Robb Montgomery

I have my Scottish ancestors to thank for being this tight, but I am only interested in the free apps. Here is my top 10 list of free applications currently on my iPhone.

1. Pandora on the iPhone is amazing. It makes your iPhone into a commercial-free transistor radio, in a sense. Perfect for the towel on sand at Brighton, or North Avenue Beach.
2. Twittelator is my must have Twitter app. Twitterific was great, but now has intrusive ads . . . ’nuff said.
3. Last.fm also gives you a Pandora-like radio experience
4. AIM - of course!
5. Weatherbug - so much more detail than the basic Apple weather app. Love the animated radar - a life saver in Chicago.
6. Google mobile app - gives you direct access to your Google docs.
7. Facebook - natch!
8. Truphone - for making skype like calls to international friends for pennies.
9. BA Flights - to track real time flight info for British Airways flights I or friends might be taking. (Hello, American Airlines - get with the program, people . . ) Would also love it if Kayak or Sidestep offered a native app, too.
10. Translators: The free Coolgorilla talking phrases apps include text and audio translations for common phrases in German, French, Spanish and Italian.

Ich verstehe nur bahnhof . . .
One more fave is the Apple Remote app that let’s you control your mac’s Tunes player with your iPhone. This one is creepy cool.

The one app to make this a baker’s dozen will be the forthcoming Wordpress native app that will allow me to post and edit my blogs from my iPhone.

On the wish list
First would be a version of Flickr where I could view photos and sets and also upload geotagged photos.
Second would be a del.icio.us app that let me view, sort, search and push bookmarks around or do something I haven’t thought of yet . .
Third would be a Scribd mobile app.

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