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

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.

mine charges off my usb bus (mb pro) but it takes a long time, like 5+ hours

Okay, for starters there's a bunch of subscription services that are worth getting on for ipad access.

The ones I use are Netflix and Hulu Plus. Both stream easily and well.

Magazines and newspapers where subscription translates to free download: New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Wired, New Yorker, Economist. This'll take care of you for the foreseeable future for reading.

CloudReaders is a free comic reader that doubles as a good pdf viewer.

Dragon offers a dictation service that's kind of astonishing; it's free but requires connection to the web. You can export dictation as a text document and mail it. No good for multiple voices but surprisingly on point for a single voice.

Dropbox and Twitter work fine on iPad and you wanna get the apps if you use those services.

Flipboard is good to use for magazine style reading for blogs and facebook.

Display Link is a free service that requires a download to your PC but then allows you to use your pad as a second monitor.

Skype is like thirty bucks for the year and then your pad is an all purpose phone as long as you're in wifi range. it's VERY handy.

Crosswords is like ten bucks and gives you access to dozens of papers daily.

Crunchyroll is a free Japanese TV streaming service

If you haven't already, get Find iPhone; you can use a PC to find the pad wherever it is geographically

PS Express is free and fine for the most basic cropping/redeye camera work

Games I will Recommend: Dungeon Raid, Cut the Rope, NatlCapitls, Zarik, Infinity Blade, iCut, Stupid Zombie, Paper Train, Colorbind, 7 Words, Smack Gugi, The Heist, Enso Dot, Zentomino, Moxie
Most of these are free or cheap.

We just got one of these.

The British Museum has a pretty amazing free app with tons of scanned 19th Century books, including some with awesome illustrations.

It's all too much for me ATM -- the iPad in general.

ipad owners: do any of you read long documents, e.g. ebooks on these things? how much worse is it than e.g. kindle for that? what is the current thinking on whether these things will get hi-res iphone type displays?

The current retina display is great for comics magazines newspaper books... I dont notice any strain but i have admittedly kinda given up

I use the Kindle app all the time and it's better than the Kindle in every way except the display quality. Thinking on Retina display is that it's probably summer 2012, but they just bumped the MBA in under a year, so who knows?

There is some eyestrain when you read on the ipad just like there is when you read on a computer monitor, so it probably makes more sense for articles and short stories than for books.

I've read at least six books on the iPad, most in the Kindle app, but a few in Stanza too.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who gets eyestrain from reading from an lcd monitor but otherwise it's a perfectly good way to read books.

I've read a bunch of articles & it's been good for that because I can send the marked up articles right to editors (these are referee reports). I haven't read any books on it yet.

I read my knitting patterns on it. Also articles. I am going to read books on'em in due time. I love it. No problems whatsoever with eye strain

pdfs euler? what app do you use to mark them up?

GoodReader. It's ok & someone could do better, but this works for now. The markups are embedded in the doc so people on other machines can read them, which is obviously crucial.

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)