Ten apps for your new iPad

#1 Macworld

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Posted 25 December 2012 - 03:00 AM

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#2 jdb8167

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Posted 25 December 2012 - 08:31 AM

I find PCCalc very slow to start up which makes it painful to use. I've always wondered why Apple didn't put their iPhone calculator on the ipad.

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Posted 25 December 2012 - 09:24 AM

The full version of PCalc is on sale for $.99.

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Posted 25 December 2012 - 04:07 PM

My favorite calculator is CalcBot.

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Posted 25 December 2012 - 05:38 PM

Another wonderfully useful App for new iPad owners is Skype. I used it for the first time yesterday to video chat with my brother in Italy.

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Posted 25 December 2012 - 08:37 PM

CNN? Really? Of all the news sources on the web, you recommend them? You must live where weed is legal and smoke it 24/7.

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Posted 26 December 2012 - 06:48 AM

I sure as hell don't want to Contaminate any of my apple products with that phugue app CNN....

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Posted 26 December 2012 - 07:52 AM

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CNN? Really? Of all the news sources on the web, you recommend them? You must live where weed is legal and smoke it 24/7.

Why do valid disagreements have to be followed by unnecessary personal attacks?

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Posted 26 December 2012 - 11:37 AM

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CNN? Really? Of all the news sources on the web, you recommend them? You must live where weed is legal and smoke it 24/7. Why do valid disagreements have to be followed by unnecessary personal attacks?

Agreed! I recommend those who need to create personal attacks create a King/Queen of the Hill app to satisfy that need.

#10 jdb8167

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 09:33 AM

Yosh007, on 26 December 2012 - 07:52 AM, said:

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CNN? Really? Of all the news sources on the web, you recommend them? You must live where weed is legal and smoke it 24/7.

Why do valid disagreements have to be followed by unnecessary personal attacks?

Welcome to the internet. That was mild compared to a lot of stuff I see daily.

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Posted 31 December 2012 - 08:56 AM

Rather a blah bunch of apps IMHO. Dropbox is next to essential, but other than that, meh.

Recommend some apps that'll wow the new user.

Examples:

An astronomy app, like Distant Suns or GoSkyWatch.

Some tool and/or augmented reality apps, e.g. Theodolite HD, Clinometer HD or others.

A navigation app; I like MotionX, Google Earth or Gaia GPS.

Alternative search apps. DuckDuckGo, Google (voice and goggles yeah!), Mercury.

Organizers: no mention of Evernote?? Another necessity.

PIMs: TaskPaper. Fantastical.

Photo: SketchBook, PS Express, SnapSeed. Free.

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Posted 04 January 2013 - 11:36 AM

CNN? Not a great app IMO and I have used it plenty. And you forgot to mention that you can't watch live video without paying for a full cable subscription.

How about Flipboard? Now that's a great app for reading news.