We all store our contact database on our iPhone, iPad, and other devices. Sometimes, we store them in multiple places. Syncing your contact databases stored in different locations can be time consuming. Besides, you will have to worry about duplicate and almost duplicate contact entries too. Smart Merge is a time-saving app that lets you merge duplicate contacts in a flash.

Smart Merge can handle duplicate contacts, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. It also lets you find incomplete contacts (e..g those without names, phone number, or e-mail address). Have thousands of names in your contacts lists? While it is true that the process gets slower when you have more contacts, Smart Merge should be able to handle thousands of contact entries.

Smart Merge is fast and keeps your contacts database clean. Make sure you backup your contacts database before using apps such as this one. It never hurts to be cautious. Smart Merge worked great for our database which had ever 1000 entries in it. It has potential to be even better.

Share and Enjoy

Mastering your vocabulary is not something that can be achieved overnight. It takes effort and dedication to do it. You can always learn a lot by going through a dictionary and reading more books. Playing word games can also help push your vocabulary skills to the next level. Word Dynamo is a fun iPad app that combines engaging word games with Dictionary.com’s word library to help learners improve their skills.

Word Dynamo has multiple learning modes to keep students on their toes. It uses audio, flashcards, and definition matching to give you a better understand of words. You can always make your own games, word lists, and flashcard decks. The database has over 100k words. Want to prepare for GRE, SAT, or ACT? Word Dynamo has you covered. You don’t need an Internet connection to use this app.

Word Dynamo syncs your progress between your devices. It has a pretty simple design, so it lets you focus on learning and mastering new words. Word Dynamo is not perfect but still a very cool learning tool for those who want to improve their vocabulary skills.

Share and Enjoy

There is more to this reality than the 3 dimensions that we understand. Scientists have been studying the 4th dimension and beyond for years. You could even learn more about some of these dimensions in math and physics courses. The Fourth Dimension for iPad is a powerful educational application that shows you what the concept of a 4th dimension is all about.

The Fourth Dimension is a 30 page interactive book without any complex math formula. You can interact with the model included to learn about this concept. The explanations and instructions included in the app are fun to go through. You don’t have to be a math genius to get a grasp of this dimension. This could be fun to play around with for your curious kids too.

The Fourth Dimension is a pretty awesome educational app with a lot of potential. We wish there were more apps like this to learn complex topics with. The Fourth Dimension for iPad is truly a mind-bending work of art.

Share and Enjoy

Creating stop motions can be a whole lot of fun. In order to make great ones, you need some experience in this area. But having the right tools could always help. Here are a few iPad apps you can use to create stop motion animation on your tablet:

Stop Motion Studio: the best stop motion app for iPad that we have tested. It has a ton of settings and gives you many options to create great work on your tablet.

iStopMotion for iPad: one of the most attractive stop motion apps for iPad. It takes the pain out of the process and makes you more productive when it comes to creative your own animated work. You get a beautiful timeline and instant playback too

iMotion HD: you can use this app to create time-lapse and stop-motion works on your iPhone and iPad. It supports 720p capture and has 4 capture modes. It is Facebook and YouTube friendly too.

Stop Animator: another tool you can use for stop motion and time lapse videos. It is not as sophisticated as the first two but you get it for free.

Bonus:

Animation Desk: one of the best apps to use to develop animated work on an iPad. We had the chance to test this app a while back and were immensely impressed with its features. If you want to create hand-drawn animations on your tablet, you can’t go wrong with this.

Developing killer time-lapses takes time and effort. The above tools make creating them on your tablet more convenient.

Share and Enjoy

It goes without saying that Salsa dancing is a lot of fun and quite hot. There is a big difference between watching others dancing it and learning how to pull off those moves yourself. Pocket Salsa is an exciting application for iPad that shows you how to do Salsa dancing like a pro. It contains plenty of video lessons and rhythms so you will learn this type of dancing more easily.

You don’t have to be a pro dancer to take advantage of the instructions provided in Pocket Salsa. The app has over 150 easy to follow dance lessons to get you started. Just download the videos to your tablet to start enjoying them on the go. The Salsa rhythms included teach you how to listen for the clave in your music. Need more videos? You can always purchase them easily.

