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Getting my first iPad on Friday... What apps should I buy?
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they're about the same to me. photoshop might be better. iPhoto and how it updates the library every to,e is annoying.
the ipad is not exactly a blank slate when it is sold.. It could still be used without apps. besides, aren't there some ipad specific apps that are not available on the Iphone? getting real user recommendations is very helpful as it is impossible to keep up with the over 200K apps in the store.
From what I've read iPhoto has a much better interface for photo viewing/tweaking, but Photoshop Touch does have layers and some basic photoshop tools like lasso/paintbrush/smudge if you want that kind of ability.
Big limitation on Photoshop Touch was it had a relatively small resolution output while iPhoto can output at the native res of the photos.
Could be wrong on details though, I just read about them a bit since I sold my iPad 2 to upgrade.
Go on iTunes > Apps > iPad > Top Right
-Apps Starter Kit
-Games Starter Kit
-Essentials
-Great Free Apps
excellent choices
-Apps Starter Kit
-Games Starter Kit
-Essentials
-Great Free Apps
excellent choices
This....
Kinda on edge about sky gambles. Namco knew how to make good flight games (Ace combat 4,5, belkan war) but ever since their latest game was call-of-dutified and all the charm of the series was lost. Such a shame. It had so much potential.
Infinity blade on the other hand will be good as always.
Calvetica and Agenda are both significant improvements over the built-in calendar, and they run off the same data, so no worries about syncing.
NAVIGON is the best GPS app, but is quite spendy.
If you like podcasts, you need to check out Instacast.
For reading purchased eBooks, iBooks and Kindle are both very good. For reading RSS feeds Reeder is the best Google Reader client. And for reading longish articles that you came across via your desktop computer's web browser, the old favorite is Instapaper and the newcomer is Readability.
Due is a wonderful reminder app whose primary trick is that it will keep nudging you until you actually do whatever task, or admit that you're rescheduling it for later (think, "to-do's with snoozing"), while at the other end of the scale, OmniFocus is an awesome, hardcore, to-do app in the GTD vein; it has iOS and Mac clients, with syncing -- they're very spendy, but worth every penny if your mind works that way.
For an office suite, you could do much worse than Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
RedLaser scans barcodes and tells you what they mean.
If you travel much (or your SO does), Flight Update Pro is an excellent way to keep track of flights.
There are a lot of good photography apps for iOS (if you're curious, check out the LifeInLoFi and iPhoneography websites), but you can get pretty far with the built-in camera app and iPhoto.
Tweetbot is my favorite of the Twitter clients.
Day One is very good for keeping a journal/diary, syncs to DropBox, and there's a Mac client available too.
The Yelp client is quite good - crowd-sourced recommendations for local restaurants/shops/etc. become all the more useful when the thing you're looking at knows where you are right now.
If you get a lot of packages via UPS/FedEx/etc., then Delivery Status is pretty cool for tracking them (and there's a nice dashboard widget for the Mac).
1Password and DropBox should be on everyone's computers and iOS devices -- 1Password stores all your other passwords in an extremely secure database, protected by... 1 password; so if you can remember that one, it takes care of everything else for you. And DropBox does a lovely transparent job of syncing one folder between your Macs, PCs, and iOS devices. Lots of other software on iOS makes use of DropBox for syncing and backup (including 1Password).
If you subscribe to Netflix streaming, you really want the Netflix app, which will let you watch things anywhere; and if you pay attention to movies ("who was that actor in that movie with that actress who was in that other movie?"), the IMDb is very handy.
If you're the least bit interested in astronomy, Star Walk and Solar Walk are excellent.
As far as games go... If you're a fan of the newer style of strategy board games (aka eurogames), there are a lot of fabulous choices, like Carcassonne, Tigris & Euphrates, Puerto Rico, Caylus, and Ticket to Ride. If you like chess, try Shredder Chess. I've tried a lot of tower defense games, and I still keep coming back to Sentinel 3. If FPS's are your thing, try N.O.V.A. 2 and Rainbow Six. For "bullet hell" shoot-em-ups (think, the great-great-grandchild of Space Invaders, on steroids), anything by Cave is great, but I particularly like Espgaluda II. Zombie Gunship won't show off your hardware very well, since it spends most of its time emulating a night vision display, but it's pretty addictive/immersive (simple plot: you're in a gunship, shoot the zombies). On the other hand, both Infinity Blade (and its sequels) and Real Racing 2 HD will look gorgeous on your new iPad, and are a lot of fun to play.
And, finally, for finding other apps, AppShopper is essential, and you might find AppStart useful too.
NAVIGON is the best GPS app, but is quite spendy.
If you like podcasts, you need to check out Instacast.
For reading purchased eBooks, iBooks and Kindle are both very good. For reading RSS feeds Reeder is the best Google Reader client. And for reading longish articles that you came across via your desktop computer's web browser, the old favorite is Instapaper and the newcomer is Readability.
Due is a wonderful reminder app whose primary trick is that it will keep nudging you until you actually do whatever task, or admit that you're rescheduling it for later (think, "to-do's with snoozing"), while at the other end of the scale, OmniFocus is an awesome, hardcore, to-do app in the GTD vein; it has iOS and Mac clients, with syncing -- they're very spendy, but worth every penny if your mind works that way.
