iPad Apps Thread

[ob81]

From the looks of that macstories.com site (so far at least) Apps are ranging from as small as 4mb (Brushes) to 20mb (Yahoo! entertainment).

I have to assume more in-depth programs or games will be larger.

This is why I had to go with the 64. I can live with changing out video playlists if my 16gb or 32gb iPad starts running out of room. What about files created on the iPad though? Syncing those won't be as easy. 16gb is too small. Not sure why they started there (probably cost). 32gb is a sweet spot, but if apps are near 500mb, that won't last long.

 

[Chris Rogers]

Can you just update the original post with the new additions? As this thread gets bigger, it will be somewhat difficult to track new additions

 

[jeffy777]

I especially enjoy the option in the preferences for Safari that allows you to keep the bookmarks on top all the time. By default they slide down when you click on the address bar.

There's your iPad tip for the day!

Feel free to keep those tips coming. I'm still drooling over that screenshot

 

[zub3qin]

This is why I had to go with the 64. I can live with changing out video playlists if my 16gb or 32gb iPad starts running out of room. What about files created on the iPad though? Syncing those won't be as easy. 16gb is too small. Not sure why they started there (probably cost). 32gb is a sweet spot, but if apps are near 500mb, that won't last long.

even with 100 "heavy" 20MB apps, you will only be using 2 GB.... isn't 16gb enough for most?

 

[guycross]

I think 16gig will be plenty!

All my music will live on my iPhone, my pad will just be for the odd movie and apps!

 

[AvSRoCkCO1067]

I think 16gig will be plenty!

All my music will live on my iPhone, my pad will just be for the odd movie and apps!

ditto - I think 16 gig will be fine (I'm no where near that on my iPhone as is).

 

[Compile 'em all]

ditto - I think 16 gig will be fine (I'm no where near that on my iPhone as is).

The OS and Apps on the iPad will be A LOT bigger.

 

[tdream]

even with 100 "heavy" 20MB apps, you will only be using 2 GB.... isn't 16gb enough for most?

20MB is heavy? 50MB-100MB more like. Big games can be 100-250MB. Navigon is almost 2GB. So I'm sure there will be BIG filesize games coming to the iPad.

 

[thatguysmells]

http://www.coursesmart.com/go/ipad/index.html

eTextbooks for students!

This is going to rock the academic world. Godsend is the only word that comes to mind.

 

[rorschach]

Twitterific:

Reuters:

 

[LadyHoneyBabe]

According to Apple's Customer Service, the Dictionary is the larges app in the app store. It's between 200-300MB. She said the iPad apps won't be too much larger than the iPhone/iPod Touch apps and if anyone is concerned about space, they should base it off of the amount Music and Movies they want on the iPad.

 

[LadyHoneyBabe]

http://www.coursesmart.com/go/ipad/index.html

eTextbooks for students!

No wonder Apple's giving a discount for iPad bundles to schools.

 

[rtabdo]

These apps are looking amazing. Not to make this a huge issue, but i hope in the near future (4.0) there is some multi-tasking ability, because with amazing apps like this, it would be great to switch quickly between them, although the iPad is super fast, multi-tasking would be pretty sick.

 

[TraceyS/FL]

According to Apple's Customer Service, the Dictionary is the larges app in the app store. It's between 200-300MB. She said the iPad apps won't be too much larger than the iPhone/iPod Touch apps and if anyone is concerned about space, they should base it off of the amount Music and Movies they want on the iPad.

I have 3 that are bigger than that and they aren't the dictionary.

 

[Nausicaa]

Man, these all look amazing. Really puts the 'but it's just a big iPod Touch' criticisms in perspective. **** yeah it is!

 

[AJsAWiz]

I think 16gig will be plenty!

All my music will live on my iPhone, my pad will just be for the odd movie and apps!

Yep, that sounds like a great idea . . . think I will keep my music on my iPhone and iPod too

 

[dgjones1341]

We'd like to announce to an app for the iPad called Sudoku Real Edition.

Our game is unique in the way it aims to be as real as possible. When you're playing it's almost as if you went down to the store, bought a Sudoku book and sat down at a table to play. Almost all the graphics are based off real items we photographed.

We've already received feedback and confirmation from Apple that our game will be in the store for purchase on April 3rd for $2.99

Full press and feature information can be found at http://sudokurealedition.com/

 

[rorschach]

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We'd like to announce to an app for the iPad called Sudoku Real Edition.

Our game is unique in the way it aims to be as real as possible. When you're playing it's almost as if you went down to the store, bought a Sudoku book and sat down at a table to play. Almost all the graphics are based off real items we photographed.

We've already received feedback and confirmation from Apple that our game will be in the store for purchase on April 3rd for $2.99

Full press and feature information can be found at http://sudokurealedition.com/

Looks great! I can't wait til
4/3.

 

[hualon]

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Looks great! I can't wait til
4/3.

Did you really have to quote all of the screenshots just to post that?

 

[OneMike]

I think 16gig will be plenty!

All my music will live on my iPhone, my pad will just be for the odd movie and apps!

I hope so. I was thinking the same as you.

Just have to see how the app sizes end up.

 

[bzz]

Tons of screenshots
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/nggallery/page-320/album-1/gallery-22/

 

[admanimal]

I hate to jinx my app, as it is still waiting for approval, but here is a screenshot:

 

[rtabdo]

I hate to jinx my app, as it is still waiting for approval, but here is a screenshot:

thats awesome. I hope it gets approved! looks great!

 

[macduke]

According to Apple's Customer Service, the Dictionary is the larges app in the app store. It's between 200-300MB. She said the iPad apps won't be too much larger than the iPhone/iPod Touch apps and if anyone is concerned about space, they should base it off of the amount Music and Movies they want on the iPad.

Yeah, that lady is talking out her butt. I've got Navigon and it's 1.4gb. Even Rock Band and NOVA are 160mb. The iPad screen has 5 times more pixels, so expect games to be especially bigger--maybe even several times larger.

 

[MikhailT]

I hate to jinx my app, as it is still waiting for approval, but here is a screenshot:

A couple of visual oddies you should fix:
1) The graphs should have some kind of headers in them. It looks weird without any text on top. Also don't use the budget as min-max, it should be lowest group and highest group (100-1000, not 498-928). It looks very squeezed in there, might want to fix that.
2) Columns with dollars on the right side should be right justified, not left. There's a reason, you know there's always 2 decimals on the right side of the dot, but not the left, so it always look justified. You have it right on the left side, but you need to keep it consistent throughout the application. You also have the budget column that's not right justified.
3) Center the Category Header, so that it's consistent with the Date on the left.
4) Your New and Edit buttons are not consistent in how it should placed. New on Right and Edit on left? It looks weird and out of place.

Overall, it looks nice, it looks like a leather bound budget planner.