Flipboard
Reeder
Twitter for iPad (ofcourse)
Netflix
Friendly (3rd Party Facebook app)

Hope you find these useful. I’m actually over-due to checkout more apps for my iPad. I’ll update the full post later too!

I bookmarked this post a while back, just waiting for the day I actually get an iPad. Well… that day has come.

Great article! Found the apps list you use very helpful. I actually ended up getting everything you listed except for the AirVideo one.

It’s been a while since you published this article, any other apps you found since then that made the iPad even more bad ass for you?

Thanks!

No I didn’t try any other Twitter apps. I’ve always preferred TweetDeck on the desktop and when I saw the iPad version on their site I decided to just use it. The only time I don’t use TweetDeck is if I check Twitter on someone elses computer or if I check with my iPhone because TweetDeck for iPhone is annoying.

@Justin – A couple of questions, Angry Birds HD… is that game any good? I hear a lot about it but I hate crappy games. Also, did you try Tweetdeck against any other Twitter apps on the iPad? I’ve been using Twitterific.

Thanks for all the feedback all! I plan to update this thread as often as I can.

I’m not using my iPad for work because all of our stuff is on Windows machines and the bosses don’t want to do anything differently so for now it’s just a personal device to have fun with and save me from buying a laptop.

App’s I’m using:

Productivity – Mail and Safari. I haven’t used Pages yet.

Information – The Weather Channel Max+, USA Today, Bloomberg.

Social Media – TweetDeck, it looks amazing on the iPad compared to the iPhone version.

Creativity – I’ve been playing around with Autodesk SketchBook Pro. It’s a little hard to get used to at first because it has no toolbar that remains open all the time.

Entertainment – Netflix, Angry Birds HD, Asphalt 5.

Yesterday was the first time I used mine in about a week because of being so busy.

I do have to say I hate the Apple case for it. I’m waiting for Incase to come out with a Slider case for it. But I’m not holding my breath. I don’t need a keyboard because I’m comfortable typing on it for long periods of time. The standard dock might be a future investment but with the case it really doesn’t seem like I need it. The camera connection kit is interesting and probably something I will get before I go on a vacation again. And the VGA adapter might be something if I change jobs otherwise it’s impractical for me right now.

I’m waiting for a iPad version of iStat Pro so I can monitor my Apple products. The iPhone version is just a little too small for me.

I’m downloading AIM, Zipcodes, U.S. Armed Forces, and 1400+ Dinosaur Handbook Complete to try out. I really want The Elements: A Visual Exploration. But I’m not going to spend $13.99 on it right now.

One thing that might be the reason for the difference in our view of the iPad is that I am more inundated with the Apple OS, and products. I use all of their products in my every-day life, whereas you’re still an Apple fan.

I have a bluetooth keyboard I just haven’t had a reason to do major typing.

The main downloadable apps I use are Twitteriffic, Pages, Rackspace’s Cloud app, and Kindle (much nicer reading experience than on the actual device).

The best add-on/peripherals that I would suggest are a bluetooth keyboard (makes typing in Pages and Mail a breeze) and a case that isn’t the Apple one (I haven’t used one of them, but Incase in general makes awesome cases). The Apple case seems wobbly, has a weird texture, and can be a pain to get the device into.

Also, are there any add-ons or peripherals that you recommend from your own experience?

I bought the wifi only iPad and find that it replaces my laptop for a lot of things (most of which you mentioned), but it’s never going to replace it completely as it’s my primary computer (unless TextMate, Espresso, or Coda and Terminal show up as iPad apps) and goes pretty much everywhere with me already.

Since I don’t have 3G on it and no option to add it later (so far at least) and since my brother also got a wifi only iPad, we opted to get a Verizon MiFi. It costs the same per month as if we had each bought an unlimited 3G account for a 3G iPad, without the extra initial iPad cost, and the benefits of not being on AT&T and working for any type of wifi enabled devices.