Other apps you might want to check out in app store
 

Most (all??) of these are free!

• Evernote -- use it almost every day; must have for those with CRS
• Swing By Swing - free golf GPS that is more than accurate enough for MY game!
• Photography related:
  • Color Splash
  • PS Express
  • Instagram
  • Hipstamatic -- really cool-:)
  • FlixLab
• TED - inspiring videos
• Zite - news stories you want to track
• Spotify - find new music similar to what you already like
• AudioGalaxy - stream your local MP's across your network
• Rmaker - ringtone maker
• IMDB and Fandango, of course
• Epicurious
• Amazon PriceCheck
• Bloom - inspiring reminders
• Beat The Traffic -- for travelers

MEM ... We want to use our iPad to listen to audio books while we travel to Florida. The 26 hour drive seems shorter with talking books. How can we hook up the iPad to the car stereo system. Our Toyoto SUV is 2 years old, perhaps not new enough?

Hi Barefoot.... All your car needs is an AUX plug for the car stereo. You simply plug one end of the cable into the headphone plug on the iPad and the other into your car stereo. Some car stereos have the white/red plug, like your home stereo. If that is the case, you can buy a cable for that too. One end is red/white; the other is the headphone plug.

Let me know if this works for you...

Here's another option: Go to a Bestbuy or other similar electronics store. You can purchase a pair of small speakers that plug into your iPad headphone plug. Will not be as good as your car stereo, but will be better than nothing. These speakers have nothing to do with the iPad and they will work with any device that has a headphone plug...iPhone, MP3 player, Smartphone, etc.

Have a good trip back to the bubble!

I like the app ---text plus --
ABCPlayer---
GPS DRIVE ---

Pandora radio is in my wife's new IPAD (thanks to ljones) It is great. If you for instance type in The Beatles, of course you'd get songs by the Fab Four, but also songs from bands like Badfinger, ets. With Elvis you get Engelbert, Carl Perkins etc. Fabulous music app for the Ipad. Thanks for the tip. And thanks to MeMason for all his help getting my wifes Ipad set up.

What is the best way to connect the iPad to the TV to watch Netflix streaming?
These app suggestions are great! Thank you everyone.

Good question.... You can use the Apple Digital AV Adapter to connect the iPad2 to your HDTV via HDMI cabling. No special app required; just the adapter and an HDMI cable.

Read about it here: http://www.apple.com/ipad/accessories/

Enjoy!

PS: This assumes that you don't already have Apple TV

It's that time of the year
 

With hurricane season upon us again, I thought I would remind everyone there are some rather good apps for hurricane tracking, in the Apple app store.

I have been using Hurricane HD, on the iPad and iPhone for a couple years and it works really well. Shows storm tracks, both actual and projected for both Atlantic and Pacific storms. Also shows how far you are from the storm, calibrated to your current location.

This thread has been dormant for a while and lots of folks have gotten a new iPhone or iPad.

What are the latest apps you're using ???

Apps
 

thanks just downloaded it.

Crunch did you find out if there is IPad club .if not start one I well join it

While not an iPad club, there is a Villages Mac Users Group that meets several times/month. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, there is a meeting to focus on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod touch) and the issues that folks are having. They answer lots of questions. Here is a link to their website:

Apple iClub | The Villages, Florida

The meetings are open to everyone.

Thanks memason.I well go
Thanks for the site

Nobody has mentioned WAZE. It is a fun app I use on my droid AND Ipad2 that works the same as a gps navigation app. The difference is it has options for having groups (exa; people that might travel the same route to work everyday), friends, you can send messages to wazers on the traffic or whatever, points for your travels, and input on traffic delays, police reporting, accidents, and much more that is put in by the users as they travel for all to use. Plus it is just fun to pass someone that also has it on since they show up on the road with you.

Whistle
 

Are you calling any US phone or just other Whistle users?
It seems things may have changed. I have a friend who is now living in Tokyo. We each have an iPhone and would love to be able to call each other. Suggestions?

First Whistle... I haven't used Whistle in a couple years, but when I did use it, you could call ANY US telephone free; even cell phones. Your friend, in Tokyo, could install Whistle and call you for free. The app works on both the iPhone and the iPad.

Caveat: You can only call US Phones for free. In other words, you would not be able to call your friends Japanese phone number. So, only he can initiate a free Whistle call from Tokyo.

But wait... You both have iPhones! Well, if you each have an iPhone 4 or 4S, you can use Facetime to talk, for free, anywhere in the world. ..and, you can use the cameras to actually see each other or he can take you on a tour of Tokyo. This is a amazing benefit of Apple and iOS 5. It's like Skype, only better, in my opinion. With Facetime, you can initiate the call, as well as your friend. It's free either way.

In addition, you can each use iMessage to text each other; also free. I have friends and family in Germany [with iPhones] and we use iMessage daily to "talk" to each other.

Hope this helps.... Mike