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papa · 1 year ago

Good list. I'm enjoying this Jibro Match game. Mainly because my daughter loves to play it. I find that when I'm driving her in the car or when we're at a restaurant waiting for food, she'll ask to play. It's a great way to occupy a kid for a short period of time (wait...am I being a bad parent?).

I'm also enjoying using the iPhone optimized websites out there. I've found a few good lists from other bloggers, but it would be fun to know your list of iPhone websites at some point (meebo for instance, has turned out to be very useful, and there are multiple iphone optimized versions of nextbus that i'm messing with too).

I love the local apps like urbanspon, yelp and iwant. I find myself now wanting an app that will tell me how full a restaurant is (for example, if i'm going to a cafe...are there tables/seats available?). I know, sounds ludicrous but now that I have all this info at my fingertips, I'm getting greedy and want EVEN MORE DATA.

webomatica · 1 year ago

Cool, I'll check out the Jibro games. Yeah, I think having an idea of a wait
time at a restaurant would be awesome - maybe really popular joints could
install a web cam that one could take a peek at using an iPhone.

DaFerret · 1 year ago

I love NetNewsWire. It references my Newsgator account so my read/unread feed status remains synced across the iPhone, my Mac and web. However, the only reason it's "better" than google reader is the post to blog feature on the Mac app. :/

I love BoxOffice, but I'll give that Movies one a try... wouldn't mind checking out trailers and such.

Did you try Aurora Feint? http://aurorafeint.com/

webomatica · 1 year ago

Cool, more recommendations. I haven't tried out NetTewsWire or Aurora Feint
- the latter one showed up pretty recently. I can dig a good game. Gee - I
may have to do a follow up post after more free app testing.

Andrew_Stone · 1 year ago

Glad you like Twittelator!

We sent Apple Store Version 1.1 which has some GREAT new features - which you can read about here: http://www.stone.com/Twittelator/Twittelator_Ne... and see Screenshots here: http://www.stone.com/Twittelator/Twittelator_Sc....

Oh - here's the Twittelator icon that you can scale any size for your blog: http://www.stone.com/Twittelator/images/twittel...

webomatica · 1 year ago

Thanks for the info. I'm liking the way apps update on iPhone, without
needing to be synced to a computer - very handy.

jcieplinski · 1 year ago

I like the auto-update as well. But be aware, sometimes the updates don't get there as quickly as you might think. I found that iTunes on my Mac finds several updates that the iPhone itself doesn't. Maybe there's a delay before they get pushed out to the mobile AppStore? I don't know.

So I downloaded all the updates on my Mac, and then synched them to the iPhone. Not nearly as elegant as it should be.

I also hate how it ignores my organization on the home screens and just downloads the updates into the next available slot.

I find the Talking Phrasebooks in various languages somewhat useful. Good for picking up common usage phrases, anyway. And they're free. Might be enough to get you by when traveling. The nice feature is that you get recordings of the phrases being spoken, rather than just the text.

I keep wanting to try out G-Park, but I forget to mark my spot at the time I'm parking. I imagine this is a very useful little app for those of us who forget where we park all the time.

I agree that the best is most certainly yet to come.

webomatica · 1 year ago

Hmmm, yeah, you're right, I just checked via the iphone for updates
and saw one, but through iTunes there were about six. Time to sync.

Since you're mentioning annoyances, some of these apps sure crash
often. I was using Last FM and every couple of songs or so it would
hang and I'd have to quit and start over. The other day, the NYTimes
seemed frozen - never updataing, and Twitterlator crashed my whole
phone once.

Yeah, G-Park was that app you were telling me about earlier. It's a
buck, so I'll add it to my list of paid apps to get. Thanks for
commenting as always...!

Andrew_Stone · 1 year ago

Here's my sadness around the updates at the AppStore - we submitted a new version of iGraffiti ( http://tinyurl.com/igraffiti ) about 9 days ago - and it's STILL not updated. Twittelator went in about 4 days ago ( http://tinyurl.com/twittelator )

Ethan · 1 year ago

Hey, glad you like Urbanspoon! We've put out a fix for the map issue you were seeing. Hope that helps!

fastmama · 10 months ago

Are more cities being added...like New Orleans?

webmaster php scripts · 1 year ago

Nice to hear from you that there are this much of application for Iphone. Thanks for the post

iphoneski · 1 year ago

Very nice, all of these.
It is a shame that apple made it harder to get to the free apps in the appstore.

Womens Golf Pro · 10 months ago

My fav is the Mint app. It allows me to always see what is going on with my money. I also use the NY Times everyday.

golfman_story · 7 months ago

What a useful and great info !! Tq very much..

Cheers!

Pukkap · 3 months ago

Great set of apps and post, I would add shopshop which is a simple free app that makes shopping easier (well for me anyway!). Check out my blog www.appertunity.com for more of my fav apps, Jas