My iPhone Apps – Part 1
Gone are the days when a mobile phone was just a phone. I prefer to think of my iPhone as a mobile computing device. Excluding the applications that come as standard, I’ve got almost 40 apps on my phone. These are split over 4 screens.
My most commonly used apps are on the first screen and these are featured below…
3 Twitter clients – Twitterific, Twinkle and Tweetie. I’ve listed them in that order because that’s the order of installation. Tweetie is the one I currently use – why? No idea – I suppose because it’s the most recently installed one. Each time I install a client, that becomes my “No 1 choice”. However the others remain as alternatives. I had a problem with Tweetie and Twitpic recently (any photo I uploaded to Twitpic from Tweetie would not display – instead it displayed a [?]) so I used Twinkle for uploading posts with photos (however, I’ve now reconfigured Tweetie to use yFrog and it seems OK). I’ve just been having a play with the latest version of Twitterific and I must say that I’m impressed.
MobileLinked – a multi-services instant messenger, which supports MSN (Windows Live Messenger), Yahoo IM, AIM, Google Talk and Jabber.
AudioBoo – a tool for audio blogging. You can record up to 5 minutes of audio and publish the recording to a timeline on the AudioBoo website, complete with your GPS co-ordinates and a photo. There’s even the option to have AudioBoo auto-tweet – so when you publish a recording it also adds it to your Twitter timeline.
Facebook – an app for accessing Facebook.
Evernote – an iPhone client for Evernote.
SplashShopper – a shopping list manager. More information available on the Splashdata website
iTalk – an audio recording app. This is different to AudioBoo in that you don’t upload your recordings – but you can use iTalk Sync (which is free) – a program that runs on your computer (PC or Mac) to enable you to transfer your recordings from your iPhone via Wi-Fi. Your recordings are saved as AIFF files. There are 2 versions of iTalk – a free, ad-supported one and a Premium (ad-free) version for $4.99.
So what other apps do I have? Well I’ll save that for another blog post.