We helped get my father-in-law an IPAD for Christmas. I'm trying to come up with some APPS to load for him to play with on Christmas morning. At the moment I'm looking for a good word processor, and maybe some fun games. Help.
Here are the apps Skin has collected in anticipation of getting an iPad. Of all of them, only one cost money: Pages ($9.99, good word processor) Dragon Dictation Dropbox Evernote Google Earth Google Voice Hulu Plus iBooks Kindle Maxim Magazine textPlus 4Free Yellow Pages Kobo 1.8 million free ebooks Barnes & Noble Nook EasyTask Flipboard Maxim HD Nightstand Central Popular Mechanics Project TweetDeck The Washington Post The Weather Channel
iHeart Radio eReader (along with the Kindle reader) 10 Pin Shuffle (Game) Unblock Me (Puzzle game) Flight Control (game) Angry Birds (game) Angry Birds Seasons Jaws (game) Harbor Master (game) Is he into hunting? Deer Hunter / Deer Hunter Safari / High Caliber Hunting (all games) The Weather Channel Flixster (movies) Chess.com Skype All-In Pedometer (an excellent app for exercising) BBC News Fox News Also consider paying for the apps. The free ones are mostly crippled or loaded with annoying ads. The truly free ones are...meh....you get what you pay for if you catch my meaning...... (a couple good ones but only because you're buying stuff for instance the Kindle app is good but obviously you're paying for books) Also make sure you read the reviews. Some apps might say they work on iPad but they work best on the iPhone and iTouch.
Well, that also goes for the Kindle and B&N apps. Someone else also noted that the bulk of the good "free" apps make their money on a subscription or POS model.
!! You can also get more classic games as well, like chess, backgammon, checkers, connect 4, etc. Oh, and download Skymap. That one is a must have!!
I know a pilot out of CA that says there is some kind of airport mapping thing that is incredible. I can't remember what he called it but he said it was reason enough for any pilot to buy an ipad.
Alaska airlines is going to IPADS for all their chart/flight manuals. You can hook them up to the yoke and all your approach charts, airways charts, etc are available electronically. There are already other electronic flight bags out there but the IPAD's size and utility makes it especially handy this way. Other airlines and companies will follow- Alaska Air has always sort of been on the leading edge technologically as far as the 121 carriers go.
