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Cool iPhone Apps. What Do You Have?
Ian Halperin, Photographer
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Plano(Dallas) | TX | USA | Posted: 12:49 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> So I have an iPhone. The apps are endless, ranging from the practical (mileage tracker, news trackers) to the silly (Air Hockey, Lightsaber).
What are your "must haves" and "just for funs"?
I added Showtimes, 300 Bowl, Air Hockey and Harmonica. |
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Rich Cruse, Photographer
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Laguna Niguel | CA | USA | Posted: 12:53 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> Speed- it uses the GPS to tell you how fast you are going. Works in the car, but it won't work for walking. It should work for running.
I like Where because it finds your location and can show you where Starbuck's are. ;-) |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Live HVN : Work SFO-NYC | | | Posted: 1:01 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> I won't mention the on going series of the iPhone App of the Week at http://www.flyingwithfish.com , because I'd rather not be obnoxious or be accused of blatant self promotion.....however while ago I was given an 'original iPhone,' immediately before the release of the 3G, with one simple set of instructions "turn it into a viable tool for travelers."
So far I have reviewed the following favourably
Travelocity
If Found
Lonely Planet Mandarin Audio Phrasebook
Locly
Currency
Coolgorilla's Talking French Phrasebook
FAA Wait
TSA Wait
A Free Level
A few others I am working on are Where, iWant, Flashlight, How Fast and some others.
I have not found any photo Apps that I like yet. |
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Allen Murabayashi, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 1:25 PM on 09.30.08 |
| ->> shazam: will "listen" to any song on the radio, computer, movie, etc, and tell you what it is. |
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George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 1:36 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> A few I've used with success:
Where (as mentioned above)
Urbanspoon (found a few close-by restaurants in unfamiliar areas)
Movies and Now Playing (rescued me when a movie theater had bad sound and I was able to find another showing at a theatre nearby and made the start)
I've downloaded Air Sharing but haven't yet really played with it though. I want to see if some of its functions can work for transferring photos.
I also downloaded but have not used G-Park. It remembers one GPS location and then will give you directions back to it. Great for marking where you park your car or your hotel and then finding your way back after wandering around a while.
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) works well but I'll like it better when Apple delivers on the promise to let programs like it run in the background and bring notices to the front when you receive them. |
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Jason Johns, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Biddeford | ME | USA | Posted: 1:38 PM on 09.30.08 |
| ->> no iPhone for me, I use a windows mobile smartphone & there's lots of freeware & software out for that platform. I don't want a Steve Jobs telling me what I can & can't put on my phone! |
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Bill Ross, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 1:48 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> iBeer
Gets a laugh or two and I just like beer.
MLB.com
The Gameday feature and Video Highlights are awesome.
Oh, I just have an iTouch. |
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Rich Cruse, Photographer
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Laguna Niguel | CA | USA | Posted: 1:55 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> Cro-Mag Rally, Pangea VR and AOL Radio.
FYI, I prefer a secure environment for downloading and installing apps for iPhone that have a stamp of approval for iPhone. The LAST thing I want to do is install an app. that crashes or has a virus in it. This is a good thing. Also, many of the apps mentioned are FREE. This includes AOL Radio, Pangea VR and Speed.
Cro-Mag Rally is on sale for $1.99. It is normally $9.99. |
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Ray Anderson, Photographer
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San Francisco | CA | USA | Posted: 1:58 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> Pandora Radio is great you type in an artist or they type of music you like and they will create your own radio station around your taste.
http://pandora.com/ |
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Jim Metzendorf, Photographer
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Columbus | OH | United States | Posted: 2:02 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> I highly recommend the following iPhone Apps:
Air Sharing - Allows you to store and view documents on your phone without having to open them as an email attachment.
AP Mobile News - Easy way to view current news and photos from AP.
Google - Good Google based search functionality with nice tie in to other Google technologies.
