SplitBrowser by Elastic Fiction

iAppGuru REVIEW: This app offers you the best web experience on the iPad, allowing you to stream a video while checking out your emails. Listen to music on one page while surfing the web on the other, maybe looking for the biography of the artiste you’re listening to. Zoom, scroll, resize pages and open images, hyperlinks and videos with a simple touch. This is the ultimate MULTITASKING web experience.

 PROs: I used this app during my recent vacation and loved it. It was so useful checking my emails while reading up on the destination of museums and restaurants. I even used Google Docs to take notes while registering for an event or buying movie tickets online. There are some useful features such as tabs, change the colour of your keyboard for your different web browsers and setting “private” mode.

CONs: I really don’t have any complaints regarding this app

In My Head Thoughts (for Assistants supporting IPad user)“Assistants, this is a great app for your boss to work with. This will allow them to browse for research on a client or competitor while checking and answering their email. Remind them that is an app browser which means the app must to initiated to work and will not be seen when using the standard Safari.”

  

APP INFO:

Two pages of web experience, with two independent toolbars, two websites at the same time. With a division bar you can resize your pages, portrait or landscape mode, it’s up to you. This app offers you an ultimate web experience, allowing you to stream a video while checking out your emails; if you want to focus on the film, try the full screen mode. Listen to music on one page while surfing the web on the other, maybe looking for the biography of the artiste you’re listening to.

 

Price 1.99

Current Version: 2.1

Size: 0.1 MB

Purchase on iTunes

Instapaper by Marco Arment

iAppGuru REVIEW: Instapaper is a brilliant app that saves web pages so you can read them later, offline. The app is perfect for things like important blog posts or whitepapers that you can’t get to right away. The next time you have a free minute, you can bust out your iPad and check them out. To use Instapaper Pro for iPad you have to sign up for an Instapaper account first. You can do this either in the Instapaper app or on the Web at Instapaper.com. Just enter your email address and set a password, if you want to, and you’re ready to go.

 PROs: From within the app, you can create and manage folders for filing and organizing articles; those actions are reflected in your account on the Instapaper site and on any other iPhones and iPads on which you’re using the app. You can also share articles in several ways: via Tumbler and Twitter accounts, and by “starring” your favorite articles. Any user can add another user’s starred items as a folder to have such articles automatically added to their own account. The Settings button allows you to choose between the light (black text on white) or dark (white text on black) interface, set the orientation lock, configure automatic updates, and select the pagination mode. If you want to use the very cool tilt scrolling feature, turn pagination mode off here. The Settings menu also lets you add the login information for your Tumblr and Twitter accounts, if you want to share what you’re reading in Instapaper, and if you want to add the Read Later bookmark to Safari this is where you go to initiate the process. The final entries in the Settings box are where you put in your Instapaper account information, and you can also choose to reset your app data there if you want a full refresh of Instapaper Pro.

CONs: There is a free version of Instapaper available, but it doesn’t provide offline reading, folders, tilt scrolling, or any of the other features available in the $4.99 Pro version. In effect, the free version doesn’t offer anything you can’t get from simply visiting the Instapaper web site in mobile Safari.

In My Head Thoughts (for Assistants supporting IPad user)“Assistants, as we know the boss does need some downtime to read an article or the newspaper during travel. Although,  they call it “research”, this app will allow them to save articles they would like to read later, send to an associate or even have you retrieve contact information from.”

 

APP INFO:
Save web pages for later offline reading, optimized for readability on your iPhone or iPod touch’s screen. Featured by Apple and critically acclaimed by top blogs, newspapers, and magazines!

 

Price: Free version offered  / £2.99 – $4.99

Current Version: 3.03

Size: 10.5 MB

Purchase on iTunes

SugarSync by Sharpcast

iAppGuru REVIEW: SugarSync by Sharpcast is an innovative online backup system that offers more than just a place to store your important data documents. It has a new feature that is causing people to talk and that is the ability to change a document on one computer and those changes will be stored online as well as be changed across several other devices. You can also set up private shared folders. These folders work much the same way shared folders do on other online storage and file sharing services. You set up the folder either through the desktop app or through the website, and then you invite users to come and collaborate and share files within that folder only. You can elect to continuously back up and synchronize the folder with a specific folder on any of the computers that you’re backing up with SugarSync, or you can just upload files to that shared folder manually; it’s really up to you.

Sugarsync Pricing (click here) . If you are not sure you wish to pay out that kind of money, you can get a 5GB account for free, or a 30 day trial of the SugarSync plan you are thinking of purchasing.

 PROs: You will be able to keep track of your documents, media, and photos quickly and easily with the folder, “Magic Briefcase”. As soon as you add a new item in the “Magic Briefcase”, it will automatically synchronize across the rest of your devices that you have included in the group. At the bottom on the screen, you will notice a gauge that will let you see how much storage you have left. The service automatically begins to sort your files into a few fairly standard categories: documents, music, and photos. Once your photos begin backup up to the SugarSync cloud, you can begin to view those through the Photo Gallery.