For an office suite, you could do much worse than Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
RedLaser scans barcodes and tells you what they mean.
If you travel much (or your SO does), Flight Update Pro is an excellent way to keep track of flights.
There are a lot of good photography apps for iOS (if you're curious, check out the LifeInLoFi and iPhoneography websites), but you can get pretty far with the built-in camera app and iPhoto.
Tweetbot is my favorite of the Twitter clients.
Day One is very good for keeping a journal/diary, syncs to DropBox, and there's a Mac client available too.
The Yelp client is quite good - crowd-sourced recommendations for local restaurants/shops/etc. become all the more useful when the thing you're looking at knows where you are right now.
If you get a lot of packages via UPS/FedEx/etc., then Delivery Status is pretty cool for tracking them (and there's a nice dashboard widget for the Mac).
1Password and DropBox should be on everyone's computers and iOS devices -- 1Password stores all your other passwords in an extremely secure database, protected by... 1 password; so if you can remember that one, it takes care of everything else for you. And DropBox does a lovely transparent job of syncing one folder between your Macs, PCs, and iOS devices. Lots of other software on iOS makes use of DropBox for syncing and backup (including 1Password).
If you subscribe to Netflix streaming, you really want the Netflix app, which will let you watch things anywhere; and if you pay attention to movies ("who was that actor in that movie with that actress who was in that other movie?"), the IMDb is very handy.
If you're the least bit interested in astronomy, Star Walk and Solar Walk are excellent.
As far as games go... If you're a fan of the newer style of strategy board games (aka eurogames), there are a lot of fabulous choices, like Carcassonne, Tigris & Euphrates, Puerto Rico, Caylus, and Ticket to Ride. If you like chess, try Shredder Chess. I've tried a lot of tower defense games, and I still keep coming back to Sentinel 3. If FPS's are your thing, try N.O.V.A. 2 and Rainbow Six. For "bullet hell" shoot-em-ups (think, the great-great-grandchild of Space Invaders, on steroids), anything by Cave is great, but I particularly like Espgaluda II. Zombie Gunship won't show off your hardware very well, since it spends most of its time emulating a night vision display, but it's pretty addictive/immersive (simple plot: you're in a gunship, shoot the zombies). On the other hand, both Infinity Blade (and its sequels) and Real Racing 2 HD will look gorgeous on your new iPad, and are a lot of fun to play.
And, finally, for finding other apps, AppShopper is essential, and you might find AppStart useful too.
Heck I have had an iPad already and have had an iPhone since day 1 and this thread showed me a couple things that even I didn't know about.
Good suggestions
Good suggestions
Just checking,
I have pages on my iphone (initially thought it would be useful for doing minor word editing/processing, but turned out to be way more hassle than it is worth, namely because of the small screen). Is it possible to port it over onto my ipad? Are they compatible, or is there an ipad version of pages which is different from the iphone version?
If so, what options do I have?
Am I allowed to have 2 copies (1 on iphone, 1 on ipad) without fear of any legal repercussions? Or can I only have 1 copy on either one of the ios devices, and need to pay double to download it twice? Or is pages stuck on my iphone?
Same goes for other apps I have already paid for, as well as any apps I may consider purchasing in the future (such as the rest of the iworks suite).
Thanks.
I have pages on my iphone (initially thought it would be useful for doing minor word editing/processing, but turned out to be way more hassle than it is worth, namely because of the small screen). Is it possible to port it over onto my ipad? Are they compatible, or is there an ipad version of pages which is different from the iphone version?
If so, what options do I have?
Am I allowed to have 2 copies (1 on iphone, 1 on ipad) without fear of any legal repercussions? Or can I only have 1 copy on either one of the ios devices, and need to pay double to download it twice? Or is pages stuck on my iphone?
Same goes for other apps I have already paid for, as well as any apps I may consider purchasing in the future (such as the rest of the iworks suite).
Thanks.
Just checking,
I have pages on my iphone (initially thought it would be useful for doing minor word editing/processing, but turned out to be way more hassle than it is worth, namely because of the small screen). Is it possible to port it over onto my ipad? Are they compatible, or is there an ipad version of pages which is different from the iphone version?
If so, what options do I have?
Am I allowed to have 2 copies (1 on iphone, 1 on ipad) without fear of any legal repercussions? Or can I only have 1 copy on either one of the ios devices, and need to pay double to download it twice? Or is pages stuck on my iphone?
Same goes for other apps I have already paid for, as well as any apps I may consider purchasing in the future (such as the rest of the iworks suite).
Thanks.
All the Apple apps are universal and have interfaces designed for both iPhone and iPad. They will just work. Same for many other apps, they are denoted by this little plus logo:
You are allowed to install your apps onto any device you authorise your iTunes account on (I think there is a limit of 5 devices).
So basically, you don't need to worry about it!
I use ToDo (also a GTD method app). There is a desktop version and a mobile version and they sync OTA as long as they are both running.
