I’ve been asked often recently, what apps do I run on my iPhone? Well, here are the answers below. An asterisk denotes that it’s a purchased app:
Home Page
Pretty standard stuff. I’ve rearranged some of the apps I use the most. I’ve moved Weather, Calc, Compass, Voice Recorder and YouTube into their own folder as I don’t use them that much.
Photography
- iMovie *
- Hipstamatic * – probably one of my most favourite apps. Produces fantastic aged and dated photos.
- TiltShiftGen – allows you to edit photos to give them a tilt shift lens look
- PS Mobile
- Flickr
- IncrediBooth *
- MoreLomo
- MoreMono
- MoreNoel
- SwankoLab *
- DashOfColor
- Format126
Google
- I’ve placed the Google App on the home screen. As I use this app often.
- I don’t use the native iPhone visual voicemail app. I use Google Voice instead. I’ve diverted all my calls to Google Voice so when a message is left, I get an email with a transcript. This icon links to the webapp for Google Voice.
Facebook
- I’m in this app often, so it’s on the home page.
Page Two: Social Media and Communication
- Twitter
- AudioBoo
- LinkedIn
- WebEx Meet – this actually works pretty well on web conferences
- TweetDeck
- WordPress – for blogging on the go
- Other social: Qik, Jive Social Business Software (SBS), Clique (another Twitter app)
- Skype
- Google apps folder: Google mail, Reader, Google maps (web based version), Latitude, Google News, YouTube (web based version), Google docs, Google Talk, Calendar, Tasks
- Dragon dictation
- Gowalla
- foursquare
- iMExchange * – as ActiveSync for Exchange doesn’t quite have all the functionality for over-the-air syncing right now for Out of Office, tasks, notes – I bought this app
- acrosssair – amazing 4D view of the world with Wikipedia and things like foursquare overlapped
Page Three: Current affairs, news, sport, weather, lifestyle
- BBC News app
- BBC News website link to the UK pages – this just takes you to Safari
- CNN * – a very polished news app
- Guardian newspaper * – again, another great news app. Well arranged, and you can download articles to read offline
- BBC Sport
- Sky News * – lots of video articles as well as text
- More news folder: msnbc.com, FOX News, Digg, CNBC RT, ABC News, CBSNews, NPR News, USA Today, NBC Bay Area, Metro UK, ITN News, Thomson Reuters News Pro
- More news folder (2): NYTimes, KTVU, AP Mobile, BW, Life Magazine, Wallpaper magazine, Time Mobile
- Weather folder: The Weather Channel, AccuWeather
- News fun folder: TMZ, The Onion, ONN, Dexigner
- TV: DirecTV – useful to remotely set recordings for my DVR, TV Guide, IQ+ Netflix * – let’s me control my Netflix queue remotely, PhoneFlix, Hulu Plus, i.TV
- iNews O – I’ve played with a few RSS apps, but I seem to get on best with this one
- Politics folder: Number 10, Politico, White House
- Sports folder: ESPN ScoreCenter, Golf GPS, The Open
Screen four: Miscellaneous
- Technology folder: Engadget, Wired
- Books folder: iBooks, Zinio, Kindle
- Games folder: Paper Toss, FIFA10 * – a pretty good football game, Virtuoso, Racing, SimCity * – something for long trips!, FlightControl *, LightBike2, Talking Tom, Physics, Need for Speed, Prison Escape
- Property folder: Zillow, ZipRealty, Realtor, Century 21, Redfin – this is a very polished app
- Finance folder: Square – the ability to take payments via your iPhone – there is also a device that plugs into your iPhone so you can swipe credit cards, Stocks, Mint, Finance, AT&T myWireless, Pageonce Bills, PayPal, E*Trade
- Banks folder: Chase, Wells Fargo, American Express
- Music folder: Pandora, Shazam, SoundHound, NPR Music, Remote – you can remotely control your iMac iTunes player, Slacker, Last.fm, I Am T-Pain * – I bought this just for fun – used it once, C-SPAN radio, Airband
- Reference folder: WolframAlpha * – an amazing reference app, Wikipedia, IMDB, Bing, Yelp, Yahoo, Convert Units, Google Earth – still impressed by this after many years, Dictionary
- Lifestyle folder: Zipcar – ability to rent cars off the street in the Bay Area, WebMD, Epicurious, findER
- Shopping folder: RedLaser, Apple Store, ShopSavvy, pic2shop, Walmart, Best Buy, Craigslist, Nespresso
- Utilities folder: iPass global wifi – will let me use wifi access points throughout the world through an agreement with my office, Carbonite – this lets me access all the documentation that is backed up daily in the cloud from my iMac, Speed test, Coin Free, HP iPrint – lets me print to my printer via my iPhone, VNC, Light, EMD PTE periodic table, iBattery, Converter+
- Business folder: USPS Mobile, FexEx mobile, UPS
- Navigation folder: skobbler – a great free open-source satnav program, Traffic.com, MapQuest
- Movies: Flixster, Fandango
- Travel: TripIt, VirginAtlantic, Avis, Hertz, iTranslate, My TSA, GateGuru, American
- Food & Drink folder: Starbucks, Starbucks mobile card – amazing app that lets me pay for my coffee without cash or cards, OpenTable, Pizza Hut, NatDecants wine reviews
Screen Five: Productivity/Office
- DocsToGo * – allow me to create Office files such as DOC, XLS, PPT, etc
I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to the Yobongo iPhone app trial. The app is intriguing and very addictive. It allows real-time online chat in your local area based on your GPS position, and more importantly, people and interests. It’s still in beta mode, and you need to be invited. You can sign up if you’re interested here. App screen shots are forbidden right now – sorry!
