Gadgetory

hey guys it's brandon mebane from technobuffalo it's April thirtieth 2010 and here's a look at what's on my iPad okay so I'm going to take you through the applications that I've been using on a regular basis let's go through them now and of course there are a lot of applications on here that I use once in a while I'll make a full list of all these apps on technobuffalo and you can go there and see exactly why I have these other applications so let's just go for the first screen and I'm going to go through a half a dozen or so of these applications that I use a lot so going down the list I use maps a lot mostly because it does a really awesome job at doing Street View so if i go to say somewhere over here and I go into the street view look how amazing this looks so if you're planning a trip or you just want to see where that Pizza Hut is you can go into Street View and say oh I see it's next to that on to next to that white building near the other tall building thing so straight view is awesome on google maps on the iPad it's extremely immersive okay so let's continue on I also use the imdb application probably not on a regular basis but whenever I'm looking for a movie it's awesome so I can go into avatar and I can watch a trailer right on here I can see all the actors this is a really good example of how a company is making great use of the of the resolution on an iPad you can scroll down and see more about it going over here we can just watch a trailer right here in full screen and you get the point you can search for movies so let's search for say Shawshank Redemption probably one of the best movies of all time and there it is comes up really fast you can see that it's got a really high rating probably a movie that you want to watch imdb's awesome it's free okay going down the list I don't really use these too much I books I don't use that much i use the kindle app i'll show you that in a second these racing games are really awesome but I use them very infrequently analytics HD is a fantastic app it costs actually I think ten dollars but it lets you look the Google Analytics of any website that you're tracking so it's really fantastic I do use Pendor a lot but it's really really annoying on the iPad that I can't listen to pandora radio while doing something else hopefully or most likely in version four point oh and we get it in the fall on the iPad you'll finally be able to do this I don't use aim that much I definitely use the weather channel application a ton it's the best weather application that i found on the ipad so we get a different background every time I can jump right into local and it finds your nearest city and here we are showing me the forecast in fayetteville north carolina we can swipe to the right to get a beautiful forecast down here we can click into radar and the radar is really really cool it integrates with google maps so it doesn't look like there's any precipitation around the area but if there were it would overlay onto the map and then you could use this like google maps to see where the storm cells are and everything the weather channel free application it's awesome I use it a lot Wall Street Journal I absolutely use a lot there's a little bit of a bug with it you're going to see in a second first of all it's slow in loading and so I can see all of the issues in the last week on paying two dollars per week to get this and it's downloading today and sometimes it freezes when it downloads today hopefully it won't do that today let's see what happens and see it seems to be stuck on today so I'm just going to go to yesterday's issue of The Wall Street Journal just to give you a little taste of what it looks like on the iPad and why I like it so then not the fastest appt here here we are we can swipe to the right for the front news pages or we can click on what's news this is always a good place that I like to start so you see the top headlines and it's such a relief not have to flip through to Section C for to see this story if I want to see this story I tap on it and boom there it is it's also got multimedia within it it's got an image gallery and a lot of the article is also a video with it which is quite fantastic and then you get this nice index on the side of all of the different articles within this particular section which is what's news and we can swipe to the right get a little advertisement which is kind of annoying especially since I'm paying for this but what are you going to do okay back to the home screen kindle application i use a lot i'm really really happy that they approve the kindle application for the app store for the ipad so here i am in a book let me get out of here this is the 21 irrefutable laws of leadership i recommend it tremendously and what i can do is somewhere around here i can go to my archive showing all the books that i've ever bought so here they are all the books I've ever bought I can download them to the kindle within seconds so let's say i want to check out the interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud good title so right now it's downloading it right to my Kindle I've already purchased it so now if I go to home there it is the interpretation of dreams starting on the page that I left off with and of course down here if you tap on the screen you can change a few things about the text you can make it larger and smaller you can change the background to white or if you think it's two contrasting and go to sepia which is actually a lot better so the kindle app i use this a lot to read books okay going down the list we have a link to t ed calm which is formatted properly for the ipad so