Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they're iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they're fair game.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

Captio – @sethclifford

As much as I love productivity apps, if you spend all your time playing with them, well, you’re not being very productive, are you? That’s the main reason I try to keep things as simple and streamlined as possible. And since my email inbox is very often a makeshift to-do list by necessity, there’s a handful of apps out there that extend that metaphor. One that I’m currently using and liking is Captio.

Captio does one thing and it does it really nicely. Open the app, type something you want to remember, and hit send. A few seconds later, an email shows up in your inbox, from Captio, subject line: exactly what you wrote. It’s lightning fast, and as I’ve said before – for me, capturing information quickly and in a way in which it can be easily accessed in the future is of primary importance.

The app’s design is pretty simple, which adds to its convenience. There aren’t a million settings and switches to configure. In fact, the only thing you have to do is add an email address to send to. The app also archives sent tasks for one month, so if you need to look back a few days and see something, it’s there, at least for a while. There’s an option to bypass the Gmail server it uses by default with IMAP, which allows you to enter your own outgoing server information for extra security, if that’s important to you. I didn’t even bother, since my messages are never anything that sensitive. Certainly there are bigger prizes for nefarious packet sniffers than “place amazon order”.

And if you really want to get fancy, Captio allows you to attach an image to the message, which is very cool, and very handy in case you want to add just one more piece of memory to your quick note. Overall, there’s not much to it, and that’s exactly why I like it as much as I do.

[$1.99 - App Store link]

QuickBooks Mobile – @iMuggle

I use QuickBooks online to run our business. I’ve always preferred the online version because I can use it from anywhere and from any computer. QuickBooks Mobile only makes my life even easier. I can create invoices on the go, see who owes me what money, and who I owe. The interface is easy to understand and to use.

If your’e familiar with QuickBooks you’ll be right at home. You can easily access your existing customer lists and vendors lists with just a few taps as well.

The app is free to download and use for all QuickBooks online users. Just sign in and go. If you just have a standard license to QuickBooks as opposed to paying the monthly online fee, you’ll need to sign up to use it via Intuit for an additional fee.

[Free - App Store Link]

Elements 2.0 – @reneritchie

I love me some Dropbox powered text editors and this week connoisseurs such as myself (and I’m guessing that brilliant SOB @sethclifford as well) got a fantastic update in the form of Elements 2.0. Like all good things, Elements is simple and elegant. It lets you write and easily preview plain text, or in my case Markdown, and automagically syncs that text to any and all other devices and apps linked to your Dropbox account. With full search, word, line, and character counts, a scratchpad, and… wait for it… TextExpander touch App Store link support.

(Elements 2.0 will also export your work as HTML or PDF files, including to Evernote, iTunes (sigh) or Email, if you really have to.)

It’s universal, so you can get to your text on the go on your iPhone, or put your feet up and produce away on the big iPad screen. You can also open and edit the files on your desktop with your tool(s) of choice. (Mine are current BBEdit Mac App Store link and Marked Mac App Store link, the latter of which has also just gotten a terrific update.

It will be interesting to see what kind of new and updated iOS text editors come out after iCloud launches this October, but Dropbox editors like Elements 2.0 have set the bar very, very high.

[$4.99 - App Store link]

Pages for iPad – @llofte

As the fall semester approaches, I am preparing for classes and writing my syllabi for the courses I will be teaching. Writing a syllabus is never fun, but writing it with Pages on the iPad does make it a little less painful.

I used iTunes Connect to import my syllabus from last semester and edited it to be specific for the classes I’m teaching this semester. It was easy, painless, and – dare I say – relaxing.

[$9.99 - App Store link]

C25K (Couch to 5K) – @geekmomma (Reader’s Choice)

C25K is a fantastic program for those of us who want to start running but need someone to help us succeed. The program was developed in 1996 by Josh Clark and has quickly gained popularity as an excellent way to get into running.

The app gives you a daily workout that starts on W1D1 and continues for nine weeks. You cannot skip days in the app but you can go back and repeat a day – making this a great program regardless of your pace/fitness level. You can listen to your own iTunes library while the program gives audio prompts for transitions between warm up, walking, jogging and cool down. Enable GPS and you can track your route, pace and calories burned. Want to share your progress and inspire others? Tweet your progress and/or post to Facebook. Thanks to multitasking in iOS4, now you can also listen to Pandora while you follow the program and still get the audio prompts from the app.

