by Brad Reed

2010’s Most Popular iPad Apps

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Dec 16, 2010
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When the iPad celebrates its first birthday next month, it should raise a glass to Apple’s App Store, which has provided users with an array of innovative applications. Late last week, Apple released a list of the 10 most popular iPad applications, with productivity apps making up the bulk. Here they are:

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Keynote

Developer: Apple

Price: $9.99

Keynote rounds out Apple’s major trio of in-house productivity apps as the company’s answer to PowerPoint. This is the type of app that seems best suited for the iPad since it involves a lot of drag-and-drop formatting and it has relatively little typing compared with the word processing and spreadsheet programs.

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Glee Karaoke

Developer: Smule

Price: $0.99

Based on the hit musical-comedy series, this karaoke app lets you sing along to your favorite tunes on the show. The program anticipates that you won’t be very talented, which is why it includes features such as pitch correction and additional harmonies. And if you’re feeling really confident, you can even record your karaoke performance and post a video of it on Facebook or Twitter.