iPad apps S/D - might as well get this started

Various of my coworkers have been waving them around today and yesterday. Wondering how much more they get paid than me that they can afford to buy every new thing Apple brings out. Looks pretty shiny, but for almost 600 quid I'd like it to do more than 300 quid gadgets, not less

(leaving thread now, carry on with your scheduled Apple adoration)

got mine yesterday. feeling v magical and revolutionary right now.

only disappointment so far is ibooks - there are no books licensed for the uk yet, only copyright free project gutenberg ones.

there are no books licensed for the uk yet

Let's see how big that "yet" ends up being. I bet six months.

i only checked last night, but apparently there are some up this morning: http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/37285/Paid-e-books-now-live-in-Apples-UK-iBooks-store

I was just in iBooks and there non-Gutenberg books for sale in there.
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Well now I look like a pranny.

wait what are these for again?

just look how happy owning one can make you:

http://cdni.wired.co.uk/659x425/a_c/1_10.jpg

This thing is too damn reflective

so if you can't read it outside the main idea is for something to read the net while lazing around the house? that'd be nice i guess but i have better things to spend £400 on right now

Guardian eyewitness app is great. Instapaper is a must-have

had a play with one today in-store, very nice

a lot heavier than I expected tho, must be pretty tiring holding it for prolonged periods

would love one but not at the current price

I had a go on one my boss brought in the other week, and the first thing that jumped out at me was how grotty his screen already was with smeared fingerprints.

He did show me a nifty looking Adobe app, some kind of Photoshop/painting thing, I forget what it was called but it was a bit like Brushes (which I have on my tooch).

Cant see myself ever having use for one of these (esp as a pc/netbook replacement - how do you type on it? Hold it with one hand and jab with the other? Sit it awkwardly on yr knee and type normally?).

Mind you those music apps Chris posted up top are killer, and THAT I find interesting, esp the air harp!

my SO wants one for bday but her nerd frenz warn her abt no flash. big deal? not? wsup ilx...

No flash, no biggie. I've been using one this week, very nice, although I can't wait for the iPhone 4 resolution screen to make it to the iPad.

is she really addicted to those "shoot a gopher" banner ads? if so, you may have a problem.

does evony use flash?

Was out today in Belgium. So we bought one today. lolz

hahaha @ sl0cki... whackamole.

I think this has been raised already - but what a pain it is to have pitchfork reviews systematically truncated on Instapaper. What is the deal? some scheme to generate further traffic?

- Flipboard (for flicking through your news feeds and social menagerie like a magazine)
- Reeder (for actual Google Reader news reading)
- Note Taker HD (for writing notes (better with a stylus))
- Pleco (for learning Chinese (okay maybe this one has niche appeal))
- Wikipanion Free/Lite/whatever

Zite is pretty great; good at finding me new stuff to read, not just making prettier boxes to fill with links I've already seen on Twitter as Flipboard does

Oooh, ta.

TraxPad is great for dj'ing. Very similar to Traktor.

Mine is coming today. I've set aside about a hundred bucks to app this fucker up; could I get a handful of top ten must gets?

garageband!

Really enjoying Korg iElectribe.

^^me too. except how do i get what i made into garageband?

Garageband, for sure. Very fun.
Zite (free magazine-style rss feeder type thing)
Bing (free, and surprisingly good)
Cloudreaders (free comic book/PDF app)
Netflix (free with subscription, works very well)
Friendly (vastly prefer this to the official Facebook app)

more when I get home.

cool. i really need some help loading this thing up; mostly got it to read comix, watch netflix, do work on site.

is there an official facebook app?

tunein radio & the final hours of portal 2 are both good too

Friendly for Facebook sucks, I hate it. It's hella ugly and doesn't work properly. But then, neither do any of the other Facebook apps for iPad. I just started using MyPad and it's crashy as hell but looks a HELL of a lot better than Friendly. Can FB just come up with a version of their iPhone app already?!

For comics, I paid for Comic Zeal and it's awesome. a whole bunch of great features and shit looks fantastic in landscape mode.

my favorite social media tings include ShowYou - which scrapes your Facebook & Twitter feeds and displays all the videos your friends post on this gigantic scrollable wall. Just touch once to get a closer look and touch again to play. Very cool. Flipboard I like but is lacking, esp when it only goes back a few hours in my feed. Keep loading, dammit!!

For RSS things I LOVE Pulse. Killer UI makes this one the best. It limits the amount of feeds you can add which is a bit irritating, but I've got enough on there to make using it worthwhile.

Zite is full of UI bugs. Bing is not available here because Microsoft is fucked in the head.

Note Taker HD is really good for taking notes. Flipboard is worthwhile for photo streams and Instagram and stuff. tvGuide is buggy but useful (I don't know how many countries it's good for).

more?

instapaper, reeder, itunes remote, eboy fixpix (try the demo first:)

crunchyroll for watching animes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_btMqXGGyUk

That was bad

maven browser free today. worth a try for the side by side screen mode at least

I just got one. I'm pretty sure it's awesome but I have no idea what to do with it yet!

