iPhone, what apps do you use.

[acropolite (Phil)]

OK I couldn't resist, just got an iPhone, what apps do you use and what apps would you consider "must have" downloads??

Also any tips would be gratefully recieved, we Technicians are notorious for not reading manuals....

[Octane (Humayun)]

Allrecipes AU - recipe suggester
ABC - optimised site for iPhone
APOD - NASA's official APOD app for the iPhone
AroundMe - using GPS, shows you what's around (food, entertainment, etc.)
AusPostcode
BigOven - recipe suggester
BOMRadar - shows the radar loop for your location (and others you can choose from a list)
CashFlowFree - simple spreadsheet
Chronometer - awesome app with loads of different watch faces and different complications -- excellent for astronomy
CommBank - link for NetBank
Currency - XE's iPhone app
Domino's - one of the best app's for the iPhone -- Chris got me onto this
eBay - official eBay app
FREE Wi-Fi - using GPS locates the nearest free wireless Internet hotspot
Google
Google Earth
GPSLite - a way cool GPS application -- excellent for orienteering
HeyWAY - Hey Where Are You Now? At the press of a button you can send your location to someone else, and request their location; shown on Google maps
iHandy Level - inclinometer and bubble level
Mapkats - shows you where parking inspectors are lurking
myConvert - awesome conversion utility
NASA - official NASA app
OneTap - using GPS, locates your nearest cinema and shows you what's on, and, at what time, with links to watch trailers
PayPal - official PayPal app
Planets - very cool app which shows the locations of planets and their visibility -- now has a 3D mode
PS Mobile - Photoshop on the iPhone
QuotaLite - after you've provided your account information, you can keep track of how much data/calls you've used up
RunKeeper - an excellent fitness application which charts your running, cycling, walking, etc., and overlays the data over Google maps; you can log in and share your activities with others and monitor your fitness progress
Road Trip - an excellent app which I use daily to keep track of how much petrol I've used and trips I've made, servicing performed on car, etc., and it also draws charts and graphs your fuel economy
Shazam - this is awesome; press "Tag", it listens to a song that might be playing on the radio, television or even in a shopping centre; after ten seconds it sends the recorded snippet off and returns with the artist, song, the album it's from, and a host of other links to more information and YouTube video of the track
SixPack App - an excellent fitness app which allows you to find exercises and keep a record/log of your activities
SkyGazer - a cut down SkyVoyager
SkyVoyager - an excellent planetarium application; you can point the iPhone around in the sky and it will show you what you're looking at
Stanza - en eBook reader -- has hooks into Project Gutenburg
Take Me To My Car - park your car, load the application, mark your spot, go do whatever it is you're having to do; if you get lost, load the application up, and it will direct you to your car
Trapster - phenomenal application relying on the wonder of distributed computing over the 'net; as you drive along, it will alert you to where the speed cameras, red light cameras, combo cameras, hidden police units, etc., and give you ample warning. If they're there, you vote them up, if not, vote them down. If you find any of these items that aren't already being broadcast, you can report your own by tapping on the screen and choosing the relevant item
VNC - remote computing
White Pages - official White Pages app
Wikipedia - official Wikipedia app
X-Plane Extreme - awesome flight simulator, uses the accelerometer of the phone to fly the aircraft; can even fly others over Bluetooth
Yellow Pages - official Yellow Pages app
Envivo Tennis - daily tennis news, calendar, upcoming events, etc.

I didn't list any games in there, but, for a fun time, try Geodefence.

Plus 140,000-odd more on iTunes.

H

[allan gould]

Starmap pro. CAll me a minimalist

[kustard (Simon)]

That's a lot of apps there Humayun!

I have a few as well but these are the ones I use most:

• Quota - Let's you monitor various usages ie ISP, Phone, Tolls, etc.
• ABC - News site.
• Weather - This one comes with the iPhone.
• BomRadar - (Written by a good friend of mine).
• eBay
• Facebook
• NASA
• Battery - monitors battery usage.
• Forums - Let's you view forum based websites, like IIS and Whirlpool.
• Snarl Traffic - View traffic reports and RTA cameras.
• iSSH - SSH client, useful for me to log into my work servers.
• FlowChat - IRC client.
• ST.George & Westpac - iPhone banking apps.
• Foxtel Guide - Great for setting up your IQ/IQ2 on the go.
• SoundHound - I prefer it over Shazam, but Shazam is just as good.
• mSecure - a password safe for your important stuff, can be synced with your computer.
• FlashFiles - Allows you to share files between the iPhone and your computer.
• NoteTaker - Write freehand notes.
• Level - Spirit level.
• PCalc - A really useful scientific calculator, great for programmers.
• Armory - A World of Warcraft app *go the addiction!*
• Dicenomicon - An electronic dice app for when playing D&D.

