So here for the rest of you, in no particular order my top 3 iPad apps at this point in time.
So first up is Flipboard. When this first came out everyone was singing the praise of this app. After having now used it I can see why. This app has made reading rss feeds, twitter feeds a joy. It takes them and turns them into what can only be described as a "magazine reading" experience. This is one of those apps that definitely lived up to the hype.
Next up is Air Video. I like this app a lot. Even with the sharing of media between iOS devices and iTunes on your Mac (or PC) that was introduced in iOS 4.3 Air Video is still relevant and useful. The main reason I say that is because don't want to convert all those movies/tv programs sitting on my hard disk into an iTunes friendly format to be streamed from iTunes to the iPad.
What Air Video can do with it's little server that sits running on your Mac (or PC) is convert the video on the fly. So I don't have to convert it before watching it. But it can also if I wanted it to convert it to an iTunes friendly format.
Finally but definitely not the least is Keynote from Apple. Preparing presentations on the iPad with this app is a joy. And the fact that I prefer to create them on the iPad with Keynote is a testament to how good I think this apps is. Ok it is not as feature rich as it's desktop equivalent and it does have one or two "niggles" (I've discussed them in previous posts), however the functionality here is more than I need for what I want to do. And who would of thought that preparing slides would work so well with a touch interface? It seems so naturally.
So there you have it that was my current top 3 iPad apps. What would make your list?
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I like Flipboard too but I seem to use Pulse more - I have feeds set for loads of tech/apple sites.
New magazine kid on the block which works v.well is Zite - which intelligently learns what types of stories you like.
Thanks Nigrl for the comment I use both of those, Pulse also on the iPhone. As an rss reader I like it a lot, close call whether it is better than flipboard. I think flipboard edges it.
Not used Zite enough yet to have formed a full opinion yet.
The first 3 apps are great apps! I use them every day. Unfortunately in Canada we can not use electronic signatures yet, so not too good for us but the minute we can use electronic signatures that will be awesome.
Another great app I use is the Google Analytics for the iPad. Very impressive on listing presentations about tech talks. Evernote is also very good as well.
Still love and use my iPad (original) every single day!!
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