IPhone

Revision as of 12:50, 16 December 2009

So I recently purchased an iPhone...

This page will become a general review of the iPhone, with intent for it to then be published to ThorxBlog.

First however, the apps I have installed and use, in approximate order of use and function....

Applications

Note: I mostly do not recall offhand which apps I paid for, and which were free (I allow myself to 'umpulse buy' any app at the AUD$1.19 price point). I have also written reviews of some applications to the AppStore. offhand, I can't tell you which apps I have reviewed there

So, here are the installed apps as they appear on each page of my phone...

Page 1

Stuff I use regularly

• Gaia GPS - saves and records your movements using the builtin GPS (for iPhones with built in GPS of course)
• Occassions - awesome remindering of upcoming birthdays and events. Syncs data from facebook also.
• Google RSS - if google reader is your RSS reader of choice, this is a good front end to it :)
• Echofon - good Twitter client
• facebook - facebook client is good.
• Awesome Note - this is very excellent.
• AppGmail - better for gmail than the builtin. shows gmail conversation view

Page 2

More or less this is overflow from page1 (ie: good stuff, just not used much), it's also backflow from page3 (eg, not so good stuff, which I'd like to find a replacement for). And also, apps I'm still testing

• AppeBox Pro - a bunch of free tiny utilities
• Shazam - identify songs (I've yet to use this)
• Alarm Clock - a "better" alarm clock than the builtin. certainly prettier
• Frotz - infocom text adventure gaming! :D
• Stanza - eBook reader.
• iSSH - ssh client
• wikiHOW - frontend to wikihow. Caches survival guides locally
• Solstice - sunrise and sunset positions. Oddly, NOT solstice dates and times!
• TimeLapse - a timelapse app
• FotoTimerLE - another timelapse app
• Gorillacam - another timelapse app
• iDent - a poor StatusNet client
• SketchBookX - a cool sketching app
• MyBrisbane - a range of info for Brisbane folk

Page 3

Stuff which isn't so useful (st.George), or is useful but only irregularly (eg: feX), or amusements.

• TouchCalc - excellent scientific calculator. I installed this before I discovered that the regular calc is scientific in landscape mode
• RotaryDialer - retro style dialer. just for fun
• St.George - not as good as it should be
• iTick - metronome
• HeartBeat - count heartbeats (or any beats - effectively a reverse metronome)
• Speedtest - measure your internet speed
• iFractal - Mandelbrot and Julia set browser
• feX - facebook exchange - sync facebook data to your local contacts! (update icons, addresses and birthdays)
• LifeGame - Conways game of life
• Totalpong - classic pong
• wordpress - a bit buggy, though useable, I think. I don't use it at the moment though.
• NASA - a bunch of NASA info

Page 4

Stuff which was dissapointing really, and/or I have alternate versions installed elsewhere

• BigOven - recipes. Just a frontend to their site
• RSSRunner - a RSS reader
• FreeRSS - another RSS reader
• Birthday - a basic birthday reminder (I think this was free, whilst the far superior 'Occassions' was $)
• RFK - Robot Finds Kitten. Does NOT COMPLY to the RFK RFC. ( http://robotfindskitten.org/download/rfk-rfc/ )
• Metronome - a metronome
• musebook - another metronome
• Flickr - the official flickr app. geotagging is broken for uploading, but it's great to view your friends image stream
• Flickd - geotagging works for uploads, but does not resize.

Still to get

• Moon - a decent moon app. There is a free one which is 40+ meg that I intend to get when I have decent connection
• A decent app to give me astronomical times (sun/moon rise/set times, solstices, equinoxes, phases of the moon, etc) All to the MINUTE please. Note that the 'moon' app mentioned previously should give me the moon information at least...