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

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.

feedly!!

i like much better than flipboard, pulse, etc

I've only had an iPad for 4 days, but Zite is my favorite news aggregator / personal magazine so far.

Yeah, I've tried a lot and Zite's my favourite.

Any good Tower Defense for the iPad besides Plants vs Zombies?

a couple dozen. i'd start with anomaly, which is an inverse tower defense

The geodefense games are good if you like vector graphics.

Fieldrunners.

so I got 1 of these w/ keyboard and am gonna use it as my 'primary computer' (I have a v. old laptop to use when necessary but my life involves v. little non-text content creation / programs that can't be ipaded)

onlive is...amazing? how is this even legal?

ya that program kinda weirds me out that it even exists

gj buying an ipad 3 weeks before the new ones come out i guess

I bought a refurbished ipad 2 for $419 because I needed a tablet right now for day-to-day stuff and I did not think that whatever money I would have saved when the price goes down a tad was worth not having an ipad now. I would have also bought a refurbished ipad 2 'when the new ones come out'.

wtf at onlive desktop.
when did this go live?

1) what is onlive
2) what is the latest on ipad3 release/ipad2 price drop

onlive streams a windows desktop to your ipad, a desktop w/ word, powerpoint, excel and a mouse

the pay version also lets you use internet explorer, with which (I think?) you could use flash stuff

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/technology/personaltech/onlive-desktop-plus-puts-windows-7-on-the-ipad-in-blazing-speed-state-of-the-art.html?_r=2&nl=technology&emc=cta1&pagewanted=all

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)