Macworld’seditors recently observe some of our preferred iPad apps:11 give essentials , nine liberal ones , and10 great games . But as anyone who ’s used an iPad after possess an iPhone or iPod touch can tell you , nearly as celebrated are those apps thataren’tavailable for the iPad — the ones you ’ve grown to have sex on Apple ’s smaller sieve that have n’t yet seen iPad - optimized rendering , result you to use them “ pixel - doubled ” ( blown up to match the iPad ’s screen ) .
As part of our resume of editors ’ favorites , we necessitate which iPhone apps editor most missed when using the iPad . Not amazingly , yield wide-ranging personal preferences and the transparent figure of iPhone apps available , the outcome were all over the map — many apps were appoint by only a single editor , with only a few garner multiple voting . Even so , some obvious family of apps emerged , as well as a few individual standouts . scan on to see which appsMacworld’seditors want . In the summons , you ’ll get a peep into how we use our iPads .
Apple’s apps
It ’s more than a bit odd — not to cite disappointing — that many of Apple ’s own iPhone apps have n’t made the jump to iPad - optimise status . The most obvious deterrent example is the excellent - on - the - iPhone Remote , which allow you control iTunes , Apple boob tube , and AirTunes over your wireless connection . As the iPad version of iTunes aptly demonstrates , an iPad - optimise version of Remote would make browsing and hold your media much more enjoyable .
But other Apple apps would benefit from that additional screen real estate , as well . For example , who would n’t prefer to view ikon in the MobileMe Gallery app at the iPad ’s native result rather than soar up in ? And those of us who ’ve used the late adaptation of Dropbox on the iPad quickly realized the benefits of browsing and viewing data file at higher resolution ; we ’d like to see the same sort of update for Apple ’s MobileMe iDisk app . C’m on , Apple — if thousands of third - party appshave been updated for the iPad , why have n’t your own ?
Writing tools
WriteRoom
As writers and editor , we obviously have a predilection for write computer software . And we ’ve spentquite a bit of timetyping on the ipad . So it ’s no surprisal that a few writing and editing apps made several list . For starters , we love the Mac version and iPhone interlingual rendition of WriteRoom , the full - screen written material app — we do n’t always need the word - processing features of Pages , and WriteRoom best Pages in a number of path , include online papers synchronize and redaction , all - document searching , and TextExpander integration . We ’d love to be capable to use those feature at the iPad ’s native resolve . ( Thankfully , WriteRoom for iPad ison the fashion . )
verbalise of TextExpander , this utility for contribute repetitive and lengthy text snip by typing shorter abbreviations is especially useful when using an iPad or iPhone ’s practical keyboard . While the iPhone version works on the iPad , and decent syncs with the Mac version , a big , higher - resolution sieve is always better for text . ( We ’d also love to seemore iPad apps admit TextExpander integration . )
WriteRoom
Pastebot
Patebot is the Swiss Army Knife of text edition utilities for the iPhone , and while it could have been included with the writing tools , above , it garnered enough vote to be note on its own . Pastebot syncs your Mac ’s clipboard with your iPhone ’s ; lets you store frequently used bits of contentedness for well-fixed pasting ; provides information about content , such as text Bible count or image size of it ; and lets you reformat and process text and tweak images . gratuitous to say , this last set of feature would shine on the iPad ’s sieve , and having more way to work would permit the developer to make it easier to get at useful features that currently take digging down into wedge - screens .
Reeder
NetNewsWire for iPad is a great app — we admit it in our listing of all important paid iPad apps — in part because the developer exhibits an admirable direction on get the basics right , even if it means leaving out feature film , options , or button some RSS junkies crave . But being just such junky , a number of Macworld editors are fans of Reeder , an RSS / Google Reader client that does just about anything a heavy drug user of RSS feed could desire . We ’re apprehensively tapping our fingers — on the table , not the iPad ’s filmdom — waiting for a version of Reeder that , like NetNewsWire and Instapaper Pro , accept advantage of the iPad ’s magnanimous screen to supply an even better reading experience .
Media and remote apps
We ’re true media junky . Between the variousMacworldeditors , we ’ve got unnumberable Sonos and Squeezebox system , Rokus , Apple telly , DVRs — you name it . So in gain to Apple ’s Remote app , we ’ve got a long list of media - focused apps we ’d love to see make the move to the grownup screen . These include wireless - outback apps such as iPeng ( for Logitech ’s Squeezebox system ) , the Sonos Controller app for Sonos equipment , and the DirecTV app ; as well as SlingPlayer Mobile , for remotely watching content served up by your Slingbox . The iPad is a compelling gadget for remotely accessing and controlling your media , and we want to do more of that .
Social-media apps
Macworldeditors are very societal mass — or at least active user of societal - media networks , if the number of votes for social - medium apps is any indicant . Or perhaps it just reflects how different our tastes in both platforms and app port really are . In any case , we jointly nominated a plenty of different apps for enter in and monitoring social networks , including Tweetie 2 ( which , in the few days since our study make place , has been released as the official Twitter app ) , TwitBird , Skype , BeejiveIM ( which alsojust saw an iPad - aboriginal departure ) , Flickr , Brightkite , Reddit , Ember , and Facebook .
The absence seizure of an iPad - native version of the Facebook app is the most surprising , given how much Apple and Facebook have promote the iPhone version — not to mention that Facebook for iPhone is an splendid instance of an app outshining the Website of a World Wide Web - based service .
Reeder
News apps
Photo-editing apps
PhotoForge
We let in to being a flake stunned by how many image - redaction apps have been released for the iPhone . After all , with a screen that small , you would n’t think so many mass would be edit and managing epitome … yet there are hundreds of such apps . The iPad ’s CRT screen , on the other hand , feels ideal for working with images , and we ’re looking ahead to larger - cover versions of apps such as Photoshop.com Mobile , PhotoForge , and Postage to do more on - the - go image manipulation .
That’s not all…
Of naturally , we have n’t even touched the myriad plot we ’d care to see make over for the iPad , and there are plenty of other iPhone apps we habituate that have the potential to be even better on an iPad : iBird Explorer Pro , Billings , iSale Mobile , iHome+Sleep , MenuPages , and OpenTable , to name just a few staff favorites . But it ’s still early — the iPad has only been usable for a calendar month and a one-half — so we ask many of these apps to make the move … finally .
PhotoForge
