******* The "official" Essential iPad Apps thread (with stars) *******

Si. said:
I just keep it in web mode so it displays the associated web page, looks good to me..

It's a shame that some of the feeds don't bring up pictures (Pistonheads, BBC News).. would have been ideal otherwise.
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A lot of blogs I read link through to their source in the title or a link within the page. This is often what opens in web view, rather than the blog. I'd much rather they keep the links etc in the text view. They're also much quicker to load than web views.
 
Just discovered the free all "fstream" for listening to the BBC internet radio. Worked amazingly well on my iphone at the cricket yesterday. I now really cant wait for multitasking on both my iPhone and iPad a so I can sit here listening to the radio while I surf!
 
Deleted my home-screen link to iphone.tvcatchup.com and made one for ipad.tvcatchup.com :)

JonB said:
Just discovered the free all "fstream" for listening to the BBC internet radio. Worked amazingly well on my iphone at the cricket yesterday. I now really cant wait for multitasking on both my iPhone and iPad a so I can sit here listening to the radio while I surf!
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Used to use that on my iPhone to get me through boring lessons at school!
 
An extra vote for Atomic Web Browser from me - great tabbed browsing experience, gesture support and the ability to impersonate a desktop browser put it head and shoulders above safari in my opinion.
 
Don't know if anyone has tried it yet but perfect browser is very nice, proper tabs really makes a difference for me, and seems to load up long pages a lot better.
 
Civilisation Revolution is also pretty good on the iPad - not as in depth as full version but good for a quick blast. Have managed to already waste 2 afternoons conquering the world as the Aztecs.
 
I may skip the iPad until it gets a "Retinal Display" :o

Nice to see native PDF support in iBooks. That's a killer feature for me.
 
Apple have pulled PULSE (rss feeder) after Steve Jobs showed it yesterday in the keynote, apparently the New York Times have said the $4 they were charging in pulling in rss feeds from such as NYT's site is a breach of their copyright. PULSE is no longer on the app store now and is this going to be a precendent to all paid RSS feeder?

I hope its more like all rss feeder will be free, but then again the quality might go down as they are now free, and end up with ads in the apps itself because of it.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/08/ipad-pulse-reader-app-goes-from-keynote-hero-to-app-store-zero-t/
 
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Raymond Lin said:
is this going to be a precendent to all paid RSS feeder?
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No - if you don't supply the RSS feed as part of the application then there is nothing that they can cite to prevent the block.

If you sold the product, giving the impression that the RSS reader came with the $4 RSS feed (or worse still proxied the feed to your users against the contract) then I'm not surprised.
 
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