iPad round-up: What are those 300,000 iPad owners downloading?

• Apple sells 300,000 iPads on first day >> NYT More than one million apps and 250,000 ebooks were bought on release day in the US. Photograph: nDevilTV /Flickr/ Some rights reserved • What are iPad owners downloading? >> NYT The top three application downloads so far are the rather mundane productivity apps for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations; Pages, Numbers and Keynote - that arguably should've been native. The games Real Racing HD, Scrabble and Flight Control all make the top ten, as does SketchBookPro and the astronomy tool Star Walk. All these cost between $8.99 or $9.99 apart from Star Walk, which is $2.99. • How to watch web video on the iPad >> NewTeeVee Which sites behave in the iPad's Safari browser, which don't work because they still rely on Flash and which make you choose between a mobile version and the full web size. • Track iPad sales in real-time >> Mashable The Chitka advertising network is estimating the number of iPads sold by tracking how many access the internet. Not foolproof methodology but a fairly good guess. No suprises that highest iPad use in the US was in California. • Video: Five sweet apps to break in your iPad >> Wired Wired recommends the Beautiful Planet HD app, created by two travelling journalists, says the iPad will be an interesting platforms for musicians and gets very excited about the Marvel Comics app. • The iPad passes airport security >> The Firewall If you wondered whether you'd had to unpack an ipad at airport security (You did? Really?) then this piece is for you... • iPad Peek simulates your site on an iPad. Not. >> Podcasting News Be wary of sites promising to render your own site as it will appear on an iPad, for they are false prophets. And they won't wrap the text properly, etc. • Dr Seuss comes to the iPad >> Mashable As Mashable says: "The app reminds me a lot of the digital book programs for the Mac and PC in the late 1990s. Those CD-ROMs added animations or page manipulations for kids, along with some ways to interact with the story.. " Almost like Apple took an existing idea, packaged it well and sold it for a lot more money. Exactly like that, in fact. • The first iPad compatible vest is here >> Mashable The point at which we realise the iPadcalypse is nigh, and finally move on to something else...