TOP 10 Best Free Applications for iPad

iPad is nothing but a large iPod Touch, some guys claim. We answer: With the right iPad apps, that is so not true. The iPad (iPad 2 included) is an interesting way to read newspapers and magazines, but you need a notebook PC to get real work done.

When the iPad became available in the UK, we trawled the UK App Store to pick our favourite free iPad apps, paid-for iPad apps. After several days free trial, we pick out top 10 best iPad apps for you.

1 iBooks (Free): Top Best apps for iPad

iBooks is a free application for iPad. It turns the iPad into an electronic book reader with 60,000 books at launch to choose. Although the Kindle has many more titles (450,000), iBooks lets you flip through virtual pages with your fingers on a color screen. The built-in search and dictionary will come in handy. The font size and brightness can be adjusted. Pages can be bookmarked or highlighted. Books can be read vertically in a full-page view or horizontally in a two-page view like a regular open book. The book store is part of the app and looks like iTunes for books, with best-seller and most-popular lists. Every time you buy a book, it downloads directly to your iPad.

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2 Pages for iPad: Top Best apps for iPad

Apple knew full well that Microsoft would not move an inch to support the iPad, so Pages is the best (and only!) word processing app. Combined with the iPad Dock with an Apple Bluetooth keyboard, it is possible to do real work on the iPad, even if Pages lacks some key features – such as HTML mark-up support.

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3GoodReader: Top Best apps for iPad

GoodReader is the highest rated PDF reader app produced by Tablet Edition. It allows you to download PDF's via WiFi, Mail, or from the Internet. Best of all, this app integrates with MobileMe iDisk, Dropbox, Google Docs, and Box.net. With GoodReader on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, you can read virtually anything, anywhere. Books, movies, maps, pictures - GoodReader puts it all in a single app, right in your pocket.

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4 Keynote: Top Best apps for iPad

Keynote is worth the price of admission if only because you can set up an attractive slideshow – using Apple's templates and stock artwork – and run it on the iPad's crisp screen – which is viewable from side angles during a meeting.

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5 Evernote: Top Best apps for iPad

I used to be a slave to Yojimbo, a Mac application that lets you save web pages, bookmarks and other snippets of data. I've since gone over to Evernote, which has clients for Mac, iPhone and now the iPad. Notes sync wirelessly. Evernote lets you make notes, take screenshots of any app or web page, add comments via a soft keyboard and through a voice memo recorder within the app. Adding user-defined tags lets you manage your notes.

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6 Netflix: Top Best apps for iPad

Netflix is on so many devices it is becoming a legitimate standard for streaming movies over the internet. (It's on the Roku player, Samsung BD-C6500 Blu-Ray player, and many others.) Now, it is on the iPad, and it works: you can even set up a movie queue and search for films and shows, unlike other embedded devices that force you to add instant movies to your queue on your PC only.

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7 Real Racing HD: Top Best apps for iPad

It's a racing experience designed just for iPad. Tap, touch, or tilt your iPad to control your car using Multi-Touch technology, the accelerometer, or the virtual steering wheel. Challenge yourself to eight different events. Or race against your friends in real time.

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8 SketchBook Pro: Top Best apps for iPad

We're big fans of SketchBook on the iPhone, and this high-def version just makes it even easier to sketch out an artistic image. The tools are amazingly advanced, mirroring what you might see in Photoshop or in a real artist's shop.

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9 Groovemaker: Top Best apps for iPad

Groovemaker is like having a DJ on your iPad. There's an easy to way to record and mix loops, add drum parts, and adjust sound levels to make a song. Samples clips sound great, especially on earbuds. The app is ideal for live music at parties as well.

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10 WeatherBug Elite: Top Best apps for iPad

WeatherBug Elite is a perfect example of why the iPad is changing computing: it shows a well-detailed map of your exact location, forecasts, video, and even camera feeds from your area. There are even contour maps for wind speed and temp.

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Download some and learn that your iPad is much more than just a digital newspaper. Have apps, will travel.

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