Rip/backup movies to your Mac, iPhone and iPad. I’ve tried other ripping software but was always disappointed. This is the first one that worked on every DVD I tried. I prefer to watch moving on my iPad so I really like to rip the DVDs I buy or rent and then watch them later on my iPad (at home, on a plane or in a hotel room).
Here’s a Daring Fireball link to a coupon code for RipId.
We’ll, I thought I’d given up on my pursuit of a better news/rss/feed reader for the iPad. I think I tried them all (NetNewsWire, NewsRack and Pulse) but I continued to fall back to NetNewsWire. All the others I tried may have had more/better features but I still found NetNewsWire to be the most efficient reader for me. It also had my requisite Instapaper and Google Reader sync support. I started to use Reeder yesterday and I’m already overwhelmed by it’s utility. They placed every touch action/icon exactly were it’s most useful. It’s minimalistic design is easy on the eyes (good for long reading sessions) and the application is extremely efficient. Amazing breadth of features, performance and software quality for a just launched product. Thanks to lapsedcannible for the tip.
Good article on Instapaper, “Why Instapaper Will Never Be Booted From the iTunes App Store“, one of my favorite iPhone/iPad applications. Many of the commenters have interesting points also so read the comments if you have the time.
I also use RSS feed readers on the iPad/iPhone (NetNewsWire, NewsRack and I’ve recently have been trying out Pulse). I can’t imagine that I’d be able to browse so many news sources without these apps and their access to traditional media’s content.
My son and I are really enjoying Fruit Ninja on the iPhone and iPad. Whenever you need some almost mindless entertainment this is your game to play — and it’s only 99 cents. It doesn’t currently support native resolution on the iPad but it scales up very well. I assume they’ll release an HD version for the iPad at sometime. Enjoy.
Interesting article, Why an iPad and a Mac mini are my computing future, from TUAW. I’d probably do the same thing if I didn’t already have a fairly new Mac Pro.
NetNewsWire
Great RSS reader and synchronizes with Google Reader
Instapaper
Clip articles from your browser and read them later in Instapaper
Evernote
One-stop-shop for your information
GoodReader
Reads many documents formats and copy them from almost anywhere. Great PDF reader.
Dragon Dictation
Speech to Text. I only wish it was integrated into the iPad’s OS.
Dropbox
Cloud Storage and Synchronization. Not yet upgraded for iPad but still a must have service. I use it to transfer documents to GoodReader.
