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Introduction
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I've got some great new free apps here, and I'm already working on my next update! Nothing is set in stone so if you think you've found a better app, let me know! I've replaced a few of my previous picks, so my eyes are always searching for the best of the best. As of yet, I don't know if there is an app for app-aholics. I counted over 600 apps on my phone, but if there is one, I'm sure I'll find it! As usual, I'm only one, and you are many. If you know of apps, especially games and children oriented apps, please let me know. Next, I want to focus on health related apps, so if you know of apps for people with disabilies or chronic health issues, drop me a note. And thanks for the compliments, you make this editorship worth it! You can easily find the apps you like with the Quick Select Index and use one of the following ways to install the apps from the list. Quick Access to App Store:
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Fast Keyboard
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Fast Keyboard is a text creator and editor with two rows of additional keys, including numbers, symbols, unicode symbols, frequently used words, and email/article templates. Sync to Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter and other apps. Other features include reading document files (doc, ppt, xsl, keynote, pages, number, pdf, images), adding tags to files, using arrow keys to move the cursor, emailing, text/file, and opening file in other apps
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PayPal Here
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While there is no free credit card processing, this app turns your iPhone into pocket-sized encrypted card reader. Save money not buying a credit card processing terminal. Process Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover Card for with 2.7% transaction fee in the United States. Use your iPhone's camera to add funds from checks, or send invoices. (Also in the U.S). Charge multiple tax rates, offer discounts, set up an inventory list.
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Dragon Dictation
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Save typing and use your voice to text or email your friends, send notes and reminders to yourself, update your Facebook status or tweet to the world, faster and quicker when you are on-the-go. Supports a multitude of global languages.
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CardMunch
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Tired of business card scanning apps that are more of a hassle than they're worth? This one is sure to please. Just capture and image of the card, and real humans (no, not in your iPhone!) will transcribe the info with guaranteed accuracy and send the info back in minutes. Contacts can be added to your iPhone address book, can be sent a follow up email, and can also be invited to your LinkedIn network.
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GateGuru
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Enjoy receiving real-time flight status information (including push notifications), view your TripIt and KAYAK itineraries, view/post airport security wait times, view airport food, shops and services reviews. Quickly search and sort by rating or location. Bookmark airports and post to Facebook, Twitter, foursquare and Gowalla to keep your network posted on your travels.
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Mindjet
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If you are a more visual than linear thinker, Mindjet lets you enter ideas, tasks, and meeting notes into intuitive visual maps that help you organize concepts and prioritize action items. Create new maps or import them from Mindjet Connect. Easier to see than explain, Mindjet offers lots of options for creating, moving, linking, and copying entries and formatting their appearance. Access to PDF, Word, Pages, Excel, Numbers docs stored in Mindjet Connect. Synchronize with Dropbox, export to PDF.
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Scan Pages
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Turn your iPhone into a mobile scanner and convert captured images into PDF documents. Scan Pages organizes and cleans your images creating crisp, clean files. Combine multiple images into one PDF file and store in GoogleDocs, Evernote, Dropbox or share via email.
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Image To Text
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ImageToText extracts editable ASCII text from images, and share the results by email or Evernote. Take a picture of a document then send an email to yourself. You'll receive the image and a text file with the editable text. English only supported. While I still like this app, the camera function has been buggy. Best to take a picture first, then open the app and choose from the camera roll.
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iBooks
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Download many of your favorite books from the included iBookstore. Sort your books on your bookshelf or browse them in a list sorted by title, author, or category and organize your books and PDFs into personal collections. Swipe left or right to jump between Collections. Easily adjust your screen brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment. Personalize font size and pick from six type faces. Keep your bookmarks, notes, and your current page wirelessly in sync between iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with the automatic bookmark syncing feature. Add PDF documents from Mail, or add books in the industry-standard ePub electronic book format to iTunes and sync them to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
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Timeline Eons
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Scrollable timeline and editable time range that can span trillions of years into both the past and the future. Includes Natural History, World History, U.S. History, Science & Technology, Art & Architecture, and Sports. Extensive and wide-ranging events, from the Big Bang to historical events and future projections. The free version displays the entire timeline for 15 days, and from year 1950 to 2050 thereafter.
