So I Am Going To The Darkside..I am Getting An IPhone…And I Need Your Help.
Yes, its true. I give. You win. It is time for me to buy an IPhone.
If you have been reading my blog for a while you may recall this post, I wrote called “The New IPhone Is Coming And I Don’t Care..”at my old site. So does this make me a hypercrite? Knocking the IPhone last year and now going out and buying one? Well, I would like to think not. I made a bad call. I have been known on occasion to make bad calls. You know, pick the wrong horse. Go “All In” with the the wrong hand. Some notable wrong moves I have made are (I’ll share them in list form, as people like lists.”:
-I liked New Coke
-I not only paid to see “Howard The Duck“, after the movie I immediately went out and bought the soundtrack at Tower Records
-I thought the Sony Betamax was going to be huge
-Loved the Arch Deluxe ( hey the lettuce was crisp and cold, and the hot was hot)
So that being said you get that I have been known to make some slight mistakes.
I plan to atone for this by getting a 3rd gen IPhone on Friday. I need to get involved with “applications”. They are just too powerful for me to ignore. I want to start using them. Making my life easier. I want info at a touch…. and to watch “The Office” while I am at the kids baseball games.
So, the point of this blog is not to share with you that in the ’80′s I was eating an Arch Deluxe, drinking a New Coke and watching Howard The Duck. It is to ask for your help.
As a “newbie” to the IPhone, I need to know what applications I should be using. What applications are the “Got to have”? Some applications I have been told to consider by Jeff Podraza are:
Tweetie – 1 of 2 great Twitter apps $2.99
TweetStack 1 of 2 great Twitter apps $2.99 (This is my favorite works with Tweetdeck if you use it)Skype for iPhone
Beejive – costly (15.99) But love the instant message interface.
Lonely Planet San Francisco City guide normally 15.99 free during WWDC so grab it fast. (still free as of the 15th)
Searchme – this is a visual and media search engine
Evernote – great way to save information and sync with a desktop application
i.TV – I like this as you can integrate your Netflix account and Tivo
One Connect from Yahoo
Google
Yelp
Amazon (I use it a lot for price comparison)
Sea food Watch – from Monterey Bay Aquarium
AOL Radio – I love the comedy radio stations and 80′s stuff
Pandora
Shazam (hold it to a radio, when you want to identify a song)
Reader by Enormego (2.99 but allows for Google reader importing)
ABC News
Huffington Post
The Weather Channel
Ny Times – allows for offline reading
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
NPR
Public Radio
Flight Control – best 99 cents I spent on a challenging but simple addictive game
Lexel word - game was free but worth paying for if not
Kindle for iPhone – From Amazon
eReader – From Barnes and Noble
What IPhone applications do you recommend and can not live with out? Are there some on this list you disagree with?
Thanks for your help!
The 3rd Gen is better so you can be forgiven for saying that last year
Facebook app also …
Michelle
gotcha
I like TweetDeck as my preferred Twitter app
If you're on Facebook the Facebook app is a must
The Weather Channel is great if you need to know what happening with weather (the apple weather app is ok but doesn't give you anything beyond current conditions)
If your bank has an online banking app, I would get it. I love the CitiBank app, I can do anything from my phone.
Remote is a great app if you use iTunes to play your music at home or in the office.
If you want to track your calories, Lose It is a good app.
thanks.. Ill try that one!
I agree with most of the ones you listed.
I also think the following are great:
• Birdhouse – multi-account Twitter notepad.
• Things – Companion to Things.app
• Propina – Tip & split calculator
• nin:access – if you ♥ NIN, you need this app
• Brushes – AMAZING drawing app, with a great companion app, Brushes Viewer.app
• Convertbot – well designed conversion tool
• Yoga – get your asanas down
• iBird Yard – bird figurer-outer
• Fandango
• Skype – Free calls while on wifi connection
• Scoops – fun game!
• Katamari – super fun game!
• Peggle – engaging game
• Ocarina – one of the biggest wow-factor apps
Great list! Thank you. Im all over Skype
My country just launch the 1st generation iPhone on Mac09. I'm still waiting for the iPhone 3GS to be here!
wow if you just got 1st gen..it may be a long wait!
I am using the following:
Twitterfon pro – multiple account management
WiFitrack – better hotspot finder than the integrated one.
Wordpress- quick and dirty posting
Flixster – AWESOME application if you are a movie lover – shows you movies in theaters near you etc.
Instapaper – if you are using their web service
TED – need I say more?
Yelp
VNC
iShoot – love this game and its music.
with wordpress you can post to your blog?
yes – works very well.
iWant & Urbanspoon are great for when you are out & about & need to find something. I use Urbanspoon to try out new restaurants.
thank you
Not all these are "can't live without," but all are worth checking out . . . (almost all are free!)
