My Favorite iPhone apps, Sep 2009
Posted by rae in General
at 3:49 pm on Monday, 7 September 2009
at 3:49 pm on Monday, 7 September 2009
My Favorite iPhone Apps, Sep 2009
The iPhone Facebook app (free) is pretty good. The recent update has seen its UI overhauled, very much for the better.There are still things you cannot do with the iPhone app, but for most things it’s just fine.
“Now Playing” (free) is the best app for movies. With it you can find what’s playing near you, at what time, and what score it has on Rotten Tomatoes. It has the phone numbers for theatres, and a Google Maps link to show you where they are.One feature I appreciate is that it shows you DVDs as well. You can restrict this to show you only Blu-rays, so I find it handy to find out what’s coming out on Blu-ray this week.
“Stanza” (free) — recently acquired by Amazon — is the best text/book-reading app. It comes with built-in links for downloading classics like “Pride & Prejudice”, “War of the Worlds”, and others to your Stanza library.You can adjust font size, and the page turning is nicely done. It also works in portrait mode.
“WeatherEye” *(free) is my favorite weather app. It doesn’t have the fancy graphs and graphics ofr “MyWeather”, but I find it’s short- and long-term forecasts very useful.
”TouchTerm” (free) and “VNC” (free and $$ versions) kind of go together, because they’re somewhat geeky. I dunno. But they are very good.VNC struggles a bit when I view my dual-24″ monitor desktop. It tells me it is getting short on memory. I persevere though, and I haven’t head it crash on me.
TouchTerm is nice to have so you can ssh in to anywhere you like … except your iPhone. *sigh.
“eBuddy” (free) seems to hold the crown currently for multi-protocol IM app. It supports “push” notifications, but only stays connected for a maximum of 30 minutes. The AIM iPhone app, by contrast, stays online for 24 hours without your having to run the app once during that time.Now iPhones can save websites as “app-like” icons on your screen, and I have a few favorite sites that I do this for.
”Google Latitude” is a way to share your up-to-the-minute (but not second!) location with friends. This is very handy when you’re supposed to meet up with people somewhere. When I’m driving I just start it up and leave it running.Beware, however: the frequent access to the GPS necessitated by Latitude can drain the battery somewhat. It’s best using it when it’s plugged in (in your car, for example).
I use http://ping.fm/m to update all my various micro-blogs like Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, etc. It’s a one-stop spew shop. 
You can also set it up to do real blog posts etc, but this mobile-based web page isn’t suitable for that. How much can you type into a single, one-line text input box?
I’m curious to see how this is formatted on http://clith.posterous.com since I’ve used float alignments to float the inline pictures to the left or right of the paragraphs..
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