12 Best Applications for Your New Apple IPad

Marketed since May 28, the touch pad from Apple already has an impressive collection of applications. Here are our favorites.

The halfway between smartphone and netbook, the iPad will be held in hand or as the first or as the second. Yet its large screen and a definition of 1024 x 768 pixels, promising wide range of uses. This is an overview of applications that we consider interesting or well made that we offer here. History of discovering what this tablet is capable in areas as diverse as the image, the game or office, plus a utility that facilitates its use.

Utilities

SplashID: trunk secret codes

Are you in fear of forgetting too many passwords, account numbers or codes for credit cards? This application lists them as individual files with a multitude of customizable information fields. It is beautifully presented but only works vertically on the iPad. In the longest course, its to fill this database by entering codes and passwords to many sites or forums that we visit regularly; the most important is to protect access to the application itself, given the seeds it contains.

Several methods are proposed, SplashID is also able to create for himself a secure password that we need to take care of to note because it is very difficult to retain a combination of numbers, letters and special characters randomly generated. Each sheet, and their information, can finally be emailed in text mode to an iPhone, iPod or iPad running the same application.

Publisher: Splash Data
Price: $19.95 ($9.95 on App Store)

Search Rocket: Research Turbo

While Google has the answer to most queries. As for the most demanding researchers, they generally resort to meta-engines. But a mobile toy like the iPhone or the iPad, expects first search simple and quick. That is what this application is all about. It offers more than twenty search services: Google at Imdb (Internet Movie Database), via YouTube, Yahoo, and others less known to us that you select a tape before you start your search. Or by typing two or three characters of the keyboard shortcut, followed by the word or phrase to search for. The application keeps a search history. Advantage to the version that displays horizontally iPad engines left and looking right into an integrated browser.

Publisher: Houdah Software
Price: $0.99

Photo, drawing and music

PhotoPad: retouches summary

It does not replace a twenty year old software like Photoshop. However, some applications of image processing bloom. PhotoPad, for example, which recolor the images either globally or by filling an area of a chosen color. Limited settings and pleasing results, but simplistic.

Publisher: Nchsoftware
Price: Free

Ideas: primitive art

If Apple does not like Flash - and perhaps Adobe! - Adobe does not hate the iPad. Proof Ideas with a sort of "Paint" that allows to draw a single application of various sizes on different layers. For example, an image imported into a special layer.

Publisher: Adobe
Price: Free

TabToolKit: to play a song

This application allows you to search and download on Internet the files partition or tablatures of GuitarPro format. Most of these files are made voluntarily by users. With them, you can work out the pieces along the score and the positioning of the fingers or on a fretboard or on a piano keyboard.

Publisher: Agile
Price: $9.99

Games

Pinball HD: three pinball machines or nothing!

There were three sets of flippers to the iPhone: The Deep, Wild West and Jungle Style sold separately. Here they are together in a single application in high resolution for the iPad. As in the iPhone, it is possible to turn the vision into 3D settings for the iPad to play with different types of glasses with colored filters. Each pinball is played on the iPad or vertically in zoom mode (the camera follows close the circuit of the ball), or horizontally, the pool is presented as a whole in perspective.

If shaking the tablet does not alter the trajectory of the ball, the game is excellent, sound and feel cared to visit, each flipper booking number of surprises in its various phases of play for some strange reason. It happens sometimes that the ball hangs a few seconds before resuming his race. But it will not stop the game and does not make a score, the best that can be published on the network.

Publisher: Gameprom
Price: $2.99

Small World: the renewal of the board game

Here is a new use for the iPad, which is transformed here into the game board company. The Franco-American publisher Days of Wonder has had the good idea to translate his game strategy Small World, released in April 2009 on the shelf in the Apple brand. In this game of great civilizations shifted to a no-inspired graphics "BD"; players struggle for a world too small to accommodate all the people who want to settle (dwarves, mages, amazons, giants, orcs, humans or other).

To do this, the tablet is placed on a table, like a chessboard, the two players facing each other. Everyone has a turn without the need to reverse the iPad and uses his troops wisely to gain maximum regions while preventing the opponent from doing likewise. There are many advantages compared to the version "board" that cannot go wrong in the phases of the game or cheat and tutorial built into this iPad version can learn the game while playing. The first application of a long series!

Publisher: Days of Wonder
Price: $4.99

PadRacer: Circuit 24 is back

The iPhone was already used as a steering wheel in driving games. With PadRacer, he piloted a rocket early hours of racing on a circuit displayed on the screen of the iPad. So the resurrection of the "circuit" 24 which the iPhone (or iPod Touch) is transformed into controller. The application is downloaded to it once to be installed on the iPad and four iPhone (or iPod Touch) maximum.

