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

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

ipad 3 march 7, nothing about 2 price drop

uh, that 1 gig per sec element is news to me; that's sick.

thanks dudes

Thanks to

- iThoughts HD (for Freemind-like mindmaps)
- TouchDraw (for Visio-like flowcharts and org charts)
- iMockups (for Balsamiq-like screen mockups)
- Notes Plus
- iDesk
- wireless keyboard

my workflow at work is suddenly insanely awesome.

Also picked up Notability the other day. Looks like a really good competitor to Notes Plus and Note Taker HD, but I need to play with it a bit more.

love flipbook

er flipboard

Paper is really good. The simplicity makes it easy to just open and draw stuff. No pen thicknesses, no colour pickers etc. The colour tool (watercolour brush thing) is fiddly though, and the provided colours aren't labelled, so people like me draw orange grass.

cloudon - onlive stripped down and easier to use

I'm after an app that scrapes out the videos from my Facebook wall and will play them in turn as a background process. Does anyone know if an app like this exists?

Anyone who fancies a drawing app, get Procreate. Zero lag on ipad 3, ridiculously comprehensive brush customisation, lovely interface, e.g. sliders for brush size & opacity unobtrusively right there on the screen. Sketchbook is pretty well thought out too but it has slight lag and the ui just feels slightly less friendly, although it's hardly thrown together. ArtStudio actually wins on the toolset - dodge/burn, blur, gradient fill, select tools, all missing from procreate & sketchbook, although you can kinda fake them with smudging, opacity & layer effects - but the ui is cartoony and unwieldy. iDraw has massive massive lag.

otm, procreate is really quite incredible

Any recommendations on a text editor with Dropbox integration that can open text files with any extension, not just txt? In particular I want to edit Tex files (not run Tex, just edit the files.

notesy does that (just checked it will open a tex file)

cool, thanks!

i don't use it for serious editing (ON IPHONE) so not sure if it's up to that

yeah not really into serious editing ON IPAD just on flights etc I might wanna tweak my beamer nahmean?

caek, dl'ed this & synched it with nv on my mbp via Dropbox but don't see how to access my full Dropbox file system. Is this doable?

it's a bit hacky, but under settings > dropbox, you can change the folder there. you have to type the name.

it seems like it's kind of geared to using NV ON IPHONE (i.e. flat directories)

yeah I dig that, have been using simplenote that way for a while, but I sometimes just wanna f with tex files on the run too. The hack will do!

could I also add some kind of symbolic link in my notesy folder to my other db folders that I want to access in notesy? my unix majick is weak

yeah, that works. just checked.

e.g. open up terminal and do something like

ln -s ~/research/writing/importantpaper/ ~/Dropbox/notes/importantpaper

where you change the two paths as necessary

first path is the directory you keep your paper in, second path is going to show up as a subdirectory of your notesy db.

it will also show PDFs in that directory. it lists them as "not a note", but if you tap them it shows you the PDF