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NASA
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The official NASA (United State National Aeronautics and Space Administration) app offers videos, picture of the day, launch information and countdown clocks, mission information, and a vast collection of images. 3G or Edge network connection required.
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TED
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TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a nonprofit started in 1984 devoted creating a forum for world's most fascinating people including education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus and music legends. It hosts two conferences annually and a variety of other award-winning talks and presentation and offers the best talks and performances free. The entire library of more than 900 TEDTalk videos are available for browsing and searching in both online and offline modes. Bookmark or download your favorite TEDTalk for playback anywhere. Tune in to TEDRadio for instant, one-click access to a continuous stream of TEDTalks audio. Share favorite talks and playlists with your friends.
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Fractile Plus
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If you find math scary and all its complex equations unsightly, then this app will warm you up to the beauty of mathematics. A fractal has been defined as "a rough or fragmented geometric shape can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole." Huh, you say? Think of it as a reduced-size copy of the whole, much in the way that broccoli romanesco repeats its pattern in a fascinating kaleidoscope. Fractile Plus explores the famous Mandelbrot set which is based on a very simple mathematical formula, yet has amazing complexity. Zoom in up to 10 trillion times magnification to find intricate spirals, flaming tendrils, and a seemingly endless smaller repetitions of the set itself. Save high-res images up to 13 megapixels. Optimized for the retina display. No ads!
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Learn HTML Basics
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Learn the basics of HTML, the codes the pages of the World Wide Web. Sections include Introduction, Get Started, Basic, Elements, Attributes, Headings, Paragraphs, Formatting, Fonts, Styles, Links, Images, Tables, Lists, Forms, Frames, Iframes, Colors, Color Names, Color Values, and Quick List Reference page.
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Falling Stars
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Love at first sight? (or maybe sound?) This app produces a fun, creative, and soothing sound you can manipulate by inserting additional visual elements that change the sound and rhythm.
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StumbleUpon!
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Dive into epic. Escape the ordinary. Amplify the OMG. StumbleUpon takes the boring ol’ Internet and makes it way more awesome by only showing you stuff you like. Tap the Stumble button and come get lost in a wonderland of videos, photos, and webpages personalized just for you.
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Remote
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Control iTunes and Apple TV using your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad over your Wi-Fi network. Choose playlists, songs, and albums as if you were right in front of your computer or Apple TV. From anywhere in your home change a song, pick a playlist or browse through your entire library. (Text from iTunes)
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IMDb Movies & TV |
Watch trailers, browse photos, find latest releases, explore popular charts, rate movies and share movie info from a huge resource of more than 1.5 million titles, and 3.2 million celebrities, actors and actresses, directors and crew members.
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Bloomberg
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Follow the world's financial markets in one app. Bloomberg offers news, stock quotes, company descriptions, market leaders/laggers, price charts, market trends analysis, and more.
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Best Value
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Compare the cost of two products no matter their package quantities, sizes or units. Display costs per unit and indicates which of the two is a better deal. Supports both Metric and English measurements. Currently not available in the US.
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Air Hockey Gold
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Play with one or two pucks. Play with someone else, or a computer opponent.
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Words With Friends
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With a user base of 20 million people, Words With Friends is certainly one of the most popular word games. Like Scrabble, build words, and try to triple your score. Either play with a random opponent from anywhere in the world, invite your friends to play remotely, or play with a real person beside you.
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RunKeeper
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Track how far you went, how long it took, what your pace/speed was, how many calories you burned, and the path you traveled on a map. You can sync data with the RunKeeper website where you can view a history of all of your activities, and cumulative totals of all of your vital stats. You can also share your progress with friends by posting your activities to Facebook and Twitter, and creating a profile page that allows people to view all of your public activities.
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Fooducate
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Scan UPC barcodes with the iPhone's camera to search over 200,000 products to make healthier nutritional choices. See a product's both good and bad highlights. Learn if an item contains excessive sugar, trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, additives and preservatives, and controversial food colorings. Works in United States only.
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iPeriod
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My Cycles tracks ovulation signs to increase your chance of pregnancy and takes the guesswork out of tracking your period, predicting your ovulation window, and predicting your future periods. Track your period, symptoms, medications, mood and more related to your cycle.
