My Favorite Apps
So I’ve had my iPhone for about 8 months now, and I’ve gotten a lot of apps. My iTunes library has 181 in it, but I don’t keep them all on my phone, I keep the main page just as Apple set it up, then 4 more pages of Apps of my choosing. My organizational skills with my apps are amazing, arranged my color and functionality, but that’s due to my OCD. This is a list of Apps I may not use daily, but I can’t see myself ever deleting.
Now on to what I planned for this write-up to be, my favorite apps and why I like them. These will be in order that they appear on my phone.
1. Tweetie 2 – I actually just downloaded this today, as I’ve used Twitterfon(now Echofon) since I got my phone. I loved Twitterfon and how simplistic it was, even if it took it’s feel from the original Tweetie. Twitterfon did some things first though, such as landscape, and now it syncs with my desktop app, but after using Tweetie 2 for ten minutes i can say it has a much better feel to it and it is easier to navigate. Things such as swiping downward to refresh just seem natural.
2. BeejiveIM – It’s an IM app with push notification. I have it set up to look exactly like the Messages app so it feels the same when I use it, but it doesn’t use up my text messages. It’s completely customizable down to backgrounds, skins, and the color of the bubbles, theres landscape support. At the same tim its very simple to use, and thats what I like the most about it.
3. Instapaper – This was another reason I used Twitterfon, it had Instapaper support. Around here there is only an EDGE network, presumably because AT&T sucks. I have WiFi at home, work, school, and Heather’s house, so for the most part, it isn’t a problem living without 3G. At times though there are articles that need to be read, damnit. That’s where Instapaper comes in. Say there’s an article I want to read, I can pull up my Instapaper bookmark and go to it, and it will add that page to my Instapaper account. I then open my Instapaper app, refresh it, and it downloads the article in a text only format, and only takes seconds. on top of that, If i’m checking tweets and see a link that seems interesting, I can send it to Instapaper from within Tweetie, and read it later on my phone after I finish checking tweets, or even on my computer on Instapaper.com. It also supports offline viewing, and within the app you can download the images from the pages you send yourself, if you feel the need to. OMG best part I almost forgot! I can tilt my phone away from my and the text scrolls towards the bottom, and towards me and the text scrolls to towards the top, that makes me happy, because at times I don’t feel like doing anything but changing the angle I hold my hand by 5 degrees.
5. Jaadu VNC – It’s a remote desktop App. I can log onto my iMac from anywhere, and do anything I need to with it. Say I’m at school and forgot to bring a paper with my I typed up, I can log onto my computer, zoom into the screen by tapping 3 fingers on the screen, open finder, then click and drag the item into dropbox, then open the file up from a computer at school and print it off. It uses a lot o multi-touch gestures to make it easier to navigate, such as 2 finger scrolling and 3 finger tap to zoom in/out. Aside from loading a disc into the drive or anything else you have to do physically, I can do on my Mac with this app. It supports Windows as well, and is fully encrypted.
6. Google Mobile – Say I want to go bowling. I open Google Mobile and hold it to my ear like I’m on the phone. I then say “Bowling”. It searches for bowling near me and I can get a list of the closest bowling alleys, along with phone numbers, and directions from my current location. I don’t think I need to explain this one any further.
7. Memory Info – It clears my Ram so I don’t have to restart my phone as often. Sadly, this app is no longer available, but there is one that does the same thing from the same company that made this one, but at a higher price of 2.99, whereas I paid .99 for this. The available one is called System Activity Monitor, and it’s available from Recession Apps.
8. Midomi Ultra – It’s a music tagger. for those of you familiar with Shazam it’s very similar, except you can sing to it, hum to it, or even speak/type the lyrics and it will try its best to identify the song while embarrassing you at the same time for singing to your phone. It’s 4.99, but I got it while it was still Midomi, and was free.
9. NewsStand – Google Reader App, its fast, it’s simple, it’s perfect.
10. Tap Tap Revenge 3 – A good rhythm game for the iPhone that actually has some good music as well (Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, Metallica etc.) It’s got in game purchasing, much like Rock Band or Guitar Hero, and they add new tracks weekly.
11. Peggle – Need I say more?
12. Good Reader – Large PDF viewer, perfect for the DVDs you can buy from Marvel containing every issue of a specific comic, It will view word documents and excel files as well.
13. Sudoku Grab – I can find a sudoku puzzle online and screenshot it, launch this app and import the picture, it then converts that image into a digital sudoku puzzle. I can also go to a bookstore, pick up a sudoku book, and take a picture of a puzzle and it will do the same thing. If you feel like cheating theres a complete button that solves the puzzle instantly.
Fin.
Tags: Apps, iPhone, There's an App for that
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