Acceleread aims to make its users more effective readers. It uses various techniques to improve your focus, eye speed and much more. If you play with it long enough, you will eventually get rid of those annoying reading habits. What’s nice about Acceleread is the fact that it lets you go at your own pace. It won’t throw you in deep waters right way. Acceleread has highly adjustable settings. It keeps track of your reading speed too. The exercises within this tool are designed to improve your skills in various areas that contribute to effective reading.

Acceleread gives you plenty of practice in speed reading. Play with it long enough, and you will be surprised by how much your reading speed will improve.

Onswipe is a powerful tablet publishing platform that turns your blog into a tablet friendly website. No matter how great your theme is, there is a chance that it may not be fully functional on tablets such as the iPad. With Onswipe, you can address that problem fast.

Onswipe is pretty easy to get started with. It allows you to add your branded material to the tablet friendly version of your website. You can add your own logo and splash page to your site. You can change the color of your theme from Onswipe’s options page. This plugin does support a ton of fonts too.

OnSwipe is quite an exciting platform for bloggers. It lets them target their tablet traffic more effectively. The product is free for now. If you can’t afford to get a tablet-friendly theme designed for your site or turn your blog into a native app, OnSwipe is a good option to consider.

BoxWave Capacitive iPad Stylus: the iPad has a shiny screen but does not have a finger-print proof glass. We are talking about a touch-screen device after all. This stylus makes it easy to operate on iPads without leaving finger-prints all over them.

DMS Flexible Bluetooth Keyboard for iPad: intend to write blog posts using your iPad? This flexible keyboard is portable and flexible. Great for travel.

Arkon Portable Fold-Up Stand: iPad can be used to keep track of Twitter and Facebook. It is also a great tool to keep up with RSS feeds. Having a stand for your tablet can make it easier for you to use your device hands-free.

Levo Kindle Stand & iPad Stand: I use one of these to turn my iPad into an information center in my office. This way, I blog on my computer and keep track of top social networking sites and the news on my iPad.

Hard Candy Cases Bubble Sleeve Case: a bump proof case for iPad and iPad 2. It keeps iPad safe from bumps, shocks, and scratches. Another powerful iPad accessory for travel.

Which iPad accessories can’t you live without?

Flipboard: a free iPad application that lets you go through news, photos and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader and other websites. Flipboard is easily customizable and keeps you in control. Just adds the sections that interest you, and you are ready to go.

Tweetmag: tired of all the noise on Twitter? Thanks to Tweetmag, you can keep track of the topics that are important to you and your business on your tablet. It not only lets you keep up with your own network, it shows you content from outside your network. It can play videos too.

The Early Edition: one of the best newspaper applications available for iPad. It has an attractive interface and can keep track of all your RSS feeds (including your Twitter updates). It can be used to keep track of forums, blogs, and any other RSS-based content.

Twitter magazine apps can help bloggers manage Twitter noise and get more out of this amazing community. Yet another reason for bloggers to pick up an iPad.

PadPressed is very easy to get to work. All you have to do is install it on your blog, and you are ready to go. This theme (or plugin) automatically recognizes your iPad visitors and displays an alternative design just to those folks. PadPressed gives you control on what you want your visitors to see in your front page. You can define your featured categories and customize the logo you want to show up on your main page.

PadPressed currently has 5 very attractive designs that support swiping. Your visitors can change categories on your website with just a touch. PadPressed is accelerometer aware too and can display your blog in horizontal and vertical modes.

PadPressed is social media friendly and gives your visitors all the tools they need to share your stories on Twitter, Facebook, and via E-mail. Just because people are reading your blog using an iPad does not mean they can’t/won’t submit your stories to social networking sites.

Not everybody is going to have the funds to develop a dedicated native iPad app for a blog. PadPressed gives you an affordable way to get the job done while making life more convenient for your iPad visitors. It’s pretty affordable for what it does and does its job well.

MobileRSS HD lets you read your RSS feeds like you would on Google. It gives you the tools you need to save, share, and mark your stories. You can also add your favorite stories to Twitter, Facebook, and Delicious.

The app lets you save images to your photo album. It can keep track of your “read” and “unread” stories too. Best of all, your iPad will stay synced up with your Google Reader account when you are on the move.

If you are addicted to Google Reader and want to use your iPad to follow your favorite Google Reader feeds, MobileRSS HD is a solid option to go with.

