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.
- 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.
- Twittelator is my must have Twitter app. Twitterific was great, but now has intrusive ads . . . ’nuff said.
- Last.fm also gives you a Pandora-like radio experience
- AIM - of course!
- Weatherbug - so much more detail than the basic Apple weather app. Love the animated radar - a life saver in Chicago.
- Google mobile app - gives you direct access to your Google docs.
- Facebook - natch!
- Truphone - for making skype like calls to international friends for pennies.
- 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.
- 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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