It is astonishing to me that anyone would ever even consider paying $60,000 for an audio cable
For crazy cable prices, check out this site. They have silver cable and palladium cable.
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A 4' speaker cable is $7300. And that is with spade ends. Not even a fancy connector! A fool and his money are soon parted, right? A buddy asked "how many of those does he expect to sell?!?" I responded that he needs one costumer a year to make a basic living. Figure the dude has a surround system, a CD player, phonograph, video player of some sort. Between the interconnect cables, and speaker cables to the surrounds, the dude would make a fortune!
Yeah, I totally agree with ND on the speaker dealio.
Perkins,
What category of apps are you looking for. I just got a refurb iPad at a great price so I recently loaded mine up.
I can give you (limited) game recs, productivity recs,media recs.
What category of apps are you looking for.
Games and productivity, mostly, I guess, plus any cooking or health apps.
I don't have an iPad, but on the iPhone I'm pretty addicted to Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies. Robot Unicorn Attack is also pretty awesome, but it's a battery hog.
For a cooking app, I like epicurious. It has tons and tons of recipes, plus you can make a shopping list from your menu.
You can play Robot Unicorn Attack online at adultswim.com
You should get the iPad app you see here: [link]
Okay, Ipad stuff:
Games:
I concur with Jessica that Angry Birds is awesome. I don't have it on the ipad, but the iphone version is great. It is pricey on the ipad.
Plants v Zombies is also great.
I like Slice it quite a bit ($.99) and it is a really interesting cognitively challenging game.
I also like We Rule (free), but I like the farming/beautification kind of game. If you play werule, I'll give you my werule name and help you out.
Splode is free is awesome, pretty, and relaxing.
Pocket Frogs is my current favorite game. It is just awesome and pretty. Content does not sync across devices, FYI.
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Time & Timers:
Night Stand HD is awesome ($2)
Chronolite (timers)
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Reading:
Instapaper (I love it, there are free and pro versions, the pro version is cheap and worth it)
River of News ($3 I think and an RSS reader that is awesome)
Kindle, Stanza (ebooks), Ibooks (also will display pdf)
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Productivity:
1password (I use this to manage passwords in IOS and Mac
Textexpander (I sync common abbreviations between mac and IOS devices) and it is great when I need to write a lot.
Goodreader: ESSENTIAL and cheap ($.99) and you can download all kinds of files and view them across the web, dropbox, etc. I have literally used this to download large media files
Dropbox: awesome syncing across computers and mobile devices
Pastebot: to transfer copied and pasted text, images, etc. between a computer (mac only?) and the ios device. You can also save snippets that you may use to email frequently.
Logmein Ignition: ($20). Pricey, but very effective at letting me access my desktop computer on the road.
IAnnotate PDF ($10). I just used this today for the first time and I love it. It allows me to annotate pdfs (highlight, comment) and then email them (upload to dropbox) and my annotations show up on the desktop. Literally the best experience reading pdfs I have had in a long time.
Penultimate ($3) - a notebook app where you can write with a finger or stylus (I use a stylus). I LOVE this.
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Entertainment
Netflix. 'nuff said. The.bomb.
VLC (it will let you watch .avi files (and other weird formats) on the ipad without needing to do conversions first. Also. the.bomb.
Air Video ($5?) that allows you to stream video from your computer (pc and mac I think) to Ios. Converts on the fly. I like it.
Zumocast (free) can stream video, music, files from computer to ios.
Pandora. 'nuff said.
ABC Player. yes. good stuff.
