What a great tool iPad is for day to day business. We use it in our office a lot and have built up list of apps which we believe our readers can use on their iPads for everyday business needs. Check it out and let us know if we missed any of great iPad apps you use. We will be happy to add them to the list. Here is your list:

Linked In for iPad

With release of new and fresh application for iPad LinkedIn.com just strengthened their position as leading business oriented social network. You can network, link with your professional network and of course find and offer jobs within their community of more than 150 million members globally. Must have for every business person with iPad!

Adobe Reader

Easily view, edit, and organize PDF files on your device. The app easily integrates with other applications that supports “Open In…” PDF convenience at your disposal.

Fast Company Magazine

The world’s leading progressive business media brand is now on the iOS! From print to screen, The Fast Company Magazine will continue to inspire readers to look beyond the boundaries of traditional concepts and views of business.

Citrix Receiver

Link your device to your Mac or PC. Browse, run, email and perform desktop applications on the go using your iDevice.

Dragon Dictation

This intelligent app will convert your spoken words into text. Copy and paste to any application via clipboard.
Simple. Useful. Beautiful.

Monster.com Jobs for iPad

One of the leading job search engines is now molded into an app. Search a job that will fit your job title and skills at the place where you would like to work.  Send your job application through this app and be notified via email.

Cisco WebEx Meetings

This cross-platform application allows you to stay connected to your web meetings whether you are around the corner or around the globe. Be on time with your meetings as you perform high-definition video conversations and discuss content simultaneously.

GoToMeeting

GoToMeeting or GoToWebinar on your iDevice, Mac, PC, or Android device. Plan ahead and organize your meetings, present mockups or reports, and schedule future meetings. Whether you are on the rush or in a hectic situation, you can “GoToMeeting(s)” at your opportune.

Craig’s List

Are you looking for something?  Find a job, a new car, a nice hangout, or the love of your life using Craig’s List.

QuickVoice® Recorder

QuickVoice® Recorder allows you to quick and easy record is a simple voice recorder where you can store voice notes on your device or share via email. Record your thoughts or create voice notes using this plain and simple

Mobile Office Suite

This free app will open most Microsoft Office files with the option to create .txt, .csv, or .png files. This app will also allow the users to synchronize their Google Documents account where they can easily download/upload files.

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Sketchbook Pro for Ipad

Simply stunning! There are a lot of ways to describe this app but most of us would only respond with a jaw drop. Mobile art has gone to the next level, and Sketchbook pro for Ipad is leading the pack. Armed with a large array of tools for the professional artist, a digital masterpiece becomes only a few taps away. The tools allow for sharp computer generated art to be rendered in a portable tablet. While this is one of the best apps for digital drawing, the complexity of creations would vary on the actual skill of the artist in creating digital art which was previously only possible on a computer. Since many people are not able to utilize this tool to its maximum potential, there is not much adaptability.

Procreate

Procreate is a next-generation painting tool that promises to pull away from the rest. This amazingly detailed painting tool brings fort smoother painting not available to other apps. What make this app different is not only does it track you finger’s movements, but it also “thinks” like your finger is a brush. Every stroke, curl and twist while you swipe across your screen is emulated as if an actual paint brush is rubbing and twisting against a solid canvas. This brings a new dimension of realism to mobile painting.

ArtRage

Art rage brings out that raging painter in you. Art rage takes mobile painting to the next level with a powerful paint tracking and emulating engine that seeks to track how much paint you leave on your canvas. It works like a real painting where the canvas is wet and is easily affected by the next layer of paint you put on top of it. It makes painting as real as possible. It can help you practice your colour layer and mixes before you face the actual canvas, or make a painting anywhere with your Ipad in absence of a real canvas. Powerful and promises unlimited layering possibilities.

Brushes – Ipad Edition

The popular painting app in the iPhone is now scaled for the Ipad! This app focuses on a number of brushes that emulate the use of actual paint brushes used by painters in real life. This allows the user to create awesome flat paintings with their Ipad as a canvas. The app supports multi layering which would allow each painting to evolve as they can mix and add new detail to each artwork. Definitely the perfect app if you want to strictly rely on paint brush art and want to keep things simple.

LiveSketch HD

For the true artist of the pencil, nothing can be more pure than Livesketch HD. You are armed with a single tool: the pencil. Be it the simple charcoal shade, or with the use of color pencils, Livesketch HD delivers an accurate environment where the user is able to make their sketches in the absence of their pencil but with the use of their Ipad. The app allows for thick and thin strokes judging solely by the speed of the artist’s hands without the need to make so many settings in between. The app itself is clean and simple but produces powerful results.

Freeform – The Vector Drawing App

If you are a frustrated artist that lacks a steady hand but wants to make great artworks using your Ipad, then Freeform is the best app for you! The idea is to draw the basic shape of the art element you wish to add to your presentation, and then freely transform the image to your liking. This form of drawing allows you to edit your strokes if you are not good with nice clean strokes. Though there are limited options, and outputs are not as complex as the other apps, there is still the niche for people who are not necessarily artistically gifted. It would be a great place to start but not the best place to finish.

iDraw

Not everything drawn has an art exhibit in mind. Many times, art is used for utility. That is what iDraw had in mind. iDraw is considered by many as the best alternative to the desktop application: Adobe Illustrator.  The iDraw brings forth the best shape manipulation and blueprint presentation on the Ipad. It provides the user with tools to work best with shapes and lines in an effort to bring in a skeletal structure to an art or to show a diagram in a presentation. This powerful tool allows layering and exportation into SVG format for finishing touches on other editors.

