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Your "MUST HAVE" iPad Apps

nutmac said:
It should be iSWiFTER.
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Thank you very much.

Zite is very cool, a polished version of Pulse really, maybe even better laid out in terms of newspaper-like. I question how it interacts with twitter. It asked for my twitter name but nothing else. I found that weird.
 
I've given Zite a few decent tries but I keep coming back to Flipboard. I find Zite to cluttered with multiple copies of the same stories from different sources. I also like the branded sources that Flipboard offers (Wired, etc.) Maybe I'm just missing something in the configuration of Zite but I'm just not digging it.
 
Flipboard is quite possibly the best app I've ever used. Beautiful clean interface and excellent functionality. Again, the UI is so stunning that it makes using the app even more enjoyable. Only nitpick and it's quite a big one is that you can only have 2 pages of boxes, which is a shame.

Galaxy on Fire 2 looks stunning on the iPad, can't wait for the Valkyrie update later this month.

Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery, I played the first part yesterday and fell in love, will put the headphones on and carry on today.
 
I like Flipboard better than Zite, because it actually uses who i'm following on Twitter rather than trying to glean from my feed what I'm interested in. I already know what I'm interested in, and I'm already following them on Twitter.
 
Zite, MLS MatchDay 2011, USA Today, Sword & Sworcery (for now), Zappos, ScoreCenterXL
 
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thesiren said:
Superbrother's Sword & Sworcery is phenomenal.
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stevearm said:
Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery, I played the first part yesterday and fell in love, will put the headphones on and carry on today.
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Halebopp said:
Sword & Sworcery (for now)
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I am just blown away by this game. It is so well thought out, conceived and executed. From the beautifully eerie music, to the gorgeous backgrounds and 8bit pixelated sets...this game is a masterpiece.

Best $5 I ever spent! Plus I went and downloaded the full soundtrack on iTunes (28 tracks, including bonus tracks).
 
Stovepiper said:
Is there a way to add more than two pages of "sections"? Please tell me I'm just overlooking something obvious. I LOVE Flipboard but I feel very limited with only two pages worth of feeds.
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Well you could aggregate your content into Twitter Lists. It's not the perfect solution, of course. I hope they let us create aggregated lists or Twitter lists within the app itself in the future.
 
1) Flipboard (found out they support Google Reader, which made it an instant winner)
2) Twitter
3) Plants vs. Zombies
4) AirVideo (rarely used, but greatly appreciated when the need arises)
 
Ok, I am missing something with Flipboard. How do I get my google reader into it? I love the product before I found it can do this!

I really like Zite alot. One of my favorite new apps!
 
Thanks for the recommendations in this thread. I've recently added Zite, Zinio and Flipboard to my iPad and all 3 are excellent at what they do.
 
CanKnockdown1&2 (great game for my train commute)
iBooks (thanks to this, I'm reading novels again)
Capo (when practicing guitar, this is indispensible for slowing down fast sections)
Infinity Blade
SmugWallet (I wasn't aware that this works for the iPad until someone showed me. MUCH better than the SmugMug app)
Wa Kingyo
 
Pocketcloud and file browser if you are running a windows machine along with the iPad. Icab and dropbox with folder monitoring(with newsleecher and utorrent running at login) for nzb and torrent files. AirPlay to stream.

I must be the only person who thinks that clipboard is extremely arduous compared to an rss feed reader...flip page, tap to load headline, tap to load article, tap to change pages... It's just way faster to use an rss reader like newsrack. Speaking of which...newsrack is better on the iPad IMO than reeder, and it's universal for the same price..though I like reeder on the iPhone.

If the content was actually IN APP it would be great..but it's not, and I also can't find a way to completely hide read rss feeds..I'll have to try it again.

Tapatalk now that it's universal..

Life photo app, great for a different slant on regional stuff.

Weather network's app..really buggy when I just tried it..half the suff wouldn't load and taps didn't register.
 
h00ligan said:
I must be the only person who thinks that clipboard is extremely arduous compared to an rss feed reader...flip page, tap to load headline, tap to load article, tap to change pages... It's just way faster to use an rss reader like newsrack. Speaking of which...newsrack is better on the iPad IMO than reeder, and it's universal for the same price..though I like reeder on the iPhone.
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You are probably not using it the for the way it was intended. Flipboard makes feed reading (whether they are from a blog, rss, twitter, Facebook, instagram, etc) much faster for several reasons. It simply loads a lot faster the more you use it because as it tries to learn what sources you tend to use more often and what articles you actually want to expand. Loading images and text is nearly instantaneous as you flip through, where a rss reader will typically load only when you tell it do. But even more importantly, flupboard improves the skimming experience tremendously by using great typography, images, and layout spacing. Skimming through a scroll of text is just much more difficult if at all possible.

Another important difference is Flipboard's great use of gestures. Tap an article to expand, flick up to see more, flick down to go back, two finger tap to close article, pinch to zoom in and out of videos. The UI is arguably better because, for example article boxes are designed to be very easily tapped and they make great use of iPad display everywhere. The combination use of gestures, subtle transition animations and smart loading makes reading not only faster but more of a pleasure.
 
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