![]() ![]() I’m a weather nerd, and getting a big, responsive radar under my fingertips is just magical. WeatherBug: While their application for Windows is crap, I love this app on my iPad. It makes reading easier and more convenient than ever. It’s great to read on a device I almost always have with me. While I much prefer the iBook interface, Amazon’s Kindle store has many, many more titles to choose from. IBooks & Kindle for iPad: I had never touched an ebook before the iPad. I probably will update to the “Plus” version before long. ĮSV Bible: This app is a relative newcomer to the App Store, and is simple and elegant. Back to the point: I use Google Voice to catch my voicemails and transcribe them to email. Every time I tap it, I just get angry Apple denied Google access to the App Store for Voice-related products last year. It also works on Windows boxes, which is handy since my day job keeps me shackled to a Vista box. It’s far easier (and more reliable, in my experience) than Back to my Mac. LogMeIn: I have LogMeIn Free installed on all of my machines - and on some machines I keep running for family members. (Sign up via this link to gain some extra space for yourself and for me) I use it all the time, but because I bought the iPad without 3G connection, this isn’t as helpful as it could be. If you don’t use this app, you’re missing out on a great way to keep files in sync between various computers and mobile devices. I’m currently looking for something to replace GoodReader, however, simply due to the UI deficiencies.ĭropbox: Oh, glorious Dropbox. I find it very irritating I can’t sync my iPad with more than one Aperture library. But since I use my iPad at home and at work, it’s nice to be able to dump things on it over Wi-Fi and move on with my day. GoodReader: I know, the icon and the app behind it are terrifyingly ugly. Easy to use, and easy to look at, it’s a winner all the way around. But I’m kind of glad they didn’t, because it made me far more likely to download this beautiful app by Tapbots. Maps: Maps is great on the iPad, but much like iPod, it doesn’t see a lot of action, but is handy enough to keep it on the front page.Ĭalcbot: It blows my mind Apple shipped this thing without a calculator. It seems wrong not to have this on the first page of apps. IPod: I don’t listen to much music on my iPad, but I do have a “critical” collection of about 12 albums I like to keep on it. I suspect when iOS 4.2 rolls out, I will try to dump everything into Folders, as many have done, destroying this “Hall of Fame” effect. I view the front page of any iOS device as a look into how that device is used. I’ve used it behind my icons from the beginning. This photo is by John Carey and can be found at his website,. While my lock screen wallpaper is a picture of my kids, I prefer a simple background behind my icons. I did this on my iPhone and currently do it on my Droid. I like to leave a blank row between my main apps and the Dock, to give my finger plenty of space to swipe from screen to screen without accidentally opening an app. The Dock always has the same number of apps in it, regardless of orientation, so why can’t the rows above it? One reason is that I hate how the app icons on the Springboard re-arrange when the iPad is rotated. You will notice the above screenshot is of my iPad in the landscape orientation. I want a shortcut to insert the current date/time as text.This post has been sitting in my “Local Drafts” folder for some time, and after reading Shawn’s excellent “ An iPad Buyer’s Guide and Other FAQs” this morning, I decided it was time to finish it. If this is still unsatisfactory, then see Issue 33. I want Notational Velocity to stay in the menu bar instead.įirst, know that you can set a global hot-key to bring NV to the front under Preferences > General > Activate NV Shortcut, provided that the app is already running. I want to use multiple colors, differing fonts and sizes, paragraph spacing, etc, like TextEdit or a full-fledged word processor. I want multiple databases with different sets of notes. The goal of NV is to avoid the need for explicit categorization. Notational Velocity allows you to organize your notes by search, through the combination of searching and creating. I want to organize my notes into separate folders. Notational Velocity is a note-taking application, not a file/image organization tool. I want to store images in Notational Velocity. ![]()
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