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RxmindMe
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RxmindMe alerts you when you need to take a prescription. Enter all your prescriptions, setup reminders, and track your history. Lot of features: nine types of reminders, quantities count down as you mark your reminders, email prescription history including importing into Excel, no info uploaded to servers, passcode protected, and more.
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WebMD
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WebMD provides health and medical information with tools including Symptom Checker, Conditions, Drugs & Treatments, First Aid Essentials, and Local Health Listings, without an Internet connection. (Some features my be limited outside the United States). Personalize by saving drugs, conditions, and articles of interest.
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Grocery iQ
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Create shopping lists for each of your favorite stores. Arrange list items in the order items are found in the store. Email lists, Print coupons from the app, scan barcodes to add items too. Sync online with free account.
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Epicurious
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Search over 30,000 food and drink recipes by main ingredient, each rated and reviewed. Add recipes to your favorites, create a shopping list from recipes, share by email, Twitter, or Facebook and other services.
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Seafood Watch
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Seafood Watch recommendations help you choose ocean-friendly sustainably harvested seafood and sushi at your favorite restaurants and stores in the United States, but is also useful in other countries. Sushi categories include Best Choice, Good Alternative, and Avoid. New Project Fish Map feature lets you contribute to the app by adding the names of restaurants and stores where you've found ocean-friendly seafood and locate businesses where others have found sustainable seafood. Also list of “Super Green” seafood that’s good for you and the oceans.
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Dragon Go!
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Tired of surly Siri saying, "I'm sorry, I can't help you with that." or don't have access to Siri at all? Dragon Go's voice activation can search as well as access Fandango, Accuweather, Pandora, Yelp, and more. The Dragon Carousel delivers the best search sites enabling side-to-side comparison of search results and share them via email, text messages via Facebook and Twitter. |
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Sushipedia
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If you don't know Unagi from Tobiko, then this app is for you! Includes complete list of popular sushi, with photos, descriptions, tasting notes, and historical facts. Search by name and ingredients, or attributes. Find out what's in season now. Save to your Favorites. Toggle between English and Japanese names.
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Drug reference, disease & condition reference and treatment guide, tables & protocols reference, daily medical news an alerts, continuing medical education (CME/CE) activities, unlimited access to all features. offline access to the clinical reference, multitasking.
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TuneIn Radio
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TuneIn lets you listen to the world’s radio with music, sports, news, talk, and comedy streaming from every continent. Enjoy 70,000 live radio stations and 2 million podcasts, concerts or shows on your iPhone, iPad and iPod.
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Pandora
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Stream music of your choice based on name of your favorite artists, songs or classical composers and Pandora will create a "station" that plays their music and similar in the same genre. Get a free account and enjoy your saved favorite station on your phone or the web. Not available in Canada, and possibly other countries.
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Ringtone Maker
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Tired of same ringtones that everyone has? Make your own! If you can play it on an iPhone, you can make it a ringtone. With iOS 5, you can customize the Text tone, Tweet tone, Alert tone, Mail tone, Calendar tone and Reminders tone. Control the start time of the song, as well as fading in or out. Create an unlimited number of new ringtones!
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Google Maps
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Yes, is Google Maps is back! Not as a native iPhone apps but as a download. Now includes voice guided turn-by-turn navigation, public transit directions, Street View. Self corrects if you deviate from the prescribed route. Improved overhead perspective view. Find places to eat, drink, shop and play, with ratings and reviews. Sign in to sync your searches, directions, and favorite places between your computer and your phone. Use gestures to explore the map and browse results
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MarketWatch
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Track world financial markets and business news headlines, full-stories and commentary throughout the day. MarketWatch editorials report the day’s most important stories, together with global market news, real-time quotes, and markets analysis and insights
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Flipboard
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One of my favorite apps and one of the best interfaces ever! Select to read articles covering This Week, News, Business, Tech & Science, Video, Curators, Photo & Design, Living, Entertainment, Sports, Local, Travel, and Style. But why stop there? You can also access your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Reader, Instagram, Flickr, Tumbler, and 500px accounts. Read later services include Instapaper and Read it Later. Does it get any better than this!
