I broke down a week or so ago and picked up my Christmas present to myself: an iPhone.
I like to be an early adopter, but I don’t like to spend money. Quandary. I labored about it for months, weeks, ran the numbers and talked myself out of it. Ran the numbers, talked myself into it. Out of it. Into it. But it might inspire me to run again. Into it. Twitter addition. Into it. Math. Out of it. Corporate discount into it. Into it into it into it.
So I’ve become one of them, and I’ve got a list of my favorite apps. I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours.
- BriteKite
- Camera Bag
- Handshake
- Twittelator
- Shazam
- Flycast
- Pandora
- Public Radio
- White Noise
- Wikipanion
- Amazon
- Map my run
- Cube Runner
- Moonlight lite
- More Cowbell
- Lightsaber
(ht to Tessa for most of these…)
So? Spill it.
While we wait? You can hit me on my iPhone or just enjoy this lovely snap I took in the dentists chair playing with CameraBag last week while waiting for the pre-numb to kick in. You’re welcome.
09 Dec 08
4:52 am
Hmmm… Where to start.
Facebook – Fantastic implementation
LinkedIn – Handy for looking up people when you just met them
Mobile Fotos – Brings Flickr to your iPhone
MPG – Keep track of your gas mileage
Evernote – Get your Evernote notes to your phone…or create them there.
NetNewsWire – RSS reader
iMapMyRide – Use your GPS to track your bike ride (same company as Maigh’s choice of iMayMyRun)
Simplify – Get your desktop’s music (or your friend’s for that matter) on your iPhone
VNC – Control your desktop from your iPhone
Pandora – Customize your own internet music station
PageOnce – Get the details of most your bills right to your phone.
— I have 4 games for my iPod, but I only play two of them —
HoldEm – Apple’s Texas Hold’em. This is pay, but it’s worth it.
Darts – Caution: An incredibly addictive dart game (and I don’t even like darts).
As you can see, I am an app junkie. This is a list of my favorites… I have many more on my phone and even more that I no longer sync to my phone. It’s sad.
And there you have it.
Joe.
09 Dec 08
1:04 pm
Okay, here’s my complete list at the moment:
Front Page:
myLite – My favorite of the flashlight apps I’ve seen
Remote – Control your iTunes on your computer with your iPhone
Ping.fm – Update a gazillion social networking sites at once
Twittelator Pro – Best Twitter app eva for iPhone
Zippo Lighter – ’nuff said
Night Stand – great clock to have next to your bed (assuming you have some sort of dock or stand for it)
Remember The Milk – to do list
Social Stuff:
Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, BrightKite, Loopt – self explanatory
I Can Has Cheezburger – Great for unexpected lines & waits
The Weather Channel, Google, Amazon – easy
Lifestyle Stuff:
Style.com, Chanel, Threads (threadless), Showtimes, Flixster, i.TV (works with Netflix), Graffitio, Last Call (tracks BAC), Espresso (reference guide), OpenTable, Grocery iQ (stellar grocery list app), GoodGuide (green product guide)
Music Fun:
Instruments — More Cowbell, MiniPiano, Rain Stick, Kazoo, DigiLite, PocketGuitar, Violin
Services — Last.fm, Simplify, Shazam, ZooBeatLite
Helpful Stuff:
Wikipanion (wikipedia to-go), Handshake (trade contact cards with other iPhone users instead of pen searching), Barcode, iTalk, AirSharing, PayPal, EasyWriter (great if you’d like a bigger keyboard!), Evernote (LOVE THIS), VNC, NYTimes, TruPhone (free calls)
Travel/Food Stuff:
Yelp, Urbanspoon, Travelocity, Expense2Go (keep track of biz expenses), BlackBook, Google Earth, GasBag (find gas prices near you), Translator, Trapster (police traps)
Fun/Photo Stuff:
Fun — Lightsaber, Hangman, Live Poker, FourFree, Fake-A-Call, Classics
Photo — PhotoSwap, Flickr (save to home screen: m.flickr.com), CameraBag, Flex PhotoLab, Exposure
** I obviously spend a lot of time on my phone
Have to take advantage of it if I’m going to spend that much on a phone! If you want more info on any of those, lemme know! *MOST* of those are free apps.
09 Dec 08
1:05 pm
And to think I left some out of there!
10 Dec 08
8:07 am
BriteKite, hmm – tried this one, but don’t use it any more decided people didn’t need to be able to actually FIND me.
LOL, I was busy hiding.
Camera Bag – the best app ever!
Night Camera – meh
Twinkle
Twitterific
TwitterFon – never use this one, like the other two quite a bit. Vary between them as Twinkle often has server issues.
Urbanspoon
Open Table
Say Who – haven’t used it yet though. broderick told me to get it.
Fring – love it! Combines all my IM clients in one.
Exposure & Charlie for flickr
PixUp – don’t like it though.
AirMe
NYTimes
Mobile News
TWC
AirportStatus
Wikipanion
LinkedIn
Simplify
Pandora
Shazam
Yelp
AAAANDD, the number one app EVER! Facebook!
Enjoy – I knew you’d come around.
10 Dec 08
8:13 am
Oh – and good list from everyone, I had no idea there was an Amazon app – downloading now.
11 Dec 08
6:44 pm
iWelcome!!
StageHand–awesome note if you give Keynote presentations
GPS Kit–instead of Map My Run/Ride
AirMe–LOVE IT
VeganYumYum–Beautiful recipes with clicky grocery lists
G-Park–Dude! I know where my car is!
Light–’cause it’s dark when I wake up
G-Spot–kinda useless with the new map update
Wikiamo
AroundMe
Stanza–book reader
VoiceNotes
SodaSnapPostcards
Where
aSleep–Good for hotels and host housing at races
Mandarian Audio Phrasebook–uh, it looked cool?
TapTap Revenge
TapTap NIN
TapTap Dance–stop laughing
Cro-Mag Racing–Peer pressured by co-worker prowess
Everest Hidden Expedition–the only game I don’t suck at
LOL Cats
Carols–b/c you may need to know the sixth verse of Oh Holy Night
Easy WiFi for ATT–told it was a must, just d-loaded
JiggleU
MeetBubble–for determining seat level-ness
More Cowbell–it’s cross season!
Tried UrbanSpoon, but if you live in the boonies, it’s not helpful.
Whew!
I may look into the Twitter aps, but then I would have to admit I was Twittering. . .