Archive for April, 2011

37 of My Favorite iPad Apps

Monday, April 4th, 2011

I started cleaning the apps on my iPad and decided the following are my current favorites. Note the omission of news apps; all of my news content comes from RSS feeds.
  1. Air Display – turns your iPad into a secondary monitor.
  2. Angry Birds – a fun game, great way to pass time. The other Angry Birds games are also recommended.
  3. Calorie Tracker (LiveStrong.com) – tracks calories. I also like FitDay.com (just a web site but excellent and free!)
  4. Dragon Dictation – it does a good job, although I don’t use it often. There is a service called Jott that I like much better, but it is now a paid service.
  5. DropBox – great for sharing files between computers and people.
  6. Evernote – note taking application; notes are shared shared between computers.
  7. Find My iPhone – Apple provides a free MobileMe account to find your iDevice – it works, too!
  8. Friendly Plus for Facebook – an easy to use Facebook interface.
  9. GarageBand – to get your creative juices flowing.
  10. GoodReader – a very good PDF reader.
  11. Glympse – allows friends/SO to track your whereabouts on a map for a brief period of time (if you have the GPS version). Probably better on the iPhone, but still deserves to be on this list.
  12. Google Search – better on the iPhone but features voice-based search and other niceties.
  13. Instapaper – mark items to read later and then can read them here. Kind of like a scrapbook.
  14. iSSH – my preferred method of command line access to Internet-connected machines.
  15. iTap RDP – RDP connectivity to a Windows PC (Remote Desktop).
  16. iThoughtsHD – my personal favorite mind-mapping tool on the iPad.
  17. KeyNote – for when you want to create and/or display (with a connector) presentations.
  18. Kindle – allows you to read your Amazon Kindle content on the iPad.
  19. A Monster Ate My Homework – fun, and free, game.
  20. NASA App HD – interesting content from NASA.
  21. Netflix – a must if you subscribe to the service.
  22. NewsRack – my favorite RSS news reader. Simple and clean and easy and fast!
  23. Pandora – this is so good I am considering signing up for a paid account.
  24. Parallels Mobile – if you run Parallels on a Mac, this gives you access to the virtual machines.
  25. Scrabble HD – if you are a scrabble fan than this is a must.
  26. Star Walk for iPad – lights up the night sky and provides useful content.
  27. Tap Tap Radiation – another fun game.
  28. TweetDesk for iPad – very good Twitter application – I prefer it for creating content for multiple systems (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.).
  29. Twitter – I’m torn between this app and TweetDesk for access to Twitter. I prefer TweetDeck for posting to multiple accounts and Twitter to read status updates.
  30. TWITpad – free audio/video access to lots of great content from Leo Laporte.
  31. VNC Viewer – I use this to access my VNC-enabled computers.
  32. WeatherBug – my weather application of choice.
  33. WeatherStation – a nice display of weather information.
  34. WolframAlpha – because it is just cool. Lots of great information in there. Of course, you can always use the free, web version.
  35. WordPress – helps to maintain my WordPress blog when I am away from my computer.
  36. Zillow Real Estate – satisfies my real estate curiosities.
  37. Zite – news “magazine” started with information from your Twitter and/or RSS feeds.

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