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Pulse News
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Just as Flipboard is a great magazine aggregator, Pulse News is great for the news. Share stories from thousands of top news sources, your favorite blogs, and social networks. Collect your favorite stories and sync them to send to Instapaper, Pocket, Evernote, and Reader, all in one tap.
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Snapseed
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Once, it cost $5 USD for this app, but now it's free! Snapseed not only allows you to adjust white balance, saturation, and contrast, but also offers precise selections on just portions of an image. Probably the most powerful image editor available on the iPhone. Filters include Black & White, Vintage Films, Drama, Grunge, Tilt Shift, Details, Center Focus, Frames, and Retrolux. Language support includes English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), and Arabic. Share your images via email, Google+, and other built-in sharing links.
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Adobe Photoshop Express
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Edit photos on your iPhone easily—touch to crop, rotate, adjust exposure, saturation, tint, black and white or contrast, and add artistic effects or borders, then save them or upload to Facebook or Photoshop.com.
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Photosynth
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Easily make panoramic images and share them. Panoramas are created in real-time with interactive capture. Create full-sphere panoramas. Zoom, pan, and rotate panoramas with the built-in view. Save to the camera roll. Share to Facebook, Bing Maps, or email.
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FotoMag
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More than 150 of the best photography blogs organized into several categories including: Photographers, Forums, Digital editing, Gear and News, Lighting, HDR and Photography business news. Browse individual blogs or browse a neatly laid out collage of the latest entries from all the blogs
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Camera Plus
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Nicely designed camera that offers up to a 5 times digital zoom on your iPhone 4 and 4s, dual cameras for both photos and videos, flash, anti-shake, tap to focus, tap anywhere on the screen to take a photo, countdown timer for self portraits, and cropping. Share photos via Twitter, Facebook, Flickr or Mail. |
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DrawCast
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Customizable soft and hard brushes, work on separate layers, blend and blur, many levels of undo and fully zoomable. Mixing colors allows for unlimited numbers of colors. Eyedropper tool to select and match colors straight from the painting. Import photos directly from Facebook, your camera or photo library, save paintings to Photo Library, and share email, Facebook, or Twitter.
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YouTube
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Once part of the iPhone's native apps, now you need to download this app to watch the world’s videos and keep up with your favorite YouTube channels with the official YouTube app for iOS. Sign in to access your subscriptions, playlists, and uploads. Find videos and channels with voice search and query auto complete. Subscribe to channels, read comments, enable subtitles. Sharing to Google+, E-mail, Facebook and Twitter.
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Yahoo! Axis
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Not everything innovative on the web comes from Google. Get actual results visually instead of just a list of links. Works with your favorite desktop browser (via a plug-in) to access bookmarks and recently visited pages across all your devices. Bookmarks and recently visited pages are available wherever you need them.
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Moleskine Journal
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Created by a team of artists and designers Moleskine apps emulated the classic qualities of the original dead-tree journal of simplicity and elegance. Features: include artist toolset: watercolor brush, pencil, pen, eraser, highlighter, and scissors. Size control and color selector include value slide, opacity slide, custom swatch library. Portrait and landscape modes, including unique double-spread view in landscape mode. Thumbnail view with editable menu. Multiple undo and redo. Built-in camera for immediate image taking. Share via email, Facebook and Twitter. Sync Evernote and backup to Dropbox. Paper selection offers plain, ruled, and squared, plus page templates from the Weekly Planner, Passion Recipe Journal, and Storyboard Notebook. Navigate with gestures such as pinch, spread, 2-finger scroll and page flip.
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Any.DO
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A clean interface doesn't interfere with focusing on what you need to get done. Features include cloud sync, speech recognition, time & location reminders, any.do moment, folders, notes, repeating tasks, calendar view, gesture support. Drag & drop to plan your agenda, swipe off a task to mark it as complete & shake your iPhone to clear your completed tasks. Choose either white or black theme. Set priorities with a tap. Switch between Date view (Today, Tomorrow, Upcoming & Someday) and Folder view.
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Dropbox
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It's disappointing that Apple chose not to allow the iPhone to double up as a handy USB drive on the run, but Dropbox is almost the next best thing. Upload files from your desktop and sync them between multiple computers. View, copy, or email links from your phone.
