The iPad is the perfect devices for parties: just fill it up with some good music, some great DJ apps and you’ll see people gathering all around it trying to touch the screen, put on some tunes and tell you “dude, this thing is awesome”. It happened, and it happened before with the iPhone.

The iPad is also a great single person media-consuming device though. I watch movies with it, I have podcasts synced with iTunes and I definitely spend too much time browsing the Youtube application. I also installed this neat Tune Frame app as well, and I think you should do the same.

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People have been talking a lot about the “second wave” of iPad apps these days. It’s pretty obvious that many developers rushed to have apps out in the iPad App Store on day one and many others are still working on new ones to be released / announced after the WWDC. That would be the second wave, if you’d like to call it so. And you can expect it to be freaking good.

To get straight to the point, we all know what’s the app currently missing on the iPad. If you’re an active Google Reader user and have an iPhone, I bet 10 bucks that you’re waiting for Reeder to be available on your tablet. If so, you should take a look at the screenshots we have below.

UPDATE: Check out our review of Reeder for iPad here.

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“Hello?”

“I want to speak with him.”

“Who is this?”

“You know who I am. I want to speak with him.”

“I’m afraid I can’t do that, Federico. Steve is talking with him now.”

“Steve, huh? He’s not busy answering emails now?”

“Well, yes - he’s using him to access…”

“Yeah, whatever. I don’t care if Steve is busy talking with some Japanese dudes about Softbank or just trying out his new Droid, just let me talk with him. Now.”

“Ok, hold on a sec.”

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I love Vimeo. Great videos are on it, the design of the website is great, the embeddable player is great. Youtube looks like crap when compared to Vimeo, and that’s a given. If you have an iPad though, you may have noticed that Vimeo videos don’t play inline as Youtube videos do. I’m telling you, this was driving me crazy.

Fortunately, someone has come up with a temporary solution to make sure that Vimeo videos play inline before the official HTML5 embed comes out. You should go thank Squaregirl over here. I suggest you to bookmark it.

The iPad is the perfect device for photos: being very similar to a digital frame, it’s no surprise that most of the people I know have asked me to show off pictures on it, because it feels natural and well fitted on that large surface. Considering that Apple also introduced support for much of the goodness avaialable in iPhoto such as Places and Events, it’s clear that experiencing photos was one of the first features that came to Steve’s mind when the iPad was still a sketch.

When you go online though, your photos are on Flickr. Sure there are a bunch of other services to browse and archives photos (Picasa, MobileMe) but if you’re really serious about your collection you open an Flickr Pro account. Period.

Now think about what’s in between: a great Flickr app for the iPad. While we’re still waiting for Mike Bernardo to announce his plans for a new version of Flickit, FlickStackr for the iPad is where it’s at.

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Notably is reminiscent of iBooks. They’re very simple things: they display beautiful pages; allow you to select gorgeous fonts and change font size; plus, the experience is just great. Notably for the iPad is an elegant notepad that could be considered an upgrade from Apple’s own notes.

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iGrapher is a web based financial market visualizer that allows you to check in-depth charts and predictions of different stock and currency markets. Today we’ve found out that the developer of iGrapher is working on a 3D port of his software for the iPad.

Called “iGrapher 3D”, the app already looks smooth and fast, and we can’t wait to try a build on our iPads. In the meantime, check out the preview video after the break.

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We think that the image below speaks for itself.

Must have. [Etsy via Geeky Gadgets]

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You’re running out of battery while watching a movie at the park and you need to go home and finish it there. It’s a beautiful day though, why should you go home? You have the right to stay outside. On the other hand, it’s not that parks usually come with wall chargers, so I guess you’d need a different solution, something like…a portable solar panel. Yes, a solar panel to charge your iPad.

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