What apps do you recommend for iPad?

[BeVonk!]

Try the new iPad Bing app. Works really well.

 

[Bluray]

I have the following installed and a whole lot more sitting on my hardrive.

BUSINESS: ENTERTAINMENT:
Accounts Azul
Evernote DSTV Mobile Decoder
DocsToGo Premium
Invoice2go LIFESTYLE:
Softsign Amazon
AppAdvice
GAMES: eBay
Papertoss HD MyGumtree
Mini Golf HD PayPal
Ms PAC-Man Zinio

MUSIC: NEWS:
SoundHound News24
TuneIn Radio. Newsy
Volume Up Pulse News

SOCIAL:
Friendly for iPad
CLIPish Pro
Flipboard
Skype
Translate
Pica
Tapatalk

Sent from my iPad 2 using Tapatalk

 

[Hemi300c]

Vodacom recharge makes life alot easier for me.

 

[CeRRaNo]

Just got my iPad 2 and so far so awesome , except if I do go for Buzz player, how do you transfer avi files to the iPad .I'm not loving this walled garden stuff at all. Is this possible sans jailbreak?

Are you not getting confused with the iPad's native Videos app? Movie Player is a 3rd party app from the App Store.

Gave Buzz Player a try, but the quality is pretty much the same on avi/xvid files. While it has some extra bells & whistles, I still prefer Movie Player's clean uncluttered layout.

Seems it is just a pure horsepower issue on the iPad1, with no hw acceleration for formats other than the Apple supported h.264. Guess I'll just just have to live with it.

 

[bwana]

Just got my iPad 2 and so far so awesome , except if I do go for Buzz player, how do you transfer avi files to the iPad .I'm not loving this walled garden stuff at all. Is this possible sans jailbreak?

Have you checked out their website?

How do I transfer files to BUZZ Player? (Update for new method of version 1.3)
There are several ways to do that:

Computer-to-BUZZ Player: using USB cable. Read more on "Transferring Files" > "USB File Transfer" topic.
Computer-to-BUZZ Player: using WiFi-connection. If your device and computer are connected to the same WiFi network, use Web-browser to on your computer to transfer your files wirelessly. Read more on "Transferring Files" > "USB File Transfer" topic.
From version 1.1, you have another convenient way to copy file sharing on local network that using SMB and FPT protocol:
On Main window of BUZZ Player, touch "SMB & FTP browser" icon to display "SAMBA & FTP Shares" window.
Connect to the sharing files and browse it to the file you want to copy
Touch the file then select action "Copy To Device" to copy it.
Read more about SMB & FTP shares on "Browse Local Network" topic.

From version 1.3, you can download media files and zip files from Internet to BUZZ Player through Built-in Internet Browser. Read more on "Built-in Internet Browser" topic.

 

[CeRRaNo]

Great, thanks bwana

 

[Elimentals]

Just got my iPad 2 and so far so awesome , except if I do go for Buzz player, how do you transfer avi files to the iPad .I'm not loving this walled garden stuff at all. Is this possible sans jailbreak?

It probably is to late but I found StreamToMe with the data on my PC the best option as I download the media to my pc anyway

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streamtome/id325327899?mt=8

 

[EtienneK]

What's the best media player? Saw a lot of talk on here about Azul and Buzzplayer?

 

[sand_man]

It probably is to late but I found StreamToMe with the data on my PC the best option as I download the media to my pc anyway

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streamtome/id325327899?mt=8

Tried streamtome and found 720p content was buffering all the time so tried video stream and it works perfectly but doesn't support mp3 or jpg, essentially only video formats.

Home sharing through iTunes works brilliantly for sharing the iTunes library with all devices within a network... See tutorial here..

 

[Elimentals]

Home sharing through iTunes works brilliantly for sharing the iTunes library with all devices within a network... See tutorial here..

You could not have posted this a month sooner?

/mumbles

Update: oh it came with 4.3 ignore comment

 

[sand_man]

You could not have posted this a month sooner?

/mumbles

Update: oh it came with 4.3 ignore comment

tbh I only discovered home sharing yesterday

EDIT: Correct

 

[CeRRaNo]

It probably is to late but I found StreamToMe with the data on my PC the best option as I download the media to my pc anyway

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/streamtome/id325327899?mt=8

Thanks for that bud,

My real need however is playing local content on device, particularly during flights I travel a lot.

Gonna give buzz a whirl, alot of positive feedback .

 

[Elimentals]

If you into Tower Defense games do not and I repeat do not install this

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/anomaly-warzone-earth/id427155203?mt=12

If you do, say good buy to your free time. Oh I see it not on Ipad yet but its coming .....

Been playing it on PC and saw some iPad info on it

 

[bwana]

If you have an Eye-Fi SD card make sure you download the free Eye-Fi Direct software for your iPad/iPhone.

 

[Kompete]

Quick questions on video chat with the iPad 2:

Can you use one of the video chat apps and chat to someone that is using skype?

 

[marlinwebster]

Yip!

 

[rapidblue]

Quick questions on video chat with the iPad 2:

Can you use one of the video chat apps and chat to someone that is using skype?

Yip!

Cool!! I better try that

 

[Kompete]

Yip!

Really !!!??

Why are people then complaining http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=804071 about that there is no Skype optimised app for iPad 2 - if they can just use one of the other video apps? Which one is it BTW???

 

[bwana]

Really !!!??

Why are people then complaining http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=804071 about that there is no Skype optimised app for iPad 2 - if they can just use one of the other video apps? Which one is it BTW???

AFAIK while not optimised the iPhone skype version works adequately. I'm pretty confident that skype will be designing an iPad specific version now that they have cameras.

 

[Kompete]

AFAIK while not optimised the iPhone skype version works adequately. I'm pretty confident that skype will be designing an iPad specific version now that they have cameras.

Ok cool! I'm now more convinced that this is the device to get above all others.