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February 22nd, 2012 Best iPad Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders (Best Apps)
What really wows iPad fans is when their touchscreen does what's impossible on other gadgets: the finger-painting app that turns a cross-country flight into a moving art class, the mini music studio (two-dozen instruments strong, each with motion-induced warble effects), and the portable fireworks display that you sculpt by swiping. Problem is, with tens of thousands of apps available for your iPad, who knows what to download? You can try to sort through a gazillion customer reviews with a mix o
Incredible iPad Apps For Dummies
Fill your iPad with cool apps with help from this full-color directory!The popularity of the iPad is growing at an unstoppable rate and users are looking for help sorting through the tens of thousands of apps available in the App Store. Packed with helpful reviews and valuable tips on how to make the most of each app, this book walks you through the vast selection of apps and helps you narrow down the most essential and entertaining apps for your needs and interests. Mac guru Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVit
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I got my iPad as a tool to accomplish things with more mobility and efficiency, not to spend time wandering virtual supermarket aisles looking for the shiniest variation on a theme. Given that, I was immediately attracted by this title from O’Reilly. Both the author, Peter Meyers, and the publisher have the right credentials and reputation to address my need.
The content is well organized, with chapters (and sections) that support both leisurely browsing and focused navigation: At Work, At Leisure, Creative Corner, At Play, At Home, Out and About, For Your Health.
The reviews typically provide an app’s icon (great for quick visual reference), price, reviewed version (important in the fast-moving world of the App Store), publisher, overview, well-organized comments and usage tips, and screen shots for key points.
The rankings Meyers gives were highly consistent with my experience on key apps I regularly use. More important, he is clear about his point of view and why he evaluates as he does–a crucial feature for this type of reference. On my first reading, he introduced me to new and useful possibilities. I will be keeping this book within easy access for ongoing use.
Finally, I must confess a slightly wistful thought that turned out to be premature. I still remember the early days of the World Wide Web, when a variety of printed “yellow-pages to the Web” books appeared. Most of them had a fairly short shelf-life, as the explosive growth of the web left them quickly out of date. I immediately wondered whether this book would have such a future. But…
What’s that about horseless carriages?
In its early days, the automobile was often referred to as a “horseless carriage”; most people only thought of it in terms of what they already knew, and hadn’t realized the implications of that new technology. (How many people–and companies–are still trying to think of the web as a magazine, newspaper, radio, television, mailbox, etc. minus some physical attribute, not recognizing it as a new thing that is all and none of the previous media?)
That’s why I regard Meyers’ preface as one of the most enduring parts of this book.
He gets it.
Meyers explicitly focuses on what makes the iPad a new thing, not just a mobile phone or netbook, and uses that understanding to guide his selection and evaluation of apps that are important, note-worthy, or simply enjoyable to use. And that makes this book useful not only to a “discriminating downloader” like me, it makes it a great reference to an aspiring app developer who needs to understand what makes iPad apps different, and to any technophile (iPad owner or not) who wants to understand better the potential of this new thing.
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|Best iPad Apps: Finding the Best Apps,
Ok. First blush reaction to the latest O’Reilly Press title “Best iPad Apps” was that it although timely it would quickly grow dated and the premise seemed best suited to a periodical magazine or website than a book. But…I was prepared to be convinced that the editors at O’Reilly had made a correct and in fact bold move with this title. The premise of the book is to excite users about the amazing things they can do with their new iPad by identifying the best apps available to take advantage of the revolutionary device.
The book is very high quality, and the prose is wonderfully lively prose – not words that I would typically use to describe a techie publication. The organization of the book is logical, breaking into product categories similar to those in the App Store. categories such as At Work, At Leisure or At Home seem sensible. I am a little unsure though about how At Leisure differs from at Play. Maybe it does, but it’s a rather subtle distinction. What this leads to is the use of the book as a browse rather than search reference. This is not necessarily a bad thing and in fact I would expect that this book is in fact a superb selling device for apps on the store. I would be unsurprised where Apple to license the ebook and make it available to iPad buyers as a catalogue. The tendency however would be to work through the book from start to finish rather than refer to it when one wanted to find a particular app to suit a particular need.
Each page features a separate application featuring a screen shot of the application, a short summary of the application and a couple callouts highlighting the special features of the app. Apps are characterized as being best in their class (unfortunately another aspect I fear will become dated). As a reader/user however, I would appreciate knowing a few of the other contenders for that title so I might investigate an make the decision for myself.
Overall I would describe the experience of this new O’Reilly book as playful. It’s lively, colourful and fun to read. The information contained within is useful and well presented. On the downside it will quickly grow dated as new and more exciting applications are made available.
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|Best iPad Apps Book About the Best iPad Apps;),
The latest Apple iPad commercial shows there are currently over 600,000 apps available. Plus this number grows every day. If you are a novice or an expert with your iPad it is overwhelming to know which apps are worth the money. Best iPad Apps has some worthwhile recommendations to start your app adventures. The book isn’t very long, but it covers several categories including apps for work, play, health, leisure and more.
The author’s titles for each app are fun. For example, one app is titled “Best Game for Killing Pigs With Birds.” Can you guess which app that is? I like the author’s short descriptions of each app. They are informational and fun to read. He convinced me to download quite a few of the apps. The pages show full color pictures of scenes in the app with the prices listed. Some are just silly, but I’m sure someone else might find them useful. My favorite section is the photos and movies. I found some gems. I have several apps on my wish list and will be referring back to the book. My parents have already borrowed it. Here is a list of some of my favorites that I discovered reading the book:
Pages: Best app for creating Beautiful Documents $9.99
Photo Artist HD-Oil: Best app for Oil Painting Your Photos $4.99
Drawing Pad- Best App for Drawing Time for Kids $1.99
Interactive Alphabet for iPad-Best App for Learning ABCs $2.99
Craigslist Pro for iPad- Best App for Craigslist Browsing $.99
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|Apps,
Being new to IPad this book gave me a lot of apps and their uses to make a better decosion on using
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|very helpful considering you can’t find all this info on your own,
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Someday when Apple gets it together and puts out a manual you can actually buy, instead of printing out their on-line manual and wasting your ink and paper, this will still be useful because a collection of apps and their sites is always useful information.
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|Extremely Helpful,
I have been wanting APPs for quite sometime. When my husband bought me my IPad, I ran out and bought this book, to give me some advise on apps. It was very helpful.
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