iPad Free App of the Week: Merriam-Webster Dictionary

This free iPad app gives you access to the complete Collegiate Dictionary, and it gives you functions that the paid app doesn’t have. I’m not the best speller in the world, and it’s sometimes hard to look up a word I don’t know how to spell, but the free app has Voice Lookup so I just say the word I need. The Merriam-Webster iPad app also has synonyms and antonyms, audio pronunciations, and example sentences.

There’s also a Word of the Day and a scrolling index that lets you browse and a history of words you’ve looked up previously. The catch is that your Universal Device ID may be used by advertisers and ad networks to serve ads to you. You can get more information about their privacy policy on the app page in the iTunes store.

As a bonus, even when you may looking up the definition of another word, if you see a word in the definition you are curious about, you can touch it and the app will give you all the info about that word that you would ever want.

iPad Free App of the Week: French Open Tennis

The offical app for this year's French Open, or Roland Garros as the Europeans like to call it.

Features iPhone/iPad:

- Real-time scores, point by point
- Live matches and video best-of
- Real-time breaking news + photos
- Draws and results
- Video highlights, behind the scenes coverage
and interviews
- player bios
- available in 2 languages
- visitor’s guide + map of stadium
- the official Roland Garros radio
- access to Orange Sport mobile website

Not quite as easy to use as the U.S. Open tennis app was, but still a must have for free.

iPad Free App of the Week: Pizza Hut

Hungry for some Pizza?  You won't be for long once you download the Pizza Hut app for your iPad.

It’s a fun, easy and tasty way to place an order.

App features:

•Adjustable button functionality lets you choose your favorite way to interact
•Our complete menu offers Specialty pizzas, pasta, WingStreet wings, drinks, sides, desserts and limited time offers.
•Guest Checkout allows you to order without signing in.
•Orders are automatically saved to your account for easy reordering.
•Most Popular items section provides quick and easy access to your favorites.
•Specials section provides updates on new products and deals.
•Checking out is easy since you can add credit card options without creating an account.

Get it now and try it out.  I'll take a pan style with pepperoni.

iPad Free App of the Week: Retro/Classic TV

Do you like classic television programs?

RetroTV is a new app with more than 100 hours of classic television. Watch the old school classic TV collection and watch YouTube or your own movies in Retro style. More than 40 retro TV ads included for your amusement and bemusement?!? Taking you back… all the way back.

Features Includes:
*AirPlay enabled
*Full Screen option
*Scrubbing/Play/Pause functions
*Change RetroTV color [50 colors available]
*YouTube playback
*My Movies playback
**Cool Tip - Use iPad 2 HDMI output adaptor to display RetroTV on your TV:)

Get back to the way it was with the RetroTV App.

Including: The Three Stooges, The Lucy Show, Alfred Hitchcock, Groucho Marx, Beverly Hillbillies, George Orwell's 1984, Mister Ed, Bruce Lee - The Lost Interview, Perry Como, D-Day Victory at Sea, The Lone Ranger, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Jackie Gleason, Miss Television Beauty Pageant, Petticoat Junction, Roy Rogers, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, Robin Hood, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Flash Gordon, Laurel and Hardy, and tons more.

iPad Free App of the Week: Crackle

Watch movies and television shows on your iPad with this free app put out by Sony.

It also works for the iPhone and iPod Touch offering hundreds of TV and movie titles for free viewing on-demand with ads.

Crackle’s content includes movies from Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics, all Sony-owned labels. The site competes with Hulu, owned in part by NBC Universal, Fox and Disney.

The movies and TV shows at Crackle are uncut, though they are interrupted for quick commercial breaks that cannot be fast-forwarded.

Some of the content the site was featuring prominently on its Web site Monday included the TV showsSeinfeld and Married … With Children and the movies 21, The Last Picture Show, Flatliners and The Da Vinci Code.

The ads aren't that intrusive and I can live with them.  New content is supoosed to be added weekly.  So far I like it.