Want to know how to get better grades… write better reports… and have better sex? Then, my dear freshman, this is the most important list you’ll read this year. Learn from my experience; I’m a junior now and I wish that I had these apps two years ago.
1. TabNotes
TabNotes is an app that captures your handwriting, as you scribble across the screen with a stylus (or your finger). And it rocks on so many levels.
For instance, let’s say you prefer mind-mapping to linear/traditional note-taking. With TabNotes, you can select different colors and draw directly on the screen. And unlike a real notebook, you never run out of pages or have to worry about getting ink all over your fingers.
You also get a wide range of paper types to choose from. Composing a symphony at Berklee? Use the music paper. Visualizing differential equations at Stanford? Use the graph paper.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.softwareincheese.tabnotes&hl=en
2. Talk to Me Classic
Talk to Me Classic is for those of us that are still struggled with <insert language here> after 4 years in High School. All you have to do is talk into the app. It will translate anything that was said… in REAL TIME… to or from your mother tongue.
The app is ‘fluent’ in 17 different languages, including a few lesser studied languages such as Afrikaans and Czech. The moral is this: if you can’t ace your language class with this app, then you’re doing something terribly wrong.
3. ShoutOUT Speech-to-Text
Not everybody is a Lit major, but every freshman has to at least pretend to understand grammar once in a while. That’s where ShoutOUT Speech-to-Text comes in.
It turns anybody that can talk into a capable writer; just yak away and let it weave your semi-coherent babble into presentable blocks of text. Then give your text an editorial once-over, and you’ve just finished a full-fledged report in a fraction of the time.
4. iKamasutra
With over one hundred sex positions to choose from, this should (hopefully) keep your sexual life varied for the entire year. You can even sort by intimacy and strength levels, giving you different options for your serious relationship the biology major and your fling with the jock.
5. Sleep as a Droid
Sleep as a Droid isn’t just an alarm clock app. It’s an alarm clock app on steroids. It tracks your sleep cycles nightly, waking you up at the precise moment you’ll have the most energy. It helps to avoid grogginess, making you mentally sharper when you walk into your first period class.
6. Voice+Recorder
Voice+Recorder is a simple application meant for recording lectures. It negates the need for a standalone digital recorder, and lets you add notes to captured recordings. Mixed with the ShoutOUT Speech-toText app, you may not have to lift a pen your entire freshman year.
7. Math Ref
For the dump learners among us, Math Ref is the perfect app if you don’t remember what the fundamental theorem of Calculus looks like. This app does the remembering for you, leaving you free to focus on the problem solving process instead of minutia. It comes with 1,300 different equations, ranging from chemistry to basic algebra.
January 10, 2012
Android Tablet Apps