When using an iPad, all applications are just a tap away on the screen and just browse through the various buttons to choose the one to open. The iPad's iOS operating system can now be brought into the Windows desktop with a program that clones the iOS user interface to manage the computer as if it were an iPad .
iPadian is a stand-alone program that does not change any desktop setting (it is therefore not a skin or theme to transform Windows) and that simply opens an application screen identical to that of an iPad, full screen, with which to manage Windows files and programs.
It comes with a customized app store, with some pre-installed iPad applications, support for full screen mode and access to free resources to listen to music, see videos, surf the internet, chat, communicate on Facebook and much more.
iPadian can be downloaded for free from the project website and does not even require installation (portable program), just extract the .zip archive and then launch the iPadian.exe file.
An alternative desktop opens immediately, with the browser and access to Facebook on the left, the apps on the right and a dock bar at the bottom to open the most important apps and to access the computer files.
Unfortunately, due to a question of patents and permits, many of the apps of a normal iPad are not available on iPadian which are replaced by some free web applications well known to use the computer without ever opening programs installed on the PC .
For example, on the dock bar, there are links to open Safari and surf the internet, Citrify is used to view photos and as an Email client you can set up an account on the LiveGo site. Three additional keys allow you to manage your Windows computer: one to browse the computer's files, one to open the normal desktop to launch programs and the third for documents.
The applications on the right are all links to some web applications such as, for example, Virtual Piano, Playlistnow for music, Gett to share files, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Webly, and then also the games including Angry Birds, to play full screen on pc.
Whenever you open an application, a bar appears on the right to start the most famous websites, such as Yahoo, Google, Bing, Facebook, YouTube, Gmail and others, to be seen in a mobile version.
The sites in the right bar are opened in the box which becomes a way to navigate while doing something else.
The most beautiful thing about this emulator for iPad on Windows is the possibility to access an App Store from which you can install and add new free applications, searchable from the list organized by categories.
Each app is a link to a web application: Grooveshark opens streaming music while games like Cut The Rope are flash games cloned from the original versions.
Installed applications appear on the iPad desktop for quick launch .
To remove applications from the main interface, just click them while holding down the right mouse button and move them.
At the top right there are keys to set iPadian full screen or in a window, to close open applications and to turn off iPadian and return to the normal Windows desktop.
iPadian, although not a complete iPad emulator, is a great program that I recommend to everyone at least to try also because, surely, it will be updated with new features and other applications to make it even more productive.
For now it could be considered as a web browser for Windows (with a similar approach to the applications tab and the Google Chrome web store), graphically transformed into the iPad's iOS system, with all the quick links to launch web apps instead of traditional programs.
In addition to a way to try an iPad directly on Windows, it also allows you to discover the most valid "cloud" applications .
iPadian is an open source, free and free program that works on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Who has never seen an iPad live, before downloading iPadian, can try first what is meant by "iPad interface on Windows" with an online emulator on the Ipad Simulator site where you can try surfing the internet on the virtual screen of an iPad 2.
