{"id":4424,"date":"2008-08-19T19:27:55","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T02:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2019-12-23T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T18:02:30","slug":"iphoneipod-touch-application-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/08\/19\/iphoneipod-touch-application-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone\/iPod Touch Application Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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07:43:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5342,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/mobile.metafilter.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/mobile.metafilter.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5343,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/nolanbrown.org\\\/imdb&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5344,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/38i.biz\\\/tricorder&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Recommendations based purely on my own personal needs, wants, and desires. These are the applications I&#8217;ve installed on my iPod Touch that have managed to stick around for more than a few days of experimenting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Utilities<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=281940292&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: WeatherBug\">WeatherBug<\/a>: More information than the standard Weather app. I&#8217;ve put this on the home screen and moved Weather to a later page.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=285073074&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: WordPress\">WordPress<\/a>: I&#8217;ve hardly used it, as I&#8217;m usually close enough to my main &#8216;puter to blog from here, but it could come in quite handy the next time I travel.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=289300792&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Kiwi\">Kiwi<\/a>: A nice simple Wikipedia interface.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284815942&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Google Mobile App\">Google Mobile App<\/a>: A one-stop shop for Google&#8217;s major offerings. Mostly just a launcher into their iPhone-optimized websites, but handy for using only one spot on the iTouch screen.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=293622097&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Google Earth\">Google Earth<\/a>: A little slow, but lots of fun to play with. Nice use of the accelerometer for moving your view around also. Plus, it&#8217;s free and makes a good &#8220;wow!&#8221; tech demo. ;)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=297606951&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Amazon Mobile\">Amazon Mobile<\/a>: Because I really, <em>really<\/em> need a way to make spending more money even easier!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Media\/Entertainment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284417350&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Remote\">Remote<\/a>: I&#8217;m not using it much right now, but it&#8217;s fun to play with. It does make it tempting to put an Airport Express in the living room to pipe iTunes into the stereo there, though&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rowmote.com\/Rowmote.html\" title=\"Rowmote\">Rowmote<\/a>: Slick little companion piece\/replacement for Remote that acts as a remote control over WiFi for a whole <em>host<\/em> of applications on the Mac. I&#8217;ve been using this to control the QuickTime player while Prairie and I watch TV episodes we&#8217;ve downloaded from Bittorrent, and it works great. Very handy!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284595421&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Pocketpedia\">Pocketpedia<\/a>: &#8220;I wonder if there&#8217;s a way for me to easily catalog my DVD collection and sync it with my iPod?&#8221; I said one day. A few minutes later, I had Pocketpedia on my iPod and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruji.com\/dvdpedia\/\" title=\"DVDpedia\">DVDpedia<\/a> (which generates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhanscom.com\/dvds\/\" title=\"My DVD Library\">this list<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruji.com\/bookpedia\/\" title=\"Bookpedia\">Bookpedia<\/a> on my Mac. Perfect!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284939567&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Now Playing\">Now Playing<\/a> (formerly Box Office): Movie listings at local theaters, reviews, even trailers, all in one slick little app.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284956128&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Stanza\">Stanza<\/a>: An e-book reader that ties directly into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedbooks.com\/\" title=\"Feedbooks\">Feedbooks<\/a>, allowing you to download tons of free texts. I read H.G. Wells&#8217; <em>The Time Machine<\/em> over the past week on lunch, Cory Doctorow&#8217;s <em>Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom<\/em>, and a number of others. There&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexcycle.com\/\" title=\"Lexcycle: Stanza\">desktop client<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll use that nearly as often, this is more for easy entertainment when I&#8217;ve got a few minutes to kill.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=302584613&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Kindle for iPhone\">Kindle for iPhone<\/a>: I wouldn&#8217;t spend the money for an actual Kindle, but I&#8217;ve ended up spending enough time using Stanza for eBooks that I figured I&#8217;d give this a try as well. All I&#8217;ve picked up so far is the Stephen King short story &#8216;Ur&#8217;, and I haven&#8217;t even read it yet, but a few minutes of poking around leads me to believe that Kindle isn&#8217;t bad either.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Photography<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284919489&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Darkslide\">Darkslide<\/a>: A beautiful interface to Flickr from the creator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/connectedflow.com\/flickrexport\/iphoto\" title=\"FlickrExport for iPhoto\">iPhoto<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/connectedflow.com\/flickrexport\/aperture\" title=\"FlickrExport for Aperture\">Aperture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/connectedflow.com\/flickrexport\/\" title=\"FlickrExport\">FlickrExport<\/a> plugins. Free with ads, also available in an ad-free <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284920890&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Darkslide Premium\">premium version<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Social Networking<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=296415944&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Tweetie\">Tweetie<\/a>: I tried a few, and this is by <em>far<\/em> the best Twitter app I&#8217;ve found. Multiple accounts, saved searches, trend watching, and ping.fm integration. This is my #1 most-used 3rd party app.