CONs: A common flaw we’re noticing with many of the backup providers, and SugarSync is no different here, is the lack of customer support. In fact, users have referred to SugarSync’s support as absolutely non-existent. You won’t get anyone on the phone: support is via e-mail or online chat, only.

In My Head Thoughts (for Assistants supporting IPad user)“If you’re looking for an easy to use product that provides you with a way to securely store as well as sync and share your files, then SugarSync is a great option for you.”

  

   APP INFO:

Have you ever been away from home or the office and realized you need a file that is on your computer? SugarSync puts ALL of your data from all of your computers right at your fingertips…anytime, anywhere from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. With SugarSync, it is dead simple to sync and share your files online, giving you easy access to everything directly from your mobile device. If you like Dropbox, MobileMe, or Carbonite, you’ll love SugarSync.

Using this app, your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch can:

* Get anytime, anywhere access to all of your files, photos, and music
* Share any file via email, or copy and paste links to share with another app
* Backup photos/videos taken on your iPhone/iPad to your computers (without wires!)
* Stream your entire music collection, even while you use other apps
* Download files or entire folders for fast, offline viewing
* Share, move, and even delete files saved on your computers
* View photos from all of your computers (and easily save any to your iPhone/iPad)
* Edit documents locally (using a document editor), then sync it your computers

Price: FREE  (see additional pricing)

Current Version: 2.3.1

Size: 9.1MB

Purchase on iTunes

Mobile Me – Find you lost IPad

Don’t know where you left your iPhone or iPad? MobileMe can help you find it with the new Find My iPhone app or online at me.com. And if you can’t get it back, Remote Wipe protects your privacy. You will need an Apple ID and Password later in the instructions.

MightyMeeting by MightyMeeting, Inc

iAppGuru REVIEW: With MightyMeeting’s iPad application, traveling business executives and remote workers can turn their mobile devices into a powerful tool that allows them to share and showcase business content.  The application allows users to start or join Web meetings, show presentations and share content directly from their iPad devices.  

PROs: Users can add content either by uploading it from a desktop or by sending it to an e-mail address associated with their MightyMeeting account. In addition to the native application for devices running iPhone OS, such as iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, MightyMeeting offers a lightweight HTML-only client that can be used to start and join Web meetings from any device with a Web browser.

CONs: MightyMeeting has introduce a Flash-based client to deliver an optimized experience for desktop users.  Unfortunately this service will not operate on your IPad.

In My Head Thoughts (for Assistants supporting IPad user)

“Assistants, this is a great application for you to work with. Simply, the only responsibility you will have is uploading the presentation, making sure he/she has the projector adapter and the IPad is fully charged. You can then send him/her on their way for client and staff meetings.

 Uploading Process:

APP INFO:

With MightyMeeting you can store presentations and demo videos in the cloud and access them anywhere and any time from the web, iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad.

Price FREE

Current Version: 6.1

Size: 2.2 MB

 

What’s new in this version: – a day pass for hosting online meetings is now available as an in-app purchase – Price $1.99

 

Purchase on iTunes

Corkulous by Appigo

iAppGuru REVIEW: Think of this app as that corkboard in your office where you would tape, staple and pushpin any idea, contact number or to do on it. No more searching for that pen and paper to jot down a quick note or website you seen while traveling;  just turn on your IPad and post it to review  later.   

 PROs: This is a great app for the executives on the go. The little drawer at the bottom is like a supply cabinet. Another feature added  is that you can place a pass code lock on any of the boards so they are kept private. You can move around and resize items. You can have one big post-it note for example, that can have as much writing on it as a page in another writing app. You can choose the colour of the post-it note, a choice of four fonts, adjust the size of text, choose the type of text alignment.  You can embed corkboards within corkboards.  The corkboard always open by default to the last board you were working with. You can  choose another board by touching the back button and choose from any of the other boards in which you created.      

CONs: It would be nice to have the corkboard pop up as soon as you turn on your IPad, but that is not the fault of the creator. Would be great to have an iPhone version that syncs with the iPad Corkulous.  Also, the creator needs to improve exporting the entire board to others via email instead of suggesting screenshot emails.

In My Head Thoughts (for Assistants supporting IPad user)

“Assistants move this app directly to the front screen, if you don’t he/ she will forget about it. Also this would be a great beginning of the day review to use with reminders, calls, blurbs for a meeting and even address.  I suggest just making he/she a to do list, letting them check it off as they go………simple”. They can make a screenshot from their IPad and email it you for followup. 

 

 

Posting Options:

a. photos

b. contacts

c. sticky notes

d. create a to do list

e. supply cabinet for easy access

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  APP INFO:

Corkulous is a multi-purpose app containing cork boards where you can place notes, labels, photos, contacts, and tasks. Group your ideas visually on one board or spread ideas out across multiple boards (sub-boards also supported). Each cork board has plenty of real estate to capture your best ideas and plans.

Price $4.99

Current Version: 1.6.3

1.6.3

Size: 17.4 MB

Purchase on iTunes