Starter Kit: How to Outfit Your iPad Like an Ivy League Scholar

According to Princeton University's library, here are the apps that the library has loaded onto its iPads. Think of it like a starter kit if you're buying a new iPad and you want to have it outfitted like an Ivy League researcher.

NB: The Atlantic is a totally glaring omission from this list, in our humble opinion.

Education/Libraries

• iPrinceton
• MyLibrary
• lynda.com (sign in with your Princeton netID)
• British Library Treasures
• British Library 19th Century Collections
• NYPL Biblion
• Mango Languages Library Edition
  (accessible via account with the Princeton Piublic Library)
• AccessMyLibrary
• EBSCOhost
• Library of Congress Virtual Tour
• TED Lectures
• Pi Cubed
• iCircuit

News

• CNN
• Huffington Post
• NPR
• USA Today
• BBC News
• Mashable
• Washington Post
• MIT Technology
• ABC News
• New York Times
• Popular Mechanics Magazine
• Science News Prime

Productivity

• WebEx
• ScantoPDF
• PS Express
• Dropbox
• Dragon Dictate
• Simplenote
• Penultimate
• QuickOffice

Reference

• Wikipedia
• Dictionary
• Dictionary.Com
• M-W Dictionary
• Google
• Bing
• Google Earth
• Google Translate
• WEbMD
• White Pages
• Yellow Pages
• EasyBib
• Poetry from the Poetry Foundation
• USA.Gov
• Today's Document - National Archives
• Real Time Congress
• WolframAlpha
• The Elements: A Visual Exploration

QR Codes

• i-nigma
• QR Reader
• QR Code Reader
• RL Classic
• Microsoft tag

Social

• Facebook
• Google Catalogs
• Amazon.com
• Fandango
• TuneIn Radio
• Urbanspoon
• Yelp
• Skype
• Netflix

via @ericrumsey