Every week, AppShopper rounds up the top-grossing Apple Inc.'s iPad applications.
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Angry Birds Rio HD is the iPad version of the Angry Birds series, incorporating characters and locales from the upcoming movie Rio in the familiar Angry Birds gameplay.In Angry Birds Rio, the original Angry Birds are kidnapped and taken to the magical city of Rio de Janeiro, where they eventually escape their captors and set out to to save their friends, Blu and Jewel -- two rare macaws and the stars of the upcoming Fox motion picture, Rio. Angry Birds Rio will pair the physics-based gameplay of the original game with unique twists based on the film.Angry Birds Rio features:
-- Two fantastic episodes with 60 exciting levels!
-- Completely new achievements!
-- Special Hidden fruits - discover them all!
-- Put your Angry Birds skills to the ultimate test in a spectacular boss fight!Apple iTunesSuperbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an exploratory action adventure with an emphasis on audiovisual style.Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries. Co-operate with friends via Twitter, experience a videogame world that is affected by moon phases & help a wandering warrior monk complete her woeful errand.The game features an album's worth of original music by noted composer Jim Guthrie as well as artwork & designs by Superbrothers Inc, crafted & engineered by videogame wizards at Capy in Toronto, Canada."A true masterpiece, regardless of platform. You are doing yourself a disservice if you don't sit down in a quiet room with your headphones and iPad and experience what this has to offer," a customer commented in Apple iTunes review.Apple iTunesGarageBand turns your iPad into a collection of Touch Instruments and a full-featured recording studio -- so you can make music anywhere you go. Use Multi-Touch gestures to play pianos, organs, guitars, drums, and basses on your iPad.Enjoy a full range of Smart Instruments that make you sound like a pro -- even if you’ve never played a note before. Plug an electric guitar into your iPad and play through classic amps and stompbox effects. Use the built-in microphone or a guitar to record, or capture any performance. Then mix up to eight tracks to create a song you can share.Apple iTunesPages, the powerful word processor for Mac, has been completely redesigned for iPad. It’s the most beautiful word processor you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. Documents look stunning on the bright, vivid iPad display. Use Multi-Touch gestures to lay out letters, flyers, brochures, reports, and more. You can start with a template or import an existing Pages or Microsoft Word document from Mail, your MobileMe iDisk, or a WebDAV service.Pages has everything you need to create and share documents, including beautiful Apple-designed templates, easy-to-use formatting options, and advanced layout tools. Start with the perfect template, create your document from scratch using your choice of colors, fonts, and textures, or import a Pages ’09, Microsoft Word or text file.Pages makes it easy to edit and format your document. Style text, insert tabs, and set indents and margins with the streamlined style ruler. Use the Media Browser to add photos and videos from your Photos app. And make them look great with masks, shadows, reflections, and picture frames. You can resize, rotate, and move images around the page, and dynamic word wrapping automatically flows your text around them. Tap to layout your text in multiple columns or insert tables to organize your data.Apple iTunesIt is the first digital news publication from The Daily Holdings Inc. with original content created every day exclusively for the iPad. The Daily covers the world: breaking news, sports, pop culture, entertainment, apps, games, technology, opinion, celebrity gossip and more."The content is pretty good. My main gripe is that the app is slow, even with this latest update. Also it does not support multitasking. Hope they keep improving it though, lots of potential," a customer commented in Apple iTunes review.Apple iTunesSmurf Village is free to play, but charges real money for additional in-app content. You may lock out the ability to purchase in-app content by adjusting your device’s settings.Gargamel found the Smurfs’ village and scattered the Smurfs far and wide. With Papa Smurf's guidance, it’s up to you to build a new village for the Smurfs to call home.Based on the original cartoon and comic art, players begin the game with only a single mushroom house and a lone plowed plot of land. From there, things quickly progress, allowing players to build specialized houses, elaborate gardens with colorful crops, bridges to span running rivers, trodden paths, and more."This game is great but if you want to make it better and more people. To get it then you need to lower the prices on smerf berries I mean come on 4.99 for 50 that is insane!," a customer commented in Apple iTunes review.Apple iTunesKeynote, the powerful presentation application for Mac, has been completely redesigned