Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Rave: My final iPhone Apps

I recently got a cool new Samsung Infuse 4G Android phone and am now free from the Apple tyranny. I decided I would still give a list of those apps which if I ever went back to an iPhone, which I would only do for battery life, which still isn't worth it, I would get. These are my recommendations to every with an iPhone. I will sort them by groups.

Any one with a * I think everyone should have or at least try.

Money
*Pageonce - gets you up to date info on all your accounts/bills.
Square - lets you receive credit card payments. Great for small businesses.
mooch - tracks what people owe you and you owe them.
*Shop Savvy Barcode Scanner - scans barcodes and QR and gives good prices.
Paperlinks - just does QR codes if you don't want the other barcode scanning.
SnapTell - uses the camera to scan bar codes or book covers or cds to give you the best prices.
*Where - I just use it for cheapest gas prices, but it does much more.
PayPal - cash checks into your paypal account using your camera.

Food\Weight\Self improvement
*Urbanspoon - fun shake to find a restaurant app.
*CheckPlease - my favorite tip calculator.
Target WEIGHT - shows you your progress losing weight and has notifications for pounds you still want to lose.
Calorie Counter - follow your calories and scan food products to show what you ate.
Nike+ GPS - it tracks your running and tells you how fast your go.
Streaks - lets you check daily if you accomplished things you wanted to.

Math\Reference
Convertbot - awesome converter for any kind of measure.
Computing Assistant - great calculator for anyone that uses binary, hex or octal.
Pi Cubed - an awesome calculator.
*Dictionary.com - a good dictionary.
*Google Translate - translates even between Spanish and Farsi.
Speedtest.net - find out your internet speed.
iBooks- it is good for stuff you want to read.

Music
*Soundhound - it listens to the radio or you humming and find the song with lyrics.
*Tunewiki - scrolls the lyrics of the song you are listening to with the "iPod."
Pandora Radio - good stations for long time listening.
Magic Stave - listens to notes and tells you which one it is.
Ocarina - play an instrument by blowing on your speaker.
Symphony - compose your own music.

Movies\TV
IMDB -who else was that guy in?
Fandango - what is in the theater right now?
Netflix - lets go watch some show that went off the air 10 years ago.
Google TV Remote - if you have a google tv you now have an extra remote with voice recoginiton.
Kids In Mind - find out how bad movies actually are.
Peel - it shows you what is on your TV in a very nice way. No more TV guide channel.
Redflix - lets you find coupons for redbox movies.
RunPee - tells you the best time to take a bathroom break in a movie.

Social
Google+ - the newest and happiest social network.
Facebook- you know the drill/
Twitter - for any good beliber.
BlogBooster - update your blogger or others blogs.
Tumblr - for all you tumblr bloggers.
*Meebo - the best chat client ever.
Talkatone - a google talk client that automatically makes internet calls through google voice.
fring - useful for some chat, but more importantly includes voip/sip.
Google Voice - google's somewhat annoying app.
GV Mobile + - cost some, but often prefereable to the Google Voice app.
contactus - edit your google contact groups, only makes sense if you use gvmax for mass texts.

Church (I am a good LDS boy.)
Bible.is - the bible, written or read to you, with or without dramatic background music.
*LDS Gospel Library - scriptures and more.
LDS Tools - on the go ward/stake list.
LDS Hymns - sing your heart out.
*Mormon Channel - listen to scriptures, ensigns and much more.
LDS Why? - youth questions, with good answers

Games
Falling Balls - fun accelerometer game.
*Geocaching - pricey, but way great for dates, here's the intro version.
Get Your Bearings - do you know where things are?
Hungry Shark - girls love this for some reason.
*Lightsaber - everyone needs one sometimes.
Paper Toss - can you throw the paper away?
Parallelous - how good are you at multitasking?
:Shift: - this and the squeal are fun.
Smack that Gugl - really kiddy, but fun.
Tilt to Live - best iPhone game ever.
Touch Hockey - air hockey with friends is fun.
Tunnel 3D - another fun accelerometer game.
WeDraw - if you have a smart TV and a bunch of friends with smart phones, try it.

Most of the apps I had I got for free, but some really were worth buying. Mostly I got lucky and got while they were free for a limited time.

I recommend looking at most of these, I have gone through more apps than anyone I know, and these are the ones that I decided to keep. All you Appolytes out there should check them out. Android people, half of them are available, and some even work much better, like google+, although most are a build or two behind. I hope all the time I spent linking every app was worth it.

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