Instapaper Pro
Awesome even though I'm no fan of the whole "longform" dipshits on Tumblr ("We're hardcore! We read long form content, by which we mean the occasional 1,500 word article from The Atlantic. What's that? You read some fucking longass encyclopedia articles with logic symbols in? That confuses my poor hipster brain").
I love Instapaper though. I have it on my iPod touch, and on the iPad. And I download it for use on my 511EB (Elonex's Sony Reader style device.)
GoodReader
59p PDF reader. And TXT and Office files. It is also a text editor. Basically contains all my literary miscellanea.
Things for iPad
Yes, I've got sucked in. I have it on the Mac. I have it on the iPod touch... so I bought it on the iPad.
Gowalla for iPad
Holy shit. Foursquare really need to get their finger out and build something as awesome as this.
Adobe Ideas
It is okay. I wanted something goofy I could use like the original Paintbrush on Windows 3.1, and I didn't want to pay for it. I'm not wild about the lack of a proper colour selector. But I don't care. I'm a code freak, not an artist.
IM+ Lite
On the iPod touch, I was using - what the fuck was it called? - eBuddy. IM+ Lite isn't shit like that. It has the ability to basically keep you logged in and then uses Push Notifications to tell you when someone replied. I had to quickly change the "On my iPad" things off because (a) I like device agnosticism and (b) because I didn't want to give the game away when I got the iPad - I was saving it up for TechGrumps. Anyway, it isn't lame - which is about all I want from an IM client.
Google Earth
Holy shit, I love this. The default Maps app is great, but I love the huge amounts of trivia you can layer on top with Google Earth. I was sitting in a park in London (Finsbury Circus), and I could pull this up and see all sorts of interesting things about the local area. For instance, I didn't know that at the site of Charing Cross station there actually used to be a theatre.
Papers
It is a bit expensive, but worth it. Access to all my academic papers? Hell yeah.
Colloquy
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Colloquy was universal. It is useful in some situations: collaborative note-taking in meetings? Conference coverage?
Echofon
Also: holy shit. The PadAddicts guys covered Twitter clients in their first episode, and I really didn't want to spend any cash on a fucking Twitter client. Fortunately, Echofon Pro also works universally on the iPad too. So I'm using that.
FireFon
Not a full-screen app, but actually works. It isn't pretty like Sparrow, but it has been updated to work with the current generation of OAuth.
CineXPlayer
I've got lots of, err, home movies and other LEGITIMATELY DOWNLOADED VIDEO FILES in DivX/XviD. This lets me watch them, and uses the iTunes File Transfer thing to do it. Neat. It's also free.
iSSH
Forget TouchTerm. iSSH is where it's at. I had TouchTerm Pro on my iPod touch. What a piece of shit. iSSH does almost everything. My only complaint? I can't work out how the hell I copy and paste out of it.
Air Display
Oh yeah. Four monitors on my desk. This really is pretty useful as a status readout: I can put up task lists, bug trackers, test runners, a Twitter client, chat - anything that doesn't need much screen space. I know Aral Balkan uses it for the iPhone simulator. About the only shortcoming is that because it uses VNC, you can't really use it as a display for video.
Reeder
I wasn't sure about this. @elliottcable recommended it to me - I looked at NewsRack instead, but decided to go along with Elliott's recommendation. I'm not disappointed. Despite the slightly twee 'pinch' interface, Reeder is otherwise awesome. It loads stonkingly quickly, and has great integration with Delicious, Instapaper and Safari. About the only thing I wish it had was the ability to
Thinking about getting
- Air Video - I've got the lite version. I'm not sure if I should get the full version. I tend to find that CineXPlayer is more useful - and I mostly want to watch video when I'm on the train or otherwise out-and-about.
- Keynote. I'm a but unsure about it. I figure that when I'm giving a presentation, I'll use a damn laptop. And I don't want to spend the £30 or whatever on the connection kit. Plus, usually, I'm not just giving a presentation - I have to show some code with it. And that just requires a computer.
Not bothered about
- Pages. I just don't need it. I very rarely ever use a word processor - I use LaTeX for academic stuff, and I use plain text or some other markup language (XML, HTML or some bullshit wiki or lightweight markup language like Markdown - of which there are far, far too many).