Top Six of My Favorite iPad Apps

Have you bought your iPad already? If yes, I am sure you are busy looking at iPad applications already. There are many iPad apps which fascinated me, though some are just replicates from iPhone but just tweaked to fit the larger screen of the iPad.

Below are some of my favorite iPad apps so far..

1. iWork for iPad (Pages, Numbers and Keynote)

iWork is the painstaking fruit of Apple’s labor as they try to ensure an easy and intuitive system. You can create new documents or open up existing document types (if they aren’t iWork files, you will have to convert them which take some time).

Pages is the word processing app which becomes super easy to use when paired with a bluetooth keyboard or Keyboard Dock. As for Keynote, it is like Powerpoint and allows you to create and edit slides for presentations. Numbers doesn’t have all the capabilities of Excel, but it is a good tool for viewing charts, graphs and spreadsheets.

2. Air Video for iPad

Air Video allows you to stream video from your PC or Mac to your iPad. The interface is intuitive and you can preconvert any clips you want (rather than realtime convert) with the touch of a button. Air Video will be also getting MP3 support very soon.

3. GoodReader for iPad

GoodReader is a good PDF reader for the iPhone and the iPad version is even better. What makes GoodReader special is that it can not only view local files including PDF, Word, Excel, PNG, TXT, JPEG, etc. but you can also download files from a URL or connect to a web server.

GoodReader handles large files well too (it can even unzip files) and you can download your Google Docs files for offline reading or to open in another application for easy editing.

4. Dragon for iPad

Dragon is an established name in voice recognition, for good reason. Their NautrallySpeaking engine actually lets you speak and records your voice with accuracy. Dragon can keep up with most sentences but may face problems if you start rattling off paragraphs or engage in conversations. Nevertheless, if you have important thoughts which deserve preserving but are too lazy to pen down, Dragon is the app for you.

5. Evernote for iPad

This is the Evernote you know and love in the iPhone, and Apple has made this app work superbly for the iPad too. Evernote is a service that lets you clip audio, video, text, images, etc. and save it to a central web repository. You can assign documents or files with tags for easy collections and organization.

You can also use Evernote to create voice notes, attach pictures and make edits to text documents. I love to use Evernote as a list maker that lets me jot down quick memos, lists, and to-dos. Evernote iPad app is superior to its iPhone counterpart.

This iPad app is so clean, fast and easy to use that it might just convince you to upgrade to the premium plan for $45 a year.

6. Weather Channel Max for iPad

The Weather Channel’s free iPad app is a must-download, as I like to know the weather when I plan my outings.You can scan a 36-hour and 10-day forecast in a tastefully animated page, then hop to radars, webcams and video clips with a single button press. With the weather expected to change in a volatile manner, the Weather Channel’s app is a necessity for me.

Besides the six iPad apps above, there are other useful apps such as ‘1Password’ which allow me to protect my passwords and important data. “Instapaper Pro” is another neat app which lets you keeps a tab on interesting articles which you have no time to read.

I am still exploring and adding iPad apps but I can’t keep up with all of them. What apps are you using right now?

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