Who doesn’t like free? And who doesn’t like great iPad apps? When the two come together it’s good stuff. With that in mind, we’d like to share our Best Free iPad App of the Week here every weekend.
This week’s pick is Travelocity for iPad – the iPad version of the travel bookings and deals service, complete with the little roaming gnome fella. Here are some of its key features:
· The Travelocity iPad app is the only iPad app you can search and book round-trip and one-way flights, hotels, and car rentals
· Access your Travelocity account to automatically complete your information during checkout
· Search hotels and airports nearby
· Sort and filter search results
Take advantage of mobile-exclusive deals.
· Travelocity iPad app users get exclusive access to hotel deals you can’t find anywhere else
· App-exclusive deals change everyday, so take advantage before they disappear
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Who doesn’t like free? And who doesn’t like great iPad apps? When the two come together it’s good stuff. With that in mind, we’d like to share our Best Free iPad App of the Week here every weekend.
This week’s pick is Plain Text, or Plain Text – Dropbox Text Editing to give it its full App Store name. It’s a simple text editor app with a paper-like interface that has just a small number of great features that make it an absolute pleasure to use. In other words, the app does not offer a lot of unnecessary and distracting bells and whistles, but it does provide a number of key features that create an effective and attractive writing environment.
Plain Text has been among my favorite and most-used iPad apps for a long while, and it was included in our list of Best iPad Apps of 2011.
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Who doesn’t like free? And who doesn’t like great iPad apps? When the two come together it’s good stuff. With that in mind, we’d like to share our Best Free iPad App of the Week here every weekend.
This week’s pick is Frequency. Frequency is described on its App Store page as ‘your personal video service’. It’s another excellent, social and highly customizable video app for the iPad. This is rapidly becoming a category where iPad users are spoiled for choice – and that’s a very good thing given how crummy the selection is on TV these days.
Frequency claims to offer ‘more video from more places than anywhere else on the internet’ – I imagine some rival apps might have something to say on that, but the range and amount of content in the app definitely looks impressive.
Here are some of the app’s key features:
- Follow any of your favorite online video channels
- Stay up to the minute on all the topics that are trending right now
- Get every video your friends post on Facebook and Twitter
- Quickly access anything you are following in your personalized TUNER.
- Get highlights from all your channels in My Feed
- Go full screen or use AirPlay to watch on your TV
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Who doesn’t like free? And who doesn’t like great iPad apps? When the two come together it’s good stuff. With that in mind, we’d like to share our Best Free iPad App of the Week here every weekend.
This week’s pick is Band of The Day, the iPad edition of which has just been released this week. Here’s the elevator pitch for the app in the iPad App Store:
Band Of the Day is the world’s first daily music magazine built solely for mobile devices. Surpassing traditional music magazines, Band of the Day delivers a new artist or band every single day through expert curation and engaging reviews, as well as full streams of the artist’s top songs, videos, photographs and more. A new band in your pocket, everyday. Listen, Discover, Share.
Right off the bat, that’s a very cool concept for an iPad app. And happily, it is tremendously well executed in Band of The Day.
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Who doesn’t like free? And who doesn’t like great iPad apps? When the two come together it’s good stuff. With that in mind, we’d like to share our Best Free iPad App of the Week here every weekend.
This week’s pick is NBA Game Time Courtside, the NBA’s official app for the iPad – updated for the current season and chock full of great content showcasing the best basketball players on the planet. Here are some of its best features:
•Live team and player stats
•In-progress video highlights from around the league
•Full game video recaps
•Unique game visualizations featuring real-time shot charts and more
•League statistics and schedule information
•Live Ticker: the latest news from NBA.com.
•Performance Info – This is the first product to give fans easy access to team performance during a game. See real-time shooting percentages and performance by zones on the court, know each team’s stat leaders, box scores, and quarterly play-by-play action.
• Live Court View – Know who’s on court at every moment and see substitutions happen live. Plus, see individual shooting with the live shot chart.
•Standings – Keep up to date on league standings for conference, division and the whole NBA.
•Access to Live NBA regular season games through your NBA League Pass (Blackout restrictions apply) Broadband subscription – simply click setting, click League Pass and enter your NBA League Pass Broadband Screen name and password.
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