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My favorite iPad apps - Spring 2011 Edition

By | May 16, 2011, 11:00am PDT

Summary: If you missed my talk at ACAMUG on Friday night here’s a list of my top iPad apps of the moment, loosely categorized, but in no specific order.

If you missed my talk at ACAMUG on Friday night, don’t fret. Here’s a list of my top iPad apps of the moment — Spring 2011 edition — from my presentation. They’re loosely categorized and in no specific order and since I ran out of time at ACAMUG, I threw in a few extra.

News/Weather/Sports

Productivity

Social

Books/Magazines

Video/Entertainment

  • Apple’s iPod & Videos apps - for movies, TV, audiobooks, podcasts, etc.
  • HBO Go (free for subscribers)
  • XFINITY TV (free for subs)
  • TiVo (free, only works with Premiere TiVo hardware)

Music

Eye Candy/Games

What of your favorite iPad apps did I miss?

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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Good Choices
kenosha77a 16th May 2011
How about these:

For Star Gazing: "StarmapHD" and "Star Walk". Also check out "NASA"

I prefer "Splashtop Remote" over "LogMeIn Ignition" because Splashtop Remote supports audio content streaming. What good is streaming Flash Video's if you can't hear the audio track?

I do enjoy using "Compass HD" and "Clinometer" occasionally.

And, for transferring photos to and from your iPad and another computer, I enjoy using "Photo Transfer App"

If a person is into archived photos, I recommend "Life" as well.

Well .. like I said, good choices all.
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Wolfram, Skype, Beejive GT, Evernote, Flixter, Translate, TomTom, Flighttrack
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