My iPad App Store tab so far…

(Editor's note: Keep reading after the list of apps for additional commentary)

Item NumberDescriptionUnit Price1iBooks, v1.0, Seller: Apple Inc. (4+) 
 Free2Shazam for iPad, v1.0, Seller: Shazam Entertainment Limited (12+) 
 Free3Twitterrific for iPad, v1.0, Seller: The Iconfactory (4+) 
 Free4ABC Player, v1.0.1003, Seller: ABC Digital (12+) 
 Free5CameraBag for iPad, v1.9.1, Seller: Nevercenter Ltd. Co. (4+) 
 $2.996Twilight, The Graphic Novel, Lite, Volume 1, v1.0.1, Seller: Hachette Book Group, Inc. (4+) 
 Free7TweetDeck for iPad, v1.0, Seller: TweetDeck Inc. (4+)
 Free8AccuWeather.com Cirrus Free, v1, Seller: Steven Mesko (4+) 
 Free9Netflix, v1.0.0, Seller: James Odell (12+) 
 Free10USA TODAY for iPad, v1.0, Seller: USA TODAY (4+) 
 Free11Words With Friends HD, v3.10, Seller: newtoy, inc. (4+) 
 $4.9912Tabbed Browser, v1.0.1, Seller: Cross Forward Consulting, LLC (17+) 
 Free13WeatherBug Elite for iPad, v1.0.0.7, Seller: AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. (4+) 
 Free14The Weather Channel Max for iPad, v1.0, Seller: The Weather Channel (4+) 
 Free15eBay for iPad, v1.0, Seller: eBay Inc. (12+) 
 Free16Marvel Comics, v1.0, Seller: Marvel Entertainment (12+) 
 Free17Yahoo! Entertainment, v1.0.1, Seller: Yahoo! (4+) 
 Free18CAMERA-A, v1.1, Seller: Yusuke sekikawa (4+) 
 $0.9919JotBook, v1.0, Seller: mrwired (4+) 
 $2.9920Scribble Notes, v1.0, Seller: Scott Stahurski (4+) 
 $4.9921popplet lite, v1.1, Seller: Notion, Inc. (4+) 
 Free22SkyGrid, v1.0.1, Seller: SkyGrid (4+) 
 Free23Comics, v1.5, Seller: comiXology (17+) 
 Free24Twittelator Pad for Twitter, v1.0, Seller: Stone Design Corp (4+) 
 $4.9925Adobe® Ideas 1.0 for iPad, v1.0, Seller: Adobe Systems, Inc. (4+) 
 Free26iCab Mobile (Web Browser), v3.0, Seller: Alexander Clauss (17+) 
 $1.99Subtotal:$23.93Tax:$1.50Order Total:$25.43

I already blogged about JotBook and Scribble Notes.  I was too excited when I found Camera-A because the idea of using the iPhone as an external camera for the iPad sounded like such an awesome idea!  The problem was that the free companion app for the iPhone only works on the iPhone 3Gs.  Booooooooo!  There is another similar app called Camera for iPad that I *might* try out, since it works on the iPhone 3G.  

As for Twittelator, I can't remember if I blogged about this or not.  However, I'll repeat what I've tweeted: I'm pretty unimpressed by the Twittelator UI.  I think it's a bad waste of screen real estate.  Please take a lesson from Twitterrific!  I appreciate that it supports posting longer tweets (though AFAIK I think it's handled by splitting tweets, not using Twitlonger, which is another thing I'm not that fond of), and sending links to Instapaper (dude, Twitterrific, what's up with that omission?), and other additional features, but I just am not liking the UI.  Yes, it's a different way to present Twitter stream information, but for my taste, it's not a good different.

Anyway, getting back to the list of apps, this total would've been bigger had I given in to my app-buying frenzy and gotten Things for tasks/to-do management, and NetNewsWire for a Google Reader client.  Both apps are on the pricier side, hence my hesitation to buy them, but if I could get a do-over regarding the dud apps above, I would gladly download Things and NNW in their stead.  I'll probably buy those apps eventually, but at the moment I'm trying to settle down and rein in the spending for a little while.

P.S.  I haven't blogged about Adobe Ideas yet, but it's a pretty nice sketching app that I think could be a decent ink blogging app for someone wanting to go the free-app route.  And yes, it's useful for sketching free-form diagrams and notes as well.