I’ve been an avid iphone user for over a year now and always have 10 pages of apps on my phone. I find that unless you download and try them, you have a hard time finding the really good ones. Here are a few of my often used favorites:
This is an incredible application. I was doing some shopping last weekend at Cabelas and ran across a lock you could use to secure the tailgate on a pickup. I took a photo of the lock in the Amazon app and in about 5 minutes, a person at Amazon looked it up and presented it in the app with pricing (10 dollars cheaper). If I so desired I could have clicked on the item and ordered it. This is wild; expect merchants to start banning smartphones in their stores very soon. By the way, it’s free.
Where would I be without Evernote? I have mentioned this before here on my blog, but Evernote is one of the very best note taking applications ever written. One of the coolest things it does is support multiple platforms; you can write a note on your iphone and then modify it on your Mac or PC in a native client or even on your Linux box using the web interface. Absolutely amazing and it’s free.
Okay, we all have to have guitly pleasures and Facebook is mine. I’ve connected with several old high school friends and keep in touch with my current friends vis this application. The iphone version is very well done and allows mobile uploads of pictures you may take with the iphone camera and it’s free.
If you use Twitter, this is becoming the standard for iphone Twitter apps. It has every feature you may need including automating the mobile picture upload process. It is $2.99.
Maps (Google Maps)
I know that this is a native iphone app, but it is still one of my absolute favorites. And they have enhanced it on the 3GS phone with compass integration so you can turn your phone and the maps will orient correctly based on your position. Very cool.
Accuweather (webapp)
The iphone has spawned a whole new class of web based applications that are build to function and look good on the iphone. One of my favorite ones is Accuweather. It has a really nice interface for radar and long range forecasts.
Craigslist has built a klunky yet usable iphone application for searching their site. It has few issues, but all in all it makes the process fairly painless. It is free.
This app was one of the first real time sports score reporting applications for the iphone and I am still using it today. It provides updates for all major sports including pro and college. It is free.
This has been a guitar playing lifesaver for me. It has about every chord you can physically play on the guitar listed with easy lookup. I’ve tried a bunch of these iphone apps and this is my favorite. It is $1.99 and is well worth it.
Now if you are not a Mac user you may not be excited about this application but if you are, it is one of the very best password vault applications I have ever used. It does a great job of syncing your passwords between your mac and iphone as well as even completing web forms on the iphone with the passwords. It is $4.99 on the iphone, and $39.95 on the mac.
Later,
matt
