Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Comics
The free Comics app gives you access to hundreds of free comics, or you can use the built-in store
to purchase comics, usually 99 cents to $2.99 per issue. New releases are available every Wednes-
day. Our tech editor, Dennis, a true comic aficionado, says we should mention that this app can read
only comics — free or paid — from the app's built-in store. Although the store offers tens of thou-
sands of titles by hundreds of publishers, his point is that you can't use this excellent app to read
comics acquired elsewhere or scanned at home.
Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List
Epicurious lives up to its billing as the “cook's companion.” You can find a yummy recipe in no
time. If you tap Search inside the Control Panel instead, you can fine-tune your search for a recipe
by food or drink, by main ingredient (banana, chicken, pasta), by cuisine type, and by dietary con-
sideration (low-carb, vegan, kosher, and so on), among other parameters. When you discover a re-
cipe you like, you can add it to a collection of favorites, e-mail it to a friend, pass along the ingredi-
ents to your shopping list, summon nutritional information, or share it on Facebook and Twitter.
Evernote
Before we even talk about the Evernote iPad app, take a quick look at the problem Evernote re-
solves: Storing little bits of digital information — text, pictures, screen shots, scanned images, re-
ceipts, bills, e-mail messages, web pages, and other info you might want to recall someday — and
lets you create notes of any length on your iPad
Our two favorite features are that Evernote syncs notes with all your devices and the cloud automat-
ically and that everything we've mentioned so far — creating, organizing, and syncing notes — is
free. Bob likes Evernote so much that he recently upgraded to the premium plan ($5/month or $45/
year), primarily to increase his monthly upload limit from 60MB to 1GB and to get the capability to
search for text in PDFs.
Pandora Radio
We've long been fans of Pandora on other computers and mobile devices. So we're practically deliri-
ous that this custom Internet radio service is available
gratis
on the iPad. And you can play Pandora
music in the background while doing other stuff.
Suppose that you type
Beatles
. Pandora's instant Beatles station includes performances from John,
Paul, George, and Ringo as well as tunes from other acts. And say that you type a song title, such as
