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Top apps for Android tablets

Apps for work and play that make the most of the tablet form factor.

By Jenneth Orantia on Dec 12 2012, 4:43PM

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Run multiple floating browser windows on top of another app using the handy Floating Browser Flux app. It supports 2-10 browser windows at once, depending on your device.

Access your full Windows or Mac desktop from your tablet using Splashtop 2 Remote Desktop. An optional in-app purchase adds the ability to connect to your computer over the Internet using 3G/4G/Wi-Fi

Quickoffice Pro HD connects to the major cloud services (such as Google Docs, Dropbox and SugarSync) and includes spell-check and PDF annotation features.

Currently the best Twitter client in the Play Store, Falcon Pro offers a swag of advanced features like TweetMarker support and inline previews for images, videos and webpages.

Adobe Photoshop Touch is as close as it gets to a full-fledged graphics editing app on a tablet. It inherits many of the advanced features of its desktop counterpart such as complex selection tools and support for layers, adjustments and filters.

Autotether is perfect if you have a Wi-Fi-only tablet and an Android smartphone. It adds an icon to your tablet homescreen that automatically launches the tethering mode on your smartphone and connects your tablet to it.

Skype lets you take advantage of your tablet's front-facing camera to make free video calls.

Tame that unruly beast of a tablet homescreen with the excellent Apex Launcher. Its main claim to fame is that it supports themes that change the font, skin, wallpaper and icons.

Play Magazines has an excellent selection of local and international magazines that can be purchased per issue and on a subscription basis.

Formerly exclusive to iOS, Snapseed is now available on Android and makes various advanced image editing functions easy to achieve.

Pocket Informant turns your tablet into a fully integrated dayplanner, complete with the ring binder graphic and multiple sections.

Lilypad HD is a floating instant messaging app that lets you chat to your Google Talk, MSN and Facebook friends without leaving the app you're currently using.

avast! Mobile Security is the app of choice for power users. It includes a malware scanner and advanced anti-theft features, and it's the only app that has features specifically for rooted devices, such as a firewall and uninstall protection.

Feedly is a magazine-style news reading app that aggregates content from RSS feeds. Until Flipboard supports 10in tablets and a landscape view, Feedly will do nicely in its place.

Pulse is another news app that presents all of the latest stories as a selection of image thumbnails. It also comes with some cool homescreen widgets.

StumbleUpon helps you "stumble" through the internet and find articles you may be interested in on websites you may not have discovered yet.

Stick It! lets you run videos in a small window so you can continue using another app at the same time. It supports all of the major video file formats and multiple video instances.

A must-have for musos, Rumpus helps you discover new music and learn more about your existing favourites. You can also buy tracks for $US1.29 each.

Widely-renowned as the best video player for Android, MX Player supports all of the major video codecs (and most of the minor ones, too), and supports hardware multi-core decoding.

The wider form factor means tablets aren't the easiest devices to type on, but SwiftKey 3 Tablet takes much of the pain out of it thanks to the superior auto-correct and word predictions that get better the more you use it.

Perfect if you're using Chrome on your desktop, the Android client lets you sync tabs so you can have the same sessions running on your tablet. It also supports unlimited tabs and has an incognito mode.

Tablified Market HD is a custom app store that only shows tablet-optimised apps. All of the apps link through to the official Play Store, so it's really more of a front-end.

Evernote is a powerful note syncing service with clients for all the main mobile and desktop platforms. It supports text photos and voice recordings, multiple notebooks, and OCR for finding text in images.

With over a million books in the Kindle store, you won't run out of things to read. Kindle clients on all the major mobile and desktop platforms means you can also read your eBooks on practically any device.

Get the low-down on your favourite actors, directors, movies and TV shows with the beautifully-designed IMDB app. It includes trailers, news and a schedule of movies that are coming soon.

Run multiple floating browser windows on top of another app using the handy Floating Browser Flux app. It supports 2-10 browser windows at once, depending on your device.

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