Let’s set aside the question of whether you should get an iPad and suppose you already bought one last weekend. You probably floated home and loaded it with a few whiz-bang apps and maybe even passed it around to your friends.
The Elements app, an interactive guide to the periodic table, has stunning graphics.
At some point in all the euphoria, you may also have wondered whether this device is just a trophy or something you can actually use.
Such self-doubts can be easily cast aside, providing you delve a little more deeply into the App Store than the Top 100 list — and are ready to open the wallet again.
If you budget around $100 for a few new and upgraded apps, you can easily make the iPad into much more of a constant companion than something you just trot out when the neighbors are watching.
Start with productivity apps, because a mobile device is most valuable when it lets you work anytime, anywhere.
The big knock against smartphones is that you can’t effectively view or edit a Word document or Excel spreadsheet or read a PowerPoint presentation or PDF on something with a puny screen. On the iPad, you can at least read PDFs and, with a little more work, Office files, with the GoodReader app ($1). Air Sharing HD ($10) reads PDFs and helps you organize and print other Office files easily from the iPad.
Source : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/technology/personaltech/08smart.html
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