Harmonious

Harmonious is designed to help aspiring artists without much talent needed. This app is equipped with an intelligent program that helps direct your strokes to the right direction to make a rough, workable, and shareable piece of art with as little effort as possible. The app itself is simple and emulates a real sketchpad in a sense that it leaves marks where you have made erasures. Great for those who wants to make a quick art for a quick share.

Drawing Pad

The Drawing Pad may look like it was made for a child but there are plenty of tools in this app to turn a few older eyes its way. Content creation is not solely done by the artist as there are helpful pre-drawn “stickers” that may be used to create or modify the content that the user has made.  Colour bending allows for a great variety of colours available at the artist’s disposal. Even without great skill, anyone can make that perfect artwork that is quite pleasing to the eyes.

My Drawing Book

My drawing book brings the child out of the artist and the artist out of the child. This great tool for the Ipad provides the user with a lot of tools to complete their project. The app itself is designed for children and as such, the tools are pretty basic. You have the pencil, paintbrushes, crayons, stamps, and other things the child can use. Despite its simplicity, it certainly captures the imagination with bright colors. Perfect for a huge demographic of children that play with Ipads.

There are plenty of apps out there that allow you to raise that aspiring artist in you.  The ultimate choice is made within yourself on which kind of art you would like to specialize in and which one really works for you. No matter which path in the arts you take, remember that the best part of art is having fun in the process.

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Our first attempt ran really great on the Apple-supplied SDK iPad Simulator. But when we got our real iPads, everything seemed slow and sluggish. We went in an optimized the perceived “snappyness” when dragging the the time bar with your finger, and about doubled the rate of frames per second rendered.

About Thomas Fuchs: I’m Thomas. I’m the author of script.aculo.us, the JavaScript user interface library.  I’m also a core member of the Prototype JavaScript framework and a Ruby on Rails core alumnus. I write about all things web at mir.aculo.us.

2. Intuity’s notabene – Rapid HTML5 Prototyping on the iPad

Our goal was to explore the possibilities of the new device, especially its browser as Objective-C is really a painful environment (at least for me) when it comes to fast prototyping. So we wanted to know: Can we use HTML as prototyping platform for future projects? How far can we push the boundaries of the browser? Can we make a webapp behave just like a native app?

3. Creating a HTML 5 Web App for iPad By Anders Zakrisson

The iPad is (at least for now) the perfect device for consuming media (on the go) and for casual browsing and news consumption. In my point of view there’s no reason for most apps to live in the App Store, the majority would work equally well (if not better) as websites or web apps with the benefit that they would be accessible on all platforms, be free from Apple censorship and are easier to develop (just count the number of HTML vs. Objective C developers). There are a few instances were the speed and processing ability is needed (such as games and media players) but most apps are basically information presenters and the web is more than adequate of handling that.

However, there are some optimizations that can be done to most websites for optimal display and a few other issues that needs to be adressed to allow websites to feel as native apps on the iPad (and other mobile touch devices).

About Anders Zakrisson: I’m Anders Zakrisson, an engineer educated at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden and currently employed by Sogeti Sweden as an Open Source Ambassador and web developement consultant focsing on web standards, search engine optimization and useability.

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Beginning iPhone and iPad Web Apps: Scripting with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript [BOOK] By Chris Apers & Daniel Paterson

This book will help you join the thousands of successful iPhone App developers without needing to learn Objective-C or the Cocoa touch APIs. If you want to apply your existing web development skills to iPhone and iPad development, then now you can. WebKit’s support for HTML5 means any web developer can create compelling apps for both the iPhone and the larger-screen iPad.

Beginning iPhone & iPad Web Apps takes you through the latest Mobile Web Standards as well as the specific features of the iPhone and iPad. You’ll learn about WebKit and Mobile Safari, HTML5 and CSS3, Vector Graphics and Multimedia support. You’ll discover the built-in hardware features of the iPhone and iPad and how best to take advantage of them.

The market for web apps for the iPhone and iPad is expanding rapidly. You’ll want to know about all the advantages, and Beginning iPhone & iPad Web Apps is the perfect starting point.

HTML5 Mobile Pro Workshop January 2011 Edition! with Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs

Friday, January 14, 2011, 9am-1pm PT (that’s 12pm-4pm ET, or 6pm-10pm in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna)

Learn how to build mobile web apps that use advanced CSS features like gradients and transformations, canvas, touch, audio, animations, and more — like http://everytimezone.com and even more extreme!  Strictly limited to 25 seats so you’ll get all your questions answered!
We’re almost sold out, with a few regular tickets for $299 remaining.
Act and book now if you want to join the workshop!

All you need broadband internet access and a browser with (gulp!) Flash installed. There will be streaming video and audio of us teachers, live on-screen presentations and a parallel chat room (text chat), where we will answer all your questions. You’ll also receive all workshop materials (slides, example code) a day or two before the workshop starts (great if you’d like to print it and take notes!). After the workshop is over, the live presentation will be downloadable as a video for your reference.

About Thomas Fuchs: You can read about him at the beginning of this article.

About Amy Hoy: Amy Hoy is the most famousest designer in the Ruby on Rails world, known for her gut-bustingly funny laugh-out-loud tutorials, great explanatory graphics, and apt metaphors. She’s got over 10 years’ experience in explaining technical concepts in an entertaining and understandable way.

—- If you know any other tutorials for creating html5 app for ipad, then please let us know Or if you have any suggestions or feedback, Feel free to drop your comments.

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