1. Dropbox
Lots of you will have heard about this handy website already. Dropbox is a convenient, and more importantly, free service that allows you to store your well written, badly scribbled, and interestingly recorded files in to one big fluffy cloud with your name on it.
With gigabytes of free space allocated to you once you sign up, Dropbox is something you will not regret downloading when you suddenly realise you’ve accidentally wiped your hard drive.
Dropbox have created an app for most mobile devices, so accessing your files is a simple and fast process, pretty much wherever you are.
2. Fruit Ninja... Just kidding!
Although it is fun to slice fruit like a wise ninja who knows lots of facts about your five a day, it is also ‘fun’ to be able to quickly edit your work on the move.
Depending on what kind of smartphone you have, there are reasonably good apps that can help you with those last minute corrections before you send in your work.
For Android devices, your best bet is Documents To Go 3.0 Main App. And yes, that is really what they have called it. Despite the ridiculous, long, and somewhat unnecessary title, DTG is a safe and easy way to edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents on the move. Yet again , and might I add most importantly, it’s free!
For those of you who are sporting an Apple branded device, you have a few choices. If I were to choose one app though, it would be Apple’s very own Pages app. Although it comes with a hefty £6.99 price tag, Apple’s Pages app is much more than a free editing tool – it is a full-featured piece of word processing software that will definitely not disappoint. Apple also supplies Keynote and Numbers. Both of these also come in at £6.99 each.
There are so many apps that will help you in day to day life and lots of them will be completely down to personal taste.
If you like to keep up with the latest news, then the BBC News app is widely available on smartphones.
For the more art based students, there are tons of free drawing apps that allow you to flick some paint or dab some oil like pixels on to a digital canvas. The Sketchbook app springs to mind.
And if you just want to gaze at the stars then why not try out the Star Walk app. Using augmented reality technology, and lots of interesting facts, this app can tell you more about the sky than you ever thought was possible.