Top 10 iPhone and iPad Apps of the Year 2011

iOS devices can't play many media types out of the box. At one time, you had to learn to accept that or get used to transcoding your media files - a time-consuming and tedious process at the best of times. That was until apps like AVPlayerHD came around.This iPad video player app (iPhone version also available) lets you dump all kinds of video files onto your tablet for immediate playback. Yes, it includes top formats like MKV and Xvid, and yes you can transfer them through iTunes. Videos have to be transferred as AVPlayerHD documents, but you can wave goodbye to transcoding.