Wednesday, April 27, 2011

17 Free Blackberry Playbook apps


Business Apps

SharePlus Lite Office Mobile Client :
An Enterprise Collaboration app. SharePlus is an app for your BlackBerry PlayBook that makes it available all the data on your Share Point. It makes is easy to share your enterprise date like Documents, Tasks, Images, Discussions, Announcements, Events, Wiki Pages, Custom Lists, etc.

Adobe Connect Mobile :
Attend Adobe® Connect™ online meetings using your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet. Download the FREE Adobe® Connect™ Mobile application, optimized for tablet users, and enjoy immediate access to online meetings anytime, anywhere. Participate in multi-point video conferencing, with 2-way video, using your camera during your video conversation. Watch all the activities happening in the meeting at once, see who is in the meeting, and collaborate with others using live text chat. Use VoIP meeting audio to broadcast straight to your tablet or phone over a WiFi or 3G connection, or chose to join a telephone conference if the option is provided by the meeting host.
Features:
• Attend Adobe Connect meetings with integrated conference call or Voice over IP audio. Let the meeting call you, and avoid entering cumbersome dialing codes.
• Use Meeting Overview to watch all the activities happening in the meeting at once or tap to focus in on any one meeting activity, such as slide presentations, PDF documents, videos, and screen sharing provided by your meeting host or other presenters.
• Focus on an activity to enter your input in Chat, Private Chat, and Polls.
• Use 2-Way Video to participate in multi-point video conferencing and add your own upstream video broadcast to the conversation.
• Join meetings attended by users on virtually any computer system (Mac, Windows, Linux and Solaris) plus other mobile devices.

LiveCycle Mobile ES2 :
Need to approve a travel expense or a contract while you’re on the road, but don’t have the time to pull out your laptop, find a WiFi connection, and get onto the Internet? Now manage your tasks using your mobile device. An easy-to-understand, mobile UI will have you approving and processing tasks in minutes. Adobe LiveCycle Mobile ES2 helps organizations increase employee productivity, improve brand equity, lower costs, and improve the customer facing engagement across screens and devices, anywhere, anytime. By providing remote task approvals, employees have the tools they need to get the job done with this new generation of mobile devices.

Nomad Free :
Nomad for Basecamp brings the popular online project management tool to the BlackBerry Playbook.
What could be more productive!
BlackBerry & Basecamp!
Optimized for the Playbook, Nomad provides easy access to all your Basecamp projects in a simple native application. We tried to to bring the same design principles of Basecamp to Nomad.
Features:
Multi-account support
Allows access to multiple projects
Dashboard – Simple and single view to see your entire project including Messages, To-Dos and upcoming Milestones.
Messages – Allows you to view, reply, comment on and delete messages so you can keep in touch with your team whenever and wherever.
To-Dos – Allows you to view, create, comment and delete To-Dos.
Milestones – Allows you to view, create and delete upcoming Milestones. In fact, we present your upcoming Milestones in a calendar view.
File access – You can view files and images associated with your project.

StudioCloud Mobile :
Award winning free business management software is now on the BlackBerry® PlayBook™.
View your information anywhere from the comfort of your PlayBook. Keep track of your client’s name, phone numbers, and address while on the go. Get a quick glance at your calendar from your PlayBook. Quickly view your most important tasks and make any necessary changes. Sync your data to StudioCloud Desktop.

MMP Cost – Meeting Calculator :
MMP Cost is a part of the MyMeetingPro suite of effective meeting tools for mobile devices. MMP Cost calculates the overall cost of conducting meetings. Most meeting participants are frustrated by the inefficiency, lack of effectiveness and general waste of time for many business meetings. MMP Cost helps meeting participants and facilitators build awareness of the cost of meetings with the goal of creating a sense of urgency to improve effectiveness. Available for the Blackberry PlayBook.
Features:
Calculates the overall cost of meetings
Enter the average hourly or yearly wage of attendees
Save your top 3 meeting setups
Tracks time remaining and elapsed time during meeting
Records actual meeting start time
Progress bar tracks overall progress vs total allotted time for meeting
Ability to pause and restart meeting calculator

