Comments on: What do you consider to be the “essential” iPhone apps?

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:38:38 +0000

Hardly! Apartment Therapy is pretty decorating pictures and home organization ideas.

By: Matt Stratton

Matt Stratton — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:24:47 +0000

There is now an Apartments.com app, but I don’t think that’s what you have in mind…

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:57:42 +0000

No iPhone for me – but I am considering switching from the G1 once mine gives out/contract is up. But…is there an Apartment Therapy app? I love the site and wish I could view it on my phones browser.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:05:06 +0000

Thanks to my son-in-law Matt, and to all that responded with the great tips. It will take me weeks to sort thru all of them, but that’s the fun of having an iPhone. What did we ever do without them?

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By: Nando Velasquez

Nando Velasquez — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:42:10 +0000

Just looking at the apps I like to use.

For News: USA TODAY, AP, New York Times, Wall Street Journal (Although I rarely use it, but from what I’ve noticed, you can read free stories there that are locked for subscribers on their website)

Mint.com is a good Quicken type website that’s free and has a good app.

Amazon is great. and I’d second the Kindle for Amazon. I haven’t bought anything yet, but just the fact that I can download the first chapter of any book in the kindle store for perusing is awesome.

Shazam is great when you have the radio on and want to find out what song you’re listening too. Remote is awesome when you’re too lazy to walk to your desktop to play iTunes.

I have a bunch of movie theater apps. Personally, I like the way One Tap Movies looks, but it’s not free. The free version of One Tap Movies is called Showtimes. What I like about both is they’re intergrated very well with Google Maps. But Movies, Now Playing, and Fandango are good too. Try all the free ones and see which works for you.

My favorite game is MotionX’s Poker Quest. It’s a dice game, but very fun to shake the iPhone and feel like you’ve got dice rolling around in there. It costs money, but MotionX has a free version called Dice. No game involved, but good if you want to try what I’m talking about.

I also like Aurora Feint II: The Beginning, Haven’t DL’d Peggle yet, but might based on the recommendations above.

Oh yeah and for the wifey, the Entertainment News apps for Access Hollywood and TMZ

By: Matt Stratton

Matt Stratton — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:12:26 +0000

Dashbuster sounds cool – I know that my father-in-law uses Netflix, so I bet he’ll get some mileage out of that.

By: Matt Stratton

Matt Stratton — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:11:37 +0000

Marcelo – yeah, we have a Kindle, so I am looking forward to seeing if we can use that same account that already has the books and stuff downloaded. I’m fairly certain you can (you can use the same account on multiple Kindles, so it should work with the iPhone app I would imagine).

By: Marcelo

Marcelo — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:07:55 +0000

Camerabag and Picoli are excellent photo manipulation apps. Picoli adds basic on the fly post production to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, etc. Camerabag has a bunch of preset filters to make your photos look like they came out of a Holga or a Diana or were shot on 1960’s black and white film. It’s really well done and I use them a lot when I want to make my photos artsy.

For food apps I like the epicurious app, which has like 20,000 recipes from Gourmet magazine, Bon Appetit magazine, SELF, Cookie, Parade – quality stuff.

Your wife might enjoy the Stanza ebook reader app for reading ebooks on her phone, also the Kindle for iPhone app. Don’t you have a Kindle? You can probably figure out a way to share the account on your phone and your device to get the same books on it.

Other apps I use constantly include Pandora for music, Peggle, Bookworm, Solebon, Tetris, and Katamari for games, Now Playing for movie times and Netflix stuff (although the other recs are interesting and I want to try them out), Sportacular for sports scores, and a nifty ambient music generation app called Bloom written by Brian Eno.

By: Shana

Shana — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:10:44 +0000

The apps I use most often are: facebook, Shazam, Wikipanion, Yelp, Flixter, Peggle, Pandora, and Public Radio Tuner.