By the way, the 2.1 Software released a couple weeks ago has been almost rock solid. It addressed virtually every performance issue I had with the iPhone 3G running 2.0/2.0.1. |
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Armando Solares, Photographer
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Englewood | FL | USA | Posted: 2:07 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> Pandora - the best music app
NYTimes
AP Mobile News
Bloomberg - I use this to keep up with the money I used to have
Showtimes - great app for finding what's playing neaby
Facebook -
Jamd - Getty photos
BofA - Bank of America
Weather Bug
Balance - keeps my checking balance ( basic checkbook ledger)
Jot - to do lists, notes, voice recorder to notes
Trip Cubby - for keeping track of business mileage
Google
Aurora Feint - great game
With the exception of trip cubby all apps are free - The New York Times crashes a lot but if you turn it to airport mode - problem solved, let it load first. |
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Ian Halperin, Photographer
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Plano(Dallas) | TX | USA | Posted: 2:11 PM on 09.30.08 |
| ->> Steven--I was looking at FAA Wait and Airport Status. Have you found then to be close to accurate? |
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Ed J. Szalajeski, Photographer
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Portland | ME | USA | Posted: 2:13 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> Beyond the must have business apps.
Pandora Radio, Canon Game, More Cow Bell, iPint, Weather Bug, Cubes Lite.
OK, I admit I downloaded PhoneSaber when I first bought my iphone my son loves it.
I am a palm & Windows App developer and am waiting for the right opportunity to buy an Intel Mac to start building my own Iphone app. It is pretty cool what you can do, especially with the Web 2.0 applications.
Ed Szalajeski |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 2:15 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> iTouch
the pedometer app is great for running/walking/jogging
AP Mobile News
fireworks is goofy but fun
pocket guitar
pandora |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Live HVN : Work SFO-NYC | | | Posted: 2:28 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> Ian,
I have used FAA Wait and Airport Status quite extensively and find them both to be quite accurate, I find FAA Wait tends to update a little faster and at times catch minor delays that are missed by Airport Status.
To really test them I spent a few hours one busy weekday afternoon constantly reloading both of them while watching live airport delays due to weather in three separate areas in the US. FAA Wait was on top of all of them within a few minutes of the delays being posted and the delay times being adjusted. |
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Jonathan Nimerfroh, Photographer
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Philadelphia | PA | USA | Posted: 2:59 PM on 09.30.08 |
| ->> air hockey. best game ever!!! |
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Daniel Bates, Photographer
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Fayetteville | NC | | Posted: 3:45 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> The Facebook app is easier to use than the Facebook Mobile site, but it is missing some functionality.
Shazam - indispensible. What was that song?
Movies - I don't use this much, but it's nice to have.
AIM - still waiting for background running, like George said, but it is working well so far. I tried other IM apps, but they crashed too often.
GraphCalc, because I'm a geek.
Labyrinth LE - a cool game, though a bit too easy.
Sudoku... for when I'm really, really, really, REALLY bored.
Pandora. I'd use it a lot more if it could run in the background. |
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Jack Megaw, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Pittsburgh | PA | America | Posted: 4:37 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> Facebook - obviously
Tuner - I can listen to British radio stations - it's brilliant
Audi A4 driving game - madly addictive when you get used to it!
iPint - free Carling from your phone - I never have to spend cash at the pub again! |
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Tom Knier, Photographer
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Lancaster | PA | USA | Posted: 8:41 PM on 09.30.08 |
->> As Allen mentioned, Shazam. It's unbelieveably cool.
I have one called "Gashog," which keeps track of what gas mileage I'm getting and how much I'm spending. Pretty cool.
Oh, and the one that gets used most: Hold'Em. |
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Michael Schwarz, Photographer
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Decatur | GA | USA | Posted: 8:21 AM on 10.01.08 |
->> NY Times, Wikipanion and Pandora are my all-time favorites. Election 08 is very cool too. SoLuna is an excellent Sunrise/Sunset calculator. Shazam has the highest geewhiz factor.
AIM
Airport Status
Ambiance
AP Mobile News
Bloomberg
Constitution
Digital Clock
Dual Level
Election 08
Google Mobile
Hanoi
Koi Pond
NY Times
Pandora
Recorder
Shakespeare
Shazam
SoLuna
Sportacular
Trulia
TruPhone
UniCon
Urban Spoon
Where To?