The devices communicate with each other using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth option, but the two modes of wireless communication must not be simultaneously active on each device. The unique tour is a bit simplistic and every iPhone screen simply displays a different colored vehicle with front wheels turned by the inclination of the accelerometer. No brakes, no speed to pass. Simple, but extremely promising!

Publisher: Software Moderna HK
Price: $4.99

Social Network

Sobees: the newspapers of Facebook

The social networking site is already fully compatible with Safari on the iPad, especially since the videos are no longer using Flash. More innovative, Sobees, you can see Facebook as if it were a newspaper horizontally or vertically. A headline uses the latest release while columns listens status updates and sharing links. Two frames respectively show the last picture and the last published video with the ability to scroll with a flick. Graphically, Sobees is very successful, but it lacks basic functionality such as instant messaging or discussion. It also regrets the relative slowness of loading the latest information.

Publisher: Sobees
Price: free

Others

Theresa Meow, No touch my pillow: Animated Book

Teresa Mew is a black and white cat, the main character of a collection of books for children, edited by Hatier. Here is the first adaptation for iPhone and iPad as a book with soundtrack. The texts are illustrated by an actor recited, and the application available in three languages (French, English and Spanish). The pages turn by hand or automatically and children are invited to visit the finger at the small pictures to trigger audio responses. The price may be somewhat high when compared to the printed book sold at $6.

Publisher: Hatier
Price: $3.99

Zinio: Magazine

Readers will no longer buy newspapers at the kiosk? Do not worry, these are the magazines that come to them directly with this beautiful reading lamp colors including all media owners dreaming for months. With Zinio, there are actually many magazines around the world, downloadable digital version, the number or by subscription. The pages turn, the articles read in text mode and interactivity is the rendezvous!

Publisher: Zinio
Price: free

iWork 2009: Office layout, spreadsheet and presentation

In deciding to adapt the three iWork applications, Apple wants to show that this little tablet is less than a parent of an iPhone Mac. The three programs have been redesigned to limit their function to use the iPad. This was achieved partly side interface with real innovations, especially through the pop-over feature, reserved for the iPad in the new iPhone operating system OS 3.2. With these windows, there are buttons, sliders, level sliders.

In short, all sorts of options that appear in successive trays. Here, you will find no menus, just a simple interface where many things remain to be invented. Any new document is automatically saved in the library-specific software. But will not print. Only exports are allowed such pdf and emailing.

Publisher: Apple
Price: $ 9.99 per application

Best Photo Editing/Painting Applications

Here is a list of all the best photo editing and painting applications for your iPad:

1. Photogene: Photogene helps you to improve your digital photos. With this tool, it’s easier to edit, improve and decorate your photos.

Publisher: Omer Shoor
Price: $3.99

2. PhotoForge: PhotoForge is a highly optimized editing and painting application designed for the iPad. It can be used for image manipulation, retouching, effects, and color correction, as well as a painter’s tool. It is indispensable for creating original artwork, or editing photos on your mobile device.

Publisher: GhostBird Software
Price: $2.99

3. Filterstorm: Using a uniquely crafted touch interface, Filterstorm allows for more intuitive editing than its desktop counterparts with a toolset designed for serious photography. Filterstorm contains a suite of powerful tools including curves manipulation, color correction abilities, noise reduction, sharpening, vignetting, and black and white conversion fine-tuning.

Publisher: Tai Shimizu
Price: $2.99

4. Masque: Add striking effects to your photos through simple touch interactions. Create your "Masque-r-piece" and then show it off to the world through convenient in-app sharing!

Publisher: Ubermind, Inc.
Price: $5.99

5. PixelMagic: Use your fingers to control image parameters like brightness, contrast and saturation, apply filters, draw with many brushes, apply effects or perform fine-tuned histogram corrections. PixelMagic is designed to be easy yet powerful.

Publisher: NightSparc
Price: $3.99

6. PhotoPad: PhotoPad is a premium photo editing app designed specifically for the iPad. You can adjust color, contrast, tint, chromaticity and saturation with this tool.

Publisher: ZAGG Inc.
Price: Free

7. Sketcher HD: Sketcher HD is the iPad Exclusive app for sketches, doodles and endless fun for you, your family and friends!

Publisher: AçaÃ* LLC
Price: $2.99

8. Fingerpaint Lite 2.0: This KID-FRIENDLY interface ensures that your young one will enjoy clutter-free coloring for hours!

