UPDATE: As requested, added iTunes store links for the incredibly lazy.
I’ve been asked by a couple people what apps I’m using on my retro original iPhone, so here’s a quick list, in no particular order:
- iNetworkTest - Speed Testing of EDGE / 3G. Their site even maps your location for each test, which is cool.
- VoiceRecord - For quick notes. The only thing I ever used regularly on my previously jailbroken iPhone.
- AOL Radio - There’s a good radio station out of Atlanta that broadcasts through it.
- Google Mobile - Have yet to actually use this, I just go to Safari, but I keep telling myself I’ll use it.
- NetNewsWire - Still too horribly slow, waiting for a new version for it to become really useful.
- Pandora - Works well, even over EDGE.
- Twitterrific - Free version.
- WeatherBug - Best weather service there is, and they’ve got apps for every platform imaginable. Interactive radar map kicks ass.
- Epocrates Rx - More for interest, since I was in health insurance previously. It’s a cool app to play around with for a while, and has limited use after that.
- Fuel Guage - Calculate your fuel efficiency. Really spiffy.
- Mobile News - Not particularly useful unless I’m stuck somewhere and bored, then it can be a quick way to get a current events fix, including local news (based on your coordinates).
- Facebook - Useless, but well done.
- Bloomberg - The ultimate stock market app. Kicks the default stocks app out of the water.
- Jott - Transcribe voice notes. You can’t beat that. Have yet to decide if it’s worth replacing Voice Notes or not.
- Shazam - Listens to a song and tells you the name, artist, etc. That’s so amazingly awesome I can’t even describe it.
- WordPress - I don’t blog often enough for it to be useful, but who knows…
Take.TV
I saw an ad for Take.TV on LifeHacker this evening and was intrigued. I clicked through and watched their Flash demo, and I have to say… I’m underwhelmed.
What exactly is the point of having to take the USB thumbdrive from TV to computer and back again? Even the Apple TV lets me watch media on my TV without the hassle of physically moving anything from one to the other.
Provided they have a better method for enabling media (preferably hi-def and convertible from many different sources), do we really have to take a step backwards here? Why don’t I just plug my computer directly into the TV with a standard video-out cable?
The whole point (to me, at least) is that there need be no physical effort involved in the process. With a matter of clicks from my computer, bingo, media is now available on my TV elsewhere in my house.
Best of luck to the Take.TV folks, but if I were their venture capitalists, I’d kiss my money goodbye…