Continued from my previous post, these are the apps on my iPad home screen, line by line:

• WordPress – The best way to write this review is to actually use the app, which I am doing now. The landscape orientation keyboard does take a little bit to get used to but it is easy to type on. The only variance I can see between the web-based WordPress interface and the WordPress app is the apparent lack of formatting controls, in the app it’s down to raw HTML markup if you wish to prettify your text. There is also a lack of proofreading tools for the app, but I expect the app will grow up to include them. The iPad does a very good job at keeping my spelling in check as it uses the system spellchecker to do the heavy lifting. I have my iPad playing classical music in the iPod app while I type this, all I lack is a latte. 🙂 One thing that I have sensed with the WordPress app that may be a bug is that spellchecker doesn’t properly replace text if you select the proper spelling. Just a slight oddity is all.
• USA Today – The USA Today app is a early morning must read for me. There is something very satisfying about waking up my iPad, tapping on the USA Today and being able to swipe through the days news and proceed through the sections of the newspaper as if I had it in my lap. This app only failed epically once, I had the display rotation locked, then turned it unlocked the rotation, exited, and then tried to reenter. The app would not properly start, I had yo remove the app and download it again, which was an annoyance. It hasn’t failed again since, so maybe it was a fluke. This app, when it gets the crossword and sudoku games will grow up into it’s own, and I can definitely see it taking flu advantage of the iAd system that Apple released in the iPhone 4.0 software update release.
• iPod – The iPod functions just like you would expect it to, except that it doesn’t appear to have cover flow capability, which is odd. The function is solid and is the one app that can take full advantage of the background audio capabilities that already exist in the classic iPod Touch feature set.
• Epicurious – This app is a kitchen blessing. You can search their vast recipe collection and construct a shopping list and email it or keep it in your iPad. I don’t see many people wandering the supermarkets with their iPads open, but that may change as the iPad saturates more of the market.

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