My TouchPad Today: That was a Fast Fifty Dollars from HP!

Back on August 8 I did a post called Not So Fast, HP! which was about the $50 app catalog credit given to assuage early adopters who missed out on the original, pre-firesale price reduction on the TouchPad.

The $50 didn't even come close to making up for the poor state of the TP at its July 1 debut.

They did a little better on that front later when they rebated the extra we paid and got our cost down to the firesale price.

But getting back to the fast $50...

In that August post I was bitching about how the $50 credit wasn't actually going to cost HP $50 and how most users would be hard-pressed to spend that amount on apps before the credit expired at the end of the year.

Well, it turns out that I've spent the fast $50. ($49.93, to be exact) Shazam!


Lets take a look at some of what I downloaded to burn through these bonus bucks..

• Picsel Smart Office
• Splashtop Remote Desktop HD
• Audiophile HD Pro
• KalemSoft Media Player
• Audubon Birds
• Tea Reader
• NomNomNom Reader

How did you burn -- or not burn -- through your $50 credit from HP?



This post was drafted on my TouchPad



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My TouchPad Today: Exploring Some Apps

Over the last few days I've been busy with some things -- gasp -- not related to the HP TouchPad! Nevertheless I have snuck in a little app exploration...

My TouchPad

• WiFi Media Synch - Now, a select set of files on my laptop are wirelessly synched to both my Pre2 and TP.
• Video Flood - A lot of the content duplicates what is already available to me via my Windows 7 laptop and my Roku HD box... wirelessly! Video quality I've seen thus far is excellent.
• PDFMyWebPro - Not a perfect app, but will be handy for me... when it works. (I've been using the full version of Adobe Acrobat on desktops and laptops for 10+ years.) This app fills an important gap in the tablet computing experience for me.
• Gemini File Manager "Remote"- Don't know how much use this will get in my every day computing. I'm more likely to use box.net, et al, to access copies of files on my TP.

My Wife's TouchPad

I've now added a few more files to my wife's TP, in anticipation of the day when she actually starts to use it...

• HP Play (downloaded to laptop and then used it to synch her music to her TP)
• Video Flood 
• Audiophile HD

Now, off to more exploration and -- gasp -- things not related to the TouchPad!



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