iPad Apps That I Use and Enjoy (Non Educational)

By Jason Seliskar On July 3, 2010 · 1 Comment · In Informational, Opinion, Technology

AirCoaster

AirCoaster is an app that you can have a lot of fun with. You can design your very own roller coaster by manipulating the turns and hills that you travel on. Once you have the roller coaster that you want you take it for a spin, by riding your own creation.

Download this app in the iTunes Store for $0.99 by clicking on the iTunes icon.

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On the Grill by Weber

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On the Grill is a great Summer tool to use around the grill in the backyard. This app has recipes and how to videos of how to prep, right grilling conditions and also allows you to create a shopping list for those ingredients you may not have. This app has definitely come in handy for my grilling this time of year

Download this app in the iTunes Store for $4.99 by clicking on the iTunes icon.

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OpenTable

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Ever need to make a reservation? Well OpenTable can make that reservation of a reservation even faster and easier. Find the restaurant you are wanting to dine in and pick the time and date you would like to be there. Also some other features are reviews and maps for those hard to find places.

Download this app in the iTunes Store for FREE by clicking on the iTunes icon.

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Mashable

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Mashable is a great source to stay up to date with the latest. From their website, “Mashable is an online guide to social media. One of the top 10 blogs worldwide, Mashable is a hub for those looking to make sense of the online realm.

What will you find here? Step-by-step guides to using popular websites, reviews of mobile applications, breaking news about what’s happening on the web, the best viral videos, tips for marketing your businesses online and much much more!”

Download this app in the iTunes Store for FREE by clicking on the iTunes icon.

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AppAdvice

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AppAdvice is the ideal resource on the web for people looking to discover iPhone apps. AppAdvice thoroughly filters through the 60,000+ apps in the App Store to bring you up to date on relevant news regarding apps, as well as providing detailed app reviews.

The focus of AppAdvice.com is not to give you the same monotonous content found all over the web, but rather aggregate it in a useful way making it easy to figure out which apps you should download, that’s it. No Apple or Mac news, just iPhone apps. From our custom AppLists to instantaneously updating our BargainBin to inform you of discounts on apps, AppAdvice aims to be your one stop shop for everything App Store.

Download this app in the iTunes Store for $1.99 by clicking on the iTunes icon.

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Early Edition

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From the GreenHouse Apps Website:

The Early Edition is an iPad application that takes what’s great about print and what’s great about online media and combines them in a format that is familiar, stylish and intuitive. It does this by collecting all of the news sources that you enjoy (via their RSS feeds) and presenting them as a daily newspaper. Articles can be read within the newspaper view (by scrolling the text) or in full page mode.

Download this app in the iTunes Store for $4.99 by clicking on the iTunes icon.

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USA Today

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No longer do you have to subscribe or get your edition at the store or the local McDonalds. You just have to download this free app and read up to date news. This is a great paper to use in the classroom since it is written at 5th grade level.

Download this app in the iTunes Store for FREE by clicking on the iTunes icon.