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The KRiPad
Suggestions and discussions on how to better exploit an iPad (or iPhone) in the academic world.
Enrico
Hardware
- Adaptor VGA Apple (to use the iPad with a projector during conferences/presentations)
- AmazonBasics Adjustable Tablet Stand (several of those, to keep it while recharging)
- Apple Smart Cover (to protect it while in the backpack)
- Rechargeable battery Battery Pack RAVPower Portable Charger 22000mAh (to avoid risking while on the go)
- Wacom Bamboo Stylus iPad pen (really effective and cheap for note taking or drawing)
Software
Reading & PDF Annotation
- PDF Expert 5 and its companion Documents (use it as the main document reader/editor; syncs with cloud services and svn; annotating PDF in a sophisticated and elegant way)
- LiquidText Annotate & Excerpt PDF documents in a flexible way
- Pocket (Read It Later) (to accumulate readings while offline or commuting or…; iPad/iPhone/Mac in sync)
- Newsify (the best RSS Reader Client; iPad/iPhone/Mac in sync)
- Google Chrome browser (alternative browser to access sites in desktop format; iPad/iPhone/Mac in sync)
- Pressreader (read newspapers and magazines using the UniBZ Library subscription)
- ACM CACM (the ACM CACM magazine online)
Notes
- GoodNotes - Write notes (the most sophisticated note taking app, using stylus, drawings, text, photos, annotating pdf/images, etc; syncs with cloud services)
- Apple Notes (take quickly text notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders; iPad/iPhone/Mac in sync)
- 2Do (GTD-style simple, effective and elegant management of to-do lists; iPad/iPhone/Mac in sync)
- MindNode (mindmapping app, simple, effective and elegant to structure notes; iPad/iPhone/Mac in sync)
- PlanBe best calendar app for iPad & iPhone
File Manager
- SVN Repo Browser PRO (SVN manager)
- Working Copy - Powerful Git client
- Scanner PRO (scan documents/whiteboards via the camera, OCR to recognise text; iPad/iPhone/Mac in sync)
Writing
- Pages, Keynote, Numbers from Apple (the office apps from Apple; iPad/iPhone/Mac in sync)
- Microsoft Word and companion MS Office apps
- GoCoEdit (best text editor with syntax coloring, LaTeX, etc; syncs with cloud services and svn)
LaTeX
- Texpad (LaTeX: edit and compile locally or remotely, with package manager, built-in editor and preview)
- PocketBib (powerful BibTeX manager, compatible for BibDesk Mac and JabRef)
- MyScript MathPad (handwrite a formula and get the LaTeX)
- DeTeXify (draw a symbol on the iPad and get all the LaTeX symbols close to it)
Reference Managers
- Scopus Alerts (institutional subscribers version)
SQL
Navicat PostgreSQL Database client (better than some Mac counterpart…)
Presentation
- RealtimeBoard - Online Whiteboard & Online Collaboration Tool, bookmark the URL on the iPad Home
- ConceptBoard - Online Whiteboard & Online Collaboration Tool, bookmark the URL on the iPad Home
- Air Sketch (turn your iPad into a wireless whiteboard and PDF annotator: anybody with a browser in the local network can follow the presentation)
- Doceri Remote (turn your iPad into a controller of your mac/windows desktop - connected to a projector - superimposing a whiteboard with a pointer)
- Presentation Clock (when you are the session chair…)
- eBanner Pro (scrolling banner application; it displays your messages like LED dot matrix board - for iPad and iPhone)
- AirServer (An AirPlay receiver for Mac and Windows: can stream content or mirror the display from an iPad/iPhone/Mac)
- Astropad turns your iPad into a drawing tablet for Mac
Classroom
- TeacherKit - helps you organize classes and students easily. Create a seating chart, record attendance, log behavior, and track grades
Draw
Traveling
- maps.me – Offline Map with Navigation & Directions & Hiking Trails
- TripIt travel organiser (iPad/iPhone/Mac in sync)
- it Taxi (book any taxi everywhere in Italy)
- SkyScanner (best flight planner)
- trivago (best hotel booking via comparison)
Utilities
- Soulver (structure calculator for easy calculations, reports, budgeting; iPad/iPhone/Mac in sync)
- 1Password (password manager; iPad/iPhone/Mac in sync)
- Bria (VoIP SIP Phone with Video and Messaging for iPad and iPhone)
- Cisco AnyConnect (VPN standard Cisco client to access UniBZ networks - for iPad and iPhone)
- Prompt 2 - the #1 SSH client for iOS
- VMware Horizon Client for UniBZ servers
- Screens VNC - Remote Access To Your Computer (Mac & PC)
- Microsoft Remote Desktop client
- Archives (unarchive pretty much any archive file in existence - for iPad and iPhone)
- Doodle (Doodle easy scheduling client - for iPad and iPhone)