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Sebastopol, CA—What really wows iPad fans is when their touchscreen does what's impossible on other gadgets: the finger-painting app that turns a cross-country flight into a moving art class, the mini music studio (two-dozen instruments strong, each with motion-induced warble effects), and the portable fireworks display that you sculpt by swiping.
Problem is, with tens of thousands of apps available for your iPad, who knows what to download? You can try to sort through a gazillion customer reviews with a mix of 5- and 1-star ratings, but that's not only very confusing, it also takes a lot of time. The stakes are getting higher, too: instead of freebies and 99-cent trinkets, the price of iPad apps is steadily creeping up and beyond their iPhone predecessors.
Best iPad Apps (O'Reilly Media, $21.99 USD) guides you to the hidden treasures in the App Store's crowded aisles. Author Peter Meyers stress-tested thousands of options to put together this irresistible, page-turner of a catalog.
"I had the best job in the world for the past four months: spend all day playing with my iPad. Sure, my fingers got a little weary with all that tapping, swiping, and pinching, but the 1000-plus apps I checked out made clear that the iPad's an innovation magnet," notes Meyers. "But, man, was there a lot of dreck to sort through. There's a seriously high percentage of apps that mainly appear to be practice runs for developers in training."
Fortunately, inside?Best iPad Apps, you'll find the apps Meyers curated as magical as the iPad itself.
- Get work done
- Manipulate photos
- Make movies
- Create comics
- Browse the Web better
- Take notes
- Outline ideas
- Track your health
- Explore the world ...and much more!
"My goal was to wade through the mess, pick out the best, and shine a spotlight on those under-the-radar gems—the ones that didn't get their 15 minutes of fame on the App Store's front page, but deserve to be on the screens and in the hands of iPad fans everywhere," adds Meyers.
For a review copy or more information please email peyton@oreilly.com. Please include your delivery address and contact information, as well as where you'll post your review.
Additional Resources
For more information about the book, including table of contents, author bios, and cover graphic, see: http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920010944. The ebook is currently available, and the print book will be availble for purchase on oreilly.com on or around December 17, 2010.
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Best iPad Apps Publisher: O'Reilly Media By Peter Meyers Print ISBN: 9781449392475 Ebook ISBN: 9781449392482 Pages: 240 (est.) Print Price: $21.99 Ebook Price: $17.99 order@oreilly.com 1-800-998-9938 1-707-827-7000 |
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