Most of my friends are getting iPads and/or iPhones. Here are my notes on my favorite apps. This is a great match for startup employees and engineers.
Apps for work productivity: (Especially startup company builders)
- Reeder: This is my Google Reader application. It stays in sync with Google Reader feeds & unread statuses. I consider this my "Learning machine" (iPad, iPhone?)
- Zenbe: Great TO-DO app with separate lists. Great web page version for laptops that stays in sync with iPad & iPhone. (iPad, iPhone)
- Quickoffice: I have my laptop PowePoints, Excel and Word docs sync to DropBox.com. I then can read and WRITE to those files using Quickoffice on the iPAD. I don't have to remember to "upload" from my laptop, so I can edit files without having to "prep" them before leaving my laptop. (iPad, iPhone?)
- iMockups & Sketchy: These are wireframe creating apps for people who design software product UI. I love mulling over ideas in comfortable places with the iPad and later moving them to the laptop at later stages.
- Kindle: Having your ebooks on your iPAD is great for reading books whenever time opens up (at home, lunch at work, vacations). Never have to remember to drag books with you.
- MindMeister: Mind mapping software that is very good syncing the files across the WEB version for my laptop, my iPad and my iPhone (iPad & iPhone)
- Skype: I pay $10 into my account so I can send text messages with skype. This allows me to easily send them from my iPad or iPhone. I have to use the iPhone version on my iPad. (iPhone)
- Instapaper: Send good web pages to be saved to be read later
- Keynote & Numbers: I use these to sketch out raw ideas in a coffee shop. This is great to get past the creative huddle early in a comfortable place. Then later I email them to my laptop in order to do serious business modeling in PowerPoint and Excel. I never use the "Pages" spreadsheet. I recommend buying that later only when you need it. (iPad)
- TripIt: Great for travel (iPad & iPhone)
- WeatherBug: Good for getting the weather (iPad)
- SugarSync: I stopped using SugarSync, but this app was great when I used SugarSync. I found Dropbox to be the best. (iPad)
- Textnow: Free text message
- Friendly: This is the free facebook application. I never get a chance to use it. (iPad)
- Find iPhone: Use this in case you want to find your iPad when you lose it (iPad & iPhone?)
- Wi-Fi Finder: Great to find a place to use your laptop (iPad)
- Kayak HD: Find hotels or flights (iPad)
- iLunascape: This is a multi-tab browser. This is great for web pages to load in parallel for fast flipping between tabs to already loaded web pages.
Games: (for people who like a thinking challenge instead of arcade games)
- Slay: More complex than risk, but relaxing (iPad)
- Cover Orange: Good planning with physics
- Cut the Rope: Good planning with physics
- World of Goo: Build with physics and be strategically efficient (iPad)
- Beyond Ynth: Logic physics and puzzle
- Plants vs Zombies HD: This is Plants vs Zombies and a fun planning app (iPad)
- GodFinger (& All Stars): Grow a civilization with resource & time constrints
- Angry Birds: Good planning with physics. Catapult game
- ACrawler HD: Truck driving physics
- MX Mayhem: Motorcycle riding physics
- TradeNations: Good for relaxing building, with time constrained resource allocation
- Galcon Fusion: Fun for a while
- Control Freak: Fun strategic resource control game
- Montezuma: Find the best path
- My Kingdom for the Princess: I only played a few minutes
- Cave Run: Jumping and action
- Gravity HD: Physics and planning
- Castle Warriors: Take over resources
- New York: Great roller coaster physics
- Crack Code: Decrypt the code using permutations
- Hotel Mogul: Resource Planning
- Bumper Boats: Directional planning
Great for 2 to 4 year olds:
- Geared HD
- Toyshop
- XmasTale
- Doodle Buddy
- Art of Glow
- Paper Toss HD
- Virtuoso
- Touch Hockey
- Talking Tom
- Talking Harry
- New York: Great roller coaster physics
- Cover Orange: Good planning with physics
- Cut the Rope: Good planning with physics
- World of Goo: Build with physics and be strategically efficient (iPad)
- Plants vs Zombies HD: This is Plants vs Zombies and a fun planning app (iPad)
- GodFinger (& All Stars): Grow a civilization with resource & time constrints
- Angry Birds: Good planning with physics. Catapult game
- Galcon Fusion: Fun for a while
- FarmStory
- Friendsheep
Other:
- NetFlix: Stream movies or add and manage your queue. (iPad & iPhone?)
- XFinity: A great way to see upcoming TV shows, and possibly set your DVR. (I never get time to use this) (iPad & iPhone?)
- Fandango: Great for movies.
- Zappos: Best shopping for shoes ever.
- Flipboard: Worth checking out for news. I didn't get into it
- Twitteriffic: Twitter client
I'd love to hear your ideas in the comments.
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