you can watch all of the fantastic te d videos right on your ipad as if they were meant to play so i can go to any of these and you're going to see in a second that the video should queue up and then you can use a gesture to make the video wider double tap to make it full screen awesome so you can see why I have that bookmarked it works so well in the iPad we got the App Store New York Times editor choice it's a free app awesome app New York Times has fantastic journalists on board and you can access it right from your iPad so it's probably going to refresh there it goes and see what just happened is that the New York Times application closed itself this is a bug there are a lot of these bugs still in the iPad in applications things don't always work but you know it's only been out for about a month so we can go to the next page just like the The Wall Street Journal you can tap on a story and it will bring it up full screen after it downloads it and this is a little bit different on in the page navigation down here we get a variety of dots to indicate how many pages you have left whereas on the wall street journal it would just say page 1 of 2 and we can go back and we can filter through the categories on the bottom awesome application i use on a regular basis facebook has still not been updated for the ipad so i am running the the iphone version which is just it's horrible it's horrible because it has to scale to the larger screen i use this program to track stocks not going to show that i use this a ton speedtest.net this is an iphone application that's why it looks blurry but i like this it's fun to see how fast my internet connection speed is at times so you get the point that's actually kind of slow for today ok so let's go down the list this is an iphone application koi pond if they haven't updated it for the iPad this is a really fun game i'm not going to show you it's called tap tap radiation it's free this is another free game called magic piano going down the list coloring book something i got just for fun i use NPR a lot NPR is another awesome source of news this is a free application that lets you listen to the audio broadcasts and read articles and it remembers where i left off from so it's going to download and you can even have a playlist down here to keep track of the different times that you the different playlists that you add to to your playlist and we can swipe to the right this is a beautiful interface a really interesting way that they decided to do this so we can tap on a particular story and it's going to load listen now get a lot work for it get a little advertisement and then it'll go right into my house today declared challenge ok here it really fantastic high quality news on your iPad it's a really really good thing then pro keys I like to mess around with this this is a free application you play the piano you can change the preset here to different sounds since it has multitouch it responds quite nicely to your touch going down to list further good reader I don't use that too much but people that use a lot of documents on google docs say it is awesome scrabble is probably the best game that i found on the ipad so far the graphics are just incredible and i love using this when i have people over what's really cool about this is that you can use iphones and connect it with bluetooth to show the letters when you're playing Scrabble so i'm going to go to a new game really quick just to show you what it looks like graphics are awesome so scrabble in its full glory i can't wait for more board games to come to the ipad ok continuing on yahoo entertainment is an awesome app that lets you see what's on TV tonight and it's perfect because your ipad is probably going to be on your coffee table and to be able to have a online guide program like this is just really great and it works quite well to take a look so this is the only annoying part it has to update update the guide but it's downloading a lot of information oh you can see my reflection hello so another thing about the ipad screen it's so reflective it's very hard to take it outside because any little reflection will show up like my head in the glossy screen so here we have an awesome looking guide this one actually works better in portrait because you get more screen real estate we can swipe quickly it works just really really marvelously ok let's keep going on draw Meister is an awesome application that i discovered i play the drums and so it's fun it's a it's two dollars and it's kind of cool because you can actually change the configuration of the drums so I can move this around I can actually add drums this is another example of a cool ipad interface so I can actually take one of these let's take the floor tom and add another one and I'm done and I can actually change the size of this like so and check mark and you got it ok continuing on opera mini it's an iphone application don't really use it don't use this don't use city series illusion HD is just a co-op costs 99 cents it shows you optical illusions stopwatch I just use it to test the time it takes to do certain things down here you see twitterrific which i think is the best ipad application for twitter although there are many so it's very likely that there is probably one out there that is better and you just heard a little big I got a new email so that was a look at the applications that I've got on my iPad right now April thirtieth 2010 this will probably change in a month and i'll be sure to make another video talking about it be sure to check TechnoBuffalo i want to list all these other apps and tell you why i got them that's it for now