iPhone

[mikekn]

So after much reading and app browsing, I decided to pick up an iPhone. I stopped at the Apple store last Thursday, but the folks there said they had too many customers and not enough staff to help me, and could I please come back as early as possible the next day? So I went home and later ordered the phone on-line (wouldn't want to add to their problems at the store by trying to buy something there...)

Today it shipped from China, and it should arrive on Thursday. Meanwhile, I've got a list of about 60 apps to look at in more detail when it gets here. :)

If you've got an opinion or an app to add, here is the list:
BoardGameGeek
HanDBase Database Manager
Evernote
Pandora Radio
Bejeweled 2
Midomi Ultra / Shazam?
Fandango
Ocarina
eBay Mobile
Dictionary.com
Facebook
Yelp
Loopt
Tweetie?
Labyrinth
QuickOffice?
Sol Free Solitaire
Sudoku (free)
Wikipanion
IM+ with Push
Drink & Cocktail recipes
Settledown
Snappr?
Dice Bag
Munchkin Level Counter
Amazon.com
Snap Tell
Flixster
Google
LiveJournal
Darkslide
Tetsuki
WildWest
Urbanspoon
Yowza!!
Skype
Google Earth
MachDice
Nearby
NPR Addict
Shakespeare
B&N Bookstore
AroundMe
Fnorder
iHandly Level
RjDj
Simplify Music 2
Whrrl
Zippo Lighter
Stanza
BookShelfLT
eReader
Eucalyptus
NeoReader
Wattpad
TwitterFon
Simply Tweet
Twittelator
Twitteriffic

Comments

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

I don't like either the LJ or the FB apps at all. I pretty much don't follow FB on my phone and do LJ through Safari.

Free Apps I use frequently:

Unblock Me (free...there's a pay version, too with more levels)
WeatherBug
BBCReader
iTV
AIM
Pandora

I also recommend Labyrinth, though I don't use it often, because it's just plain neat.

Non-Free Apps I liked enough to buy and would buy again:
ListOmni - to do lists and such, there are more expensive ones that sync to computers/the web, but this one does everything I need, which none of the free ones did.

Wurdle - it's basically Boggle.

[mikekn]

Cool - I've added Unblock Me, WeatherBug and iTV to my list :) I'm going to see how the all-in-one IM apps are before trying a single service app.

iPhone

[seoanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Mike,

Please let me know what you think of the iPhone. My MotoQ is on it's way out the door (electronically speaking) and my research has led me in the same direction as you. I would love to here your opinion once you actually have it in your hands to play with.

-C

Re: iPhone

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

I'll be happy to let you play with mine, I drank the koolade about a week ago. It's incapable of downloading stuff from the web, but does a lot very well.

Re: iPhone

[mikekn]

Will do. I'll have it with me at Pennsic, though I'm going to try and keep myself from playing with it the whole time...

[mare-in-flames.livejournal.com]

Let's see, what apps have I got that I like?
Accufuel (for calculating gas mileage on both vehicles)
Who Is Hot (Wundeerground's weather app)
TWC (The Weather Channel's weather app - more willing to do hourly forecasts, but Wunderground's radar is better)
Shazam (the music detector. CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT IT!!!)
Fandango (nice to have.)
Public Radio (YAY)
Allrecipes and Epicurious (recipe lookups and fun recipe stuff.)
Dice Bag (I can't not.)
Enigmo (I love this game!!)
FiatLux (has come in useful more than you might think.)

Those are the ones I actually like and recommend.

[alricthemad.livejournal.com]

Don't forget iLightSaber
if you get loopt, let me know.

I wonder how good it will work locating others at Pennsic

[iheronimus.livejournal.com]

Also look at Radarscope - you can tap into regional weather radar anywhere in the country. It was very helpful tracking the storm last Friday evening from SRWC (the worst part of it passed by to the North).

Also fun:

Planets
Yi Jing
Altitude (GPS-based altimeter)
FiatLux

[elbamoonraven.livejournal.com]

I second Tweetie.

Blocked is a really good, cheap puzzle game. I'm stuck on level 64, though.

[mikekn]

Heh. I was looking at Blocked in the iTunes store and noticed a link for a hint to level 64 (seems lots of folks are getting stuck there).
http://www.tiptopworkshop.com/blocked/help/64

Looks to be the same type of game as Unblock Me which you may want to check out (if you haven't already)

[elbamoonraven.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!

I looked into HeyWAY, but Curtis says that you can send anyone your location via the already integrated google maps, so I'm not sure what the benefit of the app is over that.

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

The two apps I most love are

HeyWAY; allows me to let specific people know where I am physically ( let baavgai know where I am when a call or text is not appropriate )
Both phones need the app.


BUMP; allows me to trade information I select to the other BUMPer, both need the app.
Mine is set up to give SCA name, SCA email, and my phone number.

Other helpful ones are

Speed Dial 1-4; self explanatory

Pic2shop; bar code scanner

I have not paid for an app to date, there are enough free ones to cover what I'm interested in for the most part. However, I'd like one to group my contacts by context.

[baavgai.livejournal.com]

You will be assimilated...

iFractal, Lightsaber, Mancala FSS, iTunnel

For serious:

Getting files on and off the iPhone is difficult by design. If you don't like iTunes ( I hate it ), there are a variety of off brand ways of transferring files, albeit not usually to the certified area where music, pictures and videos live.

Wifi HD is shamefully bad.

Files looks good, but Files Lite is cripple ware.

FileAid uses ftp as a protocol, seems to have everything Files has, and is free.

The amount of public domain literature that's sold is also embarrassing. I transfered a PDF and an HTML work from Project Gutenberg. The PDF read fine, but HTML was just as good, scaled better, and had a table of contents that worked. These were readable in FileAid.

I used mencoder to make an m4v video that played correctly as well.

[eb-2point0.livejournal.com]

I've had my iPhone for a few days. Got hooked on playing Crack the Code and bought it since the free version was too easy. Paper Toss can be fun. I have PhoneFlicks for my Netflix queue - not sure if I like it, but works in a pinch if I need to reorder my queue.

I'll have to check out some of the suggestions you and your readers have listed.