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America’s most useful and respected dictionary, designed and enhanced especially for iPad.

#1 Free Reference iPad App on the iTunes Store, 5/26/11.

In addition to all the definitions from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, the app offers voice search – to let you look up a word without having to spell it – along with an integrated thesaurus, example sentences, Word of the Day, Favorites, and more. It’s a great tool for reference, education, and vocabulary building.

The app is free, and supported by ads.

Features:
* Voice Search
* Integrated Thesaurus: Synonyms & Antonyms
* Example Sentences
* Audio Pronunciations
* Word of the Day
* Favorites
* NEW for iPad: Scrolling Index – lets you browse the entire dictionary
* Recent History – lets you keep track of the words you’ve looked up

Your Universal Device ID may be used by advertisers and ad networks to serve ads to you. For more details please click the link to the Application License Agreement, below, which includes our App Privacy Policy.

Website: http://www.merriam-webster.com
Support Website: http://www.merriam-webster.com

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The free FBI Child ID app provides a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information about your child so that it’s literally right at hand if your child goes missing. You can show the pictures and provide physical identifiers such as height and weight to security or police officers on the spot. Using a special tab on the app, you can also quickly and easily e-mail the information to authorities with a few clicks. The app also includes tips on keeping children safe as well as specific guidance on what to do in those first few crucial hours after a child goes missing.

Website: http://www.fbi.gov
Support Website: http://www.fbi.gov

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Take the power of Ask.com on the go for free! Ask any question and we’ll find the best answers from the web or real people. Need a personal answer? No problem. Ask our community to get a personal answer from people who know. It’s perfect for local questions when you’re out and about.

Ask for iPhone is the only app that combines the best answers from the web with personal answers from real people. Just ask and we’ll get your answer!

FEATURES

* Type or simply say your question – we’ll understand. Voice to text is supported on the iPhone and 4th generation iPod touch.
* Get the best answers from the web – instantly
* Need a personal answer? Send your question to people who know
* Answer notifications right on your iPhone
* Browse and answer questions
* Ask about local places near you
* Totally FREE – no service or SMS charges!

EXAMPLES

* Quick questions: “How many teaspoons in a tablespoon?”
* Weather: “What’s the forecast for NY?”
* Travel: “Where’s a good place to stay in Rome?”
* Entertainment: “When is Lady Gaga coming to town?”
* Local restaurants reviews: “What’s the best sushi place in Palo Alto?”
* Reference: “What’s the longest word in the dictionary?”
* General curiosity: “What happened to Jeeves?”
* How to do something – “How can I remove a wine stain?”

About ask.com
Ask.com is the number one online brand for questions and answers and an operating business of IAC.

Website: http://ask.com/iphone
Support Website: http://ask.com/iphone

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Category: Reference
Price: $0.99

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The Economist World in Figures 2011 displays facts and figures for more than 190 countries around the world. Rank and compare countries, test your knowledge of country-related trivia and share fun facts via Twitter and Facebook. Based on The Economist’s annual World in Figures book, the app was designed and developed in conjunction with The Economist by XPLANE | Dachis Group.

Website: http://www.economist.com/digital/apps
Support Website: http://www.economist.com/digital/apps

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Category: Reference
Price: $5.99

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If typography were a religion, this would be the Bible. FontBook™ is the world’s most comprehensive typographic reference tool, containing 110 typefoundries and featuring over 620,000 typeface specimens. Use the FontBook app to look up and view fonts by name, style category, typographical subclassification, designer name, foundry name, year of publication, or by similarity of design. Compile your own list of favorite fonts, and use the “compare” tool to test-drive fonts. Specially designed for fast, easy navigation and also works as a fun playground for finding inspiration.

FontBook is primarily an online browsing application and displays its full content only when your device has internet access through a WiFi or 3G mobile connection. However, if you have no online access, you can temporarily switch the “Include online content” setting to “off”. This will enable the app to display a reduced pool of selected content which will work offline. Whenever you do have online access, you can switch back to the full version by switching the “Include online content” setting to “on”.

FontBook will be continually updated with more type specimens as they become available through new font releases and the addition of new typefoundries. More features will also be added on the next version and in future updates, for example:

• search for inspiration by use-case
• search for fonts by language-support availability

Website: http://www.fontbook.com
Support Website: http://www.fontbook.com

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Experience search that is truly designed for the iPad. Bing for iPad is here.

