I successfully resisted the urge to start off this list with my all-time favourite Twitter and Facebook iPad apps Here are my TOP 5 recommended iPad apps that I love and use every day. Best bit? They're all freebies.
1. Flipboard
Flipboard is a fast, fun and easy way to work through all your news and updates that friends send via Facebook, twitter, Google reader and flicker. The app creates the illusion of a personalised magazine that you can quite literally page through to catch up on everything that everybody else is up to. It’s like your very own, very personal Heat magazine.
>> Click here to download Flipboard.
2. WordPress
I’v
e only recently moved my blog from a blogger account to my own domain using WordPress as a platform, but already this little app has proven its worth. I can write/edit posts and pages, moderate comments and upload videos and images without breaking a sweat. It makes constantly managing my blog super easy and within a short time it has already become one of my top 5 apps. I mentioned this app in my list of top iPhone apps also. However, on the iPad it is even better, as typing out whole entire blog posts is just so much easier on the bigger keyboard of the iPad.
>> Click here to download WordPress.
3. Documents
This nifty little app is a complete mobile office suite. You can create and edit word documents and spread sheets and upload them to Google documents. Files can be opened using Microsoft Word and Excel, Open Office, Numbers and all other major office suites. While I will by no means be creating life altering and huge spread sheets because doing all that work on the iPad is simply tiring and inefficient, it is super handy for viewing and editing these documents when they require your immediate attention via e-mail and you do not have access to your PC. It is also ideal for when you just need to do a small spread sheet or text document for whatever reason.
>> Click here to download Documents.
4. Adobe Photoshop Express
While this (free!) Photoshop Express app from Adobe can never do everything that the proper Photoshop software can it is quite a handy little tool for quick picture editing when you desperately need to use a picture for something and you’re not quite happy with the way it looks. It allows you to crop, straighten, rotate, flip, change exposure, saturation, tint, change the picture to black and white, sharpen the image or change it to a softer focus and all kinds of other things. You can also undo, and redo everything until you get to exactly what you want before having to save the picture.
For example, I was able to change this photograph below:
Into this:
>> Click here to download Adobe Photoshop Express.
5. Trade Nations
This is the most amazing game ever! (I’m pretty sure I run the risk of losing all of my streetcred here…but I really do love Trade Nations on the iPad.) You start off by building your very own town. Building farms and logging camps and quarries and giving your citizens jobs at the different industries you have built. Moving through the levels brings you more industries and trade opportunities, which ultimately means more money and more experience points - a very ‘Ruby-friendly’ game indeed!
