Right Tools Unleash Creativity on an iPad

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/technology/personaltech/02basics.html?scp=3&sq=iPad%20apps&st=cse

The iPad is great for activities like watching movies, surfing the Web, playing video games or reading digital magazines and newspapers. The rap against the iPad is that it is not as useful as a computer for creating.

But with the right tools — and the ability to control the urge to play one last game of Angry Birds — the iPad can also be a hefty workhorse. Inexpensive apps and third-party peripherals make the iPad an excellent device for photographers, artists, writers and bloggers to create original content. (It can still help those forced to do more mundane tasks.)Photography