As for astronomy apps, I have:

• Compass - iPhone compass.
• SkyVoyager
• Starmap Pro
• pUniverse
• Planets
• iMoon
• Moon Atlas
• Mars Atlas

The only game I have is a port of Dragon's Lair.

Not all those apps are free, especially the astronomy ones.

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Originally Posted by kustard

The only game I have is a port of Dragon's Lair.

Try Dark Nebula - addictive and only $1.19

[acropolite (Phil)]

Thanks guys, I think I'll start with Starmap pro.

[allan gould]

The latest version of planets has rotating spheres for the planets (earth, mars, mercury, venus - etc) and the moon. Very cool

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

In addition to the standard 3GS iPhone apps as loaded, I've gone somewhat "minimalist".....

Aera
Allrecipes.com.au Dinner Spinner
Angle
Anonymous Web Browser
Apollo 11: The Game
Astronomy Torch
Audiobook-Treasure Island
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Oxford Dictionary
Australian Postcodes
BeatMaker
Bento FileMaker
BOMRadar
Camera Zoom 2
Clock Radio!
ColorSplash
Convert (Unit Converter by PBF)
Convertbot — The Amazing Unit Converter
Currency Exchange
Darkness - Sun, Moon
WordWeb English Dictionary
Digital Clock
Documents To Go®
Domain.com.au
Domino's Pizza Enterprises Limited
EAT. Sydney - Sydney dining guide
eBay Mobile
eCurrency - Currency Converter
Emerald Chronometer
Facebook
Find My Car
Free Wi-Fi Finder
FTP On The Go
Galaxy Collider
Geared
Google Earth
Google Mobile App
HDR Camera
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Home Delivery & Takeaway Menulog
HP 12C Financial Calculator
i41CX RPN Calculator
iEphemeris Pro
iKana touch
iSecret
iSSH - SSH / VNC Console
iStellar
Jaadu Remote Desktop for Windows
Kindle for iPhone
Layers
LCD Clock - Clock & Calendar
Linux Cheat Sheet
LookUP
Mobile Maps Australia & New Zeal…
MobileNavigator Australia
Moon Atlas
Moon Globe
Moon Map Pro
Mortgage Saver - Home Loan Calculator
MotionX GPSMyst Myst Cyan Worlds
NASA App
Nebula Clock
Nikon D40 Guide
Noise.io™ Pro Synth
Now Playing
On The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin
Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy
Oz Geodesy
Oz Weather
Perpetuum - Moon Phases
Pocket Data - SQLite Database
Pocket Tunes Radio
Pocket Universe: Virtual Sky Astro
Pocket Weather AU
pTerm - SSH, Telnet Client
Ragdoll Blaster - A Physics Puzzler
Roget's II: New Thesaurus
Shazam
Shazam Encore
Shopping List Helper
Shopping List Lite
SketchBook MobileX
SkyORB
SkyScan
SkyVoyager
Snarl Traffic
Speedtest.net
SqlSchool
Star Walk - 5 stars astronomy guide
Starmap Pro
TakAlign
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
Tips & Tricks - iPhone Secrets
TouchTerm Pro SSH
Trails - GPS tracker
TripView Sydney
Urbanspoon
Vector Tanks
Where To? - GPS points of interest
White Pages Australia
wikiHow: How to and DIY Survival
Wikipanion
Wikipedia Mobile
X-Plane Airliner
X-Plane Apollo
X-Plane-Trainer
Yellow Pages Australia
3-Axis Plum Bob
12C Lite RPN Business Calculator
12C Platinum ALG/RPN Calculator
20 Minute Meals - Jamie Oliver
170,000 Recipes - BigOven
200 Great Books

[Davros (Lauren)]

Wow there is even a Takalign app. Now i just need a Tak mount.

