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Top 265 best iPad apps 2013. If you've got yourself an iPad Air or new iPad mini, you'll want to start downloading the best iPad apps straight away. And if you already have an iPad 4 or older iPad, you might want to update it with some new apps. It's the apps that really set iOS apart from other platforms - there are far more apps available on the App Store for the iPad than any other tablet. So which which ones are worth your cash? And which are the best free apps? Luckily for you we've tested thousands of the best iPad apps so that you don't have to. So read on for our best-in-class apps for each major category, followed by some more specific lists of the best free and paid for apps and games.

Best iPad apps: Books App name: KindleDeveloper: AmazonPrice: FreeLink: Get from iTunes The best library of literature to choose from, cross platform support via Whispersync, a great choice of fonts and ways to read… Kindle is the most comprehensive reading app out there, and an essential download. Best iPad apps: Business. The iPhone And iPad Apps That Are Suddenly Free On App Store's 5th Anniversary (UPDATE) The iPhone And iPad Apps That Are Suddenly Free on App Store's 5th Anniversary. Can a tablet replace your laptop? We used an iPad for three months to find out. The personal computer has changed dramatically over the last decade. Desktops haven’t disappeared, but they’ve been replaced in popularity by laptops, which in turn are now threatened by tablets.

All of these devices are computers, but they have different priorities. Productivity is considered the domain of desktops and some laptops, while tablets are used as consumption devices. Or rather, that’s the assumption many make. Getting acquainted I always find unwrapping a new tablet to be a treat. I wanted to decide if a tablet was a worthwhile replacement using the same metric as most consumers: my wallet. While setting up a new tablet is a pleasure, it’d be untrue to suggest that Microsoft has neglected its own setup process. Tablets do retain an edge, however, in the moments just after initial setup.

So, can you really be productive? After configuring my new iPad, I immediately dove into the meat of my testing: productivity. And things went … nowhere. Next, I wanted to solve image editing. Can A Tablet Replace Your Laptop? Will the third-generation iPad finally replace your laptop? | Apple. Every new tablet, supersize smartphone, or other multifuncton device seems to give industry watchers yet another excuse to declare the traditional laptop dead, or at least on the way out. With the new features and capabilities built into the just-announced third-gen iPad (also known as the "new iPad"), I expect a flood of reader e-mail over the next few days, asking if a revamped iPad is better investment than a new laptop. And it's not a crazy question, even if you've thus far resisted the urge to move more and more of your computing tasks to a tablet.

This was one of the most controversial debates about the original iPad in 2010, and just before that first-generation system hit stores, I had managed to get my hands on an early unit and weighed in on its skills as a PC replacement. That story was called, " Is the Apple iPad a Netbook killer? " which gives you some idea of how long ago 2010 was. Despite this, there is a lot that the third-gen iPad can do in place of a laptop or desktop. Will the Third-Generation iPad finally Replace Your Laptop. iPad For Business - Putting iPad To Work | Huddle's Blog. Increasingly, businesses are deploying iPads to replace workers’ laptops and more expensive computing hardware and while it’s an incredibly useful mobile device, there are some things that your laptop can do that iPad can’t.

So you might be asking yourself: how can I use my iPad for business work? iPad has quickly become the easiest, fastest and most portable device for accessing documents on the go. While it can be easy to interact with many types of files once they’re actually on your iPad, there’s been no easy way to get them there to begin with. And once you have a file, it’s not always easy to manipulate it in the way you’d expect, or share it in the secure way you’re used to. It’s also not always easy to physically use iPad for business since it doesn’t have a keyboard. Here we offer up some easy software and hardware solutions to the most common issues with iPad. The problem: How do I securely access work documents on iPad for viewing, annotating, editing and sharing?

We hear you. Putting iPads to Work: iPad App Fills Killer Enterprise Need: Collaboration in the Cloud. CIO — One reason that business people love the iPad is because it's so darn easy to use. Just whip it out and get a little work done on the iPad whenever there's a little downtime, which often means collaborating on projects, whether it's the presentations that look so good on the iPad display, or routine work documents. "It's not unusual for me (in one country), an employee in Europe and another in Japan all to be working on a project," says Lance Locher, senior vice president of Total Traffic Network, a division of Clear Channel that delivers traffic data to the company's radio and television stations and other outlets.

Locher, an avid iPad owner, taps the power of collaboration in the cloud with an app called Box. Like the iPad itself, Box is a simple file sharing tool and cloud storage service built for the enterprise. Collaboration in the cloud just might be the iPad's killer enterprise app. "The ease-of-use becomes even more prevalent in this version," Locher says.

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