WhiteNoise
Wikipanion
Word Warp
Wooo Button |
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John Cheng, Photographer
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New Milford | CT | USA | Posted: 8:24 AM on 10.01.08 |
->> Dof Calc
Pocket Guitar
Koi Pond
Air Hockey
Cradle
Now Playing
Shazam
AIM |
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Kirby Yau, Photographer, Assistant
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 9:46 AM on 10.01.08 |
->> "iWant"
It finds restaurants. Coffee shops, pharmacies, shopping, dry cleaners, and
More. Think of it as Urban Spoon for almost everything. |
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Mark Scheuern, Photographer
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Grand Blanc | MI | USA | Posted: 10:00 AM on 10.01.08 |
->> SCI-15C (Nice RPN calculator that emulates the HP-15C)
Facebook (Version 2 has a lot of new features)
Twitterrific (Twitter client)
Exposure (Flickr client)
eBay
PayPal
AquaForest (Amusing physics sim/game)
LifeGame
Spore Origins
Therminator (Fun theremin thingie)
miniSynth (Fun analog synth)
Seismometer (I'm a geek)
Mandelbrot (I'm a major geek)
PaklSound1 (music generator) |
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George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 10:54 AM on 10.01.08 |
->> One must-have mentioned by Michael is Constitution.
It is simply the U.S. Constitution in digital form. So when a police officer is placing you under arrest for taking pictures at a public scene, you can pull out your copy of the Constitution and show him you have a legal right to be there.
Okay, probably won't work but I can dream can't I? And it does feel a little patriotic to carry a copy of our legal backbone with you. At least more patriotic than someone who calls you un-American for expressing your opinion just because it is different from their own. Let's see, why did the colonists revolt from the king??? |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Live HVN : Work SFO-NYC | | | Posted: 11:04 AM on 10.01.08 |
->> Geo,
Carrying around the Constitution and The Bill of Rights for the purpose of questioning The Government is just unAmerican.
...........now you're just sounding like one of those left wing Communists! |
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David Stephenson, Photographer
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Lexington | Ky | USA | Posted: 8:13 PM on 10.01.08 |
->> The new PanoLab is pretty fun. You can stitch together multiple images from your iPhone library and save it back to the library.
I shot and put this one together in minutes during lunch today.
http://tinyurl.com/53qclm |
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Chris Proctor, Photographer
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Crete | IL | USA | Posted: 8:57 PM on 10.01.08 |
| ->> SportsTap is the one I use the most,Showtimes is pretty cool too! |
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Derick Hingle, Photographer
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Hammond | LA | USA | Posted: 1:24 AM on 10.02.08 |
->> Awesome post, I've just added a bunch of apps to my phone. So does anyone know of an application that would work for a shot list, say a list of players to shoot for a game, and put checks for the players that have shots, I think that would be a helpful app for photographers.
I have:
Hotel.com
Where
Ebay
Showtimes
Movies - It's great because you can see info on say a movie new to dvd that you may want to buy or rent.
Myspace
Facebook
Google
Keep this going, what are the must have business apps that Ed spoke of but didn't mention the name. |
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Guy Rhodes, Photographer
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East Chicago | IN | USA | Posted: 10:25 AM on 10.02.08 |
| ->> Wow nobody has mentioned Cube Runner? Highly addictive yet simple game. |
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Craig Mitchelldyer, Photographer, Assistant
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Portland | OR | USA | Posted: 11:24 AM on 10.02.08 |
->> MileBug is a great app, keeps track of miles and you can email yourself (or your employer) a report showing destinations, miles, amounts, etc.
For us in the NW another great one I use is MyWeather. You can put the weather of multiple cities, but the best thing it shows in live doppler in motion so you can see when and where the rain in coming. great for those outdoor shoots.
WhitePages in another one I use a lot, like having the phonebook at your fingertips, also has a good reverse lookup.
AirSharing may be the best app out there, use your phone like a flash drive. Only a matter of time until you can email the file syou copy over, once that happens you will be able to copy a file to your phone using airshare, then email it out....
Paypal makes sending money from the road easy and I have photocalc installed as well, though I only use that to find sunrise and sunset times.
Remote is great if you have apple tv, I also us eit to control what is playing on my computer from the studio floor when shooting so I don;t have to walk over to the computer to change the music.
The wordpress app is great for blogging on the run.
If you have kids, my 4 year old takes over my phone on planes and long car rides, or when she's bored, etc. She loves Tic Tac Toe, PreSchool Adventure, KidsMathFun, MatchesPlus, JirboSays....now that I'm looking at it, I have way more kids apps on my phone than anything else!
For games I have Hold Em and Cro Mag Rally.
I never really used Facebook until I got an Iphone, now I'm addicted. That app is awesome. |
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Derick Hingle, Photographer
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Hammond | LA | USA | Posted: 4:49 PM on 10.04.08 |
->> George,
Thanks for the link and suggestions, I'll check them out, I've added quite a few of the apps on everyone's recommendations on here. |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 12:47 PM on 10.05.08 |
->> GREAT topic! Lots of wonderful apps I've got to check out...
