As someone who is patiently waiting for my iPad 2 I was wondering if people can share their key apps to have. For example I understand the ABC channel app is a definite for the iPad. What else do people highly recommend?
I hear the app to emulate the old, outdated, outclassed, classic, heavier, larger, and slower original iPad is a gas!
~Shooter Out
You gotta get Dropbox, of course, even if you have an iPhone. But with the iPad, you can use it in conjunction with many cool apps like (my favorite) PlainText, a text editor that can store your musings/meetings/etc up in ze cloud.
GoodReader is super useful as well for interpreting a bunch of file types.
If you Jailbreak, get RetinaPad, it’s fantastic. It substitutes the Retina graphics of an iPhone 4-enabled program for the 2x zoom button. Sooooooo much smoother and better looking graphics than the default OS behavior.
I like Friendly for Facebooking on the iPad. The native Facebook app is iPhone only for some dumb reason.
Was considering picking up a cheap iPad one, I mean I’m not fond of the company but android is probably a year or two behind before there tablet is on par
And I’ve already put off my tablet lust by a year.
Ok my favourite apps…
[ul]
[li]Flipboard
[/li][li]Ragdoll 2
[/li][li]Scrabble
[/li][li]Monopoly
[/li][li]Kindle for Ipad
[/li][li]Life (photos)
[/li][li]Dropbox
[/li][li]Goodreader
[/li][li]Print Central (YES! Print from your Ipad!)
[/li][li]Star Walk
[/li][li]BBC News
[/li][li]Pulse
[/li][li]Flud ( a bit easier to use than Pulse)
[/li][li]Sky Grid
[/li][li]Nasa App HD
[/li][li]Epicurious & RecipeGrazer
[/li][li]Drink-a-dex (for cocktails!!!)
[/li][li]Airvideo
[/li][li]TuneIn Radio (listen to any radio station around the world)
[/li][li]Stock Watch
[/li][/ul]
I can’t recommend CinexPlayer highly enough.
It will play your .avi files on your ipad easily. All you need to do is connect your ipad to your pc and transfer the files through the apps tab in iTunes.
I have used it extensively and it’s very rare that it can’t play a…errrm…file.
YX player works too but I’m kind of used to cineXplayer.
Thanks gafra, that is exactly what I am looking for. Will commence downloading now!
Solai, I keep meaning to post here with detailed comments, but keep procrastinating. So instead I’ll just do what gafra did and just make a list…with a few short notes
(I didn’t include the essential apps that prob came with your iPad-- like iBooks, Youtube, Notepad, Contacts, Email etc.)
[li]Google Earth — Just really cool[/li]
[li]Netflix — if you have a Netflix account. If you don’t, what’s wrong with you? :)[/li]
[li]Dropbox — haven’t tried other cloud storage options but this works good.[/li]
[li]Free Wi-Fi Finder[/li]
[li]Twitter[/li]
[li]Carcassome — awesome on the iPad (thanks to Mr ListerSir for recomending)[/li]
[li]White & Yellow Pages[/li]
[li]Dragon Dictation — don’t use it for real purposes. Just neat.[/li]
[li]Greatest and Most Expensive Paintings[/li]
[li]AllRecipes — Very usefull for cooking.[/li]
[li]European Wars 2 — I’m into strategy games and this is among the best I’ve found.[/li]
[li]Modern Conflct – more of a real-time game, but fun[/li]
[li]Dictionary.com[/li]
[li]Hangman (free)[/li]
[li]Podcaster[/li]
[li]CNN App for iPad[/li]
[li]The Game of Life[/li]
[li]NYTimes for iPad[/li]
[li]Pocket Universe HD – really neat. Point your iPad toward the sky and it tells you what [/li]stars, planets and constellations you’re looking at.
