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Stuff I need for an iPad + stuff to do with it

Gunleik Groven

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I was gifted with an iPad, and After a couple of days, I am all for it.

It's a much more fun gadget than I'd have imagined.

So what are your "must have" apps and uses for the iPad?
I guess you aren't all only using it as a digital slate and lightsource...

Cheers!

G
 
Congrats Gunleik, that's a nice gift!

My buddy has a rental company here in Istanbul and he just got a Teradek video transmitter. Although there is currently a latency of 10 seconds (they are working on that), we are planning on using the ipad as a wireless monitor with the Teradek. Soon, there will be an option for playing back footage as soon as you cut the camera. I believe they are beta testing that now. So, the ipad will take the place of director's playback deck on set. Pretty cool :)
 
We'll try something like that on the production that starts shooting right after new year.

And it is a cool gift... I had planned to wait for one with a cam, but here I am typing away on my new toy... And I haven't been missing the cam... Yet.
 
Movie Slate for sure. By far my favourite app for filmmakers. May look like a toy at first, but it's really powerful with a lot of cool features.

Also, I like Minimal Folio for portfolio purposes.

SunSeeker is pretty neat if you need to know where that light is coming from.

And, Angry Birds. Time (and birds) flies with this one.
 
Gunleik, I highly recommend purchasing Form Tools PDF for iPads. It's a great PDF utility that lets you sign location agreements, release forms, or any other types of PDFs right on the iPad screen. I've found it extremely useful in going paperless on set, as I can have a cast of 10 people sign the same release form 10 times over, really quickly.
 
Jonathan Stevenson said:
Gunleik, I highly recommend purchasing Form Tools PDF for iPads. It's a great PDF utility that lets you sign location agreements, release forms, or any other types of PDFs right on the iPad screen. I've found it extremely useful in going paperless on set, as I can have a cast of 10 people sign the same release form 10 times over, really quickly.
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I checked it out, and honestly wasn't that impressed. It's nice to have a way to do forms on the iPad, I'll give it that. Also cool it's made by a local guy (you know him, right?). But why does it not support actual PDF form documents? If I could create a form in Acrobat and load it into this app and it just works, then it would be worth every penny.

Maybe I shouldn't knock it too much... My iPad camera tools app has been attempting approval from Apple since the last week of May. I've scaled it down, it does a lot less, I've re-written it a few times. Finally heard from Apple as to why they wouldn't accept it -- the interface. So that turned into a few lengthy back and forth emails and a 2 hour conference call. All sorted now and they seem willing to approve it... If I ever fix a few things and re-submit. I haven't had time to do it lately with other things. I have two other iOS projects going for clients and can only stare at so much code in a day.

So, yeah, my upcoming app that may get released whenever might be something you would be interested in... Hehe.

If you like silly games or have kids, check out Cut The Rope.

Unreal Citadel is cool in that it shows what an iPad can do. And actually not even all it can do. One of my current projects uses the GPU heavily on the iPad for computational tasks. It's pretty mind-blowing what you can squeeze out of this thing.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
I checked it out, and honestly wasn't that impressed. It's nice to have a way to do forms on the iPad, I'll give it that. Also cool it's made by a local guy (you know him, right?). But why does it not support actual PDF form documents? If I could create a form in Acrobat and load it into this app and it just works, then it would be worth every penny.

Maybe I shouldn't knock it too much... My iPad camera tools app has been attempting approval from Apple since the last week of May. I've scaled it down, it does a lot less, I've re-written it a few times. Finally heard from Apple as to why they wouldn't accept it -- the interface. So that turned into a few lengthy back and forth emails and a 2 hour conference call. All sorted now and they seem willing to approve it... If I ever fix a few things and re-submit. I haven't had time to do it lately with other things. I have two other iOS projects going for clients and can only stare at so much code in a day.

So, yeah, my upcoming app that may get released whenever might be something you would be interested in... Hehe.

If you like silly games or have kids, check out Cut The Rope.

Unreal Citadel is cool in that it shows what an iPad can do. And actually not even all it can do. One of my current projects uses the GPU heavily on the iPad for computational tasks. It's pretty mind-blowing what you can squeeze out of this thing.
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Apparently he's adding PDF Form support in the next release or two. I guess it's not very easy, haha. But yeah, that'd make the app that much cooler.
 
Gunleik Groven said:
I was gifted with an iPad, and After a couple of days, I am all for it.

