Updating iPad and iPhone apps

When these devices first appeared, I went crazy and bought and downloaded scores of apps. I use very few of them now.
However, I receive constant reminders in iTunes that I have 20, 30 - even 50 apps that have updates ready.
There is little point in updating apps that I do not use.
Is there any way of culling the unused apps and parking them somewhere on the home computer so that they no longer appear on the mobile device and no longer provoke update reminders?
Who knows whether I may decide to reconsider some of them later. I do not wish to delete them and have to buy them a second time.
David Amies
I am using Mac OS 10.7.2, iPad and iPhone 1 with IOS 5

When connected to your computer's iTunes you should be able to do File > Transfer Purchases to copy any iTunes and App Store content over to your computer that isn't already on there. You can then delete them from your iPad :
Press and hold any of the apps and after a couple of seconds or so they should start to shake. Then press the 'x' in the left corner to delete the ones that you don't want, and when you've finished deleting press the home button so as to stop the shaking. You cannot delete any of the Apple built-in apps e.g. iPod, App Store, Game Centre etc. If you don't get the 'x' on any of the apps that you've downloaded then check that Settings > General > Restrictions > Deleting Apps isn't set 'off'
Also as long as the apps remain available in the store, and you use the same iTunes account as you originally used to buy/download them, then you should be able to re-download them for free : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519 . Plus there is the iCloud

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