I'ts been a week, and the iPad has almost completely replaced m computer for "home computing". I find myself, astounded at the fact that the degrees of separation between the user and the information/content has been reduced so dramatically. Hardware wise, it's 'closer'; touch as opposed to a peripheral on a chord. Software wise, having the low-level OS abstracted to the point where the time, number of actions and complexity involved in getting to the content have been brought down dramatically (example: No file system access).
I've had an iPhone for almost a year, but the iPad has turned me into an App junkie. And so i wanted to start a thread for recommendations....
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Pulse(Not free) The most resent one and probably one that blew me away is Pulse. It's an RSS feed/ aggregator which allows you to simultaneously load up to 20 different news feeds and it present them to you in an easy to use UI (it's a little dense). Here's a trailer for it:
YouTube - Pulse News Reader - Trailer - iPad
I find this App invaluable as it saves me the time of pointing safari to multiple news sites every day (and sometimes mltiple times a day). This App is not free, but i think the value(time saving, presentation) is great.
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Adobe Ideas(Free). it's a finger painting/doodling app from Adobe, and it's free. There are a few things, like layers that i'd like, but it's a cool vector based drawing/painting app.
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AIM (Free), it's nice to see an official IM app from AOL for the iPhone/iPad with notifications. The UI is nice and clean as well.
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Planets(Free), great app for iPhone/iPad that shows the current position of celestial objects in the sky relitave to your position on earth.
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Epicurious (Free) great App to find recipes.
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The Guardian EyeWitness(Free).think, news in pictures....only the best pictures. it's stunning to just see the pictures.
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Bloomberg for iPad(Free) A nice replacement, despite being a lot more complex, to the iPhone stocks app/widget.
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Dictionary.com ... great reference.
More to come....
Cheers
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