2011 Buyers’ Guide
100 APPS RUNNERS UP
2011 Buyers’ Guide
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Wired Magazine
A number of noteworthy magazines have tried to
bring their print editions to life on the iPad; Wired
is in some ways the most interesting. Stories on
movies and music evolve from still images and text
into video and audio clips, letting you experience
the lm or artist being proled; graphics with
foreign-language text are translated instantly with
the press of a button, and automatically reorient for
landscape and portrait orientations with reowed
text. But in an age where publishers have been
forced to heavily discount if not give away their
magazines, Wired carries a full issue price tag, and
it’s hard to imagine paying $60 per year for this. $5
2011 Buyers’ Guide
BoxCar
Adds push notications
to Twitter, e-mail, news
readers, and other apps
that you want to keep
instant on, including
Facebook on iPad.
FREE
Bartleby’s Book
Another next-generation
interactive book for kids,
this one using buttons,
switches and levers to
move a nicely illustrated,
brief iPad story along.
$3
Calcbot
Another Apple calculator
replacement, this one
adds a recording tape
and exporting, with big
buttons on the iPad, two
screens on iPhone.
$2
Art Authority
The iPad app has 40,000
paintings from 1,000
artists, available quickly
from any Internet
connection. Visual and
eductional.
$10.
Find My iPhone
If you’ve lost an iPad/
iPhone/iPod touch, this
app works with Apple’s
MobileMe to pinpoint its
location using a second
iOS device.
FREE
Compass HD
Fishbone’s stylish iPad-
only reskinning of the
iPhone 3GS/4 compass
provides multiple styles
and panes, including map
and save features.
$2
CinemaFX
Adds numerous special
eects and lters to
iPhone 3GS/4 and iPod
touch 4G videos, though
some are locked inside
in-app purchases.
$2
Fortune Magazine
This iPad-only evolution
of the nancial magazine
is too expensive, but has
a sharp UI that rotates
and uses buttons and
graphics eectively.
$5
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