for iPad. It makes creating a world-class presentation, complete with animated charts and transitions, as simple as touching and tapping.Keynote has everything you need to create amazing presentations, including beautiful Apple-designed themes, custom graphic styles, and stunning animations and effects. Start quickly with a theme and add the slides you need with just a few taps, selecting any of eight slide masters. You can also open a Keynote ’09 or Microsoft PowerPoint file.Use the predefined text styles or pick from a selection of text options to personalize your slides. Add photos and videos from the Photos app using the Media Browser. Make your photos look great with designs that match your theme, or add masks, shadows, reflections, and picture frames all just by touching. Organize your data with beautiful tables and charts. Then bring your presentation to life with high-quality animations including Magic Move, Flip, and Spin.When your presentation is ready, you can use the full-screen view to play it right on your iPad. If you’re presenting to a large audience, connect your iPad to a projector using an optional adapter and view your slides and notes from the presenter display. You can also send your presentation in Keynote ’09, Microsoft PowerPoint or PDF format to anyone via Mail or iWork.com public beta, or copy it to your MobileMe iDisk, your Mac or PC, or to the web using WebDAV. Using AirPrint, you can send your presentation to a printer on your wireless network.Apple iTunesRemotely control your PC or Mac from your iPad or iPhone - plus view, transfer and save files or folders between your iOS device and computers from a single app. LogMeIn Ignition works with LogMeIn’s award-winning free software on an unlimited number of remote computers. With all your information, applications and desktops right at your fingertips, you’re finally free to go. It’s the one app that gives you unlimited freedom."I use LogMeIn on all of my computers and it's great to have access to them anywhere I go! The new "tabbed" view mode is welcomed and the new remote file transfer is AWESOME! No more pesky FTP programs for transferring files from my remote computers to my iPad/iPhone! Thanks LogMeIn! I have been and will continue to be a loyal user of your services!," a customer commented in Apple iTunes review.Apple iTunesCreate, Edit, Access & Share Microsoft Office files. Quickoffice is the essential Microsoft Office productivity tool for iPad."With our iPad-enhanced mobile office solution, you will have full control of creating, editing, formatting, accessing and sharing documents, spreadsheets, presentations. Our Connected Filemanager also enables you to remotely access, transfer, share and manage your files on MobileMe, Dropbox, Google® Docs, Box, Huddle, and SugarSync. Get the most out of your iPad with our mobile office suite - the best experience ever!," Apple said in a statement.-- PowerPoint 2003 – Create, Edit, View & Save
-- Extensive text formatting – font type, colors, size, underline/italics, bold
-- View presentations in slide show mode & on external monitor
-- Graphical editing/manipulation – insert common shapes, text box, images from local directories, rotate/resize objects, change object layering order
-- Built-in laser pointer for presentingPlus many more great new features:
-- Save files as PDF’s
-- Print files using iOS AirPrint
-- Share files on Slideshare, Scribd, & DocstocQuickofficeNumbers, the powerful spreadsheet application made for the Mac, has been completely redesigned for iPad. Tap the bright Multi-Touch display to create compelling, great-looking spreadsheets in minutes. With over 250 easy-to-use functions, an intelligent keyboard, flexible tables, and eye-catching charts, all the answers are at your fingertips.Numbers has everything you need to organize data, perform calculations, and manage lists. And you can do it all with just a few taps. Start with one of the beautiful Apple-designed templates and add your own tables and charts or open a Numbers ’09, Microsoft Excel or CSV file. Use predefined styles for tables, charts, images, and text to customize the look of your spreadsheet.Enter data with ease using the intelligent onscreen keyboards -- they’re designed specifically for working with numbers, text, dates, and formulas. Perform simple or complex calculations with over 250 functions that let you create your own formulas using a dedicated function keyboard and built-in help. Forms make it easy to enter data in a table when you’re on the go. And, in full-screen view, Numbers instantly summarizes selected data in different ways -- by sum, average, min, max, and count. With a quick swipe, you can even see your data as a chart.When your spreadsheet is complete, use full-screen view to show your work right on your iPad. You can also send your spreadsheet in Numbers ’09, Microsoft Excel or PDF format to anyone via Mail or iWork.com public beta, or copy it to your MobileMe iDisk, your Mac or PC, or to the web using WebDAV. Using AirPrint, you can send sheets to a printer on your wireless network.Apple iTunes