I've been playing with MotionX GPS for hiking on the phone. Can't wait to try it on the iPad though I think I will have to re-buy it as I see an HD version on their site
Thanks for the info on PS vs iPhoto. I may have to play with both. I remember trying iPhoto when it first came out and it would delete the actual photos on your hard drive when you deleted one out of your catalogs. It wasn't what I was looking for, so I bought iViewMedia Pro (looooonnnngggg before MS bought them) after trying what seemed like every catalog app out there. I am still using iViewMedia though my version is now a few years old and I think I am stuck at this one.
I've been playing with MotionX GPS for hiking on the phone. Can't wait to try it on the iPad though I think I will have to re-buy it as I see an HD version on their site
Thanks for the info on PS vs iPhoto. I may have to play with both. I remember trying iPhoto when it first came out and it would delete the actual photos on your hard drive when you deleted one out of your catalogs. It wasn't what I was looking for, so I bought iViewMedia Pro (looooonnnngggg before MS bought them) after trying what seemed like every catalog app out there. I am still using iViewMedia though my version is now a few years old and I think I am stuck at this one.
BarMax CA
BarMax NY
BarMax MBE
3DNasalVista
Spray by EZi APP
These are all decent apps, give them a try.
BarMax NY
BarMax MBE
3DNasalVista
Spray by EZi APP
These are all decent apps, give them a try.
Ah, so when I get my ipad, I can just go to the app store, download pages, and I won't be billed for it? That's nice to know. Can't wait to try out airvideo.
16 gb iPad Apps
Reading Apps:
KINDLE This is actually my favorite app. I use it to read all my kindle stuff, plus pdf's and its free!
(I actually prefer this for .pdf files, the page scrolling mechanism is the best I've found but I would LOVE suggestions)
GOODREADER Super easy to get content on your iPad with this!(Not completely sold on this, it's good, but speed for rendering pages as they change is MOST important to me)
iBooks (meh...)
Everything Else:
DROPBOX!!!!
Fruit Ninja HD
Reckless Racing 2
Facebook
OnLive Viewer (OnLive Desktop / eventually OnLive app)
Sling Player
FIND IPHONE
GTA 3
FLEX PLAYER
HULU PLUS
NETFLIX
ITUNES U (AMAZING!)
PAGES
Reading Apps:
KINDLE This is actually my favorite app. I use it to read all my kindle stuff, plus pdf's and its free!
(I actually prefer this for .pdf files, the page scrolling mechanism is the best I've found but I would LOVE suggestions)
GOODREADER Super easy to get content on your iPad with this!(Not completely sold on this, it's good, but speed for rendering pages as they change is MOST important to me)
iBooks (meh...)
Everything Else:
DROPBOX!!!!
Fruit Ninja HD
Reckless Racing 2
OnLive Viewer (OnLive Desktop / eventually OnLive app)
Sling Player
FIND IPHONE
GTA 3
FLEX PLAYER
HULU PLUS
NETFLIX
ITUNES U (AMAZING!)
PAGES
Is the 'Daily' app worth the subscription? What is the free alternative? or Any other mags or newspaper app worth subscribing to?
Myself, apart from flipboard, I just have a rss feed linking to all my frequented news sites. Loads faster, and I find they tend to be updated much more quickly.
I've had very little "play time" on Photoshop Touch but it does have more features like what what was mentioned above. If you are looking to simply touch up pictures iPhoto is super simple and has quite a few excellent "no brainer" tools. The ability to change change the shade of blue in the sky with a touch or the brushes to lighten, darken, sharpen, etc a certain area of the picture work really well. You are not going to be able to crop in layers from other pictures or draw in/clone things with iPhoto but for the everyday user iPhoto is the best.
Even if you need some of the features of Photoshop Touch, there is still a place for iPhoto on your iPad.
Is the iPad version of Plants vs Zombies still missing content found in the iPhone version? I remember a few months ago my wife bought the phone version when it was on sale for $.99 and I saw the iPad version had a ton of bad reviews for missing minigames and also the Zen Garden (which is a pretty big deal for continuing to play after you have beat all the levels). Does anyone know if the HD version is still missing content and if they are working on updating soon? I would be willing to play that game again once I get my first iPad tomorrow, but absolutely not if it is missing anything for more money. Otherwise I guess I will just see how terrible the iPhone version displays on the iPad if I get the craving to play it again.
Literally, best possible post on this topic. All the others (including mine) should be deleted and these recommendations should be stickied and we should just have CarlJ update
Let me just emphasize the need for "AppShopper." It's how I get most of my games free or $0.99 instead of $3, $5, even $12. Once you figure out how to use it and track the apps that interest you, you will save a LOT of money (that's IF you are into buying quality apps. doesn't make a difference if you are a cheapskate and only buy free apps
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Is it true that there is compatibility issues on iPhoto, Pages and Numbers between the iOs and Mac? For example, can I use the Numbers I created on the Mac to the Numbers on iOs and vice versa?
Literally, best possible post on this topic. All the others (including mine) should be deleted and these recommendations should be stickied and we should just have CarlJ update
Agreed... way to CarlJ that was excellent. Now everyone else, do what he did
