Entertainment Apps
ABC Player to Tivo
ABC Player to Tivo
ABC Player
Free
ABC Player turns your iPad into a TV by delivering full episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Desperate Housewives, V, and Dancing With the Stars, and many more popular shows. Full-screen video looks sharp and smooth, with only limited commercial interruption. This app is almost good enough to make us forget we can't watch Hulu on the iPad.
Barnes & Noble Nook for iPad
Free
Nook for iPad not only grants access to over a million e-books, but it includes "LendMe" technology that lets you share titles with friends. The "Lifetime Library" feature makes your e-books accessible from any device running Nook software.
Kindle
Free
Amazon's ubiquitous Kindle app, unlike the hardware-based Kindle, displays full color photos, a smoother interface, and offers plenty of type options. You also get access to the same Web-based store, which features over 450,000 books—many times more than what iBooks offers—plus free book samples.
Korg iElectribe
$9.99
Korg, the professional synthesizer manufacturer, has created a powerful-sounding, modeled version of its popular, decade-old Electribe R beatbox. The multitouch interface lets you work all the knobs, sliders, and buttons with precision. Techno, house, and hip-hop artists frustrated with GarageBand's limitations will find plenty to like with this slick synth app.
Marvel Comics
Free
Here's yet another example of something you can't do with a Kindle: read comics in their colorful, crisply drawn glory. Marvel's free iPad app offers a standard page-by-page view with zoom and pan controls, as well as a panel-by-panel, animated guided view. There's also a fully integrated store for buying your favorite comics.
MoMA AB EX NY
Free
MoMA's new Abstract Expressionist app achieves symbiosis with the iPad: if you're an art enthusiast with an iPad, consider this app a must-download.
Netflix
Free
This app enhances the value of a Netflix subscription by letting you watch movies directly on your mobile device, with excellent streaming. In the latest version, Netflix has made a number of improvements, like adding star recommendations and removing the status bar while titles are playing.
Pandora Radio
Free
Pandora virtually pioneered Internet radio, thanks to its robust music-choice algorithms, and now offers an iPad version with a user interface overhaul the desktop version needed long ago. It displays a sliding panel of albums, all of your playlists along the left, and—new to the iPad version—plenty of detailed artist info as each track plays.
TiVo
Free
If you already have an iPad and TiVo Premiere, you must download the new TiVo app for the iPad. It's free, and if you're on your LAN, it's pretty well featured.
TuneIn Radio Plus
99 cents
Featuring audio recording, clear sound, and over 50,000 streaming stations, this is, unquestionably, the app for the radio enthusiasts.
