Best Utilities iPad Apps - And Their Best Reviews

All Alarm Clock and Timer functions you can imagine in one application! The best digital alarm clock with sleep timer in 18 beautiful designs for as well landscape as portrait mode! The look and feel of the clock is fully adjustable. Choose your own foreground clock style and background. Adjust the brightness as you want it. Optionally display seconds or even fractional seconds! Wake up with your favorite iPod Music or selected alarm. You can let the alarm sound or music fade in gently and set the fade duration. The alarm will show a huge snooze button on screen. You can also adjust the snooze length. Simple, clean and effective clock with optional sound effects and old-style clock alarms. The brightness is adjustable.

FEATURES:

• FULL SCREEN SUPPORT: Both the digital alarm clock and the analog clock can be displayed in full screen mode.
• CHESS CLOCK: The best chess and game clock on the iPad. Just put your iPad on the table and both players have an individual playing time clock.
• WORLD CLOCK: Find and display global time zones and cities.
• STOP WATCH: Easy-to-use Stop Watch with lap control. Export your data to any email address you want.
• NATURE TIMES: GPS positioning for your local sunrise, sunset, midday, high tide and low tide. Available for any given date.
• SLEEP TIMER: Plays music for a selected time. Fall asleep with your favorite iPod music. The sleep timer will fade out the music gently so you won't wake up because of sudden sound level changes.
• EGG TIMER: A complete timer with alarms for all occasions. Count-down multiple timers at the same time.
• METRONOME: This metronome helps you keeping track of the rhythm at any speed. From largo to prestissimo.
• COUNT DOWN CLOCK: Count down towards your special day or tells you how long ago that moment was.
• PROJECT CLOCK: Create projects and manage them easily. Record and save projects. The timer will always continue, when you are not running the application or even when your iPad is turned off.

Diigo browser (formerly iChromy) brings the best of Chrome’s interface,speed and Diigo's web annotation service to the iPad. It’s very easy to open, switch and close tabs. Type search keywords or URL in one box. The address bar will be hidden automatically when you scroll down the page, so you get the the extra space for web content. To show the address bar, just tap the tab again. One click to save a page to reading list, so you can view them offline. One click to remove a page from the reading list. It’s fast to get pages in and out. Share the page to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Diigo, Instapaper etc. Search from context menu directly. Long press a link and choose different open options. More privacy: Incognito Mode, Clear password, history, Cookie. Efficiency: Find in page, Remember password, Quick Dial in new tap to help you access most, Visited sites quickly. Add .com, .edu, .gov, .net in the Omnibox. Save pictures to Photo App. More accurate URL suggestion in address bar. Tap status bar to scroll pages to top. Change default search Engine. Identify iChromy as desktop browsers to access certain pages. Keep the address bar when you scroll the page. Always open link in background tab.

iCab Mobile is probably one of the iPhone browsers with the richest feature set. You can easily add new search engines. Search suggestions from google and yahoo can be activated on the iPad. It's also possible to search within a web page. iCab Mobile can save web forms and restore the form content later. The saved forms data can be password protected. There's a built-in and customizable URL-based filter. The default filters block many advertising banners. You can edit, add or remove filters. It's possible to switch off images to save bandwidth. iCab Mobile supports Tabs, so you can open multiple web pages at the same time. Links can be opened in Tabs manually or automatically. iCab can save the tabs when quitting so these can be loaded even when being offline, the next time the App is launched. Bookmarks can be organized in folders. You can import/export the bookmarks from/to your PC/Mac browser. Bookmarks can be also saved as "Offline Bookmarks" which can be even opened without an internet connection. iCab Mobile provides a fullscreen mode where the whole screen is used to display the web page. No screen space is wasted for toolbars. iCab Mobile has a built-in Download Manager so you can download almost all files from the internet. The downloads can be easily transfered to a Mac/PC/Linux computer but also to other Apps on the device which can open these files. The unique "Scrollpad" feature lets instantly scroll to any location within a web page. iCab Mobile itself can be password protected. When password protection is on, you can enable a guest mode with limited privileges which is available without a password. The guest mode can have its own subset of bookmarks and search engines. iCab Mobile supports Dropbox. Export/Import bookmarks; transfer downloads, images, files, web pages to your Dropbox account.

Enjoy your entire video collection everywhere! Get more of your video library on your iPad. Air Video is a great solution to watch your AVI, DivX, MKV and other videos. Don't synchronize your videos, watch them over air! Suddenly the capacity of your devices is infinite! Air Video supports almost all video formats and performs the conversion "on-the-fly". No waiting for files to convert, they are done in real time as you watch! If you want to store your video inside the device instead of streaming it, Air Video will convert it for you to iPhone friendly format. Forget the hassle with conversion settings, just one tap and the video conversion is on. Air Video comes packed with features. It can share folders on your harddrive as well as iTunes playlists. It supports live conversion and offline conversion where the entire file is converted upfront. It lets you customize the conversion settings, zoom and crop the video. Air Video works over local network and over internet (including 3G). However to enjoy streaming over internet your router must support UPnP or NAT-PMP protocols so that Air Video can setup the port forwarding for you. Otherwise you will need to configure the port forwarding manually.

Skyfire’s Award-Winning browser is the most popular browser on iPad. Skyfire allows you to watch Flash videos that otherwise don’t work on iPad. Full-Screen browsing: use every pixel of that gorgeous screen. Load page as iPad or Desktop: access the full versions of your favorite websites for more features and videos. Private Browsing mode: Keep your browsing session private. Popular content: Find out what’s popular on any website with the click one of a button. Facebook + Twitter: Stay in touch with your Facebook and Twitter feeds without ever leaving your browser. Google Reader: So you can stay in touch with your RSS feeds. Share webpages: Using Facebook, Twitter, Email, Instapaper, PinBoard, Read It Later, Tumbler, and more.