Flixster – for movie listings
Urbanspoon – fun interface for searching for a restaurant
Sticher – VERY cool; like Pandora for Podcasts
Where
Beer Pong – brush up on my skills for Krissy's next party
HP iPrint – is cool if you have a HP printer
iHandy level – Google Earth
iPint
Zippo Lighter
ColorSplash – fun
Free is good! Very good! Beerpong..nice
Congrats. Dave. Here is what I have going right now.
Vlingo- Free Version
Surf Report- Free-Oakley- Surfline
Mail/Exchange Active Sync-
Noble Paths -2 bucks
Facebook- Free
Virtues- 2 bucks
wow everyone likes vlingo! Need to look that up
It could have been worse. Instead of Howard the Duck, it could have been Ishtar.
Personally I am unwilling to give up my Verizonness, so I will wait another 10 or 14 months until the iphone is available via Verizon.
In the interim I must get along with my Windows Mobile 5.0 Palm Treo, which isn't nearly as sexy or hip.
My AT&T Tilt is not sexy either. I just want the applications.. its time.
Ocarina is an amazing app. When you take out your phone and turn it into a flute, it leaves peoples jaw-dropping.
Koi-Pond is great as my 4 year old likes playing with the fish.
I miss my phone (3GS coming Friday!)
Jeff
okay added both those. cant wait to try flute
I quite like these:
Kindle 4 Iphone. (Found many free books that I'm enjoying again)
Lose It!
Tweetie
Facebook
GeoTweeter
ForkFly (portland, Oregon only)
Google
Todo (Love Todo)
DiggIt
Skype
LinkedIn
WifiTrack
GoogleEarth
MyWireless (your ATT accoount)
Flixter (what movies are playing, where, showtimes)
Pandora
USA Today
NYTimes
HuffPost
and my game of choice LuxDLX (risk like game)
Just grabbed Kindle, FB and Tweetie.. ready to go Friday!
I am all about free apps, as long as they work well enough. Here's what I mainly use (free version):
Facebook
TwitterFon
Stanza (eBook reader)
WordPress
Evernote
eBay
HanDBase
i.TV
fring (IM app)
I'm sure there would be a LOT more but I am using an iPod Touch, not an iPhone. If I had an iPhone I would use a bunch of location based apps as well.
BTW, using Google Reader for RSS. Did I mention PAGES of games?
Hope that helps ya
RSS for google. Thats what I was wondering! Awesome.. I can use my RSS reader
I second the vote for remote — works great especially if you have an airport express tied in to stereo/powered speakers
Shopper keeps all my shopping lists straight and will notify you when you are near the store
Couch to 5k is working well for me too better than the podcasts as you get to listen to your own music!
enjoying going through your list — found a few I will have to try!
Penny
If you are a baseball fan, get MLB.com. It rocks!
I am and I did! Thanks
Like Darren, I have an iPod Touch, not an iPhone (I just went through all of this buying the Pre last week … which I LOVE, but that's another story). So, a few things:
(A) Hypocrite (you're always after people to correct your spelling, so …
(B) Tweetie is a great little app, though I don't much care for the way it handles retweets.
(C) Facebook, natch (can't live without that one).
(D) Urban Spoon is far and away my favorite app for fun; great interface and great for finding new places to eat
(E) Pandora is AWESOME. Best music app there is. You MUST get that.
(F) Kindle
(G) I would be remiss if I didn't give a plug for Battle Shock, developed by my clients @LunaSeaGames. It's really fun … and just $0.99!
Hope you didn't have to wait in line TOO long the other day!!
Hypocrite I love it! But I cant find it
Great idea Dave. I can't wait until Friday. What to get first? How long to learn? Oy veh.
There's also a mosquito app that actually repels mosquitoes via sonar. Good for living here in the southeast.
Mosquito app, Come on? No way
Here's my must-have list, not sorted to any specific order.
Yelp
Wordpress
Skype
Google
Groceries
Mint.com
1Password
Evernote
TwitterFon
(SimplyTweet is also nice)
Omnifocus
Bento
Keynote Remote
LinkedIn
Public Radio (tuner)
Air Sharing
Google Earth
Last.fm
an, if you're a Go player…
Aya Go
Enjoy the new toy!
Congrats on the new purchase. I think most of the people have made some great suggestions. My favorites are:
Facebook
Flixter – easiest way to look up movie showtimes and find out about movies/watch previews – you can also rate and use Facebook Connect to post ratings/comments
AP – I use NY Times and WSJ apps too, but I'm really looking forward to the upcoming version that wil take advantage of push technology
Google – for quick access to all the google services, plus the voice search is pretty neat
Skype – I definitely use this all the time to make free calls to Canada – as it works with my existing Skype plan
GroceryIQ – for shopping lists
Accuweather – the new version released yesterday is a big improvement over the last, and I use this or Weather Channel app daily.
Howard the Duck FTW!
Didn't see a mention of Brightkite for the iPhone. I use it all the time.
Okay, weeks later and pretty much everyone of my apps is covered already, but a new one I am trying is called DocScanner. It takes a photo of documents — very James Bond. A bit pricey, but useful. I love Tweetie, Evernote and OmniFocus.