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By: Bassoon28

Bassoon28 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:44:00 +0000

These Apps sound great. Thanks for sharing the information. I keep hinting to my wife that Santa should bring me an iPad and iPhone, but Santa isn’t listening very well…

By: Jenny Reiswig

Jenny Reiswig — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:03:34 +0000

I would also recommend a few additional ones:

iAnnotate PDF reader - lets you add notes, highlights, stickies to PDFs. Very useful.

Keynote - for making/tweaking quick presentations. Much less richly featured than a desktop presentation tool, but it's a good tool for getting started or making last-minute edits.

TwoScreens - if you have the VGA dongle, you can connect the iPad to a projector, but most apps actually don't send signal out to that port. It's not true mirroring of what you see on the screen. TwoScreens will let you show things like web pages and any particular album of images on the projector. In a pinch, you can use this and the iPad screenshot trick (home button + sleep button together) to make a quickie presentation/slide deck.

My personal favorite twitter app for iPad is Twittelator, but I'd really love to see a Hootsuite app scaled up to iPad size.

By: Colleen Greene

Colleen Greene — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:33:03 +0000

I like HootSuite (even the Lite version) better than Twitteriffic for the iPad, because it lets me monitor my library's Facebook Page, my personal Facebook Profile, and my Foursquare profile from a single interface — although, the interface is a bit smaller than I prefer.

By: Andy Burkhardt

Andy Burkhardt — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:01:00 +0000

Yeah, multiple twitter pages + facebook + foursquare is nice. It’s a little annoying though that they only have the iphone version available and that they don’t have a scaled up iPad version (see Jenny’s comment).

By: Andy Burkhardt

Andy Burkhardt — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:58:00 +0000

Thanks for recommending TwoScreens. I was annoyed by nothing getting displayed on a projector with the dongle. The other one I found was VGA Browser that allows you to show what you have up on the web. I’ll have to try out Twittelator.

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iLibrarian » Top Ten iPad Apps for Librarians — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:00:23 +0000

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