Favorite iPad 2 apps

Productivity & Utilities

• Evernote
  Great application for documenting notes which works great on the iPhone 4 camera. This doesnt work well with the iPad’s lackluster camera(s)
• Notes Plus
  Excellent  app for taking text and hand drawn notes.
• VNC
  VNC protocol based remote access application. This allows me to access computers and servers on my network from the iPad 2.
• Pages
  By far the best way to create, view and edit documents on iPad 2. This works with Dropbox using the DropDav service.
• Plain Text
  Dropbox compatible note taking application
• PhotoSync
  By far THE BEST application for moving photos from one device to another. You can sync photos to/from the computer, to/from an iOS device and to Flickr as well. It also allows you to send the more than one file at a time.
• Remote HD
  This is a decent app for doing VNC on a windows or mac computer. It also works with AppleTV and allows for hacked Original Apple TV (Gen 1) to do Air Play from and iOS device. Very nice 🙂
• Dropbox
  Client for connecting to the Dropbox service.
• Diptic
  Simple app for creating photo collages using a comic book style cell layout. You can take a photo with the device, select from the photo album, from Facebook or Flickr.
• Wolfram
  The leader is getting questions answered fast.
• Holler Gram
  Great app for when you are at a conference and want to get your point across. This app lets you display in BIG and BOLD letters things like: “LIKE”, “UNLIKE”, “AOL WOULD BUY THAT”, “NEXT!”, “LOUDER”, “I’M TWEETING THE CRAP OUT OF THIS”, “I WROTE A BLOG POST 6 MONTHS AGO ABOUT THIS”, “SMILE, YOU’RE ON THE BACK CHANNEL” and everyones favorite “FTW”
• Netflix
  Streaming video service for watching TV and Movies.

Games

• Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4
• Dungeon Hunter 2 HD
• Little Things
  Think Where’s Waldo on a Waldo made of Waldos. The game provides you a list and you much locate the hidden objects from a shape made out of other objects. Great looking game and really fun to play with little kids.
• WackaMonsta
  Classic game of shoot the ball from the bottom so it touches 3 or more balls of the same color above to make them disappear. Fun and easy game for kids.
• My Coloring Book HD
  21st century coloring book. Think paint tool meets coloring book, stay in the lines every time!
• TowerMadness
  Best tower defense game for the iPad, great HD graphics and a fun “alien stealing livestock” theme.
• Cut The Rope
  Teach your kids physics by trying to feed a monster candy suspended by rope.
• Angry Birds
  Yay more physics games. Birds vs Pigs where you shoot birds from a slingshot to break down the barn where the pigs live. If you kill off all the pigs you go to the next level.
• Jenga HD
  It’s the classic Jenga game but now for the iPad. Finally no more cleanup!
• Blocks Classic
  Classic brickout style game for the iPad.

News & Stuff

• Flipboard
  Clean and slick app for reading the news. Limited to only so many feeds currently but works well with flickr, facebook and twitter along with MANY websites.
• NewsRack
  My new fave RSS reader that syncs with Google Reader.
• Reeder
  My second favorite Google sync’ing feed reader. I like the iPhone version better which is why I use NewsRack instead.
• BBC News
  Got an app for that
• USA Today
  Got another app for that
• Stanza
  eBook reader and works really well
• iBooks
  Apple created book reader which supports PDF. I love this app, it really works well!
• Kindle
  My wife reads using a Kindle, I thought I’d give this a try too
• Whittier Daily News eEdition
  My local newspaper in digital format. It looks like they do a great job of OCR’ing the paper.
• CNN
  More app’tacular goodness

Social Networking

• Twitter
  The official Twitter client for iPad.
• Friendly
  Non official Facebook application for iPad.
• Trinkle
  Full screen large text twitter display client.