Overall, Pocket Salsa is a pretty fun app to play around with. The video instructions are easy to follow. The podcast salsa videos are entertaining too. There is a lot to like about this app.

Share and Enjoy

The economy may be slowly improving. But we are far away from being out of the woods. In these times, what you don’t want to do is allow your debt to spiral out of control. The sooner you start paying off your debts, the better off you will be. Debt Alert for iPad is a useful tool that keeps track of your debts and uses the debt-snowball method to help you eliminate your debt.

Debt Alert has a user friendly UI. Its loan calculators and debt breakdown reports are useful. It reminds you when to pay your bills so you won’t incur any penalties. Want to figure out when your pay off date will be? No problem. The data you enter in this app is automatically sent to the cloud for backup. Data synchronization across multiple iOS devices is offered as well.

Debt Alert has plenty of convenient features to help you stay on the right track with your debt. Passcode protection is offered as well. Debt Alert looks elegant and has everything you need to prioritize and pay off your debt on time. It could save you some money in the long run.

Share and Enjoy

I don’t know about you but the weather can be quite unpredictable in my area. There are many ways one can go about keeping up with the weather information anywhere. Thanks to Weather Center for iPad, you can turn your tablet into a weather information center. It shows you the latest weather data, storm information, advisory reports, and a whole lot more.

Weather Center shows you detailed weather forecasts. Those include 7 and 14 day forecasts (the latter if you use this on your iPhone or iPod). It also get weather advisories, moon phases, and weather radar. The interactive map has 6 animated overlay options, including satellite, current winds, high resolution radar, and global satellite view. The map also has many non-animated options which you can turn on/off.

Weather Center is a pretty good looking weather app for iOS. It has more than enough to keep you up-to-date with the weather conditions in your area. It works great on iPhone & iPad too.

Share and Enjoy

Apple iPhone and iPad are both great devices. Many of us have multiple iPhones or iPads in our homes. Your iGadgets can communicate with each other too. Take Music Remote HD for instance. It is a simple tool that lets you control the music you have stored on one iPad using another. You can play, pause, skip, view song information, and do a whole lot more.

In order to use this app, you are going to need two iOS devices on the same WiFi network. Music Remote HD needs to be running on both devices. Just select the device you want to use as the controller and set it as your server. Once your devices are paired, you are on your way. The auto-connect feature means you will be back on as soon as you restart the apps.

Music Remote HD has a Playlist button which you can use to create playlists from within it. Songs, albums, or your entire library may be added. This app makes using an iOS device to control another easy. It may reduce your device’s battery life since it needs to run constantly to work.

Share and Enjoy

Most of us have heard of Photoshop. It is a powerful software that makes editing and enhancing photos on your computer very easy. It is a very sophisticated application and can be too powerful for many folks. iColorama for iPad is a nice little app that lets you edit your photos and apply cool effects to them. It is social media friendly too.

iColorama can enhance the colors and tones of your images. Want to turn your images into sketch arts or paintings? The filters included have you covered. iColorama supports Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. We found the user interace to be pretty easy to get used to. The app won’t outperform Photoshop by any means. But it has more than enough for users to enhance their photos.

iColorama looks good and makes your photos look good. It is quite stable too. There is a lot to like about this app.

Share and Enjoy

The Arabic language is not an easy language to learn and master by any means. Those of you who have spent most of your time in the Western world are going to find the language a whole lot different than what you are used to. If you are taking Arabic courses, you are going to need a decent Arabic English dictionary as well. That’s exactly what you get with Arabic English Dictionary for iPad.

Arabic English Dictionary works beautifully on iPhone but even better on your iPad. It offers free English to Arabic translations. You don’t need an internet connection to take advantage of what this app has to offer. The user interface is not that complicated. You can turn off the options that you don’t like (see the above screenshot).

This tool won’t make you a master in Arabic. But it does help you when you are stuck and don’t know what a certain English word means in Arabic (or vice versa). Considering that Arabic English Dictionary is free, it is well worth downloading.

Share and Enjoy