Publisher: Mike Tedesco
Price: Free

9. Brushes: Featuring an advanced color picker, high quality brushes, layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device.

Publisher: Steve Sprang
Price: $7.99

10. Layers: Layers enables you to doodle, draw on photos, or paint a masterpiece on your new iPad. The pro edition of Layers provides more brushes, more layers, and more advanced layer operations than the standard edition.

Publisher: Gotow.net
Price: $4.99

11. Autodesk SketchBook Pro: It is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.

Publisher: Autodesk Inc.
Price: $7.99

12. ArtStudio: It uses advanced mathematics to attain the highest level of quality, at the same time offering incredible performance achieved through numerous code optimizations.

Publisher: Lucky Clan
Price: $3.99

13. Artist's Touch: Artist's Touch is an amazingly intuitive and powerful painting application that let's even an amateur artist paint like a professional. Paint "Freehand" on multiple mediums with life like tools and brushes or create paintings from your photos through our exclusive Photo Paint feature that creates digital blue prints of your photos.

Publisher: Artamata, Inc.
Price: $4.99

14. Adobe Ideas 1.0: Adobe Ideas is your digital sketchbook, letting you capture and explore ideas anywhere you go. Adobe Ideas is an ideal companion for the professional design applications from Adobe, including Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop software.

Publisher: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Price: Free

15. Draw Free for iPad: Sketch, Doodle, Draw On Top Of Pictures, Erase, Share on Twitter and Email.

Publisher: David Porter Apps
Price: Free

16. TypeDrawing: TypeDrawing is a really easy app to use, but it's perfect for creating TYPOGRAPHY ART and UNIQUE WATERMARK over your photos.

Publisher: Hansol Huh
Price: $2.99

17. Drawing Pad: Drawing Pad is a mobile art studio designed exclusively for the iPad! The beautiful user interface puts the fun into creating art. Create your own art using "actual-sized" photo-realistic crayons, markers, paint brushes, colored pencils, stickers, roller pens and MORE!

Publisher: Darren Murtha Design
Price: $1.99

Best Office Applications

1. PDF Reader Pro Edition - PDF Reader Pro Edition is the most powerful PDF Reader available for the iPad. You can easily transfer your PDF files to your iPad from your computer or directly from a website. Now you can transfer all your PDF files using the USB sharing feature!

Publisher: iTECH DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS INC.
Price: $3.99

2. Cultured Code Things - Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task manager. Other todo applications either oversimplify or are too difficult to use. Things instead offers the perfect balance between ease of use and powerful features.

Publisher: Cultured Code
Price: $19.99

3. deskPad Office - Little yellow 'sticky' notes have been the basis of great productivity for many years just like your iPhone has been. Now the two of them come together for even greater productivity! Now it works with a Bluetooth keyboard making this the Ultimate app for typed notes!

Publisher: Bluegrass Digital Inc.
Price: $3.99

4. Office² HD - With Office² HD you can view, create and edit Word (DOC) and Excel (XLS) files on your iPad. It integrates with Google Docs, DropBox and MobileMe iDisk too, which means that you can now access your important documents at all times.

Publisher: Byte²
Price: $7.99

5. HR At Your Fingertips - HR At Your Fingertips is must have for any small business owner or HR professional. This app contains a glossary of HR terms, Federal laws and how to create an employee handbook. HR At Your Fingertips is separated into three sections: the HR glossary, the HR laws section and writing a handbook

Publisher: HRSentry
Price: $1.99

6. Wondershare iDraft - Wondershare iDraft is a simple, easy to use notebook for the iPad. You can draw a picture, make a record for a conference, or just write down what you have in your mind with iDraft.

Publisher: Wondershare
Price: Free

7. iRead PDF - iRead PDF is a powerful PDF reader that offers tabbed reading, full-library keyword search, and support for viewing PDF standard annotations on your documents! Now, in addition to reading, searching and sharing your PDFs, you can open them straight from your email and view any notes, highlights, underlines, or drawings that have been added with standard annotation tools like Adobe Acrobat or Preview.

Publisher: Aji, LLC
Price: Free

8. Novatek Executive Dashboard - It allows the user to view Executive reports generated by Novatek. App provides read-only access to charts that are uploaded to a Novatek website and published to the web service. Built for Novatek by TDR Limited/Moki Networks.

