Our friend over on the Android blog have a recent post regarding adding a prefix to a call.
http://blogs.stthomas.edu/android/2011/04/27/ust-extension-dialing-as-easy-as-bb/
At St. Thomas, the global directory generally includes only the extension. And as such, you cannot simply call a number after searching the directory with the Contacts app on your iPhone. Luckily, there’s an app for that (a few actually) and they are free!
The one that appears best for our use is called PrefixACall.
App Recommendation: App Start for iPad – Cost: FreeAn app starter kit with all the essential apps you’ll ever need.
AppStart takes a fresh and fun approach to teach the average Joe (or insert your name here) how to become more familiar with his iPad and apps. NO THIS IS NOT A BORING MANUAL. We’ll fill you on the basic things that everyone should know, and then get you started with the best apps for you.
Throughout the app you’ll find special sections giving the apps you need to turn your iPad into a specific kind of tool, or giving a list of the essentials apps for certain types of users. If you see something that sounds interesting to you click it! We’ll give you the exact set of apps to download and you’ll be on your way, no need to scour the top charts in the App Store.
This app starts out pretty basic, but by the time you get to the end you’ll be performing all the tricks that truly make the iPad “magical.” Oh, did we mention that you’re going to have fun doing it. We love the iPad and what we love even more is watching each person get the most out of it.
App Recommendation: Instapaper – Cost: $4.99
Have you ever found yourself browsing the web and happing upon a story or two that you definitely want to read, but for whatever reason you just cannot or do not want to read it at that particular moment. Most of is resort to saving it as a bookmark or maybe even emailing the URL to ourselves so you can read it later. But bookmarks are difficult to access on multiple computers and email is an inefficient way to keep track of what you want to read. Enter Instapaper!
Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content.
We discover web content throughout the day, and sometimes, we don’t have time to read long articles right when we find them.
Instapaper allows you to easily save them for later, when you do have time, so you don’t just forget about them or skim through them.
While you’re are browsing the web, when you find something you want to remember to read later to click a little icon in your web browser toolbar. That saves the article (all of the text of the article, not just the URL) to your Instapaper article list. You can access this list from any computer. And on the iPad there is a dedicated Instapaper app that you can run to read your queued items. And as long as you launch the app when you have data service, it will download all of the text in the article. This way you can read the story whether you have data coverage or not.
Instapaper is one of those tools you didn’t know you needed until you use it. It’s my latest go-to tool for remembering and organizing what I want to read. You can use the service for free from any computer, while the iPad App costs $4.99 (which gives you access to a bunch of other feature.)
That’s Instapaper: The critically acclaimed, award-winning app to read web pages on the go, in the air, or on the couch.
There are hundreds of thousands of apps available for the iPad. Wading through them all and finding those most useful to you and your workflow can be a daunting task. While we can’t promise to provide an authoritative list of apps (especially those intended for niche interests) we do intend to point out those apps that we think may be useful to a wide range of customers. With that in mind, we present you with our first app recommendation: ReaddleDocs.