Bing is a decision engine that’s been designed to work beautifully with your iPad. Bing for iPad brings you closer to what you’re looking for by delivering a visually rich, touch-enabled way to search and browse news, movies, Bing homepage images, local businesses, popular searches and much more.

Features:
• Swipe through our touch enabled movie listings, news articles, trending topics, local businesses and other rich, immersive search results.

• Stay current with the latest news, traffic, weather, stock quotes, movies and popular searches from the main screen.

• Bing Local and Map integration to help you find the places you are looking for from directions with real-time tracking to immersive road, traffic, aerial and “bird’s eye” views.

• Follow the latest news and trending topics with beautifully iPad optimized results with rich images and magazine inspired layouts.

• Tell Bing what you are searching for with voice activated search.

• Wonderful touch friendly, grid view of image searches, with source site details and full page preview.

• Easily navigate between Bing results and websites as Bing frames the site to make it easy to return the search or to launch a new one.

Website: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/04/07/bing-for-ipad.aspx
Support Website: http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2011/04/07/bing-for-ipad.aspx

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Everything you love about Dictionary.com on the iPhone is now available on the iPad!

The free Dictionary.com app for iPad delivers trusted reference content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. NO INTERNET CONNECTION IS NEEDED TO SEARCH WORDS. The app includes nearly 2 million words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms. It also features audio pronunciation, voice-to-text search and Dictionary.com’s popular Word of the Day and Hot Word blog.

Features:
* Dictionary and Thesaurus
* Nearly 2 million words, definitions, synonyms and antonyms
* Spelling suggestions
* Phonetic and audio pronunciation
* Example sentences
* Non-standard uses
* Word origin and history
* Daily content, including Word of the Day and our new Hot Word blog
* Real-time popular, trending, and nearby word searches
* Voice-to-text search (for the most accurate results, please enunciate clearly and speak slowly)
* Favorite words list
* Recent search history
* Custom backgrounds
* No Internet connection required for Dictionary and Thesaurus
* Internet connection required for daily content, word trends, voice-to-text search, audio pronunciation and spelling suggestions

**Tip: To turn off the Word of the Day notifications go to More > Settings > Notifications and tap Off.**

Website: http://dictionary.reference.com/mobileapp
Support Website: http://dictionary.reference.com/mobileapp

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Category: Reference
Price: Free

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** Winner, 2010 Bible of the Year, ECPA **
** Winner, 2010 Media of the Year, Christian Resource Awards **

The 2010 Bible of the Year, Now available on iPad with the bestselling NIV translation – for FREE!

Existing Glo users: Download the Glo Bible app today, and log in using your Glo account to access your translations and media.

Glo is an interactive Bible that brings the text of Scripture to life through HD videos, high-resolution images, articles, 360-degree virtual tours, and much more. Glo for iPad includes 2 lenses: Bible and Media.

Download Glo Bible and register to get Glo Lite for FREE, with full offline access to the Bestselling NIV translation, the KJV, and full-resolution samples of Glo photos, artwork, virtual tours and videos.

In the zoomable Bible lens it takes just taps 2 taps to access any chapter of the Bible. Each verse is linked to resources and media.

Upgrade to Glo Premium in-app for access to 3500+ media elements linked to the entire Bible, plus the ESV and the Message translations all installed on up to 5 devices including Mac, PC or iPad.

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Glo in the Press

Glo has been featured in the Washington Post, Mashable, Newsweek, the Guardian, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Charisma magazine, Denver Post, ABCNews Now and more!

"Glo…is cool with a capital C." – Newsweek
"The ability to have context and visualization of concepts at your fingertips is something that nearly any textbook could benefit from." – Mashable
"Glo Bible spreads word (and HD video) of God to digital generation" – The Guardian
"[Glo is] bring[ing] religion to digital generation.” – Telegraph, UK
"just about anything that you would need from research tools to audio-visual aids is right at your fingertip when you use Glo." – Max Lucado
"Glo digital Bible designed to reach a younger generation" – Washington Post

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Visit the places you've read about. Explore the World of the Bible. Experience the Bible like never before.



Website: http://globible.com
Support Website: http://globible.com

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Category: Reference
Price: $0.99

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The iPad combines the best of your favorite gadgets into one amazing, ultraportable device, and this handy app is your on-the-go guide to the latest tips, shortcuts, and hints for making the most of all the cool things your iPad can do. From sending e-mail and surfing the Web to watching videos, sharing photos, reading eBooks, and more, whatever you want your iPad to do, the fun begins here. You'll find over 100 tips for mastering the multitouch interface, syncing your data, sending text and e-mail messages, browsing the Internet, viewing pictures and video, downloading eBooks – and keeping your iPad happy.





