What 3 apps besides reading do you use on your tablet?

fiveholetarget

10 years ago

I am in a rut. Could you list your 3 favorite apps besides reading that you use in your tablet?

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bigack
10 years ago
Solitaire, Bookworm, Hanging with friends, Google Earth, weather channel, and on and on!
Rose_NW_PA
10 years ago
I have a Samsung 4g tablet. Mostly Facebook, Words with Friends, a Kindle reading app and of course the browser to visit the KT and other Web sites.
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heather_on
10 years ago
Slot Bonanza, a fun slot game that you can play without being connected. They do give free coins and lots of bonus coins. It isn't real slots where you win real money and I have not had to purchase coins.

Bookworm, Mahjongg, Jigsaw Puzzle games, Fishdom games, Solitaire etc.

Yellow Pages Canada, Weather, Clocks iZip Pro and so much more.
caroline94535
10 years ago
I don't have a tablet, but I luuuvvv my iPod 4. It does everything a tablet would. It uses the iTunes format, but I'm sure the other devices have the same Apps.

I do have the Kindle App if I want to "read." It's not a full function Kindle, but I do have 1,200+ print books in it, right in my iPod. 1,195 of them were free!

I am nearly always listening to audiobooks. I tuck the iPod in the strap of my running bra; it stays in place and I don't even have to wear earbuds to hear it clearly. While I'm doing my mindless work of laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc. I'm being entertained. The audio book is the foreground and the daily grind becomes the background "noise."

I will list some of the Apps I use daily with links to their sites if you want to check them out. Of course, I have dozens more I wouldn't be without, but these are a few of the ones I use daily.

MyStuff2 - Inventories and manages everything! I'd be lost without it.

http://www.maddysoft.com/iphone/mystuff/

Pray!

"Pray! helps you keep track of people you need to be praying for in a simple, intuitive, and efficient way." That way when I tell someone I'll be praying for them, I have their names and concerns before me.

http://pray.zerodeviation.net/

iBird Pro

Spendy, but worth every penny. Snoop around the site and you'll see al the features. A detailed bird guide with videos, sound clips, photos...everything!

I also have the iBird/UK version because they had a special sell on them.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibird-pro-guide-to-birds/id308018823?mt=8

Sewing Kit

"Sewing Kit is your new home for all of your sewing needs!

If you have ever been in a sewing store looking at patterns, but couldnÃ¢ÂÂt remember if you already bought the one you like, or if the fabric you like will work with the project you are working on, then you will love Sewing Kit!

Sewing Kit lets you search through all of your patterns, fabrics, projects, and people to make sure you are not buying something twice, or getting home and finding out you forgot to get something you really needed!

With Sewing Kit you can store and search on all of your:

- patterns
- fabrics
- projects
- measurements for people

All of these things, all in one place."

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sewing-kit/id382162683?mt=8

I don't play any games or do FaceTime, but I do have links to all the Garden Web/Home Site forums on the iPod screen so I can check in often and easily.

I also have apps for Etsy, Ebay, Amazon, Houzz, Pinterest, Flylady, Pioneer Woman, Bernina, Schmetz, Learn Spanish, Project Quilt, Ian's Laces, How-to-tie-a-tie, History Here, Weather Channel, PBS, NASA, KJV Bible, TallyThings, Convert (Measurments), and on, and on, and on, and on. I use them all at least weekly.
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
10 years ago
oh wow I have tried so many on my various devices.
The ones that tend to make it on to the newest are.
Solitaire free pack there are tons of the game but I like this one best.
Aldiko for reading other formats of books
Dropwords
Random Mahjong
Wheres the water
eye in the sky weather app
various browser apps but I mostly use firefox for android
Avast
some apps for looking at real estate like zillow, trulia, Har
some truck stop apps for locating truck stops on your trip for when we take the RV out.
quick pic
pixel guard

That is some I don't have any of them right here to look at so that is the one's I remember.
Fun2BHere
10 years ago
Words with Friends - usually have several games going simultaneously with various friends
Sudoku
Air Video
Evernote

Most of the time, I'm using it as a reader, though.
Sally Brownlee
10 years ago
My top 3

pandora - music
amazon instant video
my fitness pal
petaloid
10 years ago
I'm another friend of Pandora -- I set it to play the kind of music I like.
Terri_PacNW
10 years ago
I have a lot on my Ipad. But the daily and most used are:

Safeway, pandora, magic puzzles, zillow, several email clients, pinterest, words with friends, skype (I MSN chat with my husband at my lunch when he's at work.)
User
10 years ago
I use the Google Chrome browser the most on my tablet. I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. I don't like the FB app at all. I use the Candy Crush Saga the most after Chrome. And Pinterest after that.
jeaninwa
10 years ago
I like the Groupon app
fiveholetarget
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10 years ago
Thank you again for all the ideas. My Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 is now getting a second life. Thanks to debbyab, I am enjoying Pinterest. I didn't know it could do so many things.

This post was edited by dmickey on Fri, Jan 24, 14 at 14:19
tami_ohio
10 years ago
I have the Kindle Fire. I use Evernote, Yahoo mail, and Facebook. I don't play games except solitaire on the computer, so I don't have any of them on it. I've had it a year, I think. I'm still learning what it can do.

Tami

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