[acropolite (Phil)]

I've just loaded Tapatalk, one word........ fantastic. I've downloaded but yet to try Starmap pro.

[acropolite (Phil)]

A bit of a bump here, I've loaded many of the suggestions, and found a couple of extra apps, one is Navionics Marine, a Marine GPS chart program complete with tide predictions, equivalent GPS charts cost hundreds of dollars, the app just $14.99

Thanks Chris for the Pocket weather au tip, absolutely fantastic.

I also installed Runkeeper Free as suggested by Humayan, I was so impresssed I decided to pay for the full version.

Another interesting app I found was Columbia WhatKnot, a how to on knot tying.

I had a recommendation from one of our suppliers to try Acrobits Wi-Fi softphone. It's a Wi-Fi/3Gdata SIP phone. I can confirm it works with Engin and other sip providers (tried it today with some parameters from one of our SIP trunking PABX's), it can also be used as a sip phone extension on an IP capable PABX.

[Tilt (Michael)]

Another one for Starmap Pro

[Analog6 (Odille)]

I don't use many, they eat into the data charges to quick (I am prepaid). Can anyone tell me how you take them OFF?

I did purchase Sygic GPS for Aust & NZ and it is great and just $59.99. And once you've downloaded the maps it does not use any data at all.

Is starmap pro 'offline' or does it chew through your data $$?

[Octane (Humayun)]

Odille,

Rather than download the apps via your phone, use iTunes and use your Internet connection to download the apps. If you have a wireless network at home, connect to that and use that to download the apps. Then, run a sync in iTunes and it'll install the app for you.

Planetarium software will not use any data, as all the skymaps and objects are built-in.

To uninstall, connect to iTunes, go to the Apps link on the left. It will now bring up icons for all your apps. Simply right-click and delete (or uninstall, I can't remember).

Hope this helps.

H

[Louwai (Bryan)]

NONE !!!!!

I don't have an iphone

[Satchmo]

Originally Posted by Louwai

NONE !!!!!

I don't have an iphone

So why do you respond to this thread ?

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

To answer the earlier criticisms concerning enterprise-level security and multitasking... OS 4.0 is nearly here.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/preview-iphone-os/

It's a pretty long review of some of the new (100's) features, but is well worth the watch. I think that Blackberry had better watch out in the business sector.

[Satchmo]

I love my Ipod Touch but I will not take this Apple device 100% seriously until they allow Java and Flash applets top run on my Ipod web browser. So many things I use on the internet , like ABC Iview and Online Chess use Java and flash ...I would love to use these on my IPOD . Its advertised as being a full blown net capable, but that is far from the truth .

( Just a minor whinge to make my 1000th post )

[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

I believe that the major reason Flash is not part of the iPhone, Mark, is because Apple place a huge priority on it being a fast, stable and unique user experience. In an effort to protect this I guess that they forbid third-parties to use non-Apple APIs such as Flash to develop apps because then they cannot guarantee known quality to their user base. I can see the business sense in it, if not the practical. Adobe Flash is a pretty stable platform these days, so maybe one day.

Apple's developer agreement forces developers to write high quality applications that look and feel like Apple software. After all, Apple doesn't want the iPad to look like any other tablet, or the iPhone to look like any other phone, and it certainly doesn't want its customers to believe that its own products perform poorly as a result of third party software or tools.

The software company that Mike Salway works for develops for iPhone, and I'm just taking my company down that route too. I've just been pouring over the rules and regs today and there are many. Apple runs a tight ship and does not want bad code running around because the phone would obviously suffer in popularity if apps started failing all over the place. As a developer, I would certainly not want to see my own app out there clashing with something that wasn't up to scratch. External API's not under the control of Apple are a risky thing to Apple. One thing that the Macintosh has always had the luxury of is a very stable OS and application suite because of this very mantra.

[Satchmo]

Originally Posted by Omaroo

I believe that the major reason Flash is not part of the iPhone, Mark, is because Apple place a huge priority on it being a fast, stable and unique user experience.

I think the market is mature enough to distinguish a software crash due to an online accessed program Java or Flash , and a native Apple application. I'm very disappointed with the poor compatability of my Ipod Touch with the interenet. I think Apple are just keeping an incredibly tight reign on control over what the punters have running on their machines. I will never buy a Mac , but the Ipod/Iphone hasd enough going for it for me to dabble