Publisher: TDR Limited
Price: Free

9. Contacts Map - Contacts Map is a simple application that allows you to map out your contacts. You select a contact from your list and it will show you where they are in the world. The application uses the iPhone SDK's MapKit to provide Google Maps functionality.

Publisher: Dreamfreeze Software
Price: Free

10. ISEview-HD - ISEview-HD is a portable monitoring tool for Xiotech Corporation's Emprise 5000 Intelligent Storage Element (ISE), allowing quick access to performance and status information from any iPad.

Publisher: Xiotech
Price: Free

11. app4mac - app4mac is a software company building innovative, intuitive applications for the Mac computers. This application allows you to discover and purchase the software built by app4mac directly from your iPad. The user experience has been optimized for a touchscreen and the iPad capabilities.

Publisher: app4touch.com
Price: Free

12. Pages - Pages is the most beautiful word processing app ever designed for a mobile device. It’s the application you know and love for the Mac, completely reworked from the ground up for iPad. Documents look stunning on the bright, vivid iPad display. And writing is a dream with the large onscreen keyboard.

Publisher: Apple Inc.
Price: $9.99

13. Keynote - Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. It makes creating a world-class presentation, complete with animated charts and transitions, as simple as touching and tapping.

Publisher: Apple Inc.
Price: $9.99

14. Air Display - With Air Display, you can use your iPad as a wireless display for your Mac OS X computer. Air Display lets you position your iPad next to your computer, drag windows onto it, and interact with those windows as you would on any other computer display.

Publisher: Avatron Software, Inc.
Price: $9.99

For complete information on all these applications, refer Best iPad Office Apps.

Best Internet Applications

Following are some of the best internet applications for Apple iPad:

1. Netflix - Netflix is a service offering online flat rate DVD and Blu-ray Disc rental-by-mail and video streaming in the United States.

Publisher: Netflix, Inc.
Price: Free

2. iMockups - Mockups provides designers and developers with the ability to quickly draft wireframes for their websites and iPhone/iPad apps. iMockups combines a beautiful interface with intuitive functionality, taking full advantage of the breakthrough touchscreen device.

Publisher: Endloop Systems Inc.
Price: $9.99

3. Yellow Pages - Yellow Pages now auto locates where you are and gives you relevant search results based on your location. This is hands-down a must-have 1st screen app for your mobile device.

Publisher: Avantar LLC
Price: Free

4. Papers - Browse through the hundreds of articles in your library with the flick of a finger, lookup the papers written by a certain author or published in that well-known journal, organize your library in collections and add your rating or flag great works.

Publisher: mekentosj.com
Price: $14.99

5. Hulu Plus - Stream thousands of episodes from hundreds of current and classic TV shows to your iPad, iPhone 3GS iPhone 4, 3rd generation iPod Touch, computer, TV, and other devices with a Hulu Plus subscription.

Publisher: Hulu, LLC
Price: Free

6. Raven Tools - Raven provides an on-the-go dashboard for all of the website campaigns you're managing in Raven Internet Marketing Tools. You can use it to check the status of any campaign, which includes data from site analytics, rank checking results, link building progress, social mentions, and goal conversions.

Publisher: Sitening
Price: Free

7. YUDU Media - YUDU Media are the leading providers of innovative ePublishing solutions for web, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. View YUDU’s digital product brochures and help videos for more information on YUDU’s many ePublishing solutions.

Publisher: YUDU Media
Price: Free

8. eBay for iPad - eBay is now open for business anytime, anywhere on the Apple iPad! With a brand new simple interface optimized specifically for the features of the iPad, eBay members will enjoy a new rich search experience with seamless transitions, no pages, to buy and pay for items.

Publisher: eBay Inc.
Price: Free

9. Mailboxes - Mailboxes lets you share your iPad without having to share your Gmail as well. The iPad is a wonderful shared device for areas like the living room, letting people browse the web and play games together.

Publisher: Lilliput Labs
Price: $2.99

10. textPlus - Free AND unlimited messaging - regular text or app to app - 1 to 1 or in groups, and it’s the ONLY app with Mobile Social Communities. textPlus is the only FREE, UNLIMITED & GROUP TEXTING app for the iPad. Send and receive texts with friends on ANY phone.

Publisher: GOGII
Price: Free

11. iTeleport - Access your stuff from anywhere in the world. Control your desktop with the tips of your fingers.

Publisher: iTeleport LLC
Price: $19.99

12. Desktop Connect - Desktop Connect is a fast, full-featured desktop viewer, optimized specifically for the iPad. View and control Windows, Mac OSX and Linux computers as if you were sitting in front of them, or observe others as if you were watching over their shoulder.