Spread cream cheese on it.

lol

I'm get some of these apps. Any other new ones?

netlfix if you have a subscription to it

i'll post a list for you shortly e. I've gone from trepidation to obsessed with this lil gadget; it's my go to for everything and it took about a month.

also you can get soem free books if you get the kindle app

Yeah got the kindle app already :)

Thanks Forks

dont get "matching animals" it sucks!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kids-can-match-animals-vocal/id393993415?mt=8

re. games, I have been playing the wazoooooooo out of Puzzle Quest 2 on this puppy

re. work, simplenote + notational velocity + dropbox, as someone mentioned on this board somewhere, is great. & really Dropbox is great since it gives the iPad a file system, even if you can't really manipulate that file system on the iPad itself.

I am still looking for a good way to keep about 10,000 papers + books organized on this thing, though, since that was the main reason I bought it & yet have not figured out how to do this well.

Off-topic re:apps, but I really wish I could charge this thing via the USB bus on my desktop machine.

*Although I haven't used it since it was updated, and it sounds like iOS user "DS9Sisko" has had some trouble with post update. But it's free so worth a try.

by manually move you mean connect the ipad to the computer with a wire? i have a big library that changes all the time, so i would really really really like to avoid that.

Oh, also you can just use Google Drive. No wires needed.

I haven't found a proper PDF management solution for myself yet, so I'll be interested in opinions on this.

However, from test runs and temporary solutions, I like PDFexpert better than Goodreader - decent annotation, handles dropbox well, can chuck things to it from safari, comfortable to read in.

I can see upthread that markers settled on iannotate. I didn't try that.

For reading/research more generally… if I find something on my laptop, I'll get it to the ipad using instapaper for simpler articles or Evernote's web clipper (+ premium account for offline access) for more complicated things. Evernote premium also has that magical thing where you take a picture of a book page (screenshot it in ios), then upload it & it'll OCR it and make it searchable. Amazing for magpie quote collecting.

huh, haven't used goodreader since updating to iOS 7 but it's been my standby for years, good dropbox sync, good enough annotation (nothing beats paper for ripping into your latest referee job imo but it's good enough)

have been disappointed with iOS pdf options, in short; bought this thing thinking it would be an epic portable library but I dunno

I use the dropbox and acrobat apps for this stuff

I can see upthread that markers settled on iannotate. I didn't try that.

fwiw this is no longer true although apparently it once was

pdf expert for me

DO NOT buy it right now though. they're putting out a new version for ios 7 and it'll be a separate app

http://readdle.com/blog/2013/11/announcing-pdf-expert-5/

your choices as far as i could tell when i researched this shit was iannotate or pdf expert if you wanted something that was a little more fully featured. good reader came up too i guess but whatever

markers, please could you bump this when pdf expert gets released?

yes

Is there a way to dump my old ipod bootlegged mp3s on to an ipad?

http://readdle.com/products/pdfexpert5/

haven't bought it yet, but there's a good chance i will

ty

http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-pdf-manager-editor-ipad/

so flipboard is eating zite, which sucks cause I really liked zite and don't really like flipboard

I said exactly the same thing on Twitter and the Flipboard CEO was nicely responsive:

https://twitter.com/NickyD/status/441343748585185281

feel like my 2nd gen iPad was fine 12 months ago but now cant do anything w/o crashing

that's interesting alba

And here's an interview with the Zite CEO:

http://readwrite.com/2014/03/05/why-zite-flipboard-acquisition-cnn-perfect-news-reading-experience

i threw my ipads in the trash yesterday (gen 2 and 3)

can we talk about office for ipad? what do you guys use on the desktop for word processing and what if anything do you use on your tablet (probably an ipad)? right now i have pages on there, but i don't use it.

feel like my 2nd gen iPad was fine 12 months ago but now cant do anything w/o crashing

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, March 6, 2014 11:53 AM

put 7.1 on it if you haven't already. beyond that, the thing came out in 2011, so. (i am aware that they were still selling it until very recently)

I use Pages on both; the icloud sync is actually p. good. Will try Office, but saving to cloud from the mac is a bit fiddley

you can actually only read w/o an office 365 sub

maybe another feature too, but no editing or creation

don't most people still fuck with office though? like, if i write something and want to use the word processing features of a word processor, i'm gonna wanna use office if that shit's to be compatable w/ everyone else's setup? (say, if i were to write a manuscript or something)

WTF Line. I got an iPad for my parents because all their friends were using Line. Turns out you need a smartphone to create an account OR add friends to your list because they intentionally crippled their iPad app. THANKS, DICKS.

that sucks. I don't like line but my mpq alliance uses it and it's also where the mpq meta-alliance stuff happens (truces etc)