IPhone
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...
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Applications
Note: I do not recall offhand which apps I paid for, and which were free. I have also written reviews of some applications to the AppStore. offhand, I can't tell you which apps I have reviewed there
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, but also backflow from page3. 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...