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Nirvana
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Nirvana is a GTD® task manager for Getting Things Done®. Capturing thoughts whenever they occur and focusing on the thing you should be doing right now is at the heart of Nirvana — freeing your mind to be in the moment and focused on the task at hand. This app is the mobile extension of the cloud-based Nirvanahq.com desktop.
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Take notes, ideas, pictures and recordings with your iPhone, and sync them instantly to your Web, Mac or PC version. It indexes your notes and recognizes the actual text within the pictures so that you can easily search.
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TeamViewer
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Remotely access your computers. Uses multi-touch gestures: left click, right click, drag & drop, scroll wheel, zoom, change monitors. Keyboard controls including special keys such as Ctrl and Alt. Remotely reboot, adjust the screen resolution. Access computers behind firewalls and proxy servers.
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FlexSearch
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Search Google, Bing, Wikipedia, WolframAlpha, Answers.com, Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus, About.com, eHow, WikiHow, Youtube, Goog-Images, B-Images, Flickr, Photobucket, WebMD, PubMed, Healthline, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook! Share to Facebook, Twitter, and email. |
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Simplenote
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Use Simplenote for notes, lists, ideas and automatically synchronize with your computer and other devices. Need more power? Can also utilize tags, pins, versions, and sharing. Check the developer's download page for a variety of other programs this app works with. |
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Springpad
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What use to be a good note taking program has morphed in full-ledged collaborative tool similar to Evernote early this year. So what's the difference? In Evernote's favor, it downloads your notes so they can viewed when you are offline; Springpad requires you be Internet connected but doesn't cap your data transfer to 60MB/month like Evernote does. Springpad has a nicer user-interface and can scan barcodes. Share your notes on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and email. Both are great apps, try both and decide what works best, or use both!
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Parcel
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Access tracking information for 150 delivery services, including UPS, USPS, FedEx, TNT, LaserShip, Aramex, OnTrac, China Post, SingPost, vPost and many other postal services. You don't even need to enter the tracking number, barcode scanning is available on iPhone and iPad. With carrier automatic recognition function, adding new delivery is quick. Locate your delivery on the map or manage your deliveries using Web Access (web.parcelapp.net). Push notifications sent only from 8am to 10 pm your time zone. Limited to tracking 3 shipments at a time in the free version.
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Google Search
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Search the Web with this official Google Search app and get search results and suggestions instantly as you type, take a picture with your device camera, or even speak into your iPhone. Also with easy access to other Google products from the Apps tab.
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Dictionary
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Search words offline with this app that includes nearly 2 million words with definitions, synonyms and antonyms. Extra features include audio pronunciation, voice-to-text search, hyperlinked words, Word and Question of the Day, and the Hot Word blog. See also the HD version for iPad.
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Pocket (formerly Read It Later)
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Ever come across an article you'd like to read but can't at that time on a browser? Add it to your Pocket list from your PC or mobile, and this app downloads all articles in the list to your iPad for offline reading. Advanced features are limited to the paid version.
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GoogleTranslate
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Translate words and phrases between more than 60 languages using Google Translate. For some languages, speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations. Listen to your translations spoken aloud (24 languages), Display translations in full screen mode to make it easier for others nearby to read, star your favorite translations and query history for quick access even when you’re offline
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Wikipanion
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Wikipanion was designed for easy, search, navigation and display of Wikipedia entries. Your search history is bookmarked by visit date and includes entries as well as selections within an entry. Includes table of contents browser, font resizing, image saving to the Photo Library, and other features. |
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Google+
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Stay connected and share your life with Google+ for iPhone and iPad. Join a Hangout, post a photo, or see what friends are sharing while you’re on the go. Offers video chat with up to 9 friends with mobile Hangouts, sharing photos.
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Bump
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Share not only contact information by bumping two iPhones together but photos, apps, music, messages, locations, contacts, calendar events; and become friends on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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Skype
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Enjoy free video calls with front and rear-facing cameras with anyone else on Skype over 3G or Wi-Fi. Also has instant messaging and voicemail.
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Twitter
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Follow your interests: instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what’s happening around the world. Get short bursts of timely information on the official Twitter app for iPhone.
