IPhone
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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.... (I am not including my layout of pre-installed apps, which I have scattered across all pages listed below)
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$1.19 price point). I have also written reviews of some applications to the AppStore. offhand, I can't tell you which apps I have reviewed there
So, here are the installed apps as they appear on each page of my phone...
Before you buy anything...Please ask for clarification on my current usage of any app I list here (especially non-$free), before taking it as explicit advice for/against that app. I have purchased apps that have since found I do not use
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Nemo
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Page 1
Stuff I use regularly
- Occasions - 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
- MyBrisbane - a range of info for Brisbane folk
- iDent - a basic StatusNet client
Page 2
More or less this is overflow from page1 , just less usage.
- Gaia GPS - saves and records your movements using the builtin GPS (for iPhones with built in GPS of course)
- Moon Globe - excellent moon views. warning: 40+meg app!
- AppBox Pro - a bunch of free tiny utilities
- Shazam - identify songs (I've yet to use this)
- 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
- SketchBookX - a cool sketching app
Page 3
Stuff which isn't so useful (st.George), or is useful but only irregularly (eg: feX), or amusements.
- Alarm Clock - a "better" alarm clock than the builtin. certainly prettier
- 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
- Cell-life - a fun little Conways game of life.
- feX - facebook exchange - sync facebook data to your local contacts! (update icons, addresses and birthdays)
- 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 for which I was pretty dissapointed really.
- BigOven - recipes. Just a frontend to their site
- RFK - Robot Finds Kitten. Does NOT COMPLY to the RFK RFC. ( http://robotfindskitten.org/download/rfk-rfc/ )
- 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.
- Total Automata - cellular automata
Page 5
Redundant. These are alternate versions of apps previously noted.
- ShoutEm - Twitter/StatusNet client.
- Twittelator - Twitter client (maybe StatusNet also?)
- RSSRunner - a RSS reader
- FreeRSS - another RSS reader
- Birthday - a basic birthday reminder (I think this was free, whilst the far superior 'Occassions' was $)
- Metronome - a metronome
- musebook - another metronome
- LifeGame - another conways game of life
- NoteTakerLife - a clever way of inputting handwritten notes from the author of Visicalc. But ultimately not actually useful enough to use in preference to other note applications.
Still to get
- 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.
