This highly praised app is on many “Top 10” lists, including our list of the best iPad apps for college students. Evernote is kind of like the ultimate notebook, in which students can not only jot down notes, also save photos and voice recordings. The beauty of this app it that once it’s installed in whatever computers and phones that you use, it automatically syncs, so that your notes will always be there without you needing to remember to do anything.

Another great feature of Evernote is that it makes hand-written documents searchable. So, if you take a photo of the board during class, you can later go back and search for keywords written in that photo. Although some professor’s handwriting may befuddle the application, on the whole this feature works almost like magic.

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Laptop? Check. Textbooks? Check. Phone apps? You’ll want to make sure you have these must-have college apps if you want to survive. It seems iPhone was right: There really is an app for that!

For Friday nights: The Drinks and Cocktails app has tons of drink recipes. It’s perfect if you want to save some money and make your own happy hour.

For history class: Can’t keep your presidents straight? USA Presidents provides a picture and a short bio of our past commanders in chief.

For math class: Don’t sweat the college algebra test. With Mathemagics Lite you can figure out complicated multiplication problems and much more.

For note taking: Say goodbye to that annoying spiral notebook. Evernote lets you make text and audio notes. You can even take a snapshot of professor’s slide show. Read the rest of this entry »

Evernote is a software application I invented in my mind long before it arrived, but unfortunately didn’t quite have the means to create. Some tech people beat me to it, as usual.

How often do you find yourself wishing you had written down a website you looked at, or an item you saw that you wanted to purchase? Anything found digitally that you wish to remember is as easy as popping it right into your Evernote account. The information is indexed, and available for searching whenever you need it. Read the rest of this entry »