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Facebook
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Facebook keeps you connected with your friends. Start a chat, share photos and status updates, upload photos.
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LinkedIn
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LinkedIn helps find inside connections when looking for job, connects with old friends and colleagues, and provides access to industry experts willing to share advice. Linked in claims over 135 million professionals use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas and opportunities. |
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Google Earth
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Hold the globe in your palm and tour the world with a wipe of your finger to search for cities, places and business with millions of geo-located photos and other useful information. You can also tap the Location Icon to zoom from space to your current location in just a few seconds.
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Yelp
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Search for reviews of businesses near you, then narrow it down by neighborhood, distance, price, or what's open. Browse reviews, add your own! Share on Facebook and Twitter. Make reservation through Open Table. Look up addresses and phone numbers then map and call them.
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OpenTable
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Make restaurant reservations and receive a confirmation at more than 15,000 OpenTable-enabled restaurants in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. OpenTable members earn Dining Rewards Points redeemable for Dining Cheques good at any OpenTable restaurants.
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KAYAK
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Compare flight, hotel and car rental deals, track your flight status, view and manage your trip itinerary, look up baggage fees. Has sliders to narrowing departure and return time. Seems to me more feature rich than the iPad version!
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TripIt
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Not only does this app keep track of all your travel plans, just forward your confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and it creates your itinerary for you and syncs with your calendar and TripIt online! TripIt recognizes reservations from over 3,000 booking sites including cruises, restaurants, concerts. You can share trip plans with family or colleagues directly, or via Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Wi-Fi Finder
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Finds over 650,00 free or paid Wi-Fi locations worldwide. Filter results by location type, provider, and save results to favorites.
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XE Currency
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Converts world currency and precious metals rates with live currency rates and stores the last updated, so no Internet connection is needed. Monitor up to ten currencies, shake to reset rates, pin your base currency for convenient access.
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Wikihood
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What are the most important sights to see around you? Is there a museum, castle, park or church nearby? What persons are related to this place? What's historic? What do others find interesting nearby (15.000+ ratings). Wikihood organizes Wikipedia information to enhance your travels. In English and German.
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Chrome
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If you are a "tab-aholic," this is your new web browser since you aren't limited to 8 pages like the iPhone's native Safari browser. Sync your open tabs, bookmarks, passwords, and omnibox data from your computer to your phone or tablet, and open a tab in Incognito mode to browse without saving your history.
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Prey Anti-Theft
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Open source, cross-platform anti-theft tracker. Prey lets you keep track of your phone and laptop in one place. This app supports GPS + Network-based geo-location (GSM+Wifi), Delayed or On Demand activation (via push messaging)., Alert messages to user, front facing camera pictures support, and alarm.
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File Manager
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File Manager is a virtual USB drive for the iPhone and iPad. View images, audio, videos, PDF documents, Word documents, Excel documents, ZIP/RAR files and more. Supports Apple iWorks documents, Syncs to iCloud, Dropbox, SkyDrive and others. Integrated music player. Passcode protect files. Supports iTunes USB File Sharing. Transfer files from your PC/Mac using Wi-Fi. Sort files by "Name","Date","Size" or "Kind. Share files by email, Bluetooth and Facebook. Create and extract ZIP files
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Permissions
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Review and edit the access you've granted online services to access your private information to your social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Google, LinkedIn, and others.
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Find My iPhone
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Locate your iPhone 4, iPad, or 4th generation iPod touch (iOS 4.2 or later required). on a map, send a message and play a sound for two minutes at full volume (even if your device is set to silent). Remotely set a passcode lock on your device, or lock it using your existing passcode, or wipe your device to permanently erase all of your personal data.
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Planets
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Enjoy a 3D planetarium style view of the sky as well as a flat view of sky. (Tip: tap the compass icon in the upper left corner and watch the sky move as your iPhone moves. Also has rotating 3D globe of planets and the moon.
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Craigslist
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View Craigslist listings internationally with thumbnail photo previews, maps, and access to your Craigslist account. Includes multi-city searches, posting with photos, account management, favorite ads with notes, and maps and directions.
