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Pages for iPad | In-Depth Review | The Mac Observer

Pages for iPad | In-Depth Review | The Mac Observer: Apple’s iPad is a great device for watching movies and TV shows, listening to music and playing games; and thanks to apps like Pages, it works great as a content creation device, too. Pages for the iPad is a slimmed down version of Apple’s word processor and page layout application, and it works surprisingly well for on-the-go document creation and editing.
This is a very good article describing the features of Pages for iPad. I use it more than I thought I would. My wife uses it exclusively now that she has moved to the iPad as her only computing device.
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