I am a bit meh about my Ipad present...why do you like yours?

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I am on my laptop atm.

Am slightly underwhelmed by the ipad tbh..but maybe it's because I haven't got any apps to use excite me.

So what's so fab and any good apps I should get?

Lurking,you have a web browser for the internet just as you would on a laptop.

Thank you glastocat!

Does't need security as Macintosh system.

i brought my no tech hubby one for fathers day..... PFFFTTTT... he loves it... i was hoping he'd leave it for me to have.... but no... he's got a book downloaded... the newspaper app that he say's he never get's time to read.... I WANT ONE.....

Great thread. Have downloaded tap the frog and ice age village now!

I use mine for emails, mums net in bed, flipboard, Facebook, Internet shopping, eBay, as a kindle, to edit photos on snapseed, bbc iplayer, discovering new music (discovr music ap), reading the guardian and the Sunday times. DH has a subscription to BBC good food magazine on his. I also use it for receipes but just google them then copy into the notebook ap that came with it...wondering if I should go more hightech now...

My 18month old loves it. I havent shown him that it works as a tv but he has lots of interactive apps and he can switch between them himself. I second buying the full version of phoneforkids. Also soundtouch, little fox, and the free fisherprice laugh and learn apps.

I have to be satisfied with using DH's, but it's great for surfing and not having to wait ages for pages to load etc. We also use it to watch tv shows and movies while travelling. You can download DVDs onto your PC/laptop, and then transfer it to the ipad. True story - we spent EIGHT hours watching videos etc. on a flight, and it still had 50% battery left afterwards.

Mac systems such as IMac and Macbook are not impervious to viruses, but those running on iOS, which includes Ipads, are safer because you can only download software via the App store, which are tested and approved by Apple.

facebook
kindle
angry birds
boggle
scrabble
pepi
toca boca
the noisy book
nosy crow
piano
ebay
rightmove (moving house atm)
calendar
email
internet
amazon

the list is endless!

all the TV ones - iplayer 4od etc etc

Has anyone mentioned Words with Friends yet? I am totally bloody addicted to it.

That's the problem, I am fighting everyone in the house getting addicted to it. So, I try and use it as little as possible (in front of the DCs anyway) otherwise I would never get anything done, and may be one reason why I'm not getting so much out of it. The DCs have lots of educational apps but they much prefer the fun ones, so I do have to regulate it's use quite a bit, and therefore have to lead by example. Some of the educational ones are very good though.

Where do you get the headphones from ?

I'd like to know that too. :)

So much faster than a laptop! Easier to use and portable (I like to do stiff while lying down). I love touch screen web browsing, the games, reading books on it and watching tv.

I have a MacBook which I use all the time, but i-pad comes in very handy too -

I prop it at the end of the bath and watch i-player stuff.

Great for taking out/train journeys etc.

Great battery life.

Do you have to pay for iPlayer for music/movies?

So just worked out I'm getting n iPad 3. Anyone have one/what do you find different from the other two?

We have an iPad 2, got it a few weeks ago. Love it. All the stuff other people have mentioned - surfing, MN, Fb, checking weather, newspapers, recipe app, loads of games and educational apps for dds.

Good app called TuneIn which allows you to listen to radio stations from anywhere around the world - live programmes and also older ones. I'm not in the UK and I listen to Radio 4 and 5 on it a lot.

Oh and we don't have a laptop so the portability is a huge plus for me. Had to do everything at the table on the desktop before. Now I can listen to the Archers while I bath the dcs :)

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It is small, can take to bed or out on porch. Apps download quickly. I can take (poor quality) pictures and easily send them off. These would be spur of the moment pics like DGD pouting. Three year olds like it as well as 5,6, and 8 year olds as well as me, their Gamma.

For those who are asking, any headphones will do. iplayer has a subscription of £7 a month I think if outside the UK, not sure if in the UK, but there are some free programmes on it too.

ok I am being won over ...have been on it rather a lot since I got it

myfitnesspal is frreakin' amazing!!!!

ds loves it

want some more home decor apps if anyone knows any?
also have searched for decent nursing apps or wound care?? can't find any

only game I like so far is solitaire..am really not a games person at all

and are all the educational kids ones for toddlers? Ds is 9 ...he can read and add up .