Stories By Parisa Vassei

Developed by recent college grads, Battery Go! Plus is a simple utility that analyzes your current battery charge level and calculates the remaining time you have left for various activities.

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Are you a technophile who still values the concept of a journal and enjoys jotting down bits and pieces of information? Would you benefit from the use of a stylus on your iPad for note-taking or diagram-drawing? Or are you looking for a solid note-taking app for your business meetings or personal use? If so, you might not have to look any further! Note Taker HD is one of the most powerful apps of its kind.

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Tired of waiting for an official Facebook app that’s been optimized for the iPad? Is Safari not making the cut for your daily Facebook browsing? If you’re a light or casual Facebooker, you may be in luck with the new Friendly app. Otherwise, you may prefer waiting to see what Facebook releases for the iPad, hopefully in the near future.

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Wish you could afford a personal trainer but spent all your hard-earned dollars buying an iPad? Bored of your typical gym routine and looking for a new workout? Or are you a trainer who’d like to have some resources to share with your clients? Either way, iFitness HD may become your new gym companion!

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Money is not a newcomer to the financial app world. As a matter of fact, it has been around for over a year as an iPhone app. It has ranked as the #1 Finance app in over 20 countries and claims to have over 200,000 users worldwide. The developer, iBear LLC, has a reputation for creating visually-striking and intuitive finance apps (such as Bills and Budget for iPad) which utilize the device’s additional screen real estate--so it’s no surprise that Money for iPad is yet another success.

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GoReader Pro is finally up and running smoothly, after a login bug had rendered the app unusable for more than two months before the developer finally squashed it. This Google Reader client claims to have the “best interface” and provide the “best user-experience”; both are quite good, but we wonder about the developer’s commitment to future fixes and improvements.

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Fluid FX universal app. Created by two-time Academy Award winner Jos Stam, this creative app optimizes the state-of-the-art Maya fluid technology effects used in many popular Hollywood films for iOS-powered devices. Although powerful, Maya requires huge amounts of processing power, so Fluid FX’s smooth framerate on iDevices is very impressive.

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FileMaker users, rejoice! Your wishes have been granted. On June 21, FileMaker, a subsidiary of Apple Inc., introduced FileMaker Go for accessing and modifying your FileMaker databases from the iPad. We are happy to report that this app will revolutionize the way businesses and individuals interact with their databases.

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As you probably know, there has been an ongoing debate about the iPad’s suitability as a business and productivity tool. When Apple released iPad versions of its popular iWork suite apps, it aimed to address these concerns. Numbers for iPad was introduced as a powerful spreadsheet utility (much like Numbers ’09 in the iWork suite) allowing for quick editing on the go, but its major limitations aren't going to sway the debate in the iPad's favor.

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For those of you who find yourself constantly lost on the road or pulling over to find directions, this application is sure to become a favorite. With a visually striking yet simple-to-use interface that’s jam-packed with features, MotionX GPS Drive HD impresses, even if it sucks up a lot of data.

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