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Making the most of your iPad
I was up and running on my iPad half hour of the box come in my house on April 3, 2010. I took only four days later to travel. Now it's been a few months, three rounds of travel and many day-to-day use at home or in the city.

One of the nice things about the iPad is that it comes in a very simple state. You can change your email accounts directly connected, and there's Apps for basic web browsing, watching YouTube videos, with an address book, calendar, etc. From that point, you change what you want, adding only those Apps necessary and fun to you. One of the things I like best is that the majority of the apps I have added programs that I can download for free. The more I use my iPad, the more I use to find!


Favorite Add-On Apps
Here's what I added to my iPad would be more useful for me because I use it at home and on the road when I travel. I also indicate which programs I've paid and I was able to free download.

Pages and Numbers - paid - I have a Mac at home, and these two apps allow me to publish documents in either environment to create and then move between the two devices.Essential for my freelance business and online school work.

RSS Reader - free - I Feedler RSS reader and the correct link to my Google Reader account is added, so the two are automatically synchronized, regardless of what site I'm reading my favorite sites and blogs. There is also a paid version, but the free one works fine for me.

Weather - for free - if you travel abroad, this is one of those things that you need. I tried four different free apps: AccuWeather, Weather Channel, WeatherBug (Bing) and WunderMap (Wunderground). I'm running both WeatherBug and WunderMap because they were not annoying pop-up ads (battery, I'm looking at you) and let me actually get back to my specific area, not just my general city. It is important to me as I live in an area with micro-climates.So far the nicer features WeatherBug overall forecasting and WunderMap does best for seeing temps in the area right in the moment.

Netflix - free - I do not subscribe to this until I iPad. Then I just could not resist.

Dragon Dictate - free - version of the iPad my dictation. Can I talk to a brief note and then save or burn it off as an e-mail.

Good Reader - free - handles PDFs, and I also downloaded MP3s, Word documents and HTML files right in with the iPad. This is more of a workhorse for me than reading iBook.

Handwritten notes - paid - I'm using two different programs. Penultimate seems to have better handwriting recognition, but offers more options paper desk. The jury is still not on whether one is better than another. Both can be notebooks for different projects. I hope to get a stylus and some live notes to see which works better in that scenario to do so.

Dictionary.com - free - good for checking spelling of words and definitions. I have this as it works off-line.
Hubpages App Review
Hubpages is an application for the iPhone. When it was first released, he did not successfully run on the iPad. But shortly after an update was made so that it would do and I finally got in the app take a real test drive.

In short, I must say that IPAD users do not even bother with this. Here's why:

1) It's really made for the iPhone.

2) It is not even a little less functional than just using the Hubpages site directly.

The app has three main features: feeding my account and Hopper. For the feed, you are locked into the option all the stories, as determined by the setting in your main feed line section, but you can not one of those working with the app itself. You need to log in using a non-mobile device if you want only a portion of the feed to see if changes.

The Hopper Hopper is the Hub, but the app is small preview. You get less eyestrain Hopping on iPad browser to view the site for this feature.

Under my account it has actually introduced a single function useful, and new (which means you will not find on the regular site). It is a one-click Reply button below comments. How can they not note this in the default section? In addition to managing comments is there options for fan mail site and see questions asked of you. There are three options for viewing Hubs. An opinion scores and lists them with traffic (lifetime page views only). There are also options to only show up with the traffic growth (red triangles) and traffic (blue triangles) fall.

The big thing missing of course is that with an iPad you can not really build Hubs. Text capsules do not work at all, link capsules only work if you build a new one (editing is a bust) and layouts are broken. In the end, I decided to be true hope Hubpages iPad interact with the site.