Posts Tagged ‘iphone’

Essential iPhone

// April 3rd, 2009 // 3 Comments » // random

In honor of the release of Skype for iPhone here is my list of essential apps.

App Store
Evernote: simply awesome and the new 2.0 is so much faster

Last.fm: still on the list for now but if the CDN pay plan comes in this is off the list

Skype: VoIP on the iPhone. Nuff said. Although you’ll need to set up an American account to get it and the call quality has been inconsistent for me so far.

Wordpress: using it now to write this post. Obviously only useful if you have a wordpress powered site.

Twitterfon: best free twitter app.

Facebook: they’ve done a good job making it more stable and useful although access to events and phone book would be helpful.

Web Apps
Google Reader: perfect. Star, share, comment, catalogue all from the iPhone.

Buxfer: got me to move my personal finances into the cloud.

Wikipedia: there are a couple store apps available but honestly the official mobile portal through safari is great enough.

Jailbroken Apps
PDANet: 3G tethered modem. Awesome

Clippy: cut and paste ahead of the 3.0 update.

SBSettings: quick access to settings without having to leave apps.

Honourable Mentions
Urbanspoon
Movies by Flixster
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How I made My Email Work Again

// January 22nd, 2009 // No Comments » // random

Or Gmail + iPhone equals Email bliss

This is not a post about configuring my email settings although I have done some of that of late as well. No, this is really about how my iPhone cured not just my blackberry addiction but the underlying email addiction that was fueling my gadget fetish. I know there are a lot of Apple evangelists out there who will waste no time telling about how the iPhone is the greatest phone ever created, that Mac OSX can solve world hunger and that the new unibody MacBook Pros were really the secret force behind propelling Barrack Obama to the fore of the world stage but… that’s not really my point either. (although I do love my iPhone)
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