Whether you have never run a day in your life or you’re looking to start training for a 5k, 10k or marathon, start with the C25K app and you won’t be disappointed!

[$2.99 - App Store link]

Your pick?

You're part of the team as well, so we will be choosing one reader to make a submission each week! Just look for the announcement on twitter or our Facebook page each weekend for a chance to be picked! In the meantime, jump into the comments and let us know your pick of the week!

webOS users: Now that HP has decided to bloody well abandon Palm Pre, Veer and TouchPad users and put the whole future of your fav platform in doubt, are you planning on giving iPhone and iPad a look? Are you shopping around? Or are you holding to hope that some knight in shining hardware swoops out of this darkest night to rescue your beloved webOS and give it the chance it so truly deserves?

While we could never replace your admittedly sweet cards and synergy, and we may not be as tweakable as Android, as fresh as Windows Phone, or have a slider like BlackBerry, iOS is elegant, well designed, has more apps than anyone could use in a lifetime, the best web browser in the business, is relentless updated by Apple (witness iOS 5 — with unobtrusive notifications! — coming the fall!), and has an awesome Jailbreak community for everything else.

Also, the TiPb Nation rocks! (I’m just saying…)

Let me know which way you’re leaning in the poll up top and lets talk about it in the comments below. If you need extra help, make sure you jump over to our iPhone and iPad Forums, you might just find some old friends from PreCentral.net waiting to reconnect!

There are hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps for just about everything — so how come the one you need, the one you know just has to be there, is so hard to find? Enter TiPb’s new weekly feature where staff and readers alike sort through the App Store and help you find just the right App for That. This week, Patrick asks:

I’m looking for an app that will convert anything (website, email, email attachment, picture from camera roll, etc.) on the iPhone/iPad to a .PDF file from the built-in Print > Select Printer dialogue.

To see what we found for Patrick, follow along after the break!

Print to PDF [$3.99 - App Store link] is exactly what Patrick is looking for! It’s a universal application for the iPhone and iPad that adds “Print to PDF” as a printer when using Apple’s built in printing feature. This includes, emails, email attachments, websites, and photos. All you need to do is have Print to PDF running in the background.

Another really cool feature about Print to PDF, is that if you have multiple devices running Print to PDF and they’re all connected to the same WiFi network, you can print to any of those devices.

Anyone else have any App for That suggestions for Patrick? Let him — and all of us — know in the comments.

Having trouble finding what you need in the app store? Send us an email to news@tipb.com and let us know what you’re looking for, and we’ll do our best to find you just the right App for That!

PDF PROvider, by Dar-Soft, is an iPad app that the converts documents to PDFs as well as merge several documents into a single PDF.

Details and screenshots after the break.

[App Store link]

PDF PROvider is the advanced version of PDF Printer which allows converting Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote files, HTML pages and Photos and Contacts and merging documents to Adobe PDF format on the iPad in the required order.

Save to PDF and share:

• Pages, Numbers and Keynote documents
• Word, Excel and PowerPoint files
• Photos
• Pictures and Texts from Clipboard
• Contacts
• Web pages

With PDF PROvider you can:

• Merge several documents of different formats into single PDF in required order
• Transfer documents from desktop computers
• Copy&Paste notes from the Notes application
• Open documents from Mail and Safari, Dropbox, MobileMe iDisk and other cloud storage applications
• View web pages

PDF PROvider is available on the iPad for $6.99.

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Word Ball, by Continuous Integration, is a new word game on the iPhone. The goal of the game is to keep the letters alive by spelling words with them.

I’m generally terrible at word games and thus avoid them like the plague, but I’ve actually enjoyed playing Word Ball. I may not be good at it, but it’s enjoyable and a great little time-killer.

Details and screenshots after the break.

[App Store link]

Word Ball challenges your word building skills in a fast paced, unique, and fun word game. Play with friends and beat the top scores! Test your limits by keeping the letters alive and reach the top levels. Gain achievements for different word building categories. Word Ball will make you a “Word Master” in no time!

• Game Center enabled
• OpenFeint enabled
• Leaderboards and achievements
• Extensive dictionary of over 175,000 words
• Multiple modes
• HD retina display graphics
• Detailed statistics and history of scores
• In-game word lists
• Ad free

Word Ball is available on the iPhone for $1.99.

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