Techies share favorite iPhone apps

The new Facebook 3.0 app was released today. It is a bit snappier and has some new features... other than that I just use Twitterific and The Weather Channel.

So far I have refused to spend any money at the app store.

Great write-up, Val. I really enjoyed that section of the conference as well. In addition to seeing all of the cool apps, thought it was interesting to see one Android app demoed (the Star Trek tricorder app) and nothing else from any other platforms..

Will be interesting to see if iPhone will continue to dominate in future show-and-tells, or whether G, MS, Palm, etc can start to compete...

I love playing "Pest Poke". It looks pretty simple, but is very addictive. Definitely recommend it to all my friends.

Pandora Radio's App (Radio programmed with music you want to hear), Urban Spoon (Picks restaurants in your area or area of your choosing by type and price range, with a random pick feature), MovieFone Movie Finder (of Internet fame), Shazam (Identifies songs played near the iPhone), BBCReader (BBC News), NYTimes (New York TImes News), and Mighty Mighty Good Games Sudoku (Sudoku, Free edition). All free and all great apps.

Kudos on Bump, my cousin introduced me to that one. And that one is free too!

Thanks for expanding my app universe, I've only had my 3gs phone 2 weeks, but I'm loving the Pocket Universe tons already.

Bloomberg's app is great for tracking various financial markets and prices.
Apple's Remote app for controlling your iTunes wirelessly is great for around the house and out in the yard.
Dog Whistler is a good one – not only to bother the neighbor's barking dogs with, but it's a good audio test of your hearing range too.
BeamItDown's app "The Federalist Papers" is a great one for studying our Constitution and the founding father's intentions – a must read for any American in these times.

I didn't know about the sonar thing. That is cool. Not accurate enough to be of much use, but still cool.

I write apps for the iPhone and mac, within a firm. Not for the app store. Recently I got a bit sick of Apple being precious with their code (you cannot access the calendar database on the iPhone: great for businesses!!!) so i tried developing on Android.

And that .... sucked. Sucked hard. I was very disappointed. It wasn't the language. C derivatives are much the same. And it wasn't the SDK GUI (software development kit graphical user interface). The "Event" software provides a neat mobile phone simulator just like Xcode from Apple does.

What really sucked.... and it REALLY SUCKED.... was the physical limitations of the non-iPhones themselves. That sounds odd, nuh? There I was, developing code in a virtual environment, and i am complaining about the physical aspect of the phone! Crazy.

But the fact is, without the touch screen and the scrolling and the swiping and the rotating and all the other stuff I've become used to.... there was nothing left! My user could type in characters and press "delete", "save" or some other basic command. And that was it!

This fact dawned on me all of a sudden, and my feeling of rebellion against mother Apple evaporated like truth in war. As i began to fully comprehend just how much sucking fail was attached to Android, I began to understand the full horror: Android will die. The hardware AND the software are just too many years behind the standard set by Apple.

Other big computing firms must look at Apple and weep in awe. This firm brought the mouse, the GUI, and just about every feature on your computer you like using. They are rolling their competition in the smart phone market up and smoking them, because they understand that fundamental of business: what the user thinks matters. The customer is always right.

Except when he is bitching about the Calendar API, evidently.

Wes – I'm really digging the Facebook app update - especially the fact that you can update fan pages from your phone now.

Matt – I was surprised so much of the sharing was iPhone apps – so perhaps the others still have their work cut out for them.

I think even the AOL Radio app is pretty good too, its different from pandora and slacker radio in the sense that u get to listen to real radio and moreover there is lots of variety to pick from....

I love the free news aps – BBC Reader, AP, NY Times, Star Tribune, Huffington etc.. I don't mind paying 99 cents for fun aps like (the upgraded) Sudoku, Falling gems or for helpful aps like Beepmycell. No way I'll pay $99 though for the Tom Tom ap – that seems overpriced since they aren't providing the hardware. I'm excited to see companies like USAA and AAA putting out their own aps.

My favorites include Wee Spider (spider solitaire), MLB for all the stats and even live games, Pandora radio, Wootwatch (easy to keep up with deals on Woot.com), Stanza (book reading), Rolando game (how cute!), and Photogene (nice photo editing program if you can't get to your computer)..

I like airshare. its $9.99 but it rocks as a wireless thumb drive for my pc.

Well, a major problem is the iphone does not have insurance if the customers lost it or damage it. They have to buy another new iphone. It is not worthy.

Hands down my favorite is PortfolioLive. More stock market data than most web sites in the palm of your hand. I can stand around a grocery store and know the exact value of all my portfolios with up to the minute pricing. This could be the most powerful app in the whole AppStore.

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I love these applications. Recently had to drive from Florida to Asheville, NC and did not have to bring the Ipod nor my Tom Tom.
In addition, thanks to the applications, I was able to track any storms in the area (seems to rain from St. Peter up to Asheville the whole trip), find a hotel room and call them to make a reservation, figure the time for me to drive, and, my personal favorite (my wife hates it) find any barbque restaurants along my route.
Thanks Apple for these app's. I do use the Star Walk for my astronomy hobby, along with the skies forecaster to set up my star gazing nights.

My FAVORITE app (today) is Yellow Pages. Not only can I find the phone number and address of a business but also how to get there using the map feature. It also allows me to add the business to my contacts.

Lose It, Remote, Translator, Pool Calculator, ShopShop, The Weather Channel, Wikipanion, Dictionary, Units, Shazam. These are all extremely useful and free (other than Pool Calculator, but that's only useful if you have a pool). The most money I've spent on an app is around $35 for the Formula One Timing & Scoring App. It is well worth it if you're a fan of F1.

I've had my iPhone now since February and now I don't know what I ever did without it! My favorite apps are:

FlightTracker (great if you pick people up at the airport)
Mover (like bump but you can share pictures as well as other people's contacts)
Facebook and FriendSync for Facebook
Shazam (of course)
Flixster (gives movie locations and times in your area)
Remote – which controls your iTunes on your computer
and if you live in Denver and use the Light Rail, the Denver Rail app is awesome.

For games, Flags Fun is a fun matching game, Blocked, Ragdoll Blast, Lucky 11's, Paper toss....

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