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Pinger
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Free text messaging and phone calling any phone, including landlines and non-smartphones, in the US and Canada. You get your own phone number that you can use to call and text any phone number in the US and Canada, even if you don’t have a calling plan. |
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RedLaser
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RedLaser searches for low online from hundreds of thousands of retailers with results from Google, TheFind, SDC, eBay, Milo.com, Half.com, and Buy.com. Scans UPC, EAN, UPC-E and EAN-8 barcodes. Also scans QR code including URLs, contact info, calendar events. Send scanned products as email attachment. Automatic search localization for USD, EUR, and GBP. You can also create a QR Code from your contacts, a URL, or text.
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SimpleAnalog
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Simple Analog is a local clock using hands and not digits. It will also display the day of the week and optionally the month at a glance. You can set the display to never sleep. Tap the clock face to cycle through the various display options available. It supports landscape and portrait modes for display. There are currently no alarm features for this application, keeping it simple. Steve would be proud.
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AppShopper
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What's better than a free app? One that's on sale for free! AppShopper keeps you up to date on the newest apps, sales and freebies. Organize apps in your Wish List and get notified when there is a sale or update. Features include view a list of the top 200 apps, browse ratings and reviews from third party sites, add apps to your Wish List and get notified of price changes or updates by email, and share an app's info via Twitter, Facebook, or email. Keep track of the apps you already own. Also syncs with AppShopper.com so your Wish List and My Apps are updated automatically and can be managed in your a web browser.
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iHandy Level Free
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You can use iHandy Level for aligning pictures, leveling your iPhone for stills and videos, and measuring angles and more. |
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iDownloader Free
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Easily download anything from the web to your i-Device and then view/play the downloaded files or transfer them to your computer.
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PCalc Lite Calculator
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PCalc Lite is a fully functional calculator with may enhancements over the iPhone's ntive calculator. Includes an optional RPN mode, multiple undo and redo, unit conversions and constants as well as two user interface themes.
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Weather Channel
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Other apps are flashier, but this is the app I keep to. Offers in-depth weather forecasts for the next 24 hours to 10 days, with innovative maps, active alerts, a video library and real-time Twitter feeds from Weather Channel Tweeters.
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This software category is maintained by Reid J. Thaler. Reid is the owner of Reid J. Thaler Photography and specializes in teaching the skills and passion of digital photography. |
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Apple has pulled AppShopper from the App Store, "for now" supposedly. Ref: http://appshopper.com/blog/2012/12/20/appshopper-app-removed-from-the-ap...
Thanks. I'll revise this soon.
For a to-do/ GTD app, Reqall looked promising a few yrs ago, but it hasn't been updated since 2010.
A few free ones that have great (but different) feature sets and design, and are regularly updated:
Producteev: (free for individuals) http://www.producteev.com/home.php (They have recently merged with Jive Software, and are promising a huge update very soon)
Astrid: http://astrid.com/
Any.DO: http://www.any.do/
Asana : (free for individuals) http://asana.com
Hey, great minds think alike! I had been planning on replacing Reqall with Any.DO.
Thanks for your thoughts!
In search of my holy grail:
An App that meshes contacts and agenda (like I had in my nokia)
What I'm looking for: When I receive a call, to be able to automaticaly setup an appointment (with contact data from the caller) and have that appointment linked to the contact..... Is it something so dificult????
Re: Grocery IQ - reviews are very bad since last update. Average 4 star rating is deceptive.
What issues are you having? I still hate the chartreuse interface, but at least I can organize my lists by aisle, and the font is small enough to have many items on one screen, but not too small that I can't read them easily.
Thanks very much for the list!!! VERY helpful. In particular, PhotoSynth and FileApp I am very very happy with, and doubt I would have found without this list.
One other app I have found ASTONISHINGLY good for a free app is Free Graphing Calculator by William Jockusch. (Link below.) This should go in the "education" section.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-graphing-calculator/id378009553?mt=8
I've been using it for months and I just keep finding new features!
Free iphone game Yushino
Players exchange turns forming number sequences horizontally or vertically on the board, trying to score as many points as possible for each turn.
Like scrable with numbers
http://www.yushino.com/
I'll take a look for the next round, Thanks!
can any one suggest me good & free locker apps to hide photos & video???
Speak it Free iphone app lanched today
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speak-it/id545912848?mt=8
Speak it speaks out the contents of your emails, tweets and facebook feed. Have it read to you while you are on the road or are otherwise busy.
