Evernote

Evernote just feels like it has been around forever so it probably has! It is one of those staple apps with a massive following.  It's not a pretty app but it is definitely practical. Evernote is a supernote and organiser tool that works on (1) the web, (2) on PC/Mac desktop apps and (3) on mobile apps so basically you can get Evernote everywhere. Notes are stored in notebooks in the Evernote Cloud. 

ClickView

ClickView is a tool for schools that is used to capture and save TV programmes to show in classrooms. 

Last summer about sixteen staff attended a one-hour in-house training session with a ClickView trainer. During the session we were introduced to ClickView's new web interface, ClickView 24-7, which allows all staff in a ClickView school to save and edit their own footage from any TV programme broadcast 'free to air' in the last two weeks. This footage is then available indefinitely (which I guess means as long as the school continues to subscribe to the service). You could take a two minute segment from a news bulletin, an entire one hour programme, or even create your own playlists comprised of different extracts of different programmes.

Microsoft iOS Apps

Until a couple of days ago, you needed a paid subscription to be able to create or edit documents using Word, PowerPoint and Excel on the iPad. Although the Microsoft iOS apps were free to download they weren't much use to anyone who didn't have an Office 365 subscription. These subscriptions don't come cheap (they start at £59.99 pa) so I imagine that the user base for the iOS apps was small.

Things may shift a little after updates to these apps last Thursday, 6th November 2014.