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I’ve had the Ipad for a month already and I’ve been installing applications like crazy, partly because I love apps, and partly because I needed to justify all the money I spent on my Ipad with the excuse that it’s an essentiall gadget that I need in order to be able to work, have fun and even breathe. So far I need it because:
- I need my Ipad to be entertained while on public transport
- I need my Ipad because it’s easier to carry with me to show my presentations to clients
- I need my Ipad because I can control my home computer from my Ipad
- I need my Ipad to plan my business and leisure trips
- I need my Ipad to write on my blogs while I’m away from home
- I need my Ipad in order to cook nice food
- I need my Ipad to play video games
- I need my Ipad because I need to work on my data sheets
- I need my Ipad because some retarded policeman at Atlanta’s airport broke my Sony Erreader I got for Christmas
- I need my Ipad because I can see my Picasa albums anywhere in the world
So these are the ten reasons I desperately needed and I pad and why I forked more than $700 in my Ipad Wifi
And these are the 10 Ipad apps that make my life easier in no particular order
Airvideo Ipad App
This pplication connects to my Imac at home and allows me to access my video folders and play smoothly (depending on my internet connection) the videos I have in those folders, the cool thing is that the videos aren’t ready to be played on the Ipad, AirVideo will convert them for you and it can even do it on the fly as you are watching it (I’ve gotten mixed results with this later option)
Keynote for Ipad
I’m an SEO consultant and I visit a lot of clients showing the presentatios, the first accessory I bought for my Ipad was a VGA connector dongle so I could use it to show my presentations. Apple’s keynote works smoothly and looks great on the Ipad it can even import Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to the Ipad (some things will be out of place), not a very powerful tool but definetelly a very useful one when it comes to travel light.
Iteleport for Ipad
Or how to magically control your home computer from you Ipad. I tried several different VNC apps but they were all too complicated to set up, so I tried Iteleport and it was so easy everything was set up in second, I also love the wormhole animation when connecting with my computer. It’s the one Ipad app that still amazes me and the one I open when I want to show off about my Ipad.
WordPress for Ipad
How else would I write my blog posts? this is one of the reasons that I bought the Ipad for, it’s a very basic app and lacks many of the features that some of the commercial Iphone ones have, but it serves its purpose and you can actually manage your own blogs through this app pretty comfortably
So once your blogging allows you to quit your job and work anywhere in the world, get an Ipad and this app and you are all set!
Epicurious Ipad App
Perhaps one of the best looking apps that you can find, even if you are not looking for something to cook, browsing through the Epicurious recipes is a delight and will certainly increase your hunger for more. The rating system will allow you to quickly choose the best recipe for that special meal you want to cook.
Empty fridge? no worries just put the ingredients you have available and Epicurious will certainly find a recipe that can adapt to whatever you have in your pantry.
Angry Birds HD for Ipad
I loved the Iphone game and I love even more the game for the Ipad, it’s bigger and brighter, it’s almost the same game but I don’t care, it’s hours and hours of entertainment assured.
For those who don’t know the Iphone game, this game is about throwing birds on a slingshot to structures that house green pigs that need to be destroyed so the objective is to shoot the birds in the right places of the structures so the come down on the pigs. Sounds silly but extremely entertaining and graphics are great!
DocstoGo for Ipad
DocstoGo is a pretty cool app that will allow you to edit Word, Powerpoint and Excel files up to a certain level, it can even connect to your cloud (Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net, etc) so you can edit the documents stored there. Italso supports Itunes fileshare system so you can transfer documents through Itunes or edit or save them directly from the Ipad’s email appplication
Ibooks for Ipad
There’s been much talking about using the Ipad as an Ebook reader with pros and cons flying around. Yes the Ipad will tire your eyes as any laptop screen, the more you increase its brightness the more it will put a strain in your eyes, but that won’t stop users from using it as an Ebook reader and the truth is that it will push Ebook reader manufactures to evolve faster to keep up with the “pros” of the Ipad. Apple’s fre app, looks like a shelve empty of books at the beginning but that you can quickly fill up with books from the Ebook store. Iboos works with the universal Epub Ebook format, but can also read PDFs from your emails or if you sync them in your Itunes.
Webalbums for Ipad
I was one of the early adopters of the web albums by picasa, I liked storing my photos where I could access them anywhere I wanted (and I had an Internet connection), so one of the first apps that I looked for once I spolied myself with the Ipad was to find an app that would allow me to access my online albums, I like Cooliris for the Iphone but there is nothing from Cooliris available yet for the Ipad so the next best thing was Webalbums. This app looks very similar to the photoalbums app that comes with the Ipad, so much like it that they had to remove the pinch out feature in order to be able to publish the app in the Itunes store because it went against Apple regulations. This app is fast and reliable granted that it’s missing being able to have multiple accounts, it’s still enough to satisfy my current needs.
