Another must-have app!

As most know, the iPad and Flash don't get along. For that matter many Android devices won't run Flash content either, though some do. So a lot of folks have tried to get around this. One fairly successful strategy is an iPad Internet browser that actually logs into a central desktop pc and through the iPad interface lets you run the Flash content remotely, as if it were on the iPad. Photon was the first I knew of, and it was...hmm...just okay. Low resolution, slow, buggy. Then Puffin came out recently. This one's really good! It does the same thing as Photon, but does it much more crisply, faster, and more elegantly. So Flash is effectively no longer banned from the iPad! Below is a Flash file for reference, as well as a link to the Puffin product.

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The Puffin Browser

One of my pet peeves...

The iPad is great, all tablets are great, but website designers are doing tablet users a great disservice by forcing their mobile versions of their websites on us just because we use a tablet. Crippled functionality is the same as no functionality. The USPS is one of the worst.

Another great app

FTP On the Go lets me update by website using my iPad. Very handy!

Okay, so you want to know...

how I can be so critical, after reading my comments re Photoshop for the iPad. Here's how. That number next to my Apple app store icon shows I have 70 apps waiting to be updated. The fact is I have downloaded more than 120. :-).

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All I can say is, it's a good thing this app is free. It does only one useful thing, and that is crop. Any $5 app will kick its butt. Even Apple's built-in Photos app crops. Sad to see a major name brand (Photoshop) so unsupported, especially given the prowess of its desktop ancester.

More faves

These two, Doc HD and WritePad, are really great apps! DocHD is a less expensive alternate to Pages, Apple's productivity suite, which I couldn't use at the time I downloaded DocHD because I was the still running on iOS 4.3 (Pages requires 5.0 and higher -- I have since upgraded but still use DocHD). DocHD I consider an essential. It's basically MS Word for the iPad. The same company also markets SheetHD, a MS Excel type app, and it is great too. I don't say this lightly. I have over the years tried many Word and Excel clones on cell phones and PDAs. These actually work! Another great one is WritePad, a character recognition app, allowing you to write on the tablet with your finger and have it turn almost immdediately into electronic text. Pretty cool! I use this at seminars and such. A very useful app.

Another great app

LogMeIn is another great iPad app. A remote desktop app lets you access your home PC while away from home. Or your office PC while visiting a client. It's really cool! There are many different ones for the iPad, including one or two free ones. I tried four or five other remote desktop apps, this one is the best!