Free iPad Apps for Lifestyle

Free iPad Apps for Lifestyle

Flixster enables the user to search for movie times in nearby cinemas, to purchase movie tickets right from within the app, and to view maps of all of the cinemas that are playing a particular movie within the user's area. Flixster, though, offers even more than these amazing features - it also alerts the user to:

• the top box office leaders
• upcoming new releases
• browse a DVD catalogue of over 50 000 films
• watch trailers and video clips
• buy or rent movies from iTunes right on your iPad

Wikihood is a must have free app for those who travel a lot. It enables the iPad owner to determine the most important sights in a specific location by reading up on what others found interesting in a specific region. Wikihood intelligently organizes Wikipedia information for any place in the world. This free app will even reveal startling new facts about significant landmarks in your own neighbourhood.

EZ Interiors is a fun app developed by Yuriy Zemenko of the Ukraine, in collaboration with New Media Agency. This app is helpful if you are looking for design ideas ranging from the classic to the modern and high tech. The database is constantly updated and designs are catalogued according to year, ranging back as far as 2006. The photographs are high quality and the designs are inspiring. A useful free app for home design ideas.

Skype works really well on the iPad. It is a great way to communicate to anyone anywhere in the world just as you would on any normal telephone, but for free. Skype for iPad works well and the sound quality is excellent.

If you need to stay abreast of current events and breaking news, then the BBC News app, the Wall Street Journal app, the USA today app, and the New York Times app deliver graphically rich news stories to your iPad. Reading the news on the iPad is a treat and some stories come complete with video as well. These free apps are worth the time taken to download them from the iTunes App store.

Tweetdeck for iPad is a superb free app that enables you to track what is happening on Twitter with an optimized interface that enables you to stay up to date and organized wherever you are. Tweetdeck has multiple columns and is packed with loads of great features. Twitterific is a simpler user interface but also very useful as a free app.

Craigslist is a popular online buy and sell forum. Now Craigs List comes to the iPad in an easy to use format know as the CraigsEZList app. This app is very useful because it enables you to specify your location. The app also allows the user to search through different categories such as housing, jobs, services, community, resumes, and for sale.