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iPad Fundamentals includes a quick tour of the iPad hardware, functions, and interface and is the perfect place for iPad newbies to start learning their way around the device



Part of Tens section will give you the scoop on ten of our favorite iPad accessories along with tips for finding the perfect add-ons for your iPad



eBooks section features easy tips for using your iPad as an eReader including navigating your eBooks, using the iPad’s built-in dictionary, arranging your bookshelf, searching for free content, adjusting type size, and more



Troubleshooting section helps you identify issues, find easy fixes, and keep your iPad operating smoothly with tips on resetting and restoring your iPad, resetting your network connection, optimizing your battery life, and more



Pictures & Video section shows you how to turn your iPad into a digital photo album, portable video player, and powerful presentation tool with tips on everything from watching your favorite videos, connecting your digital camera, and adding slideshow effects to organizing and viewing your photos and more



E-mail & the Web section helps you stay connected and get going online with tips on cookies, bookmarks, Safari, syncing, attachments, and more



Search feature lets you search the entire app by keyword or phrase to help you find the information you need anytime and anywhere you want it



Share feature allows you to send your favorite tips and tricks to your friends and family via Facebook or e-mail



Your e-mail, photos, music, books, games – your world – is at your fingertips with iPad and the iPad Tips For Dummies app in your hands!



Website: http://www.skava.net/ipadtipsfordummies
Support Website: http://www.skava.net/ipadtipsfordummies

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Category: Reference
Price: $4.99

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■ MACWORLD'S "BEST REFERENCE APP 2009"

■ O'REILLY "BEST IPAD BIRDWATCHING APP 2010"

iBird Yard HD for iPad is an interactive guide to the most popular bird species found in the backyards of North America. By request we have added added 86 birds to the database to include most raptors and common shorebirds. Designed specifically for the iPad, this product contains illustrations, photos, bird calls and comprehensive facts to help you identify and enjoy 234 North American bird species.

iBird Yard HD offers features impossible to find in a conventional field guide to birds, and it is the perfect tool for birders of all levels as well as a learning tool for children and young adults. With no need for an Internet connection, and all of the data right at your fingertips, you can make bird identification a fun activity on any hike, camping trip or family vacation.

iBird Yard HD contains the same features found in our wildly popular iBird Explorer PRO field guide for the iPhone.

Notable features of this app are:

■ Sync Notes and Favorites with iTunes.

■ Attributes are grouped into basic, head and flight related area.

■ Updated state and province bird lists using official references.

■ Taxonomic and Alphabetical family sort options on Browse screen.

Standard Features

■ Over 300 24-bit color high resolution hand-drawn illustrations from professional artists.
■ 600 24-bit photos from respected expert photographers.
■ 2 hours of audio bird songs and calls from the Macaulay Library at the Lab of Ornithology.
■ Parameter-driven decision engine for quickly identifying birds by their shape, color, location, habitat, head pattern, flight pattern, bill shape, length attributes. Teaches you to think like an expert birder.
■ Attributes grouped into basic, song, flight, head, and pattern related areas.
■ Play bird songs and calls to attract birds right to your iPad for easier identification, clearer photographs and more enjoyment. (1)
■ Extensive identification, behavior, and habitat information, including everything from eye color, diet, breeding, egg color and more.
■ Full color range maps for every species.
■ Links to detailed Wiki pages and hundreds of Flickr photos for each bird.
■ Bookmark birds as favorites for fast access – use multiple favorite lists for keeping track of all your observations.
■ Time and date stamped Notes for each species also sync with iTunes for backup.
■ Lifetime updates to bird information.

Enjoy browsing through the sumptuous illustrations, professional photographs and comprehensive expert birding facts.

As a standalone iPhone app, iBird Yard for iPad does not require an Internet connection for access to the rich media information in its database. This does mean that the application is large, so please be patient when downloading from the iTunes app store.

For further product comparison information, please visit us at ibird.com

■ See how 5 Bird apps stack up:
iphone.ibird.com/compare.html

(1) If you use iBird in the field, please do so responsibly. We recommend the American Birding Association's Code of Ethics (http://www.aba.org/about/ethics.html), particularly section 1(b), for guidance.



Website: http://www.ibird.com
Support Website: http://www.ibird.com

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