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

[Deku]

Thanks for that, i downloaded the app and the demo seemed pretty useless and then its £6 to get the ability to convert Spanish to English.

Definately not going to be bought for the holiday to Spain!

Google have a new translate feature which does the same thing for free.

Google Search

 

[shine]

What's the best Word Processor App for the iPad? I need something that could import/export to MS Word.

 

[Dewotter]

What's the best Word Processor App for the iPad? I need something that could import/export to MS Word.

Pages.

 

[DangerMoose]

Pages.

It is worth being aware that it does not support all features of the docx format at least. Not sure what other formatting might be lost but it does not seem to support equations, for example.

 

[Dewotter]

It is worth being aware that it does not support all features of the dock format at least. Not sure what other formatting might be lost but it does not seem to support equations, for example.

None of them do at the minute which is a shame. But Pages is certainly the easiest one to use.

 

[Faded]

For those of you put off by Final Fantasy 3's £9.99 price tag, don't be. I'm just over 10 hours in so far and this game is worth every penny.

 

[bloodline76]

Why do you think it will have a price soon? The BBC iplayer app is still free

I got the VEVO app as well, saves ever having the buy music videos from iTunes again

Where is the BBC iplayer app? Can't find it.

 

[Kevin Clark]

Just put iplayer in to the store search box.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bbc-iplayer/id416580485?mt=8

 

[ONESHOTKILL]

Meteoroids Hd is free at the minute , same game as the classic asteroids , has a enhanced mode and also retro , defo worth a download

 

[Shakeel]

splinter cell and real football are 59p each for a ltd time

 

[Strife212]

Not seen AVPlayerHD mentioned yet, it's great! Am playing 720p MKVs on my ipad no problem. You can send videos to the ipad via wifi without using itunes as well.

 

[PR.]

Out of interest is AVPlayerHD able to keep it's videos from being included in the Backup that iTunes does? That's the most annoying bit.

 

[IT Troll]

No, unfortunately they are classed as app storage. So after syncing 20GB of movies over to your iPad, iTunes then spend an age backing them up to your PC.

 

[Mat]

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but Galaxy on Fire 2 is pretty good. Quite emersive and like all Elite clones has a reasonable replay factor.

 

[placeholder]

Not sure if im behind the times or not but there is now a Napster app at last for iphone and ipad!

 

[GSXRMovistar]

Any recommendations on a remote desktop app of accessing an iMac?

Previously using Mocha RDP for accessing my Windows boxes which i was very pleased with.

 

[oli356]

Any recommendations on a remote desktop app of accessing an iMac?

Previously using Mocha RDP for accessing my Windows boxes which i was very pleased with.

Splashtop
http://www.splashtop.com/remote/download?from=product

 

[ishamy]

Does anyone know if there's a good (if possible free) app that I could use as a remote for my Htpc? Splash top could work, but I've been told it reduces the res of the pc to that of the iPad. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Morfik]

There's an option in Splashtop to use the PCs resolution or reduce it to the iPad's. Try the free version.

 

[GSXRMovistar]

Been trying Splashbox, thoughts so far:-

1) No inbuilt WOL feature
2) Swapping between user accounts on remote mac causes Splashbox to screw up with a 'connection failure message'

At least I picked it up in the sale so only a quid wasted.