Apple‘s coolest tablet iPad is quite hit and they are expecting more than 9 Million sales of iPad by the end of this year. Now the question is, which apps should you install on your iPad to get started with the fun? Let me share some of my favorites, which I think should be a great launching pad for you.
No doubt iPad users noticed that iPad specific applications is this and there are more than 4000 apps compared with 1.6 million apps for iPhone. I think its still early and many developers said that they need some time to develop quality application for iPad.
In the meantime I’ve settled into a routine with my Wi-Fi iPad and found that, like my iPhone, I’m using a few applications multiple times a day. Here are my five favorites so far:
News Rack ($4.99)
News Rack is a RSS feed reader with full-featured and a great interface. It tells you the latest headlines from a pre-stocked list of periodicals or build your own list. I prefer Google Reader for my news feeds, and for this News Rack pulls all of those feeds right into the app.
The best thing is there is no need to leave the application if you want to watch video, further more its sharing features of any RSS feed reader are very good, you can share any news on your e-mail and other social bookmarking sites like Twitter, Delicious and Instapaper. If you go in landscape mode of your iPad you can easily scan the headlines in the right column and read the article in the left column.
Words with Friends ($2.99)
Over the past few months I have grown addicted to the free iPhone version of Words with Friends and now I jumped at the chance to try this on my iPad. I call it a Scrabble rip-off that you play with your friends, but the developer calls it a crossword game. It’s a finest social game.
It is quite simple you just have to challenge a friend to a game and take turns applying dictionary skills as you get rid of your lettered tiles. You can play at your own leisure and trash talk with a built-in chat feature. You can also Turn on push notifications so you can see when your friend completed his turn.
Kindle (free)
Kindle is top selling product on Amazon, and Amazon did a smart thing by leveraging the Kindle brand across multiple platforms. The Kindle app is also available for iPad and you can say it is just a natural fit. I love the design of Apple’s iBooks app, but the Kindle app offers me the one thing iBooks can’t and this is the saving highlights in the cloud. I take a ton of highlighted notes in the books that I read and Amazon stores those on its website for later browsing at www.kindle.amazon.com.
Evernote (Free)
Do you have trouble remembering stuff like me? I found the solution and this is “Evernote”. It Keeps the track of just about everything you can think of, from photos and recipes to notes and voice memos, all stored across Evernote’s fully searchable platform and available for iPhone, Windows, Mac, Android and now iPad (in a truly their beautifully designed app).
You can create a to-do list note on you personal computer and save it to Evernote and then read it later, make changes and basically carry a back-up brain on iPad. There are endless ways to use Evernote — watch the company’s demonstration videos for just a few ideas.
NPR for iPad (Free)
NPR did the impossible by turning sometimes boring content into an addictive experience. I suggest Every news organization should sit down and spend a few minutes playing with NPR’s highly polished app for the iPad. The company hit a home run with a magazine style-design that lets the user browse stories, add audio interviews and long-form stories into a playlist, and play them in any order.
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