At the time of this writing, all of the following apps are available for free download in the Apple App Store.

Reference Section:
  • Google Mobile App-compiles many of Google's applications into one app;
  • Dictionary.com-easy word-looker-uper;
  • Wikipanion-just looks nicer than the Wikipedia one and it's easy to use;
  • Units-easy unit conversion
Education Section:
  • NASA- See what the folks at NASA are up to;
  • Stars- Constellation info;
  • Planets- Planet info;
  • TED Mobile- Featured TED talks, both video and audio, it's a little slow, but if you can't get enough of the TED talks then you'll wait;
  • The Chemical Touch: Lite Edition; free version that allows users to get info on the Periodic Table of Elements;
  • Free Graphing Calculator by William Jockusch;
  • Word A Day: Visuals and Audios;
  • Vocabulary Power Plus;
  • History: Maps of World;
Social Networking:
  • FourSquare-check in and report on your activities, earn badges;
  • TweetDeck-syncs your Twitter and Facebook accounts;
  • Animoto-view and share your Animoto videos
Documents:
  • Declaration of Independence
  • United States Constitution
  • Shakespeare
  • The works of Homer
Books:
  • Marvel Comics- There are free comics available on this app as well;
  • DC Comics- " "
  • Comics (comiXology)- " "
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales
A note on Apps:
All of the apps noted above were free at the time of this writing, look closely when downloading as terms may have changed. Also, some apps are nothing more than a repackaging of the original site's web page. For instance, don't pay for a Google Wave App, when it is the exact same thing as bookmarking the page on your home screen (THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE), same goes for ping.fm.

Not all of these are available for non-apple products. Phones that use the Android operating system have more Google App capabilities as referenced in Google Labs.

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