App Smart this week recommended apps to help new iPad owners make the most of their tablet PCs, whether they have an iPad 4 or a Mini.
But there’s space to talk about only a certain number of apps, and Apple still leads its competition in the number it offers, including ones tailored for tablet screens.
If the column-based interface of the Jasmine YouTube app that I mentioned in App Smart doesn’t appeal to you, then you may prefer the free YouPlayer app. While not quite as full-featured, it does feel much more like accessing YouTube through a native interface. Plus it offers handy functions like lists of featured or popular video clips and even a “nearby” option, for clips shot near you.
For a completely different weather app experience, Weatherwise (free) does all the usual things like forecasting the next five days’ weather, or giving a detailed 24-hour prediction. But its main feature is that it demonstrates the weather with a custom animated picture instead of a boring icon. The image that comes free with the app is a stylized bonzai tree that reacts to night or day, wind, rain or sun and so on. If you like the premise of this app, you can buy more themes through its interface for a dollar each.
To demo the music-making powers of the iPad, try out the $2 app OscilloScoop. This app is a neat way to generate sounds through looped patterns. It uses a graphical input system that looks somewhat like the screen of an oscilloscope to let you craft some unique, and very catchy sounds.
Finally if you need a fun game suggestion, it’s hard to beat the nerdy joy of playing the first-person-shooter app Doom Classic on an iPad mini ($5 via iTunes). As you play, remember that this is an entire tablet PC that’s comparable in size to the box that the original PC game came in back in 1993.
Extra Quick Call
Owners of a Windows 8 or Windows RT tablet may be delighted to find that Barnes and Noble has released a version of its Nook e-reader app for this platform. It’s free in the app store, and has some graphical tricks to try to emulate real paper books.
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