Must-have iPad apps

[Jackie J V]

OK, after a delay in the international launch, I should be getting my iPad by the end of this week. For those who've been at the front of the curve, what apps have you found to be the most useful? I'll be looking for a good PDF reader, productivity apps (Word and Excel-ish), weather, basic photo editing, web browser and general cool stuff.

I don't want this thread to turn into a review of the hardware...just the apps. I've already sunk the bucks!

Paul

 

[Turtlesboat]

Goodreader for PDFs.
Inavx, the active captain app, navionics all have iPad apps, pick your poison
For weather, I'm now leaning towards weather bug.
I've been using photo pad for editing pics, it's free

Air video free is pretty cool. Let's you watch videos stored on you computer over wifi or 3G, like a poor mans sling box.

If you take pics with a camera, just buy the camera kit, it's awesome. Load SD card pics right into the iPad.

Gotta get the netflix app if you have a netflix account. Also, you can pipe out movies to a tv if you have the component or composite video cables for the iPhone. It's the same cable for the iPad. Turns your iPad into a cool apple tv kind of thing.

Zinio if your a magazine reader

Pandora if you like music. If you want to get slick, buy one of those Bluetooth to stereo receivers and plug that sucker into your stereo and stream audio (and audio from movies) over Bluetooth to your stereo.

Kayak for flights

I've got a billion others, but those are good ones to start with. You'll find others as you browse around.

 

[RubberDuckeeToo2]

iAnnotate for annotating PDFs, Pages for word processing, Numbers for spreadsheets, Good Reader also reading PDFs, Kindle and iBooks for books (yes, you can do both lots of free books in both places), Skype for free phone calls using WiFi,, NYT Editor's Choice for New York Times, Wall street journal, ABC video, Marvel Comics (if you are so inclined), TripIt, Gate Guru and UrbanSpoon for travel, CheckPlease for calculating tips etc, and DropBox for seamless transfer of files to and from the Cloud.

my iPad is fully loaded.

Gene
Sent from my iPad

 

[RubberDuckeeToo2]

Oh and don't forget, all iPhone apps will run on it too so I also have Navionucs Marine US East and Tide app on it, Boating Suite from BoatingCafe.com and Ship Finr Free for ship info.

Gene

Sent from my iPad

 

[Turtlesboat]

navionics has an ipad version. it's $20 compared to the iphone version $5.

iphone apps look all blotchy on the ipad, IMO.

 

[RubberDuckeeToo2]

Ah, I see that the Navionics App came out this week. Well, worth the $20. Thanks!

Gene

 

[Jackie J V]

Thanks guys. This is a great start.

Paul

 

[Pseudomind]

Will any of these .pdf applications let you open a .pdf and still perform a search on the document, as you can currently do with Adobe reader?

Can you save .pdf's on IPad. I am looking for something where I can have all of my boat manuals on it and then use/search them when needed.

One example I will use is when you wan to dim you auto-pilot display for night time use, but maybe do not do this to often, open the .pdf manual and search the document.

I would like to also be able to open a few Word documents, what application? .e.g my original survey is in a Word document.

Thanks

 

[Turtlesboat]

Goodreader let's you save,send,search etc... It also opens word docs. I've got all of my manuals in the iPad, and iPhone. If someone emails you a PDF, you can save it to good reader. If you go to a website, you can save PDFs to the iPad. It's a good app.

 

[Jackie J V]

Just got iPad this afternoon. Loading up both the apps and the VISA!

 

[Four Suns]

Chopper.

Try Chopper Lite but buy the full blown version.

 

[Four Suns]

Oh... and PCalc... put that one in your toolbar.

 

[Four Suns]

"Dictionary" is good...

"Epicurious" is good

"GoodReader" (as Mike said) is the way to go on PDF stuff... the others suck (i.e. Air Sharing)

"HanDBase" is something I'm putting a bunch of boat info into...

Evernote sucks

"Bloomberg" is good.

Pandora is good.

"Meteorology" sucks

"Quick Graph" is good if you solve math problems on your fridge like our family does:

"RadarScope" is good...

"WeatherBug" is the best...

"Zillow" is great

"WSJ" is great...

"X-Plane-9" is great...

"WinAdmin" is good if you want to get at PC's...

"Rowmote Pro" is great if you want to control a Mac Mini media server.


My 2 cents...



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[Turtlesboat]

Gary, I think you should grab webMD

 

[Jackie J V]

Now that's a Fridge! Thanks for all your input guys. I've loaded up a bunch of apps based on your inputs, now I've gotta go back to iTunes for Gary's recos.

I know that there has been a lot of panning of the device and there's a bunch of things that tick me off (top of the list the lack of an SD reader), but man, this thing is slick!

Paul

 

[Two Peas]

For sports, try MLB.com and NBA court side.

Plants vs zombies is a fantastic game for kids from 6 to 60.

Web albums is a good app to access picas.

 

[Two Peas]

That is one blinged out fridge, G. Does the trim qualify as a "cool mod" ?