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Kindle For iPad
Amazon has updated its popular e-reader application, just in time for a new iPad that promises to be easier on the eyes and a more natural reading experience for bookworms.
Apple has also updated its Kindle competitor, iBooks, for crisp Retina display reading.
Both are free in the app store.
IncrediBooth
Incredibooth simulates the experience of having your picture taken in a photo-booth. Just point the front-facing at your faces and Incredibooth spits out a strip of four pictures, with your choice of Instagram-ish photo filters.
Evernote
The ultimate productivity app, Evernote allows you to take notes, set agendas, plan vacations and create lists. A terrific organization application, Evernote's won a ton of awards and might just straighten out the haphazard pigpen that is your life.
Twitterific
Two Twitter clients will be ready for the Retina display at launch, and Twitterific is the free one. Tweetbot ($2.99) is also available and Retina-optimized. Both get positive reviews.
The Daily
Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only newspaper The Daily launched just over a year ago with predictions that it just might save the news media and "bring journalism into the 21st century". While it hasn't quite done that, it does feature a nice design and funny pictures of world leaders eating hot dogs, both of which you can now view on your Retina display!
You can download the app and try it for two weeks for free, and then get a weekly subscription for $0.99 per week or a yearly subscription for $40/year.
iMovie/GarageBand/iPhoto
All of the applications in Apple's iLife suite are, for the first time ever, available on the iPad, for $5 a piece. In case you don't know: iMovie is your movie editing software, GarageBand is your music editing software, and iPhoto is your picture-editing software, all optimized for touch-and-swipe editing on the tablet.
iPhoto for iPad, which was unveiled along with the new iPad, has been getting mixed reviews.
Star Walk For iPad
Star Walk is one of those apps that seems closely aligned or specially developed for a device: It's an augmented reality application, and if you point the iPad's camera at the night sky, your iPad will tell you what constellations or stars you're looking at. Neat stuff.
Star Walk ($4.99)
The New York Times
The Grey Lady has also gone high-def, updating its iPad app for the new iPad's display. It's the same old New York Times, just easier on the eyes: The app download is free, as is the top news; if you want to read other sections, however, you have to pony up and spend some cash to get behind that paywall.
A digital subscription for the iPad app is $20 per month, or if you also want access to NYTimes.com and the NYTimes app on your iPhone, it's $35.
NYTimes (FREE download, free access to top news, subscription required otherwise)
Infinity Blade II
Apple spent a lot of time at its big media event positioning the iPad as a bona fide gaming device, and Infinity Blade II is perhaps its most sophisticated game. An action/fighting game with excellent graphics, Infinity Blade II looks to continue its reign atop the iPad gaming charts as it upgrades those 3D graphics for the Retina display.
Infinity Blade II ($6.99)
Mass Effect Infiltrator
Looking for more graphically-stunning gaming? Try Mass Infiltrator Effect. The sci-fi RPG from EA moves from the Xbox to the iPad, allowing you to kill ETs in HD.
Mass Effect Infiltrator ($6.99)
Art Authority
Art Authority is a virtual art museum/art history textbook on the iPad, taking you through a digital hall of portraits and landscapes of artists past. Art Authority is good, but these George Seurat paintings still appear rather pixelated.
Art Authority ($9.99)
Kindle For iPad
Amazon has updated its popular e-reader application, just in time for a new iPad that promises to be easier on the eyes and a more natural reading experience for bookworms.
Apple has also updated its Kindle competitor, iBooks, for crisp Retina display reading.
Both are free in the app store.
IncrediBooth
Incredibooth simulates the experience of having your picture taken in a photo-booth. Just point the front-facing at your faces and Incredibooth spits out a strip of four pictures, with your choice of Instagram-ish photo filters.
Evernote
The ultimate productivity app, Evernote allows you to take notes, set agendas, plan vacations and create lists. A terrific organization application, Evernote's won a ton of awards and might just straighten out the haphazard pigpen that is your life.
Twitterific
Two Twitter clients will be ready for the Retina display at launch, and Twitterific is the free one. Tweetbot ($2.99) is also available and Retina-optimized. Both get positive reviews.
The Daily
Rupert Murdoch's iPad-only newspaper The Daily launched just over a year ago with predictions that it just might save the news media and "bring journalism into the 21st century". While it hasn't quite done that, it does feature a nice design and funny pictures of world leaders eating hot dogs, both of which you can now view on your Retina display!
You can download the app and try it for two weeks for free, and then get a weekly subscription for $0.99 per week or a yearly subscription for $40/year.
iMovie/GarageBand/iPhoto
All of the applications in Apple's iLife suite are, for the first time ever, available on the iPad, for $5 a piece. In case you don't know: iMovie is your movie editing software, GarageBand is your music editing software, and iPhoto is your picture-editing software, all optimized for touch-and-swipe editing on the tablet.
iPhoto for iPad, which was unveiled along with the new iPad, has been getting mixed reviews.
Star Walk For iPad
Star Walk is one of those apps that seems closely aligned or specially developed for a device: It's an augmented reality application, and if you point the iPad's camera at the night sky, your iPad will tell you what constellations or stars you're looking at. Neat stuff.
Star Walk ($4.99)
The New York Times
The Grey Lady has also gone high-def, updating its iPad app for the new iPad's display. It's the same old New York Times, just easier on the eyes: The app download is free, as is the top news; if you want to read other sections, however, you have to pony up and spend some cash to get behind that paywall.
A digital subscription for the iPad app is $20 per month, or if you also want access to NYTimes.com and the NYTimes app on your iPhone, it's $35.
NYTimes (FREE download, free access to top news, subscription required otherwise)
Infinity Blade II
Apple spent a lot of time at its big media event positioning the iPad as a bona fide gaming device, and Infinity Blade II is perhaps its most sophisticated game. An action/fighting game with excellent graphics, Infinity Blade II looks to continue its reign atop the iPad gaming charts as it upgrades those 3D graphics for the Retina display.
Infinity Blade II ($6.99)
Mass Effect Infiltrator
Looking for more graphically-stunning gaming? Try Mass Infiltrator Effect. The sci-fi RPG from EA moves from the Xbox to the iPad, allowing you to kill ETs in HD.
Mass Effect Infiltrator ($6.99)
Art Authority
Art Authority is a virtual art museum/art history textbook on the iPad, taking you through a digital hall of portraits and landscapes of artists past. Art Authority is good, but these George Seurat paintings still appear rather pixelated.
Art Authority ($9.99)