Publisher: Antecea Inc.
Price: $11.99

13. QNotifier Linux Server Monitoring - Qnotifier is an iPhone and iPad based Linux server monitoring application. Qnotifier allows you to monitor your Linux based servers by placing a small Ruby agent application on them. This agent then reports server statistics and events to the Qnotifier network which will then in turn alert you on your iPhone/iPad if there's any trouble.

Publisher: Gersham Meharg
Price: Free

Best Business Applications

1. EZTip Calculator Pro - EZTip Calculator allows you to quickly, easily, and interactively calculate a tip or a split of a tip. EZTip Calculator calculates the moment you tap on the calculate button after entering in your bill, percentage of your generous tip amount, and the split.

Publisher: Cyneticsoft Systems
Price: $0.99

2. ActiveStrategy iRound - ActiveStrategy iRound enables clients to easily collect all kinds of field-level information pertaining to an organization’s strategy or performance metrics, including survey scores, compliance information, and even photographs. This data can then be wirelessly uploaded to ActiveStrategy Enterprise where it is automatically consolidated, rolled-up, and displayed on an organizational dashboard or scorecard.

Publisher: ActiveStrategy, Inc.
Price: Free

3. DEWA - DEWA offers bill enquiry, log complaint, office detailed address, online access to DEWA website, DEWA news, DEWA events and much more. Simply tap on the DEWA iPad Application and you will get the functionality on your finger tips.

Publisher: Dubai Electricity & Water Authority
Price: Free

4. ootoWeb - This is an ultimate efficiency tool for the busy meeting planner: track your meetings, registrants and documentation on your iPad. Communicate with attendees and vendors; check registration status, sleeping room pick-up, activity pick-up, attendee list and anything else that is important to you.

Publisher: ootoWeb
Price: Free

5. BIRT Mobile HD - This application allows you to take your most valuable asset, information, with you wherever you go. Secured with the power of the BIRT iServer, your content is presented with speed and fidelity.

Publisher: Actuate Corporation
Price: Free

6. Grid-In-Hand Mobile Grid - Grid-In-Hand Mobile Grid (iPad) is a one button data collection. iPad has generous screen making data collection previously done on paper a breeze on iPad. Data collected with Mobile Grid can be sent with the press of a single button. Send via email, and put on your desired FTP server. Send in Excel XLS format or CSV format, and even post data to SQL database all the press of a button.

Publisher: Serialio.com
Price: Free

7. PrintBureau/PrintCentral - PrintBureau is the universal version of PrintCentral. It enables you to print email, contacts, web pages, copied "clips", email attachments, photos, text messages, shipping labels and much much more. You can also move files to or from your computer and print them, as well as print pasted clips or store clips as files for archiving, previewing, emailing and grouping.

Publisher: EuroSmartz Ltd
Price: $9.99

8. iCooper mwPrime - Capture details of your field activities and contacts as they happen, sync activities with your calendar app, share data instantly with anyone you choose, web browser access for downloads and reporting etc.

Publisher: iCooper
Price: Free

9. iCooper mwSales - Manage leads and quotes as they happen, attach ANY important lead info, from products to birthdays, report and share leads with sales team instantly, track sales quotes & sales orders as they happen and much more.

Publisher: iCooper
Price: Free

10. OmniGraffle - Need to create a quick diagram, process chart, page layout, website wireframe, or graphic design? With OmniGraffle, your iPad touch screen is your canvas. Using simple multitouch gestures, draw shapes, drag in objects, and style everything until it's just right.

Publisher: The Omni Group
Price: $49.99

11. Air Sharing HD - It lets you wirelessly mount your iPad as a drive on your computer so you can load it up with files. You can then view, share or print everything from PDFs to Excel documents.

Publisher: Avatron Software, Inc.
Price: $9.99

12. Box.net - The Box.net app lets you easily view, access and share files on your iPad. View all your files on-the-go: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs, images and Box Web Documents. Listen to audio files and watch videos stored on Box.

Publisher: Box.net
Price: Free

13. GoToMeeting - GoToMeeting is the easiest and most convenient way to attend online meetings. View slide presentations, design mockups, spreadsheets, reports – whatever meeting presenters choose to share on-screen.

Publisher: Citrix Systems, Inc.
Price: Free

14. Numbers - Numbers is the most innovative spreadsheet app ever designed for a mobile device. Tap the bright Multi-Touch display to create compelling, great-looking spreadsheets in minutes. Numbers has everything you need to organize data, perform calculations, and manage lists.

