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While up in Glasgow I had several conversations with other educationalists about what ‘apps’ we had on our iPhones, the following list shows the additional apps that I have downloaded and am using on a regular basis.

• Fizz Weather - detailed weather information (£3.49)

• Google Mobile - Google search (£ FREE)
• Shazam - Hold your iphone to music and it will tell you the artist and track name (£ FREE)
• Remote - Control music on your computer or Apple TV (£ FREE)
• WordPress - Post to your wordpress blog (£ FREE)
• NetNewsWire - Access RSS feeds, synchronises with other Newsgator RSS readers (£ FREE)
• Twitterrific - Twitter client (£ FREE)
• Twinkle - Twitter client (£ FREE) no longer using as it doesn’t appear to work for me since my trip to Glasgow
• Palringo - Rich messaging system, I use it to access MSN messenger (£ FREE)
• ShoZu - Allows posting of photos to my Flickr account directly from the phone (£ FREE)
• iFooty - Displays English Premiership football information (£ FREE)
• Facebook - Facebook client for the iphone (£ FREE)
• eBay - eBay client for the iphone (£ FREE)
• iChoose - If you’re in a bind and without a coin to help you choose, just break out your iPhone, and all will be resolved (£ FREE)
• Movies - Watch trailers and get showtimes for UK cinema’s. (£ FREE)
• Exposure - View Flickr from your iphone, excellent integration with GPS to show photos from nearby (£ FREE)
• Bookmarks - Access your delicious bookmarks on the iphone (£ FREE)
• Scribble - Basic drawing app, Jack loves it (£ FREE)
• Dual Level - Spirit level for your iphone, came in handy straightening picture frames (£ FREE)
• GPS Tracker - Tracks your movements in real time, then plots to a googlemap (£ FREE)
• Earthscape - GoogleEarth equivalent (£ FREE)
• AirSharing - Drag and drop files between iphone and pc/mac over wireless network (£3.99 was free when I downloaded)
  

Games:

• Trism - Highly addictive tetris type game (£1.79)
• Monkey Ball - Roll a encased monkey around a maze (£5.99)
• Cro-Mag - Racing game (£1.19)
• Sudoku - (£ FREE)
• Break Classic - (£0.50 was free when I downloaded)
• Tris - has now been pulled from the App Store
• Moonlight lite - Mahjong (£ FREE)
• Dactyl - Test your dexterity (£ FREE)

If you have any recommendations for good iphone apps, please leave them in the comments.

Corridor chat
Originally uploaded by kardon

Just before leaving the Scottish Learning Festival I caught up with Neil Winton & John Johnston. I wanted to get a copy of Neil’s presentation on wiki’s - you can now find it up on his blog.

It was then time to swap ideas/applications etc etc

I benefited from the following advice:

1) Ctrl-tab - firefox extension, allows shifting between tabs (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5244)
2) ReloadEvery - firefox extension, allows you to set a page to reload very ‘n’ seconds (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115)
3) Plainview - interesting browser (www.barbariangroup.com/software/plainview_app_1_0)
4) Instapaper - A fast, easy, free tool to save web pages for reading later, also works on the iphone (www.instapaper.com/)
5) Earthscape - Google Earth like app for the iphone (www.crunchbase.com/company/earthscape)
6) Edublogs.tv - Upload your own videos or simply grab them from YouTube to avoid school filters (edublogs.tv/)
7) Get YouTube Video - bookmarklet for firefox, drag the link on the page to your bookmark toolbar, next time you want to get a copy of a YouTube video, click on the bookmarklet and the download the mp4 file (googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/download-youtube-videos-as-mp4-files.html)

Today I am on a train on my way up to Glasgow to attend the Scottish Learning Festival and Teachmeet08.

This is when having an iPhone comes in to it’s own. I have just used the free ‘wordpress’ app to post to my work blog and to write this. The application is very neat and allows me to do everything I can do on the website editor, except for ‘copy & paste’.

This makes the wordpress app a must have to any blogger using wordpress who has got an iPhone.