Teachers, trainers, and students deserve all the respect and support they can get and the app Reflector gives them unique help. Unfortunately, the set up instructions for the app are insufficient, so Nancy Carroll Gravley improves on those instructions so the teachers, trainers, and students can use it.

Sometimes an iOS app is so nicely done for a particular discipline that it becomes, perhaps, the quintessential app of its kind.  Nav Clock is one of those. No pilot, astronomer, photographer, journalist, hiker or anyone interested in location coordinates, time and weather should be without it.

Mophie’s Juice Pack Helium battery case for iPhone 5 is sleek, thin, and affords good protection. It nearly doubles the iPhone battery life, and it has a Lightning connector approved by Apple.

Like comics? Vern Seward points out three great comics readers for iOS in this week's Free on iTunes. NARR8, Emanata Comics, and Marvel Comics.

The IGearUnlimited iPad mini Case might be the one for you. It's expensive, and well built, but it has another problem that  you may or may not be able to live with. David Winograd tells all about after using it for a few weeks.

In the current Internet threat environment, a security package that scans for incoming malware is essential. However, if security software is too technical or confusing, customers, especially those new to the Mac, won't use it. Intego has set out to change all that.
 

The Platforma Convertible Messenger Bag for iPad from Strotter won an Editor’s Choice Award at Macworld/iWorld 2013 because of it’s unique design and fine craftsmanship. Its design goes where no messenger bag has gone before.

ZooGue prides itself on well crafted, useful, and attractive products and the Prodigy cases for iPad and iPad mini stays the course. The iPad case works with all versions of the iPad and the Prodigy cases maintain a secure hold due to magnets.

Clarm for iOS is a Universal app that features date, time, weather and alarms, all overlaid on drop-dead gorgeous photographic backgrounds. However, for a beautiful and simple app, it also has several serious weaknesses.

E-magazines have grown up. In this installment of Free on iTunes, Vern Seward takes a look at 3 free publications no iOS device should be without: TRVL, TNW, and AUX.