3D Brain

3D model of the brain

3D CellStain

3D model of a cell

Around Me

Find information on your surroundings

Dictionary.com

Dictionary & Thesaurus of two million words 

Google Earth

Zoom in on planet Earth

Howcast

Instructional how-to videos

Hubble Top 100

Images from the European Southern Observatory

Khan Academy

Numerous mini-lectures on a range of topics

Molecules

3D images of molecules

NASA

Information, video and images from NASA

One Planet

Video footage of the animal kingdom

Qwiki

Wikipedia of people, places and things

Starwalk ($2.99)

For viewing the night sky

University of Auckland Library

My Account and library catalogue, locator, hours, courses, and blogs

Xperica HD

Interactive science laboratory

Alice Lite

a model example of an interactive eBook

Bluefire Reader

eBook & pdf reader

iBooks

a bookshelf for your eBooks

Kindle

bookshop of close to a million ebooks from Amazon Kindle

Kobo

select from close to two million free ebooks

Overdrive

access eBooks & audiobooks from academic & public libraries

Stanza

select from 50000 titles to buy or 50000 free books from Project Gutenberg

• Al Jazeera
• BBC News
• Bloomberg
• CNN
• Factiva Business news and trends
• Guardian
• Le Monde
• NG magazine
• NY Times
• NZ Herald

• Project IL
• RWW Read Write Web technology blog
• SMH
• Stuff
• TED
• Telegraph
• TVNZ News
• Wired
• Zinio Magazine reader

DropBox

Web-based file hosting

Evernote

Personal multimedia notetaking and access

Instapaper ($6.49)

Optimise webpage layout for iPad

iSurvey

Collect and download survey results

iThoughts ($9.99)

Mindmapping tool

junaio

Augmented reality browser

QR Reader

QR code reader

Read It Later

Save webpages to read later, on or offline

Ubuntu One ($3.99/month)

Personal cloud for sound, image and other data

USB disk

 Virtualflash drive

Photogene ($2.99)

Edit and share photos

PS Express

Photoshop tools to edit and share photos

Instapaper ($6.49)

Optimise webpage layout for iPad

Strip Designer ($2.99)

Create comic strips with photos

Toontastic ($0.99)

Create animations

aXylophone

Plays an "a" for awesome xylophone

Classical

Strum the guitar

Doodle Buddy

Drawing tool

Rollercoaster

Virtuoso

Play piano