator turns your phone or iPod into an intuitive high-resolution function plotter and scientific calculator.” Plot and trace multiple equations on the same graph, then take screen shots and e-mail graphs to yourself. ($1.99) xx
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