iPhone Apps
Steve | September 29, 2008
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.
Hi Steve, A good list of apps, I like: locly, which lists
John | September 29, 2008Hi Steve,
A good list of apps, I like:
locly, which lists local to your position flickr, twitter, pubs etc.
zenbe a list /todo app which is simple enough for me.
Voicenotes
which are all free
I am also looking into creating webapps eg;
http://www.johnjohnston.name/iphone
an iphone interface for ScotEduBlogs, bookmark it and ‘Add to Home Screen’ to keep up with Scots Edubloggers (you know you want to) seems that here may be some possibilities playing with that stuff.