Speak it gives you full control. You determine which accounts you want read out to you, how many items, and how fast the speech should be.
Speak it remembers your login details so you only have to login to your accounts once, and you can hear Speak it read out the contents of your email box, facebook or twitter feed whenever you want.
Speak it also allows you to enter free text, either by typing it or copy/paste from any other application. So you can basically speak out any text you want.
I recommend this Timeline Eons app, a graphic representation of the entire natural and human history:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timeline-eons/id433352152?mt=8&ls=1
I've downloaded and played with it a bit. Looks like I'll be included in my next update.
Thanks for your efforts in doing the list. Mapquest doesn't seem to be available in the Australian app shop.
Sorry Mapquest isn't available. If you upgrade to iOS 6 in few days when it's available, the default map program will be much improved, offering 3D views and voice navigation.
There are so many good calculator apps. I have tried many and currently have 16 calculator apps on my iPhone.
The one I have settled on is HiCalc which has features like RPN, Unit Converter, Base conversion, etc. It also doesn't try to put it all on the screen at the same time.
HOT TIP
I originally hated the default calculator because it didn't have a backspace key, that is why I started researching other calculator apps.
Recently I discovered that backspace is a right to left swipe across the default calculator's display area.
Michael,
Thanks for the tip on the default calculator. I found it strange that that default calculator didn't have percentage in the vertical orientation.
Nothing for Security or Privacy?
What specifically are you referring to? I've included Find My Phone. Security? Lock your phone with the pass code. I really don't know what else you want.
Think pc security and privacy software.
How much of that is applicable to the iPhone?
Like apps that take location information without asking permission?
Removing tracking cookies?
Adblock app for iPhone?
Antivirus and antispyware apps?
etc. etc.
I don't' know if this will help, but you could try Permissions http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/permissions/id535720736?mt=8
✔ "finds and fixes all your privacy settings" - MSNBC
✔ "Have 2 Minutes? Check Out Who Has Access to Your Social Media Accounts" - Mashable
✔ "See what programs and services can borrow your keys [...] and think carefully and skeptically to decide if they still deserve that privilege." - USA Today
✔ "Finding the permissions pages can be tricky, but the nice folks at MyPermissions made a handy dashboard linking to every one" - Wired
Instagram. the BEST camera app out there.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252?mt=8&v0=WWW-NAUS-ITUHOME-TOPAPPLICATIONS&ign-mpt=uo%3D2
facebook. The one app I cannot live without.
Tonido. The absolute best file sharing/productivity app out there. Instead of multiple copies of files like dropbox, you access your always-on computer from anywhere. works on virtually every OS out there. http://www.tonido.com/
NinJump Deluxe Free. One of the most addicting games out there. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ninjump-deluxe-free/id516761043?mt=8
Shazam. What song is that? Shazam it and you will know.
http://www.shazam.com/music/web/faqs.html?platform=iPhone
[Moderator's note : Apps without links deleted. Please post links. Link for Tonido changed to point to its home page. Link for NinJump changed to point to the free version on the iTunes app site.]
I'll look into those. I don't know that Tonido is an improvement over Dropbox if your computer must always be on.
Tell me why you think Instagram is the best. What is it best at?
Thanks for the game recommendation. I'm least familiar with game apps, so I'll take all the help I can!
Hey, just so you know, Read it later became Pocket: http://getpocket.com/
Thanks, I'll revise this list soon. Why they changed their name from something descriptive and useful to clothing apparel is strange...
This is a great list. Thank you for the information. I was very excited to finally find an intelligent summary of usable ios apps. BTW HDR Foto is no longer free (.99 now) And also maybe a Cydia/Jailbreak list, for beginners, in the future?
I'll take off HDR Foto when I next revise the site. If you know of a suitable HDR app, let me know! Thanks
Thanks! I'll be revising this list soon and remove HDR Foto. Since I don't have a jailbroken phone, I have no way of testing apps, sorry.
iFile Explorer, free file manager that lets you transfer files. I've tried it, and it is way better than File App, the only bad thing is that there's advertisements for its similar products.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ifileexplorer-protect+multi/id355253462?mt=8