Wednesday, December 28, 2011

iPad Rundown

iPad rundown.  I've done it before, but this time it's for Kristine.  Caveat - I'm still running on a first gen iPad.  No camera in mine.  And I have other things on my iPad, but these are the things that are commonly used (although Eryn has some tap games she likes to play that aren't on here, like Dragondale).

Education:

  • TED talks
  • NASA
  • Star Walk 
  • BrainPop (Eryn)
  • See games


Media Consumption:

  • Netflix
  • Kindle
  • Link to Kindle store (instead of buying through the Apple store)
  • Zite - news, not current, but based on topics - best way to get programming posts on the iPad
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pulse - aggregator (I don't use Flipboard since I got it, but my wife still uses Flipboard)
  • Pandora - free music
  • YouTube
  • Flixster - movies (rotten tomatoes ratings, local theaters, & hook to netflix)
  • Trailers - movie trailers
  • Westlaw Next
  • Maps
  • McSweeny's


Productivity:

  • Fat Secret (calorie counter)
  • Dropbox
  • Textastic
  • Penultimate (probably better out there - for free form notes)
  • Timer (countdown)


Games:

  • Carcassonne
  • Small World
  • Life
  • Tichu (cards)
  • Words (with Friends)
  • Ticket to Ride
  • Civilization
  • Toontastic - Eryn, make kids videos
  • Lots of chess apps
  • Lots of math/geography apps
  • Sudoku (Kids)
  • Angry birds (Eryn)
  • Cut the Rope (various versions - puzzle)


Music:

  • L&M Guitar
  • Guitar Toolkit


Food:

  • Whole Foods
  • Epicurious
  • AllRecipes
  • BigOven
  • SparkRecipes
  • RecipeGrazer


Links:

  • Work Email
  • CBS (local news) - most newsreaders suck
  • Kickstarter
  • Khan Academy
  • MIT Open Course

1 comment:

She says said...

This is awesome. Thank you!