iPad music and eBook apps

If you do have an iPad or are planning on getting one, you
should know that you are in for a wonderful world of music and
eBooks-centric applications to play with. Following list shows top
8 iPad music apps and
iPad ebook apps for you.

style="font-weight: bold">iPad music apps

1. StreamToMe

The StreamToMe application lets you use your iPad to play video
and music files - in a wide variety of formats without prior
conversion - streamed directly over WiFi from your Mac or PC. If
you connect the video-out cable for iPad, StreamToMe can play
through your TV, turning your iPhone/iPod plus Mac/PC into a
home.

2. Shiny Drum

Shiny Drum is a music application for iPhone, iPod touch and
iPad designed by OutOfTheBit and Leo Di Angilla, the creators of
Vintage Drum (app featured by Apple in many countries), iBongos,
iCongas, iTimbales, iPandeiro.

3. TabToolkit

TabToolkit for iPad is an Apple Design Awards 2010 winner!
TabToolkit is an incredibly powerful guitar tablature and music
notation viewer, now with multi-track playback! An essential tool
for learning and practicing music, TabToolkit includes an audio
synthesis engine so you can listen to and control the audio for all
tracks individually.

4. Beatwave

Create amazing beats and tunes without any musical ability using
Beatwave for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

Using just your finger, you'll be turning out wicked tracks
for
FREE that amaze your friends and family, in no time at
all!

5. Pianist Pro

Pianist, the ORIGINAL iPhone piano, turns Professional in an all
new iPad-only app with photo-realistic graphics and an unbelievable
sound. Recommended by The New York Times, The Independent,The Daily
Telegraph, and Rolling Stone Magazine, Pianist Pro was the number
one music app for the iPad at release and has remained high in the
charts ever since.

6. Pandora

Pandora Radio is your own free personalized radio now available
to stream music on your iPhone or iPad. Just start with the name of
one of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and
Pandora will create a "station" that plays their music and more
music like it.

7. SoundHound

SoundHound is instant music search & discovery. This free
version gives you unlimited voice and text searches, unlimited
lyrics, and 5 free super-fast music recognition searches every
month.

8. PatternMusic

Create compelling, original music on your iPad™ with
PatternMusic™ MXXIV. PatternMusic was designed to inspire
creativity, learning and experimentation in music enthusiasts and
experts alike

style="font-weight: bold">iPad eBook apps

style="font-weight: bold">Book

Has the nicest landscape mode and is the only app which allows
in app purchasing of books.

You can also add your own content via iTunes so long as the
content is in epub format. Does not allow annotations. App is
free.

style="font-weight: bold">Kindle

This is the only
href="http://www.ipad-books-download.com/ipad-ebooks-download.html">iPad
eBook download app that allows you to take annotations or notes. It also
allows synching across devices. New content can be purchased via
the Amazon store but not within the app itself.

Note: You cannot add old content or content purchased at
other vendors unless you own a Kindle reader.

style="font-weight: bold">Kobo

Nice interface but limited by way of content.

Not all content you purchase can be viewed in the App. There is
no way to add old content or content purchased at other
ebookstores. App is free.

style="font-weight: bold">Bookself LT

Allows you to easily add your own content via iTunes, over the
air using Bonjour or via a webserver like feedbooks or your own
created calibre cloud catalog.

The LT version has an ad at the top but is free. Has
autoscrolling. The paid version is $4.99.

style="font-weight: bold">ReadMe

Easy access to online catalogs including your own calibre
generated cloud catalog.

No bookstore access & thus new books cannot be purchased and
added without computer access. App is $1.99.

style="font-weight: bold">GoodReader

Great for reading PDFs, Word Docs, and other supported formats
but does not allow interactivity.

You can add content a multiple of ways including accessing the
attachments in your email box. Does not read ePubs.