IPhone

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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...
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