Publisher: Apple Inc.
Price: $9.99

15. WebEx for iPad - Use this application to get the full meeting experience with simultaneous data and audio. Attend WebEx meetings with full-screen view and free Internet voice conferencing (VoIP).

Publisher: Cisco
Price: Free

I am sure you want to know more about there applications, isn't it? Then just go to the link find out the best business apps for Apple iPad.

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Best News Applications

Get the most recent news and stay up to date with some of the best news applications out here.

1. The Daily Digg - All of your Daily Digg news delivered to your iPad in a gorgeous newspaper format. Read and use Digg seamlessly on the new Apple iPad with Daily Digg.

Publisher: WTLP Diversions
Price: Free

2. NYT Editors' Choice - The Editors’ Choice application offers a selection of latest news, opinion and features that are automatically updated to your device.

Publisher: The New York Times Company
Price: Free

3. The Wall Street Journal - Touch the stories that matter to you most, get latest news updates and market data throughout the day, and save your favorite articles and sections for later.

Publisher: Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Price: Free

4. NPR - Experience NPR in magazine style with a focus on News, Arts & Life, and Music content that’s broad, deep, and timely. The app also replicates popular features of the NPR News iPhone app, including playlist, hourly newscasts,station finder, and sharing.

Publisher: NPR
Price: Free

5. AP News - AP News keeps you up-to-date with what's happening anywhere, in your hometown and across the globe. With AP News for the iPad, you can personalize news to meet your needs.

Publisher: The Associated Press
Price: Free

6. Local News by Fwix - Local News by Fwix provides real-time news on your iPad. Browse through the latest stories from your city's best news sites and blogs.

Publisher: LSN, inc.
Price: Free

7. The Weather Channel Max - It delivers in-depth weather, innovative maps, a robust video library, plus so much more.

Publisher: The Weather Channel Interactive
Price: Free

8. WeatherBug Elite - WeatherBug Elite provide iPad users with the latest weather information including local current conditions, extended forecast, severe weather alerts, animated Doppler radar, live weather camera images and much more!

Publisher: WeatherBug
Price: Free

9. USA TODAY for iPad - Updated 24/7. The latest news stories, scores, weather and photos you've come to expect from USA TODAY are now available in a beautiful new way, on your iPad. Staying informed has never been this quick, easy, or enjoyable.

Publisher: USA TODAY
Price: Free

Best Social Networking Applications

1. Loopt Pulse - This apps lets you explore places to go and things to do with your friends. Browse beautiful photo and map views of places and events and share them with your friends with just a tap.

Publisher: Loopt, Inc.
Price: Free

2. TweetDeck - TweetDeck is the best way to stay in touch with what's happening now on Twitter from your iPad. TweetDeck's iPad optimized interface shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organized and up to date wherever you are.

Publisher: TweetDeck
Price: Free

3. Captain's Blog - Captain's Blog turns your iPad into a fun electronic diary and also into futuristic social networking device. Easy to use, great in any orientation.

Publisher: Drakfyre's Software
Price: $0.99

4. AIM - AIM is redefining social networking – add a location to your status, post to your favorite social networks or chat directly with your Facebook friends. Get updates from Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Foursquare and more - all in one big Lifestream.

Publisher: AOL
Price: Free

5. StumbleUpon - StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. StumbleUpon uses ratings to form collaborative opinions on website quality.

Publisher: StumbleUpon
Price: Free

6. Twitterrific - Twitterrific is the friendly, award-winning Twitter client that’s beautiful to look at easy to use and full of elegant features. Effortlessly read and compose tweets, search Twitter.com, filter message types and much more.

Publisher: The Iconfactory
Price: Free

7. BeejiveIM - Stay connected to all your instant messaging buddies on your iPad through a single intuitive app! BeejiveIM keeps you in touch with your friends on AIM/MobileMe, MSN/Windows Live, Yahoo!, GoogleTalk, Facebook, MySpace, ICQ and Jabber... all at the same time, all on your iPad.

Publisher: Beejive, Inc.
Price: $9.99

Want to know more about these applications? You can even discuss about it in this thread: Best Social Networking Applications for Apple iPad.

Best Books Applications

Here are the best books applications for your new Ipad.

1. Free Books - Free Books unlocks a world of public domain content, allowing you to acquire the great books of human history.

Publisher: Spreadsong, Inc.
Price: Free

2. Wattpad - Also known as YouTube for ebooks, Wattpad is the world's most popular ebook community where readers and writers discover, share and connect.

