A Month with my iPad
Added by 55disk on 28 June 2010
I was lucky enough to get an iPad the day it came out in the UK, and after about a month of use I’m completely hooked on it. Actually my whole family is too!
My wife is always picking it up to search for something, usually something to do with shopping but other times just to find out the answer to something. This was always done before with my iPhone (still first generation and going strong), but now it’s the iPad that is picked up first. I have the wifi only one, and find this is fine for me as I tend to be always around a connection. I can see myself getting one of Three’s Mifi devices on pay as you go for my needs when out and about.
My son loves watching mickey mouse or other assorted Bob the Builder or Fireman Sam movies, he’s only 3 and can navigate his way around the apps and games with ease. Which does go to show you that the UI and responsiveness of the device is the best you can get.
I managed to use it for work doing UI concepts with an excellent app called iMockups there’s a great review with video at TUAW found I could mock them up then email the wireframes to myself .
Using it as a photoframe viewer always turns head’s, as does using it for either radio in the kitchen or recipe guides when cooking.
Here’s is a quick list of apps I have been using.
- Dropbox
- Penultimate – not taking for the Moleskin fanatic
- Adobe Ideas
- Sorted – to-do’s
- SimpleNote – notetaking
- Explore flicker – handy for backgrounds
- Accu Weather
- GoodReader
- Doc HD – doc editing
- Early Edition – RSS reader that looks like a newspaper
- Let’s Golf – game and way to addictive
Loads more and you do find yourself in the app store looking for great apps alot.