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Thu, 12 Feb 2009
On my iPhone Part Two
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I know, the suspense is killing you... I will continue with page three of my iPhone apps. But first... this little journey into my phone has become beneficial to me. I've already cleaned off a few apps that I haven't touched in a while, plus I removed a few web shortcuts that I stopped using. I may get my iPhone back down to six pages of apps after all!
But enough about me... on to my iPhone:
Page 3
App Sales
Sweet little free app (because the source code is available) that downloads your app's daily sales reports from Apple and keeps track of it, all on your iPhone. My morning routine usually consists of firing up this app soon after waking up to see how the previous day's sales were.
Galcon Lite
Fun little game, sort of a fast-paced Risk. You have a number of planets, each with a certain population of ships that grows over time. The computer has a similar setup, and your goal is to send a stream of ships to unconquered planets in the "system" in order to control them before your opponent does. This is the free, "lite" version, which is enough for me.
Weather Bug
Weather application that I hardly use anymore. I like it, though, because it finds weathercams that are available for the areas you track.
LifeGame
Conway's life in an iPhone app. I still like seeing the gliders being created and wiggling across the screen. Nice app, contains a library of starting patterns that are entertaining. It's free, too.
AP Mobile News
Another news application, this one straight from the AP. I'll fire this up when I have a couple minutes (Starbucks line, for example) to see what's going on in the world.
Toy Bot Diaries
Another $4.99 game... professionally done, mildly entertaining. It was one of the first "real" games for the iPhone so I picked it up to see what it'd be like. Nice use of the touch screen and accelerometer.
Sextuple Word Challenge
Similar to a game on Facebook -- six letters are shown to you and you need to figure out all the words that can be made from those six letters. Used to play it more often than I do now, but I still like it.
Free version of someone's kick-ass game :) This free version limits you to just three rounds of play.
Fuzzle Lite
Don't play this game much anymore... it's one of those match-the-colors-on-a-grid sort of games. This app should really be on my sixth page but it's kind of a pain to move it all that way...
Yahtzee Adventure
Nice Yahtzee game with a few variations that keeps it fun. I believe it's from EA Games. I'll play this every now and then as I put my youngest daughter to sleep on my shoulder.
Penguin Lite
Fun free version of the Penguin game. You're either catapaulting or dive-bombing penguins, trying to knock down polar bears.
Orions: Legend of Wizards
A game similar to Magic: The Gathering. It has an adventure mode that I've never tried... I just like firing up the duel against the computer every now and then.
Remote
Apple's application that allows me to control my mac's iTunes. I use it to stream music to our AppleTV without having to get up off the sofa.
mondo
Ambrosia software's solitaire game. Very nice app -- I've always been a fan of Ambrosia, ever since the Escape Velocity running on my Mac IIci (which is in my garage, by the way). It's always nice to play a good game of Klondike every now and then.
Portal to my LinkedIn account. I fire it up every now and then just to see where folks are moving around. I don't update it very often.
And that does it for page three. Three more pages to go!
Wed, 11 Feb 2009
What's on my iPhone?
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I'm an iPhone app addict. I've installed around 120 apps so far. Most of them are free, a lot of them are $0.99, and a few are in the $1.99 and $2.99 range. I think the most I've spent on an application is $4.99, but it was worth it. Actually... I did just spend $10 on an app, but more on that later.
I thought I'd share what apps are currently on my iPhone over the next few weeks with some mini-reviews. I'll just go page by page... for the most part I haven't done much rearranging of applications, so it's not too important what page an application is on. That said, there are always exceptions. Such as app #1:
Page 1
This is actually on the first page of my iPhone apps, of course, so I have to mention it. It's a fun game and it's only $0.99!
Byline
This is the $4.99 app that I bought. It's basically an RSS reader but the best part about it is that it synchronizes with Google Reader. I used to use mobile safari and Google Reader's very nice web interface and was quite happy with it. With Byline, though, I'm even happier.
Page 2
NYTimes
Pretty nice little app that was free and allows me to read some of the stories from the New York Times web site.
Well done application that's a nice portal to their web site.
loans
My first attempt at an iPhone application that I never released. It's a very simple interface which shows you payments on loans.
Evernote
The iPhone version of the web and desktop note-taking software. I store links, clippings, and random bits from the web in it. I don't actually reference it too much, but if I'm trying to remember something I've seen I usually check it. The iPhone version synchronizes nicely with the web and desktop apps. All of which are free.
HoldEm
I believe this is the first game I bought for the iPhone -- Apple's nice rendition of Texas HoldEm. I don't play it all that much anymore, but it's a well-done application with good computer play and wifi play, as well.
Twitterific
A pretty nice free twitter client. Keeps track of the 300 iPhone devs I follow on twitter.
FireDrop
Interesting game I used to play a lot some time ago, but really haven't fired up recently. Block-matching game if I remember correctly.
Air Sharing
This application allows me to copy files (namely PDF books from the Pragmatic Programmers) from my iMac to my iPhone. It uses a WebDAV interface for that connectivity and is pretty slick. The PDF reader is ok as well, although with large books the iPhone can become a bit sluggish.
Pandora
Awesome application that lets me listent to a customized music stream from Pandora. I use it at work over 3g.
Castles Lite
A "free" (aka demo) version of the Castles game. I haven't played it much... in fact, I'm having a hard time remembering exactly what the game is like. And I'm stubborn enough not to fire it up as I type this.
Sportacular
Simply the best application I've seen to keep up-to-date with sports scores. Nice interface, all the big sports... and free.
Instapaper Free
Another must-have for offline reading. Combine this app with the easy-to-use bookmarklet sitting in my browsers and I can easily save an article I'm reading from a web site. Then when I fire up Instapaper on my iPhone, it syncs up with what I saved and presents a simply-formatted version of the site's article that I can easily read on my iPhone. I really like this app but haven't been able to pull the trigger on the full version which adds some nice features but is $9.99.
Ok, that's the first two screens of my iPhone. I'll do page number three in a few days!
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