LCfiner said:
I'll post my homescreen when I get back home.
till then i was wondering if folks could list what they've done to the dock. you can now have 6 apps there. do you fill it up. what apps have you placed in your dock.
for me:
Safari
mail
things
Netnewswire
iPod
two non-apple apps in the dock. never did that with the iPhone. also, I don't have 6 apps down there like i thought I would. felt too busy, especially in portrait mode with only 4 app columns above it.
I noticed a 3 app dock in a post above. any particular reason for that?
I'm very particular with what I have in my Dock. It typically represents what the device 'means' to me.
iPod Touch:
Music, Videos, Photos, Settings
- I always have settings in the dock,a s I'm constantly going in and out of there. The device for me was primarily a media device, so that reflected in my dock choices.
iPhone:
Phone, Messages, iPod, Settings
- Again, it was a phone, and I liked having access to those features in the dock. It was also my primary iPod. I also really liked the aesthetics of the simple coloured icons.
iPad:
Safari, Mail, Photos, iPod, Settings
- to be honest, I think the iPod will not be used all that much, but it was default there. The iPad is a tablet internet device for me.
I'm also very particular about the apps I have. What apps have you guys bought and will keep on your device?
Apart from default apps:
iBooks
Pages, Numbers, Keynote ($9,99 each) (I don't really have much of a use for Numbers on the go, but I thought I'd complete the set).
Wikipanion: I was actually debating about whther I needed a dedicated wikipedia app, since Safari full is available (for example, I do not use the Neogaf webapp, preferring to use the full thing). But Wikipanion is really good.
Wordbook ($1.99): My favourite dictionary app on the iPhone. It doesn't necessarily have the best definitions, but it works in a pinch and has a couple of neat features, the best one being able to forward any word search to a built-in browser pointing to websites of your choice (ie wikitionary, wikipedia, google, etc). I downloaded dictonary.com, but I couldn't tell which one was the iPad version in my iTunes, so I never synced it.
Papers ($13.99): I have the Mac app. It's basically iTunes app for scientific PDFs. Has online libraries, spotlight indexing, PDF file management and metadata organisation, and also wireless sync, that more or less works like iTunes (better in some ways, as it's wireless). NOt perfect, but also works great as a PDF viewer.
Adobe Note drawing thing: I dunno - simple, and may come in handy.
Brushes ($9.99): I debated over this vs. Sketchbook Pro, and went with this, as it had a replay mode. I'm just in it for the fun, so the simplicity and fewer options lets me concentrate on just messing about.
Skype, BeeJive, Converter, Darkness, iStat, Speedtest.net: iPhone apps. I'm actually liking these as iPhone apps. These are all small tools that I just need to load up to quickly see something, so I don't need it to be huge (an iStat update would be nicee, though). Having it in a small window is actually very widget-like.
Twitterrific ($4.99): I have this on all my machines and devices. I just figured I'd stay consistent. Bought the full version, too.
Weather Station Pro ($1.99): I just wanted something simple and widget like. I have Weatherbug Elite for iPad, but it's really US centric, and kind of complicated for my needs.
Epicurious, ImdB, ABC Player, MArvel Comics: mostly to play around with.
Light Trac: Let's me know the direction of the sun. Mostly for fun, it was free anyway.
SoundHound ($4.99?): I already had this, and it was nice to have this upgraded to universal. I wasn't going to put it on, as I don't think it's as useful on the iPad, but well, if they were going to do it for free, I thought I would.
Photoboard HD ($2.99): I had the iPhone version and liked the implementation as a toy. It's basically like a MS surface for photos. Throw photos around and manipulate them with multitouch. It was a goos 'show-off' app for the iPhone, and more fun on the bigger screen.
Molecules: A 3D atom viewer for biological molecules. It was slow on the iPhone, and with a bigger screen with better processor is much better. Actually pretty worthless, since there are next to no viewing options, but it's a useful demonstration of what might be possible should someone decide to make a proper viewer.
Angry Birds HD ($4.99): One of my favourite games on the iPhone. How could I not upgrade? If I go through all the levels again, I'm bound to get my money's worth.
Creeps HD ($3.99): See above. I'm a little disappointed that some of the graphics are actually upscaled and end up pixellated.
Flight Control ($4.99): See above. More features, but I haven't actually tried it yet.
Real Racing ($9.99): An odd buy for me. It's technically proficient, but even on the iPhone I rarely played it, despite buying it for full price on launch. I like it as a tech demo, and keep telling myself I'll play it, but as games keep coming out I never do.
Scrabble ($9.99): An even better implementation than the iPhone version. I had the UK iphone version, which has the original board, as opposed to the more modern bright board, but the US version has a dictionary, which is cool. Really cool.
Tetris ($7.99): I always get tetris if it's even a vaguely good version. I liked the iPhone version, but it was missing endless mode. This version rectifies that, and also has D-pad controls which are pretty good. It does feel weird to be playing on such a huge screen (I have to hold it out further than usual, which is extra tiring). This is somewhat awkward, as it feels like an over-sized handheld. Supposedly the original Tetris music is in there, but I don't think I've heard it yet.
Air Hockey (free).
Hearts Net ($4.99): I had this on iPhone and it was a free upgrade. It's actually kind of weird on the iPad as the cards are not scaled so look really small.
Iso Cards (free): just to play.
Stuff: I've put on the wait list (mostly because eI simply can't afford to spend so much on apps at launch):
Plants V Zombies ($9.99): I never finsihed it on the iPhone, so hard to justify another game at the moment.
PhotoGene ($4.99): I would get this, but without an actual camera, what am I going to edit?
Also, just curious is there a coverflow view for the iPod app?