It's a much more fun gadget than I'd have imagined.

So what are your "must have" apps and uses for the iPad?
I guess you aren't all only using it as a digital slate and lightsource...

Cheers!

G
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Flipboard (turns your Twitter feeds, etc. into your own awesome magazine)
Skype
AIM
AirVideo
VLC
Whiteboard HD
SketchBook
Air Sharing (PRO)
Social (very cool Facebook client)
Droptext
Pages & Numbers
TweetDeck
Pandora
TeamViewer
Things
OmniGraffle
PCalc Lite
IMDB
Dropbox
Dragon Dictation
TouchpadHD
Convert Units

and ... Victoria's Secret
 
Jonathan Stevenson said:
Apparently he's adding PDF Form support in the next release or two. I guess it's not very easy, haha. But yeah, that'd make the app that much cooler.
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It would make the app way cooler and a must-have! ...Or at least until Adobe finally swallows their pride and releases Acrobat for iOS.

Mark L. Pederson said:
Flipboard (turns your Twitter feeds, etc. into your own awesome magazine)
Skype
AIM
AirVideo
VLC
Whiteboard HD
SketchBook
Air Sharing (PRO)
Social (very cool Facebook client)
Droptext
Pages & Numbers
TweetDeck
Pandora
TeamViewer
Things
OmniGraffle
PCalc Lite
IMDB
Dropbox
Dragon Dictation
TouchpadHD
Convert Units

and ... Victoria's Secret
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All good suggestions from Mark (and others). I also have to add Netflix to the list as I haven't seen it yet.

Google Earth is a must-have. But the latest release seems to be buggy and slow, not sure what's up.

LOL at the Victoria's Secret suggestion. Yeah, it's just an online catalog (plus some extras), but come on... Gotta love it.

Amazon Kindle app too. I prefer buying Kindle books and the wife has a Kindle. I can read them on any device and they're cheaper. Apple may be doing awesome with iTunes, but iBooks kinda sucks.

I want to recommend SlingPlayer if you have a Slingbox, but they hosed most of their customers by only supporting the latest Slingbox models. And WTF??? $30? Come on...

I pretty much boycott any app that forces you to buy separate iPhone and iPad versions. As an iOS developer myself, I can assure you that other developers who do this are doing it out of initial laziness, but more so they can double-charge for the app. Now that all iPad and iPhone are both concurrent, it's stupid-simple to support both in a single app. :incazzato:
 
Tobias Straka said:
Movie Slate for sure. By far my favourite app for filmmakers. May look like a toy at first, but it's really powerful with a lot of cool features.
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Oh maaaaannnn...I had a location sound recordist show up with a smart slate app on his iphone for a DSLR/F900R shoot and I almost wrung his neck. I don't know if they can slave it to a TC source yet but the app just had rolling TC that referenced nothing, couldn't be seen in daylight, you have to shake it to get it to clap so it would clap when you didn't want it to and not clap when you needed it. It would trigger and clap during a take (killing the take) and then he'd have to fiddle with it to correct the take number. It lasted about 10 minutes before the regular smart slate came back out.

If you were a 2nd assist and wanted to show chix (spelled with an 'x') in a bar the minutia of your job I'm sure it would be a great app. If you bring it on set prepare to have Steinberg thowing his shoe at you.

This was last spring so I don't know if they have a better version out now.
 
Gunleik Groven said:
Spotify is a cool music service over here, netflix and even joost is pretty much blocked.

Does Skype work on iPad?
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I use Skype on the iPad all the time. I even make calls on it, holding it to my head like an 90's sized cell phone. I'm retro like that.
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Also get:

Publications:
Pulse (Amazing Blog aggregation app)
Wired Magazine
Time Magazine
Popular Science
Project Magazine (Just out, very cool)

Games:
Osmos - Plug your headphones in and get lost in some electronic ambient bliss.
Angry Birds HD (Only purchase this if you value nothing in life)
Doodle Jump (It works better on the iPad)
The Incident (cool retro-chic 8bit game)

TouchPad for Ipad - Turns your iPad into a gigantic trackpad for your computer. And it tracks amazingly well (better than any trackpad ive used). You can also use it as a big remote for media centre or presentions.

Sketching:
Autodesk Sketchbook Pro

Office:
Pages/Keynote

Cool:
Bubble Harp
Gravilux

Tons more, but that should get you started.
 
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