For those who’ve just got their iPad and are wondering what to do with it, here’s a list of the top ten iPad apps.

Social Apps

Flipboard grabs all the stuff you care about – articles and photos shared by your Facebook and Twitter friends and displays them, together with a newsfeed automatically tailored to your tastes, in an iPad interface. This can then be customized, commented on, like one big communal magazine. Price: Free

Friendly for Facebook by Oecoway Inc. must be the best iPad Facebook app.

Twitter for iPad is a futuristic-style UI for tweeting, and its feature list is constantly growing. Price: Free

MyPad+ is a great app for Facebook & Twitter.

Casual Games

Fruit Ninja HD is a fast and furious sword action for the iPad. It costs $0.99 and is a good alternative to Angry Birds.

Angry Birds HD is an enhanced large-screen version of the famous puzzle game. The storyline is unchanged – evil green pigs have stolen your eggs and your army of feathered friends try to get them back via slingshots, boomerangs, explosives, and anything else they can lay their wings on. Levels increase in difficulty as you progress through the levels. Cost $4.99

Productivity Apps

Documents To Go® Premium – Office Suite is similarly expanded and enhanced to make use of the iPad’s extra screen real estate, allowing easier document reading on the move. the app allows you to create, readm and edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, and can also open email attachments and sync files via iTunes or with Google Docs or Dropbox., Box.net, iDisk & SugarSync. It’s a universal app so once you’ve purchased it, you can use it on the iPhone, IPod Touch and iPad. Price: $16.99

Penultimate turns your iPad into a whiteboard- notebook, perfect for meetings or just brainstorming. $3.99 Good Reader for iPad is a workhorse for pdf-annotations and file management. $2.99

Time Management Games / Empire-building Games

Smurfs’ Village sure presents the challenge of building the best village, though with a twist. At the end of each level there is a dialogue and a quest, with mini-games to get you more experience.Graphics are excellent and gameplay is smooth . The game itself is free but some items require smurfberries, acquired through an in-app purchase. These smurfberries can be used to accelerate the growth of plants and construction of buildings. Again, it’s a universal app, and it costs…nothing!!!

You might also like FarmVille, which ports an existing or new Facebook farm to the iPad. This one’s free too.
Dinner Dash: Grilling Green is an iPad-specific version of the iPhone fave, $4.99

Video Apps

Netflix might have a horrible interface to their iPad app but the sheer volume of the TV and movie content they offer makes it worthwhile to persevere. Entire seasons of TV shows and movie one month after the DVD release dates can be streamed to your iPad and if you use iPhone, Apple TV, Xbox 360, Wii, PS3 and so on you can switch between devices, even mid-movie. The price for this almost endless supply of content is $8 per month, though the service is currently only available in the US and Canada PLEASE CHECK PAUL Needless to say, it’s a universal App. Other video solutions include Air Video, which transcodes most video formats from your Windows/Mac PC on the fly and beams content direct to your iPad. The app costs $2.99.

ReelDirector enables users to edit home video on their iPad. You can even import material with Apple’s iPad camera for that portable film-studio feeling. A portable film studio you can take on the bus? Steve Jobs, we salute you. The price? $1.99

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Hardcore Games

Infinity Blade – Epic’s Unreal3 engine comes to the iPad with a flourish – Infinity Blade is a swashbuckling swordfest with some of the best visual effects we’ve seen on any computer – the storylin is uncomplicated; battle a series of monsters and their God-King through the generations, increasing your power, magic and skill until you can finally destroy the enemy. It’s a very addictive game, and a universal app too. Grat gameplay, stunning graphics, yours for $5.99

Other favorites include Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus for first-person shooter action. Modern Combat 2: Black Pegasus HD costs $6.99

Or test your driving abilities with Real Racing 2, featuring some incredible cars and online competitions. Real Racing 2 can be downloaded for $9.99.

Board Games

Words With Friends is a Scrabble-type game with superb online play. It includes a built-in chat facility which makes it a great all-rounder. And you can play multiple games against different groups of people at the saem time, with push notifications to let you know when it’s your turn. Absolutely divine, Words With Friends HD is just $2.99. Highly recommended.

Catan HD puts the epic strategy game on the iPad . Price: $9.99
What board games list would be complete without a mention of Monopoly? $9.99

Utility Apps

Remote places your desktop iTunes library on your iPad, and allows you to browse, select and play your music, TV shows, and movies. For those who have AirPlay-supported video (eg Apple TV) or audio (AirPort Express speakers etc) you can now control which room they play on. With Remote, your iPad can function as a fully-featured touchpad remote control for Apple TV or iTunes. Great for parties.

LogMeIn Ignition enables you to control your home PC or office server from your favorite armchair. Price of LogMeIn Ignition is $29.99

Find my iPhone – a free app enabling users to geolocate, beep, message, lock and even remotely wipe your iPad. Find My iPhone is free.

Educational Apps

Starwalk might not put the world at your feet but it’ll put the heavens in your hands – you can now browse the constellations in breath-taking detail. Full digital compass support means you can hold it up to the sky and you’ll be informed of what constellation your’re looking at, plus various related snippets of information – how far away the stars are, etc. You can even scroll back and forth across time and observe stars and they would have appeared on different dates. Still there’s more – Starwalk also includes the moon’s phases, views from earth, and much, much more. Future astronomers will be in a world of their own. Wonderful gift. Star Walk for iPad – interactive astronomy guide costs $4.99.

Articles is a slicker and better way to use Wikipedia, supporting tabbed browsing, bookmarks, fast skimming, and a number of other enhancements to help you utilise the world’s most informative site. Articles for iPad costs $4.99

Satisfy any curiosity with TED, which allows you to watch scientific, technological, medical, and artistic videos from TEDTalks.

Reading Apps

Kindle iPad e-book reader might not be as pretty as Apple’s iBooks but it does provide the largest collection of titles on the market. Once bought, any book is accessible from your iPhone, iPad Touch, Kindle device, or smartphone. And with WhisperSync, you can pause and continue reading across devices. Kindle is a free app.

Instapaper allows web pages to be saved for later more cleanly – $4.99
Reader for iPad lets you keep abreast of your RSS news feeds. $4.99

Do you have any better suggestions? We’d love to hear from you.

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Crayola ColorStudio HD app is a beautiful iPad app for children. Crayola app skillfully connects digital stylus and iMarker. Child’s imagination is the only limit to this creative application. There are over 30 pages to color. Now, there are some long car trips you may want to take. Crayola app may just be the trick to keep your children engadged and entertained.

Griffin Technology Crayola ColorStudio HD for Apple iPad and iPad 2 is just $29.99 and well worth the fun. In actuality the Crayola ColorStudio HD app is free, but the stylus needs to be covered. Griffin’s iMarker stylus is not just any pen, Griffin’s iMarker technology and Crayola app differentiates between a finger touch and this stylus pen. The difference is mainly in speed in which the electrostatic tip of the stylus breaks the contact. The stylus actually buzzes when in contact with iPad or iPad 2. The stylus has been designed to register even the smallest of (kid-like) pressures so it’s working well with kids.

Crayola ColorStudio HD app has various hot spots so that when you click on them, they make sounds, or actions.

Crayola ColorStudio HD app has a full palette of Crayola crayons, markers, pencils and paintbrushes, along with an eraser, three brush sizes and a paint-can ‘fill’ mode which can be applied repeatedly to an area for different effects.

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