A few I use a lot:
- Sportacular (so I can keep track of games I am not covering)
- Loopt (so I can keep track of wayward assistants)
- Palringo (an IM app)
- Midomi (so my daughter is entertained while we're waiting for dinner out)
- Flashlight (simple but very useful when I forget to turn on the porch light)
- CheckPlease (tip calculator because I'm horrible with math) |
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Garrett Cortese, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Winter Park | FL | USA | Posted: 2:07 PM on 10.05.08 |
->> The Apps I use most are:
- Camera Bag (allows you to shoot photos with different "cameras," like a Holga, Rolo, B&W, etc.)
- Flashlight (you'll use this more than you'd think...)
- Ambiance (great for relaxing or sleeping on planes or other places with too much noise)
- Shazam (listens to what music is playing from any source and tells you what song it is)
- Fring (can connect to Skype, so you can make calls with an internet connection, rather than using cell minutes, also connects to all other chat programs and puts friends into one list so you can instant message via internet connection)
- Texas Hold 'Em (so I can know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em) |
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Adam Cairns, Photographer
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Columbus | OH | USA | Posted: 2:53 PM on 10.05.08 |
->> Here are some of my faves:
- Save Benjis (compare prices of items with online prices)
- Cro-mag (decent racing game, not too diffcult)
- Touchmines (Minesweeper)
- Sol Free (good solitaire time waster)
- Gasbag (close estimation of gas station prices nearby)
- iwant (listings for food, drink, etc.)
- Shazam (identifies song on radio, commercial, tv show, etc.)
- Twitterific
- AOL Radio (good variety of local/national programming)
- Pandora (listen to the artists you like)
- YPmobile (yellow pages and maps) |
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Jason DeMott, Photographer
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Northern | VA | USA | Posted: 5:55 PM on 10.05.08 |
| ->> PhotoGene is pretty cool. Allows for cropping/color correction/sharpening/light retouching/borders for images taken with your iPhone. |
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Rod Leland, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Lethbridge | AB | Canada | Posted: 7:03 PM on 10.05.08 |
->> The apps that I use are for the most part listed above. I thought it important to mention that I Jailbroke my phone specificly for the "iPhone Modem" app.
It's 10 dollars, but there is a free trial that has limited functionality. Once you get used to the setup steps, It's a rock solid tethering, mobile transmitting, completely wireless, reliable App. Best 10 bucks I've ever spent.
Link: http://www.iphonemodem.com/
Obviously, the Jailbreaking is necessary because this type of app is disallowed by ATT and Rogers, but I need that functionality, So it was worth it. |
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Christopher Park, Photographer
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San Diego | CA | United States | Posted: 4:52 PM on 10.13.08 |
->> New iphone tethering solution since this last post. Called PdaNet.
It requires jailbreaking but it works flawlessly and its free! pretty much one click connection and doesnt have to be connected to your computer. simply have to share the connection over wifi. Goodbye overpriced vzw card. |
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Adam Cairns, Photographer
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Columbus | OH | USA | Posted: 6:13 PM on 11.22.08 |
->> A couple of new photo-related additions to my list...
- Night Camera (It basically works like the standard camera app, but in addition to the shutter button, it will take a picture when it senses the accelerometer is steady.)
- Cooliris (You can search photo sites like Flickr and Google Images, as well as look at current news and sports photos from the wires.) |
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Fred Beckham, Photographer
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Westbrook | CT | United States | Posted: 8:46 PM on 11.22.08 |
| ->> Slightly more specific than this thread, but does anyone have experience using the iphone to send jpegs to an ftp site? I know there are some app's, any suggestions? I just got my iphone so the suggestions on this thread are great! |
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Joshua Brown, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 10:14 PM on 12.07.08 |
->> I made a little page thats lists my favorites so far (with links to the App store)
http://joshuabrownonline.com/The_Best_iPhone_Apps_to_Download_so_far.html
The list.
-Things
-Evernote
-CameraBag
-Facebook
-Yelp
-Now Playing
-Vlingo
-Google Mobile App
-Delivery Touch Status
-Twitterific
-Mobile Files
-Amazon
-Byline
-Fieldrunners
-Datacase
-Remote
-Pixelpipe
-The Weather Channel
I am actually making a little wordpress blog that will feature some of my favorites for this exact purpose, I am still trying to learn the ropes on wordpress though.
http://someofmyfavorites.com |
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