MacGeek – 5 Best Free iPhone Apps
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
These are the 5 free apps that I use the most on a day to day basis…
First, let me say that I use these the most, but don’t confuse that with the best free apps ever made.
In no particular order:
TwitterFon
Facebook is ubiquitous, but Twitter is catching up. President Obama even uses Twitter. This app is actually pretty slick. It easy to share ‘tweets’ or take pictures on the fly. You can even reply, direct message, or ‘ReTweet’ easily right inside the app. Updating your Twitter status has never been so easy. You can follow people (even celebrities) or have followers. Follow me by going to twitter.com/palaemon. Get it here.
Speed Dial #1
This app does one thing. One-touch dialing to whomever you want. It’s easy, simple and free. If you need more than one, there are
3 more. You guessed it: Speed Dial 2, Speed Dial 3, Speed Dial 4. As an added bonus, they are all different colors, so if numbers are not your thing, maybe colors will do it for you. Get it here.
Vlingo
A nifty little voice recognition app. Use your voice to call a friend, get directions, or search Google. Easy, accurate, and I have to say It’s a little fun. Check out our full review of Vlingo here. Get it here.
NetNewsWire
RSS reader extraordinaire. This app is the way I catch up on my news, geeky or otherwise. You have to add your RSS feeds through newsgator.com, but you can delete right from the app. It has a built-in web-browser. This allows the user to not only view the basic feed info, but also see the article in its full glory. As an added bonus, there is an ‘open in safari’ button. Get it here.
Wikipanion
This is your basic Wikipedia app. Okay, so basic is totally an understatement. This is probably the most powerful Wiki app out there. The lengthy features include: bookmarking, lookup complete history, jump to topics, related links, move forward and backward through pages, search in page, adjust font size, email link, open in safari, look up in Wiktionary and landscape view. Whew! Get it here.
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I use TwitterFon as well as Wikipanion. I’m always checking Wiki for any nagging questions like: “How long has Jeopardy been on the air?” or “Who is this highway in San Diego named after and why?”
I like TwitterFon but I tried out Twinkle and liked it because of the interface and how when someone posts a picture, it opens up like viewing a photo in the Pictures app. TwitterFon opens up a webpage with the image in it, which can take forever over edge. The problem with Twinkle is that randomly it stopped working with Twitter and only connects to it’s own network only for me and my wife. No info on why or when it will be fixed, so I just went back to TwitterFon.
Wayne comments on a post??!!?? Yea, I tried twitterific too and just got confused. I guess since I have 3G I never gave the “picture in a webpage” thing much thought. Twinkle looks cool, maybe I’ll check it out…
I have friends who say that Edge has been really horrible lately… AT&T trying to push everyone to a 3G device?? hmm…
My favotie Free Apps
Twitterrific – Twitter
Facebook
Easy Wi-Fi for ATT – automatically joins ATT networks
Yelp! – nearby restraunt guide
Shazam – music tagging and identification
Phone Flix – access to NetFlix queue
Kindle for iPhone – Kindle!
My favorite paid apps:
Measures – Very easy to use and comprehensive Unit convertor
BucksMe – finds the nearest Starbucks
Wine Enthusiast Guide – when standing looking at all those bottles
iTrans BART – San Francisco Subway map
Facebook was one of my original 5, but I like the fact that I can twitter and have my status updates post directly on Facebook. So, I don’t use the Facebook app as much as I used to.
I’ll be posting more of my faves, so stay tuned…
also, I used iBart when I was there in Jan. Cool app.
I use that app on my iPhone. twitterfon. It’s a easy and simple one for Twitter on iphone.
Twitterfon – now that I think I understand Twitter better, it’ll be easier for me to use this app, i was REALLY confused the first time i downloaded it, but I’ll give it a other try
Vlingo – I really only used this for Twitter, but now that I downloaded Twitterfon….. I’ll still keep it around, but it’s not something I use often
Wikipanion – always immensely useful (especially at trivia)
Facebook – I use this daily, seeeveral times daily… what can I say, I just get bored at work LOL, I just wish they’d update it with more features, like being able to view Events and such (really hoping they don’t change it to be like Facebook currently is, I like being able to view just status updates etc, and the live feed in the app is MUCH better than the feed online)