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The iPad's most useful apps, updated for 2012

The best app is Dragon Dictation. It is incredibly accurate and links into text, email, Facebook and Twitter. And best of all.....it's free!

Not all iPad owners/users are business-oriented -- as a working musician/music-teacher/conductor I find that the iPad app I use every day for long periods of time is forScore. Loaded into this app I have placed well over 500 full orchestra scores, the trumpet parts for those same orchestral works, my parts for a brass quintet I perform with, most of my personal trumpet music and recorder music library and I'm constantly adding to it. forScore is an incredibly robust app that serves me as an electronic music stand and allows me to carry a huge music library with me all the time -- if I had the printed music with me I'd need a van with bookshelves to hold it all!

Noteshelf is, I think, the best app for note taking. The wrist protection is the only one I have tried that really works and I like the organizational model. I have tried several, including the one listed above, and find this one is the only one I can really use instead of note paper at a meeting. It's limitation is the export ability, but otherwise is excellent.

I can't believe what I'm reading! Do those first few words actually say "While the iPad has its limitations..."? Holy Cow! I thought these things had already eliminated war and were well on the way to ending world hunger with poverty next on the list. At least, if we all believed the hype being spewed by the media. Is this an unexpected dose of reality?

Thanks for including Evernote. It is the most useful app and it's free, which is even more amazing. I use it for everything --work, home, daily prayers that I want to remember, my blog, my new coaching business, and saving articles and other research via the Clearly add-in, though it only works with Firefox and Chrome. I recommend it to all my clients and friends.

Personally I will disagree because Stanza was far better before Amazon stripped it. With only limited exceptions I consider the iBooks app as superior because it gives you the ability to categorize your library and gives you a more book-like reading experience; though it has its limitations as well.

I'm also opposed to Flipboard because I rarely find my "social" acquaintances interested in the same news that I follow. Zite, on the other hand, fits my interests nicely.

QuickAgenda and qAgenda (iPhone) for scheduling and tracking meetings. Simple and elegant.

GoodReader
PocketCloud Pro
iSSH

and of course access to my public library using OverDrive

With this app I can see live tv channels from all over the world, plus private video/audio broadcasts (and broadcast my own), all for free (so far)

I gotta say there are 4 or 5 apps I would never have on my iPad if I had one; I'm thinking more about purchasing the Asus TF700 but I digress.

1. TED Talks - Maybe, but the majority of the topics that I've run across have a decidedly liberal bias.
2. ProPublica - No question, this site is loaded with articles with a definite liberal bias.
3. NPR - Unless you're keeping an eye on the leaders of the Progressive movement I can see no reaso to visit this site if you're at all interested in obtaining the truth on a particular subject.
4. The Guardian Eyewitness - This site could almost double as a mirror site to Al Jazeera. I've never seen so many anti Semitic, anti American articles coming out of one source as from this group. Again, if you're in search of the truth, you're wasting your time on this site.
5. Big Picture - I'm not familiar with this site, but a quick scan of their benefactors leads me to believe this also belongs in the company of the previous four.

Still, to each his own. You're welcome to praise whatever you like...just sayin'. =;)

Thanks for these professional applications. Great post!

In business/productivity app, Id like to recommend a great one which integrated an interesting concept; saving time from your notes. This app, Beesy, generates automatically ToDo lists from a smart note taking. Also, the advantage is you can easily generate professional minutes from your notes and send them by email. Besides, you can browse your ToDo by actions,projects or people. You save a lot of time at meetings.
I strongly recommend Beesy for people which often have meetings and want to appreciate them again
http://www.beesapps.com/beesy-ipad-to-do/

Meslie

Many people who use iPad for their work need access to their documents from PC or Mac, Cloud drives (Dropbox, Google Drive) or Email attachments (Gmail or Yahoo Mail). People want to search, access and take actions on these documents from their iPad. One of the app we use for that is www.documents.me available for free at App Store.

Very nice list of most useful iPad apps of 2012. I know some of them and they are working great. May I know where is the list of useful iPAd apps of 2013 till now.
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