After a few weeks of use I find I'm barely using my laptop in favour of the iPad. This is somewhat expected but not quite to the current degree. Chloe is also an ardent iPad convert, helped in no small part by her MacBook having a dead battery. In fact I've even gone so far as to suggest replacing our current house IT setup (MacBook, MacBook Pro and iPad) with two iPads synced to a Mac Mini next to the TV which would also act as a home media server plugged in to the TV. Budget does not yet allow for this but a man can dream.
I have also jailbroken my iPad, ostensibly for multiasking but I'm also partial to the organisation opportunities afforded by Categories/Folders. Makes it much easier to get to applications without having to swipe across many screens to get there.
So, all that being said, here are my currently recommended iPad apps:
- Dropbox - For file transfers and documents
- Evernote - For note taking etc.
- Reeder - RSS reader
- Osfoora HD - Twitter!
- Words with Friends HD - Scrabble
- IMDB - Easier to navigate on the iPad than the website
- Instapaper - For offline article reading
- TV Guide
- ComicZeal - For reading comics in cbr and cbz formats
- BBC News - News!
- Angry Birds - Eater of time
- The Incident - Fun 8bit style game