Publisher: Wattpad
Price: Free

3. Archie Comics - Now you can get all your Archie Comics in ONE APPLICATION! Featuring over 50 Archie titles!

Publisher: iVerse Media
Price: Free

4. IDW Comics - One of the most diverse collections in comics, all in one app. Horror, movies, sci-fi, heroes, villains, action, adventure, classic comics and more.

Publisher: IDW Publishing
Price: Free

5. Marvel Comics - Download hundreds of comic books featuring your favorite characters -— including Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Spider-Man, Wolverine and more -- on your mobile device with the touch of a button.

Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Price: Free

6. iBooks - iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest best-selling books or your favorite classics – day or night.

Publisher: Apple Inc.
Price: Free

7. Amazon Kindle - The Kindle app is optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, providing users the ability to read Kindle books using a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You can discover and read over 600,000 books in the Kindle Store, including the latest best sellers and new releases. You can also read your Kindle books on your Mac, PC, BlackBerry, Kindle, and Kindle DX.

Publisher: Amazon.com
Price: Free

Best Home Applications

1. INFOMATO iQue - iQue helps you remember what you forgot. iQue is the only iPad application based on the psychology of memory association and recognition, with technology that actually mimics the way your brain remembers.

Publisher: INFOMATO, Inc.
Price: Free

2. Gilt for iPad - Touch and drag items to your cart and check out from anywhere. Use pinch-and-zoom to view richly detailed items in full-screen. Have sale alerts sent to your iPad so you never miss a sale.

Publisher: Gilt Groupe
Price: Free

3. KAYAK Flights - Experience the best flight search in the world, right in your hands. KAYAK Flights brings the fast flight search of KAYAK.com to an app.

Publisher: kayak.com
Price: Free

4. FlightTrack - Track flights with the beautiful, zoomable maps or view easy-to-read status view for real-time departure info, delays and gate numbers. Full international coverage means you can track all your flights worldwide.

Publisher: Ben Kazez
Price: $4.99

5. Blackboard Mobile Learn - Blackboard Mobile Learn brings your courses to life in new ways, while making those day-to-day course activities easier than ever. Check on important class announcements. Read that new assignment. Find out what’s new across all the classes you’re taking (or teaching).

Publisher: Blackboard Inc.
Price: Free

6. Square - Quickly and securely accept card and cash payments for your business, service, charity – even to sell your couch. A free Square card reader makes payments even faster.

Publisher: Square, Inc.
Price: Free

For more refer: Best iPad Home Applications.

Best Finance Applications

1. Bills for iPad: Plan and track your expenses every month. Clear, simple and quick financial planning!

Publisher: iBear LLC
Price: $3.99

2. powerOne Financial Calculator: powerOne is more than just an algebraic and RPN financial calculator. Its unique format and elegant design make what-if scenario analysis fast and easy.

Publisher: Infinity Softworks
Price: $5.99

3. HomeBudget with Sync: HomeBudget is an expense tracker designed to help you budget, track and possibly control your monthly expenses at home. HomeBudget supports tracking of both your expenses and income, and includes support for budgets, accounts, payees, and bill tracking.

Publisher: Anishu, Inc.
Price: $4.99

4. Pageonce Personal Finance Premium: Pageonce Personal Finance is the largest mobile Personal Finance Service in the US. Users can obtain financial peace of mind by managing all of your online accounts, anytime, anywhere. Monitor and review credit card transactions, bank accounts, investment portfolios and more!

Publisher: Pageonce, Inc
Price: $6.99

5. iCurrency Pad: iCurrencyPad is not just a simple and elegant currency convertor and calculator. iCurrencyPad also offers an up-to-the-minute world exchange rates "electronic board", and detailed charts showing current and historical trends of currency movements.

Publisher: Sollico Software
Price: $0.99

6. StockWatch: Keep track of the Stock Market and your Portfolio in an intuitive and feature-rich environment. With over 50 exchanges supported, StockWatch - iPad Edition gives you the best overview of your investments, period.

Publisher: Toughturtle
Price: $5.99

7. Expense Tablet: Expense Tablet is an attractive and easy-to-use personal expense tracker and budget manager. It's perfect for people who want to keep track of their monthly spending without the hassle of dealing with a complicated financial management app.

Publisher: Adamcode.com
Price: $0.99

8. Money for iPad: Money for iPad is a software for the most comprehensive personal finance management.

Publisher: iBear LLC
Price: $12.99

9. StockSpy HD: StockSpy HD for iPad simplifies tracking stock market news for the companies you follow and allows you to VISUALIZE how the news affects stock prices with NewsCharts!