Finance Apps

ING DIRECT Canada :
Now you can save anywhere with the ING DIRECT for BlackBerry® PlayBook™ application. It’s easy to use -whether you’re on the move, or just relaxing on your couch at home. Mobile banking with ING DIRECT is fast, secure, and will make it even easier for you to save your money®.
- Check your Account balances.
- Review your transactions.
- Move your money any time you want.
Get directions and hours of operation for the ING DIRECT Save Your Money Cafes.
- Find ABM locations and get access to your Canadian and US Funds.
- Follow us on Twitter to talk savings or find out what ING DIRECT events are coming up or for insight into the life of our President & CEO, Peter Aceto.

OANDA Currency Converter :
Convert amounts for over 180 currencies and four metals. Your ten last-used currencies are always available for quick access. Specify Interbank rates, or use a percentage add-on to better predict the actual rate charged by your bank or credit card company—you will see both bid and ask rates. This free converter uses OANDA Rates®, the daily filtered rates used by corporations, tax authorities, auditing firms, and financial institutions.

ExpenseBook :
ExpenseBook for PlayBook is a portable expense tracking app to record expenses on the go.

News Apps

Globe News :
The Globe and Mail is Canada’s authoritative source for news, commentary and analysis. Our completely redesigned app delivers up-to-the-minute breaking news as well as access to the full range of content from across The Globe.
This app is a living product. We have a lot of updates planned for the next few months — things like search, weather, push notifications — but we’d also like your feedback: What killer feature have we missed? What can we change to make Globe News more useful to you?

CBC News :
Now you can get a world of news with just one app for your BlackBerry® PlayBook™. With the touch of your finger, get all the news that matters to you from CBC – when and where you want it.
Designed for BlackBerry® PlayBook™
Features:
- Latest news from your region, across Canada and around the world.
- Breaking news ticker delivers the headlines as they happen.
- Check the weather in your area.
- See breaking news or want to share stories from your community? Use the app to send us your report, photos or videos.
- Browse Photo Galleries
- Share stories with your social network via Facebook®, Twitter® and email.

MovieNews :
MovieNews is a database of cinema.
Find information about movies and people.
See the last released movies and DVDs and the box office.

igizmo :
The UK’s number one fortnightly digital tech magazine comes to the BlackBerry Playbook…

Car and Driver Time Trial :
The Car and Driver Time Trial for BlackBerry® PlayBook™ app brings the magazine to life, fusing the careful composition of the printed page to the speed and depth of the digital world. Our content takes on a new dimension on the Playbook, offering not only additional photos and video, but also the ability to interact with the content in a personal way. The Playbook allows the Car and Driver brand to enhance its bedrock values of usefulness, honesty, and fun on an exciting and portable new format.
The Car and Driver Time Trial app showcases our annual Lightning Lap feature and puts you in the middle of the action, as the year’s hottest new performance cars get their first full shakedown at Virginia International Raceway. Follow the Mustang GT500 around Oak Tree corner, chase the Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera over the Climbing Esses, and compare overall lap times for more than 100 cars over the history of the event. It’s the next best thing to being there.

Console-Spot Reader :
Easily access the most recent articles on Console-Spot.com on your BlackBerry® PlayBook�„¢.
Console-Spot.com has all the latest news for the Xbox360, PS3, PSP, Wii, iPhone, and Android.
No advertisements, browser integration, and easy to navigate!

The Huffington Post :
The Huffington Post Playbook app gives you up-to-the-minute news and opinion delivered in a lively easy-to-read format. It’s fast, fun, informative… and seriously addictive.
Navigate at breakneck speed through all of HuffPost’s stories, blog posts, photos, and breaking news from the site’s wide array of sections, including politics, entertainment, comedy, tech, business, sports, books, health, and more.
The world is literally at your fingertips – glide between stories with a flick of your hand, and swipe through vibrant slideshows optimized for the Playbook.
Staying informed has never been so much fun.