IPad apps for the grownups

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<p>I have an IPad which I love. Much of what is on it are apps used with my students at school. I’m just now putting apps on it for myself…the grownup. Last night I downloaded (free) the Betty Crocker Cookbook. I also have Words with Friends, an online scrabble game you can play with others (I got the free edition of that too).</p>

<p>Anyway…thought I’d start a thread to see what apps others have that they love. So…list the price, any free apps you’ve found, and what apps you like and why.</p>

<p>I think most of the IPhone apps also work on the IPad…don’t they?</p>

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<p>I use my weather.com app all the time.</p>

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<p>Netflix, HBO to Go, TiVo premiere. Think I watch too much TV???</p>

<p>Also, there are some that I use in worship planning and presentation that are invaluable, including ones that allow me to control our sanctuary computer remotely for A/V stuff and one that allows us to control the mixing board in the sound booth. I think this is cool and I am a nerd.</p>

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<p>I like my solitaire game/app.</p>

<p>My credit card, mortgage company, 401k, and IRA banks all have apps that I use. </p>

<p>My D currently has 15 colleges on her list of prospectives. I placed an “app button” to each school on my iPad. It’s really just a safari bookmark on a home screen. But, I like the convenience of having all of them grouped together neatly. </p>

<p>The CBS Sports NFL app is really cool on game days. (Let’s hope we get to use it this year.:rolleyes:)</p>

<p>Sparkpeople is OK. </p>

<p>I like ebay, Target, amazon. </p>

<p>Most of the news organizations have decent apps: AP, ABC, Huffington, CNN, USA Today, etc. </p>

<p>Thats all I can think of from memory. There might be more.</p>

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<p>Flipboard</p>

<p>I am a news junkie and this is a beautiful magazine-like reader where you can subscribe to various websites and read it off this single app, all for free. Not all websites can be retrieved from this app, but right now I have my facebook, news websites, various cooking/decorating/traveling blogs and magazines , my D’s college, music/book/film reviews and they keep adding more every day. I rarely go to individual news apps anymore.</p>

<p>I have also have Zite which is similar but I prefer Flipboard.</p>

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<p>Kindle App… Best app ever! :D</p>

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<p>xslacker…I’ve been looking at that Kindle app…does that basically allow you to use your IPad like a kindle??</p>

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<p>Another big vote for Flipboard. Definitely my favorite. Another news app I like is news360. For each story, it provides a tab which links to different news outlets (CNN, FOX, MSN, BBC, etc.). All viewpoints (hence 360). </p>

<p>IMDB for quickly looking up that actor you recognize but can’t remember why.</p>

<p>I kinda like the Apollo browser a little better than Safari. </p>

<p>Yelp, Opentable, Urbanspoon for finding restaurants. Can make reservations on Opentable. Similarly, Tripadvisor has an app that accesses travel reviews. </p>

<p>For games, I kinda like the Scrabble game to play solo. Being a bit impatient, I find the most annoying aspect of playing Scrabble is waiting for your opponent to place a word. Ha. Also lots of good puzzle apps for Sudoku, crosswords, etc. </p>

<p>Best aspect of the Kindle app is I can download books my wife has bought on her “actual” Kindle. Can’t do Kindle magazines last I checked. Not sure why that is. FWIW, rumors are out there that Apple’s gonna pull Kindle app since they don’t get a slice of Kindle purchases. Not sure how true that is.</p>

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<p>Yeah, you can buy books from Amazon in one click, and if you put the app on your ipad, iphone, android phone or computer they all stay synced. So you can read to page 137 on one device, open it in another and it will go to page 137.</p>

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<p>That will suck. :(</p>

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<p>Paprika (recipe organizer) You can search the web (Foodtv, Epicurious, etc) and Paprika will
format that online recipe, save it and organize it offline. I use it more than any other app(besides Ibooks and Kindle).</p>

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<p>So if I download the kindle app now… will I get to keep using it if Apple ditches the app in the future??</p>

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<p>ESPN</p>

<p>Solitaire</p>

<p>Kindle</p>

<p>Yelp (find restaurants etc)</p>

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<p>Great idea for a thread. I’m not a game player, but I love Bejeweled 2 (99 cents) on the iPad. I use Kindle too, because it can share with our real Kindle. iBooks seems pretty essential; I have my textbooks on there, and use it to read pdf’s. Eventually I’ll try out some of the pdf annotation programs, but it’s hard to know where to start. Does anyone use iAnnotate?</p>

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<p>I thought i read the post about the Apple-Amazon bickering recently. But a quick Google indicates that most of the articles were from February. So maybe a red herring? </p>

<p>Sorry about that. </p>

<p>For financial news/tracking stocks, I like CNBC’s.</p>

<p>And no one’s mentioned CC’s app yet. Made for iphone but works on ipad too.</p>

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<p>The way I understand it- Apple has laid down rules that no app may link to an outside website to facilitate purchases, as Kindle does when you buy new books.
They have let it slide for now, but I expect when the new OS is released it won’t allow it.
[Despite</a> Apple?s subscription rules, Kindle remains in App Store - iPhone app article - Phil Hornshaw | Appolicious iPhone and iPad App Directory](<a href=“NewsReports - Breaking News and Top Stories”>NewsReports - Breaking News and Top Stories)</p>