A long list of apps ready for the iPad has emerged on the Web at appadvice.com, but two seem destined to perform business organization duties. Infinote turns the tablet into a canvas of endless capacity, to enable you to create notes quickly, color-coded and reorganizable by simply dragging them across the screen.

That’s likely to be the iPad at it’s best: the touch interface that delivers the index-card organization skills of the prior century, without all the erasing and the need for a full boardroom-sized table.

Infinote is going to sell for just $2.99, priced as any app for the iPhone. On the other end of the pricing scale, The Omni Group will be releasing its flagship OmniGraffle visualizer and process charting tool. While Infinote is certain to be worth its price, it will be interesting to see the takeup on an iPad program priced closer to Mac software levels. Read the rest of this entry »

Companies may be thinking of Apple’s new iPad as a business tool, because Apple’s tool box has run dry for about two unexpected days this month. Orders placed for the revolutionary tablet are now promised to ship by April 12; orders placed by March 27 are set to arrive on the original April 3 date.

That a unseen device which starts at $499 blew out its initial run in two weeks of sales is a sure sign that small business owners are investing in the new mobile form factor. Apple may have engineered the size of its first run to ensure a sellout before first delivery. Whatever the reason, e-mail notices arrived this morning that first shipments have left Apple’s plants to arrive by April 3.