Chegg

Imagine renting your textbooks from your phone as your professor reviews the syllabus. The Web’s top textbook rental site Chegg boasts millions of titles, free returns and even promises to plant a tree each time you rent. With the free Chegg app for iPhone, users are able to instantly compare rental and retail pricing, rent titles directly and even track the status of your shipments.
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Skype

The Web’s top software app for voice and video chat, Skype is a particularly nice low-cost alternative for students who find themselves making International calls. With free Skype-to-Skype calls and cheap rates on calls to mobile or landlines, the service is even available for mobile users on a good number of Android, BlackBerry and Nokia devices, as well as Apple’s iPhone 3G or 3GS. With video-conferencing features that support up to five users in one group chat and audio-conferences with up to 25 participants, study group never seemed easier.
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