‘iPhone Apps’ Archives
New Snapture MILLION Trial Giveaway
I've written about Snapture in the past but their new release deserves another post. Version 2.1 (compatible with firmware 2.1) contains free trials for people to experience the premium version of this great app. My favorite premium feature is the preview, which allows you to check out the latest photos you've taken without having to quit Snapture [...]
iChinese: learn Chinese
iChinese is a tool to learn writing Chinese characters and a Chinese-English dictionary with handwriting recognition. I have been trying this iPhone app for the past few days, and I really like it. It should be available on Installer, or you can add its own source: http://ichinese.de/repo Once installed, go to the Library and install the first [...]
Flickr on iPhone
One of the cool things I do with my iPhone is take pictures while I am out and upload them directly to my Flickr account (if I find a wifi point...) There are many ways to do that, here are the ones I tried: - The easiest way is to send the image as an attachment through email. Every Flickr account has a private email for this purpose. I've [...]
Snapture: best camera app
The iPhone camera app works fine for taking photos, but it lacks some basic features. Which is why I was happy to try the app CameraPro. Unfortunately that's a shareware application, so although its features were nice, I didn't feel I needed to buy it. But now there's a new app called Snapture, which is similar to CameraPro but it's totally [...]
VoiceNotes
One app that I really like is VoiceNotes (Multimedia). It simply records from the iPhone microphone and can rename/delete files. The files are saved in arm format, but it's pretty easy to convert to other more popular formats. In theory there isn't a time limit, as long as you iPhone has enough battery and disk space. In practice this app [...]
Wanted iPhone Apps
Third party apps are fun to have, but only a few of them are really useful. Which is why I am eager to see the apps for the new SDK. Here is my wishlist: - Amazon/Kindle/ebook reader: right now there is the Books app, but it only supports txt and html files. What if Amazon's new ebook service would integrate with the iPhone? We could [...]
iComic: read comics on your iPhone
This is definitely my favorite app on my iPhone. As you can see from my comics section, I am a huge comics fan. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of time for it, however having my comics in my pocket at any time to read is a big help. That's what iComic does. Install it here. Since the author is Japanese, the menus are all in Japanese, however [...]
Games on iPhone
I am not a huge gamer, I managed to avoid that addiction, since I already have so many. However there are some 3rd party games available on Installer, so here are some of the ones I've tried. - FiveDice: if you've ever played Yatzee, this is the game app for you. Don't know how much fun it is to play by yourself, but it's well done. - [...]
Controlling your PC with your iPhone
Sometimes we would like to control our PC while we're away from it, and the iPhone can be useful in this regard. - Signal is a way for you to control your iTunes from the iPhone. You install a small program on your PC, then in your iPhone you surf to your PC's IP address and you will see an interface for your iTunes. You can play/stop tracks, [...]
Fun to have Apps
Here are some fun to have apps. - Sketches: you can draw with your finger, even choosing a photo as background. My kid loves to play with this. - Pianist/PocketGuitar/Drummer: these are apps that simulate these instruments, and they sound very good. For Pianist it is even possible to record your performance and play it back. Drummer has many [...]
Wikipedia on iPhone
One of the coolest advantages of a portable internet device, is being able to find information anywhere/anytime. Wikipedia is arguably the best place to start the search, regardless of the subject. So how does it work with the iPhone? You could simply go to Wikipedia.org on your iPhone, but the layout will be a little difficult to read. Safari [...]
How to make ringtones for iPhone
The iPhone has many ringtones by default, but it's always useful to be able to assign a custom ringtone to a certain contact. There is an easy way to do this, you can click here to find out. To briefly summarize: - Get an mp3 file, cut a 30 seconds clip (using a free editor like Audacity) - Convert it to AAC (with iTunes) - Change the file [...]
Favorite Apps
Following are some iPhone Apps that I find very useful, that I run almost daily: - iSIM / SIMport: These apps important contacts from your sim (if you unlocked the iPhone) to the phone. Very useful if you have hundreds of contacts and don't want to insert them one by one. The free version of iSIM doesn't allow bulk import, so you'll have to [...]
iPhone Default Apps
I should have started my apps reviews with this post, but better late than never. Here are short reviews on the default apps provided by Apple: - SMS: it groups messages in conversations, so you have a list of contacts you've messaged, a chat-like display of your back and forth texts. The problem with this is that it's not possible to remove a [...]
iPhone Basic Apps
After a few weeks playing with my iPhone I can start reviewing it in more detail. I'll start with some basic apps that everybody should have. There are many programs that help you put 3rd party apps on your iPhone (the method is called jailbreak), the most famous one is probably "ZiPhone". However once they jailbreak your iPhone they all [...]