My 35 TOP Apps for Surface RT / Windows RT .:. Must Have Apps

Please, keep in your mind that I'm a business person and use my Surface RT primarily as a work and personal productivity tool and I'm not a gamer, therefore I listed two games in my selection.

I'm NOT listing the obvious, that is, MS Office for Windows RT, Skype, Mail and Calendar.

The list is NOT in any relevant order.

1. OneNote

Better Notes Taking Apps for Windows RT and Windows 8, but not the best in navigability once it was not conceived with touch screen technology in mind. There's the OneNote Touch Apps. It's cool, but lack some important features of the desktop version.

2. Task Manager Professional

Perfect to keep your tasks in control

3. Calculator2

Once Windows RT doesn't has a touch calculator, this is the best pick. Windows 8.1 RT Preview brought an official touch calculator and it's good as this one.




4. LinkedIn

5. Bing News

getting better each day, I preffer this MS apps than the Bento News. The "Topics creator" is the best thing on it and the RSS news creator is better than the Bento News one (has bugs).

6. PDF Touch

For me, the best PDF reader where you can read, highlight text and scratch on. There's some crash complain on review, but mine works perfect




7. mZIP  - It's always good to have a ZIP file apps to compress/uncompress files

8. NovaMind MindMapping

Nice and cool apps to Mind Map your ideas, projets, concepts.





9. XE Currency - A nice apps to work with currency convertions. You can set your preferred to quick view them and make your convertions

10. Bento News

Good news apps. Bring some nice news sources like Harvard Business Review, Gismodo and many others, but I still prefer Bing News

11. Bing Translator (falar sobre Free Translate)

So cool apps. You can translate text as other, BUT it has a cool feature of pointing your camera to a sign, printed texts and show the translation over the text you have pointed to.  CLICK here to read my review on it.

12. Note Anytime

Very good notes taking apps. The best for handwriting and it has optional handwriting recognition. I've bought the Portuguese one and it works perfect. Take a look on my Notes Taking Apps REVIEW with OneNote, Evernote, Notes Anytime and others.




13. WordBook Dictionary  - Great english-english dictionaty based on Thesaurus and other dics

14. Wikipedia

Nice Wikipedia Apps.

15. ArcNote

Another really cool Notes Taking Apps for Audio, Photo, Text, Scratch and Video notes and the most stable apps on its category. Has one huge flaw: Don't have sync feature. Click HERE for a review on it and other notes taking apps.

16. Twitter

The official one. Perfect to manage your twits

17. FollowMe

Always use this free apps that sends you and email every time your device from your place. You define a "imaginary fence" and the apps sends you an email with it's position (based on IP). I've tested it a lot and it is quite precise (about 100 feet)





18. Voice Notes
19. AcrSoft ShowBiz
20. MegaTube (watch and download Youtube Videos)
21. Bing Travel
22. FlightAware
23. WorldMate
24. PC Remote
25. ListMaster
26. PhotoShop Express
27. YourVersion Bible
28. Google Apps
29. G Maps (Google)
30. EaseUS FileManager

Well, and because everybody deserves some fun, I choose 5 extra APPS for gaming and fun.

31. Pinball FX
32. Drif Mania 2 (car racing)
33. CookBook
34. Places of Interest
35. SkyMap
36. ShareToResize Apps

Bing TRAVEL - The 360o interactive pictures make it really cool

One of the apps I love most on Surface RT is the Bing Travel.

It's cool, fun with great travel reviews and deals finder.



FEATURES: Bing Travel brings together in a single Apps all the features below:

• Destinations – Explore destinations all over the world.  View top attractions, 360 degree panoramas, pictures, maps, weather, currency 
• Travel Articles – Editorial selected articles provide travel inspiration and tips from trusted sources.
• Flights – Search flights and filter your results by price, number of stops, airline name, or departure time.
• Flight Status – Check the status of any flight and find departure or arrival time, terminal and gate information.
• Hotels – Search hotels and filter your results by  price, class, or amenities to find the best hotel for you.
• Best of Web – Discover nearly 100 of the most useful travel websites, each hand-picked by editors.

Bing Travel shows information about attractions, hotels and restaurantes from all the best Travel Advisors on a single TAB layout. You can chose to see relavant information from Frommers, Fodors, TripAdvisor and LonelyPlanet on a very easy user interface. Check it below

information from the best travel advisors available today
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When you chose a destination, the apps shows a summary information about the city, weather and currency, besides some contextualized event info. 

summary info about the choosen destination
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I LOVE THIS: But the coolest thing on it is the 360 degree panoramic pictures. You pick a picture and in full screen, it shows the image as you move your tablet to left, right, top or botton. The tablet works as a windows to the scenario. It's really cool and  everybody I show this feature, gets very impressed.

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MANAGING YOUR TAVEL: If you want to full manage your travel adding your fllights, hotel and car reservations, you should use WorldMate Apps. With this apps, you simple email the reservation confirmations from almost all airline companies and travel websites and it automatically creates to your Travel info and appointments. I will  review this apps soon.

Best Password Manager APPS for Windows RT (paid)



If you are like me, you probably have hundreds of website subscriptions, email accounts, credit cards, bank accounts, ecommerce store registers, ATM passwords, email passwords and so many other online and offline services that needs passwords and other document information.

I don't have more than 6 to 10 different passwords, but to remember what password is related to what web site, store, etc, etc and docs #, PIN and other usual online/offline register is almost impossible

After testing some apps, I found eWallet from Ilium Software Inc is the best one. Below is some reasons I choose eWallet.

• The UI interface is cool, very well designed and easy to use.
• You can save your wallet on Skydrive and keep it synchronized using the same wallet on up to 5 devices/computers.
• eWallet has a 256-Bit Data Encryption, what makes it impossible to have its password broken
• You can set it to automatically get out of the data screen and go to password screen after "N" seconds without activity
• For each record (card) you can change fields' name.
• You can create your own card categories
• eWallet uses a template depending of what "type of card" you chose.
• You can manage several wallets
• Ilium is a known by its serious and good quality apps

TIPS  

• Use a at least 8 digit password when creating your wallet and don't forget to use letters, numbers and one symbol character.
• Before creating your first card, plan and add your categories. (Ex: Finances, Forums, Personal Docs, Shopping, eMail accounts, Software Serial #, etc, etc) 

some added cards of my wallet and respective categories

some added cards of my wallet and respective categories

PRICE

US$ 9.99