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284882215&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Facebook\">Facebook<\/a>: <del title=\"3\/13\/09\">I don&#8217;t really use it that often, but often enough that it&#8217;s stuck around.<\/del> I&#8217;ve been using Facebook more often recently, and along with that, the Facebook app. Pretty slick, actually.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284792653&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: MySpace Mobile\">Myspace Mobile<\/a>: I still hate Myspace, but I have to admit, if their actual website worked half as well as their iPhone app, I might not hate them quite as much. Not bug-free, but so much more bug-free and pleasant to look at than the actual website that this is my preferred method of checking in on those friends who I can&#8217;t talk out of the MySpace ghetto.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=288429040&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: LinkedIn\">LinkedIn<\/a>: I don&#8217;t stop by here as much, but if I need to, I&#8217;ve got the app to do it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284901416&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: AP Mobile News Network\">Mobile News<\/a>: AP&#8217;s news browser. When I just want a quick browse of major news stories, this is the way to do it. I especially like the localization options.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Games<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=285286023&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Boom!\">Boom!<\/a>: Minesweeper. &#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=281736535&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Enigmo\">Enigmo<\/a>: I&#8217;m not entirely sold on this one. Neat and all, but the screen&#8217;s so small on the iPod\/iTouch that I lose track of what objects have been placed where. I think I&#8217;d like this as a desktop game rather than in its mobile version.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284572328&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Quordy\">Quordy<\/a>: A <em>great<\/em> little word game. Prairie and I have both had a lot of fun with this one &#8212; since the default is to start a game by shaking the iPod as if you were shaking a Yahtzee dice cup, if we&#8217;ve got a few minutes to kill somewhere, Prairie will just say &#8220;Shake it! Shake it!&#8221; and (rather than breaking into a dance, which I&#8217;m sure would be amusing as well) out comes Quordy.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284975727&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Aurora Feint\">Aurora Feint<\/a>: While I&#8217;m not putting a ton of time into the RPG aspect of the game, the Tetris-like game itself is fun enough to keep me engrossed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=283563150&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Jirbo Break\">Jirbo Break<\/a>: I&#8217;ve always liked Breakout clones, and this one works fine for me. I&#8217;d made it through all the levels, but they just released an update giving it 99 total levels. Guess I better get back to work!<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=284596345&amp;mt=8\" title=\"iTunes App Store: Cube Runner\">Cube Runner<\/a>: Marvelously simple, engrossing, and a great demonstration of the accelerometer. Still one of my favorite games.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>iPhone\/iTouch Optimized Sites:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del title=\"3\/13\/09\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ping.fm\/iphone\/\" title=\"Ping.fm\">Ping.fm<\/a>: The dashboard interface to the Ping.fm one-update-does-all website.<\/del> <ins title=\"3\/13\/09\">Now that Tweetie ties into ping.fm directly, I&#8217;ve removed this.<\/ins><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><del title=\"3\/13\/09\"><a href=\"http:\/\/m.twitter.com\/home\" title=\"Twitter\">Twitter<\/a>: Since I use Ping.fm to update, I&#8217;m fine with using the Twitter mobile client to check updates. I do at times wish I could easily check @ replies, but not often enough to install Twitteriffic (which has just never quite felt &#8220;right&#8221; for me, in either its desktop or mobile incarnations) or another dedicated client.<\/del> <ins title=\"3\/13\/09\">Tweetie to the rescue again!<\/ins><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><del title=\"3\/13\/09\"><a href=\"http:\/\/m.newsgator.com\/iPhone.aspx\" title=\"NewsGator\">NewsGator<\/a>: Even though there&#8217;s a well-regarded NetNewsWire app for the iPhone\/iTouch, I still just use the NewsGator mobile site. It&#8217;s faster and easier to use than NNW mobile, and while I keep poking at NNW mobile, it still hasn&#8217;t been able to win me over.<\/del> <ins title=\"3\/13\/09\">I&#8217;ve actually been pulled away from the NewsGator family, and now use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/i\/\" title=\"Google Reader\">Google Reader mobile interface<\/a>.<\/ins><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.cnn.com\/\" title=\"CNN\">CNN Moble<\/a>: Not actually iPhone\/iTouch optimized, and not terribly pretty, but works if I just want a quick look at &#8220;what&#8217;s happening now&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.metafilter.com\/\" title=\"MetaFilter\">Metafilter<\/a>: Read-only as far as I can tell, but a slick way to browse MeFi.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nolanbrown.org\/imdb\/\" title=\"IMDb Mobile\">IMDB Mobile<\/a>: Again, just a nice way to dig through the IMDB. A little slow sometimes is about my only complaint, but since it&#8217;s not actually affiliated with IMDB, I can&#8217;t complain too much.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/i\/\" title=\"Google Reader\">Google Reader<\/a>: Though I&#8217;m a long time NetNewsWire (and therefore NewsGator) user, I&#8217;m experimenting with Google Reader. Their iPhone\/iTouch interface is as slick as their web interface, and definitely gives the Newsgator juggernaut some strong competition. Now if I could only sync Google Reader to NetNewsWire&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/38i.biz\/tricorder\/\" title=\"Tricorder\">Tricorder<\/a>: Pure Star Trek silliness. Could really use being recreated as a standalone app so that it doesn&#8217;t have the annoying advertising at the bottom. Perhaps using the accelerometer to affect the displays?<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for me. Any other recommendations from all of you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommendations based purely on my own personal needs, wants, and desires. These are the applications I&#8217;ve installed on my iPod Touch that have managed to stick around for more than a few days of experimenting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039],"tags":[118,58,65],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-apple","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}