I got mine on release day (second to last one at Target) and I’ve been playing with it non-stop. It totally fits my usage needs. It doesn’t play starcraft2, but what can you do? It’s the perfect device for when I’m on the couch watching tv or when I’m in bed.
It feels appreciably faster than my iphone4 and the larger screen makes it much more desirable to use as well. It also seems like the perfect tool for me to use to update this blog. The phone is just too small for typing and adding links and pictures. The iPad isn’t great for editing, but the larger screen makes it less awkward.
It motivated me enough to finally post the drafts of posts about our California trip last year. Entirely written on the iPhone, I was too lazy to edit them now so I just posted them because otherwise they’d never go up.
So here’s what I’ve currently got on my iPad.
Current iPad games:
- Infinity Blade
- Tales of Monkey Island ep1
- Osmos
- World of Goo
- Battleheart
- Puzzle Quest 2
Apps of note:
- Reeder for iPad
- SmugMug
- imo.im – gtalk & aim client
ed: Thought I had posted this a while back, but apparently I’d left it in draft form. Updated and throwing it out here now.
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I recently recommended a bunch of iphone games as a twitter response so I thought I’d post a more thorough entry here.
Games I’ve got loaded:
- Lux Touch – Risk style game; this is the free version which is good enough for when I get that urge.
- Quordy – Boggle style game; has multiplayer challenges; I should play more, but there’s so many other games.
- Fieldrunners – tower defense; my favorite of the many many TD games that I’ve tried on the iPhone.
- Mecho Wars – turn based strategy game, similar to Advance Wars; I like the art style.
- Tiki Towers – physics puzzler, similar to world of goo, but not as polished.
- Civilization Revolution – port from xbox live. It’s not quite as detailed as the pc version, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
- iBlast Moki – physics puzzler. It’s my new favorite game. I love the art style and the game theme plus level design is fantastic.
- Secret of Monkey Island – classic adventure game
- 2 across – crosswords
- Flight Control – finger drawing / time management game
- Robocalypse – RTS game. ported from nintendo DS
- Uniwar – turn based strategy
- Tris – tetris clone
Games I’ve got an eye on:
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms – koei port!
- Hybrid: Eternal Whisper – action/rpg
- Zenonia – zelda look-a-like
- Catan – official Settlers game, but currently looking clunky
Edit: Thanks Jed for pointing out I actually installed WP-Touch instead of IWphone. haha.
I seem to be more interested in setting my blog up to do cool things, than actually writing about said cool things. One of the plugins I’ve found is called WP-Touch. When it detects the user agent from an iphone or ipod touch, it sends a version of your blog that’s formatted for the iphone. There’s also an option for the visitor to see your blog with the original formatting if they so choose. I’ve included a couple screenshots I snagged while writing this post.
So, hopefully everyone got the invite I sent for the bday festivities using anyvite.com (if you didn’t, let me know and I’ll resend). Heard about it via one of Laura’s friends and having messed around with it, I think it’s better than evite by a large margin.
It’s got a sweet new ajax’d interface, account creation is super quick, and there aren’t the annoying ads / hoops that you have to jump through to use it (unlike evite). It’s clearly still in beta so there’s little things that they’re working on (like better privacy controls), but I think the overall package is worth dealing with the little issues.
Oh, when you add the location, it will add the google maps link automatically and when you click on the link, it’ll dynamically place it on the main page. It also has options for adding the event directly to your google calendar via openauth.
It facilitates migration from evite as well with some pretty nifty tools for bringing over guest lists. Also, it has super cute icons!
So, I hope we all switch from evite. woot.
Victory! Only had to get up at 5:30am yesterday to get my black 16gb from tysons. Woot!
I want to make out with my phone, it's so awesome. So, anyone have some reccomended apps?
I've already installed:
smugshot (for viewing smugmug galleries of my photos)
city guide (created by wapo and ties into all their reviews)
remote
google
all the google apps
flashlight / mylite (turns it into an expensive flashlight)
sportstap (sports scores)
shazam (music recog)
yelp (restaurant reviews)
boxoffice (movies)
labyrinth LE (game)
tap tap revenge (game)