While I do not use Google Docs to manage sensitive documents, I do store ideas, lists, articles, and spreadsheets online. It’s just a wonderful way to share information among our team members. With GoDocs, accessing all those documents takes just a couple of taps. The app has a very attractive interface and is quite fast. It lets you view all your Google Docs documents and even download them to your iPad without having to go through iTunes. Since you can download documents, you can view them offline as well, which is especially nice for WiFi iPad owners.

What’s nice about GoDocs is that it lets you open multiple Google Docs accounts simultaneously. It can open documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDF files. GoDocs even supports video and audio files. Once you are done viewing and modifying your files, you can just sync them with your online account.

In summary, GoDocs is a wonderful solution for anyone using Google Docs to manage documents online. It has a very fast interface and does what it promises. It’s pretty affordable too.

I have never been a fan of using a marker to highlight things in my paper books. After all, those marks are permanent. With iAnnotate PDF, I don’t have to worry about that. It not only opens PDF files, it lets you add your text notes, highlights, and drawings to your e-books. You can also bookmark sections of your book for future references.

Transferring your PDF files to your iPad is not too difficult in this app. You can get it done by syncing your documents through iTunes. If that’s too difficult, just send your documents or their links to yourself via e-mail. The app’s tab system makes it easy to open up multiple documents at once.

Searching through a paper book for a specific piece on information can be very inefficient. That’s not what you have to worry about on your iPad. iAnnotatePDF lets you search your entire PDF library to find what you are looking for faster. I love the fact that you can sync your iPad library with your desktop. That makes it much easier to manage large e-book libraries.

In summary, if you are looking to ditch your paper-books for digital books on your iPad and want to own a powerful tool to open up and modify your PDF files, iAnnotatePDF is a very good choice. It’s very easy to use and has a ton of features for e-book addicts.

When you build an iPad for your blog, you don’t want to offer just the same old content through your app. You need to offer extra value for iPad owners to truly care about your app. If your app is going to be a paid one, you better give people a reason not to regret their purchase. Here are 7 ways to do just that:

• Offer High Quality Content: this goes without saying. If your content is crap, for the lack of better term, people are not going to use your app or read your blog. It’s really a no brainer. That’s why I talked about having a resourceful team. iPad is a tough channel to master. You’ll need to have your “A” game to have a chance.
• Interactive Content: Wired.com’s iPad application shows exactly how iPad is different from all other e-book readers. Developing interactive content can be costly, but if you have a paid iPad app, you are better off offering this type of content.
• Don’t Forget Multimedia: this is much easier to do than the previous item. Exclusive videos and audio commentary is not that hard to add to an iPad app.
• Exclusive Content for Loyal Followers: don’t forget to link your blog to your iPad app. Your iPad app should help your blog become more successful. That would not be possible if you are not leveraging your app properly to achieve that goal. Providing exclusive tips and content to your loyal blog readers is a good start.
• Convenience & Usability: forget about the bells and whistles. Not until you have an app that is easy to use and does not confuse your readers. Give your readers the tools they need to share your content with others on their iPad. Don’t try to be too fancy with your app.
• Performance Matters: nobody likes a sluggish iPad app. If your app is paid, you should double your efforts to make sure your app performs well. Crashes and bugs are annoying too. So work them all out with your team.
• Aggressive Pricing Strategy: you can monetize your app properly and make a decent chunk of profit if you play your cards right. You will have to focus on content and value for your readers if you expect them to pay for your app. There are so many useless paid apps in iTunes. Don’t let yours be one of them. Don’t be too greedy either. If it makes sense to offer your app for free, don’t hesitate.

What are your suggestions on how to build a killer iPad app for a blog?

If you have invested your hard-earned money to get an iPad, these 5 iPad apps can help you get more out of your device as a blogger:

Kindle for iPad: gives you an easy way to download books from Amazon and start reading them wherever you are. As long as you have an Internet connection, you can download the books you have purchased quickly on the go.

Things for iPad: a super task manager for iPad that enables you to keep on the top of your everyday tasks and become more productive when you are on the move.

Analytics HD: Google Analytics is a blogger’s best friend. If you can’t get enough of going through your stats, this app gives you what you need to keep track of your blog’s progress on your iPad.

ReaddleDocs: an innovative application that can open all kinds of files and can transform your iPad into a mobile flash drive. So you can add your e-books and documents to your iPad without having to sync them using iTunes.

Early Edition: a very attractive iPad application that lets you add your RSS feeds and turn them into your own virtual newspaper. Gives bloggers an easy way to keep track of their favorite blogs and quickly get a sense of what’s popular in their niche.

What’s your favorite iPad blogging application?