[li]Nightstand Central for iPad[/li]
[li]Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad – I really did my homework on this one and compared the alternatives. This is best tool for editing MS Word docs and Excel spreadsheets on your iPad.[/li]
[li]Uno HD[/li]
[li]The Weather Channel[/li]
[li]Wikipanion for iPad[/li]
[li]Skyfire Web Browser — iPad doesn’t support flash so therefore doesnt’ play many web videos. But this browsers gets around that problem.[/li]
[li]Readdle Docs for iPad (a PDF reader)— I wanted a pdf reader that was fast and good searching. If you want to annotate pdfs (take notes etc.) ask Chuck which one he uses for that.[/li]
[li]Shazam for iPad — Listens to any song and can identify what it is and give you lyrics and where to buy the song.[/li]
[li]Pandora[/li]
[li]NASA App HD[/li]
[li]Angry Birds for iPad — Arcade games are my thing, but I know you like Angry Birds, so get [/li]the iPad version.
[li]Pages — I got this cuz I was frustrated that the Quickoffice Connect did support the remote keyboard arrow keys-- but in a update it did support it. so I don’t need this anymore. Pages isn’t MS Word compatible.[/li]
[li]Astronomy Picture of the Day[/li]
[li]Kindle[/li]
[li]Air Hockey Gold[/li]
[li]The Daily Show[/li]
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask.
My next thing is trying to pick the right app to allow me to remote access my PC.
It’s spendy ($30, sometimes on sale for $20) but I’m completely satisfied with LogMeIn Ignition. I was using the free LogMeIn for a while on the PC/Mac, then when I got the iPad I picked up their client and it rocks the cazbah.
I log into my Mac, and it’s like I have a full Mac tablet. There’s no need to worry about static IPs, opening ports in your router, even corporate firewalls because of how LogMeIn works (each computer you have added to your account runs an agent that maintains a connection to a central server) so it’s easy breezy to set up and use.
Seriously, I never thought I’d drop three decaclams on an app, but this one was totally worth it.
Woo hoo! Thank you so much. I’ve been reading a lot of good things about LogMeIn Ignition and was just on the edge of buying it.
But the $30 made me leery – so much more pricey that most apps.
Your endorsement has sealed the deal for me I think.
So you use the free LogMeIn on you Mac and the Ignition app on the iPad?
I guess one of my concerns is this: What happens if I’m traveling and I want to access my home PC, but that PC is somehow knocked off the Internet? Connections fail sometimes. I guess that’s just a problem that one would have to risk.
I use LogMeIn on my Mac, Windows XP, and Windows 7 machines. I use the web interface if I’m going from computer to computer, and LogMeIn Ignition on my iPad and iPhone 4.
If your computer becomes disconnected from the internet, there’s little any program can do, but it DOES theoretically have the capacity to turn some computers (that have wake on lan) on by request. I’ve never used that capacity (sounds like black magic), but it’s a thing. 
I’m thinking Wake On LAN might be a good thing to use.
If you’re away from home and leave your computer on, there’s a chance it could lose internet connection for whatever reason.
But if you use Wake On LAN when you access the computer remotely, I’m thinking you have a better guarantee that it will wake up and connect.
(All speculation on my part though).
Eh… I don’t think you do anything to increase your chances of avoiding discos using that method. But anyhow, it’s still super handy.
There are free and easy apps to use to login to one’s Mac or pc. Will post my easy solution I put together with the help of Chuck and Juan.
There are free apps, true, I used VNC before I switched to LogMeIn. The nice thing about LogMeIn: I can install it on my work computer (which is behind a firewall that I have no control over), doesn’t need router configuration to forward ports, and it’s super easy to get to your 'puters from any system that has a web browser too.
But totally, it can be done! I just ended up switching because I preferred LMI after using VNC for years. 
When a person’s a PC
And that person is me
Am I still Am I still
To use VNC?
I don’t have an iPhone, but woah! Look at this: Use your iPhone as a mouse for your iPad. This seems very MacGyver to me
As I waited in line for my iPad my new found friend and I sat behind a guy playing a game that at 6am made far too much noise.
“What is that game?” I asked
“Fieldrunners” he responded and added, “It is awesome”
I emailed myself a note to check into it. At $8 bucks it would the most expense game I had downloaded by my friend was adamant.
Holy crom this game is awesome. If you have ever spent time with a tower defense game this is right up your alley. Fairly simple in its execution but incredibly well done. I am enjoying the heck out of this game.
Wait, the guy was in line for an iPad and playing a game on his iPad?