Publisher: Stock-Spy.com
Price: $9.99

10. Daily Stocks: A stock analysis app that is so advanced that it can filter the stock market and instantly identify those stocks showing the greatest potential for profit. The newly developed Daily Stocks provides up to 91 technical scans, and delivers your options to you in a list of stocks to further analyze.

Publisher: 13apps
Price: $19.99

11. Forbes Investment Guide+ - This application expands on that to give you new ideas every day to help you take care of your family financially, think creatively about career options, minimize the cost of investing and taxes, allocate your assets smartly, protect yourself from Wall Street's sharpies and enjoy the fruits of your labors along the way.

Publisher: Forbes
Price: Free

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Best Fitness Applications

1. MyNetDiary - MyNetDiary is a premier food diary and weight management program, helping people lose weight the most natural way - by eating better and making better food choices.

Publisher: 4Technologies Corporation
Price: $9.99

2. Army Survival - The U.S. Army knows how to train their personnel to survive. Their field manual is the most authoritative guide on survival. This app is over 1,400 pages and provides a complete reference guide on basic survival, evasion, first aid and recovery information.

Publisher: Double Dog Studios
Price: $1.99

3. Progressive Alarm Clock - Progressive Alarm Clock will wake you up gradually using the beautiful sounds of the Tibetan singing bowl. At the specified alarm time, the bells will ring in a pre-defined pattern - starting out softly and slowly and gradually getting louder and more frequent.

Publisher: Spotlight Six Software
Price: $1.99

4. Pocket Yoga HD - The practice of yoga becomes beneficial when done on a regular basis. With Pocket Yoga you can keep up with your practice at your own pace and schedule in the comforts of your own home. Simply set your iPad in front of your mat, start a practice, and Pocket Yoga will guide you through your entire session.

Publisher: Rainfrog, LLC
Price: $3.99

5. iFood Diary - iFood Diary is an easy to use app for iPad to help you keep track of your daily food intake. It helps you keep a journal of the foods you eat and the beverages you drink each day. This app is also a valuable tool for diet analysis for maintaining a good health.

Publisher: iHealth Ventures LLC.
Price: $3.99

6. iPeriod Ultimate - iPeriod Ultimate has been redesigned for the iPad to take advantage of the large screen. Browse your calendar, view your notes and record symptoms all on one screen! iPeriod's beautiful VISUAL CALENDAR makes it easy for you to view your period cycles at a glance.

Publisher: Winkpass Creations
Price: $2.99

7. Zen Timer - Perfect for mindful activities such as meditation, yoga and Reiki, this simple yet powerful timer plays the beautiful sounds of the Tibetan singing bowl.

Publisher: Spotlight Six Software
Price: $2.99

8. HeartWise Blood Pressure Tracker - HeartWise is the easiest-to-use application for quickly recording and keeping track of your blood pressure, resting heart rate, and weight. HeartWise for iPad has buult-in visualization that quickly shows you trends over time, and detailed analysis and statistics show you how your blood pressure fluctuates on a daily basis.

Publisher: SwEng Corp.
Price: $2.99

9. Capzule PHR - Introducing Capzule PHR, personal edition of health records from the creators of Capzule EMR, trusted by health professionals. Capzule PHR is a universal app made for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices that includes password protection, easy editing from a PC, and data sharing options.

Publisher: Webahn, Inc.
Price: Free

10. yogaspot - yogaspot offers you a simple, convenient way to practice yoga. This easy-to-use application includes something for everyone – with classes that range from 5 to 30 minutes in length.

Publisher: PEAK6 Enterprises
Price: Free

11. Men's Health Magazine - Exclusive video takes you step-by-step through exercises, recipes, and tips, featuring the world’s top athletes, trainers, chefs, and other experts. Instantly react to articles and ideas with Snap Polls. Or take a quiz in the magazine and see how you stack up against other guys.

Publisher: Rodale, Inc.
Price: Free

12. Women's Health Magazine - Women's Health magazine is for the woman who sees being healthy, physically and emotionally, as her edge. From the latest science-based facts to laugh-out-loud features, Women's Health speaks to women exactly how they speak to each other–with a tone and look that's smart, positive, energizing, provocative, fashionable, surprising and humorous.

Publisher: Rodale, Inc.
Price: Free

13. WebMD - Check your symptoms, access drug & treatment information, get first aid essentials, and check local health listings on the go or at home, from the most trusted brand in health information.

Publisher: WebMD
Price: Free


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