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Re: iPad fun

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Check out http://www.imore.com/ for general updates, app reviews and techie info for the iPad.
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Re: iPad fun

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If you want your iPad to be more than an expensive toy, be sure to download the following apps:

OnLive Desktop (work on your Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel docs on your iPad in the familiar setting of a Windows 7 screen)
Dropbox (sync your documents between your PC and iPad)

Other cool apps I use:

Logitech Alert lets me monitor my home's security cameras from afar
Squeezebox lets me play all of my music on a portable boombox anywhere in the house, using my iPad as a controller
Kindle reader
FedCtRecords = Pacer
Google Earth
Weather+
MaxGo - watch Cinemax on your iPad
HBO Go - watch HBO
Netflix - watch movies
Opentable - make dinner reservations
Epicurious - turn your iPad into a kickass cookbook
Demo.
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Re: iPad fun

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CaptainKickback wrote:What I am using it for is to read the 4 or 5 usual news sites I go to daily, while ensconced on the sofa and watching my favorite programs
You may want to check out the Instapaper app as a way to download webpages to read later when you are on the go, or in a spot where you can't connect to the web.
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Re: iPad fun

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Be sure to check out some of the multiplayer games like chess, go, scrabble, and mahjong.
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Re: iPad fun

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This one app is great if you like social media and news. Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you. Flip through news stories, your Facebook newsfeed, tweets from your Twitter timeline, photos from Instagram friends and much more.

Flipboard