An alternative occupation: An iPad app reviewer

Today I was thinking how I hear other people's stories about their jobs and I find myself feeling jealous of others. I know every work has advantages and dissadvantages, but some of them just look a bit too easy and a lot of fun. Today I decided to be an iPad App reviewer, telling you a little bit about the iPad apps I use the most, and the ones I like the best.

1. Pages

I wasn't sure about buying this app at first, but I had heard lots of nice comments from friends and coworkers who own a MacBook. It totally paid off.





The pages app allows you to create documents from different templates and you can easily write over them. It's easy to add pics and graphs, simply by tapping on the existing ones on the and dragging them around,you can place them wherever you want. Templates available offer a variety to work with and you can always install other apps, that provide you, for a minimum price, a set of new templates you can use (look for "pages templates" on the app store)

Once you're done, you can save it  on your iPad, email it to yourself or somebody else, of course, or print it, if you have an available printer on your network. I saved it as a word document, and then came to my laptop, opened it on microsoft word and worked like a charm! Very few features were lost in translation and I could keep working on it . This app allows me to do my writing work without having to turn the laptop on, which can take time and makes me very lazy to begin with. I mean like at night before going to bed, for real work I need to open too many programs, but I promise to do it one day and I'll tell you how that goes. It also makes it easier to travel, if you have the information you need.

2.Delicious

That's the name for the app, that its, of course, about cooking. It has a lot of recipes that you can easily do, and the best thing it's that you can see pictures of every step. Once you've chosen the recipe you want, you slide your way into it, seeing a picture of everything you have to do. It makes it a lot easier to cook recipes. Once, I took a salad from this app and my coworkers loved it as much as I did. I know it was salad, nothing fancy, but it gave me a great idea to do something different and I was able to customized it, changing some ingredients I didn't like. I definitely recommend it. It contains a great variety to choose from. Bon appetit!!

  

3. iBooks

I don't think this app needs much presentation. As it states on the name, it allows you to read books and documents in your iPad. I struggled a lot with it at the beginning, because I thought you could only see documents on the epub format and I used a program to convert documents from pdf to epub. It was a disaster. They looked disorganized and I realize it was better to leave them as pdfs and downloading books in the epub format.

This format gives you the ilussion of reading from a hardcopy, and you can easily just slide to go to the next page. In this format you can hightlight, select and copy text to other applications, You can also change the amount of light, bookmark the page you're at and look for a specific page in the book. 

 iBooks has separate libraries for the pdfs and the epub books, allowing you to find them easily. You can add pdf files in the same way you can add epub files in your iPad. When you connect your iPad to your computer, oen iTunes and drag them on to the device, he automatically separates them according to the file format. In both cases, if you need to close it, to open another app or another book, when you open them again it's gonna be right there where you left off.    

You can also adjust the zoom, and see it as big as you like, and to me it looks the way it would look after printing a hardcopy. It's easier to read than in your laptop, and easy to carry it if you want o read while on a bus, a train, or a plane. I've also read scientific papers on it and I think I don't need the printer anymore. It's probably one of the reasons I got it on the first place. It totally works!!!

4. Wunderlist  

I first found this app a few days ago, when I was starting to write this post. I absolutely love it! I love making list of things I need to do, and I usually just write them down on a notebook or something, but this kinda puts pressure on me when I need to get things done. You add something to you list and depending on the priority it has, you can add due date, a reminder (to your email), and you can make separate lists, like home, work, shopping, etc. It really helped me yesterday to organize things and when you're done, you just simply cross them off your list! It was also very helpful when I was brainstorming for my blog too. Now I have like 25 post ideas, with their own deadlines.


Ok. I have to go now, but I have several apps I'd really love to add to this list. Bare with me, please, I'm still learning how to do the design and how to make it look good....