You have finally convinced Mom or the wife to purchase an iPhone or iPad. Now, with over 300,000 applications in the app store and growing daily, where do I start. What should I download onto my idevice and what should I purchase to put on my idevice. This is probably what we all thought after we got our device. Here is a list of applications and games that I think are very helpful. Well this list isn’t perfect but it is a starting place without breaking the bank or yourself. Hope it helps. Let me know your favorite application and maybe I can add it to my list for others to see on here.
Apps Apple Should put on every device from the Factory
1. Find My iPhone - This is hands-down the first app that should go on every iPhone, and it's frankly surprising Apple doesn't include it out of the box. This free app won't help you find your own iPhone, but if you live in a house with multiple iPhones and iPads, it will allow you to find someone else's. This makes finding your iphone simple whether you dropped it under the couch or left it in a restaurant while out to dinner. You can display messages for the person who finds the iphone, you can lock it, or wipe it clean all done remotely over the internet. So this is an invaluable application. We spend hundreds of dollars to get an iphone the least we can do is spe
nd a couple more bucks to protect our investment.
2. Camera+ - For US $1.99, this app does everything the built-in Camera app ought to do. Camera+ takes photography on the iPhone to levels that seem impossible on a cell phone camera. With built-in exposure controls and grid lines, you have much more control over composing your photos. Once you've taken your photos, Camera+ gives you access to a tremendously powerful suite of editing tools that can make simple snapshots look like works of art by the time you're finished.
Camera+ has built-in sharing tools, but if you want a more social experience for photo sharing, there's nothing better out there right now than Instagram, which lets you share photos simultaneously across not only its own service, but almost every major social network out there. Instagram also has some basic photo filters you can use to make so-so pics stand out a bit more, but the real draw is seeing and commenting on other people's pics. It's very much like what Facebook does with pictures, but simultaneously more powerful and more fun.
3. Dropbox - Dropbox gives your iPhone the file storage solution that Apple doesn’t think we need. This can be installed on your pc’s and laptops and synchronizes even when your not online. This turns your iphone into the next best thing to a flash jump drive. Dropbox is the next best thing. It offers online-based storage of files, with 2 GB of storage space for free. Even better, you can install Dropbox on a Mac or PC, too, which means sharing documents and files between your Mac and your iPhone is as simple as dragging the file into your Dropbox folder. You can also increase your storage space up to 8 gigs for referring eight friends. This is a great way to get more storage free but it can also be purchased up to 100 gigs. WOW!!!!!!
4. A messaging app – If you are trying to get by without spending money, and who doesn’t need to do that these days. Google Talk i
s a great app. You can even use it to send messages as well as text on
your pc. Why give your wireless carrier more money than you already do? Skype does video chat similarly to Apple's own FaceTime, but unlike FaceTime, it works over 3G (most of the time). Skype is a fair application for this purpose. I really don’t use this so I’m not that familiar with it. I am a Google fan on all aspects of the game.
5. Twitter- but let me be frank here. If you are going to use twitter, Tweetbot is by far the best twitter client available. It is just so user friendly. However, it does cost $1.99 compared to the free version but
believe me you will be glad you spent the two bucks. It is the most feature rich of the twitter clients available. I love tweetbot.
6. 1Password - Typing in passwords on the iPhone's keyboard is usually more of a pain than it's worth, and it's a good way to feel safe while you're doing mobile banking. 1Password allows you to store passwords for websites, bank accounts, Wi-Fi networks, whatever you may need. It's also got a great "wallet" feature that lets you input things you'd normally carry around in your wallet, like discount cards, library cards, or even your driver's license -- just don't expect the cops to accept your iPhone as legal ID if they pull you over. You can even jot down notes that you want to keep secured from prying eyes. If you want something on your iPhone, but you want to be the only one to have access to it, 1Password is what you need.
7. Instapaper - If you like to read articles online, and if you ever foresee reading them on an iPhone, you want Instapaper ($4.99). With just a bit of initial setup, you can configure a link in Mobile Safari to send articles to your free Instapaper account so you can read them later. Instapaper is an invaluable tool for creating a cache of reading material on your device. See a lengthy article that you don't have time for now? Send it to Instapaper and read it when you've got the time. Does part of your daily commute involve going through areas with no wireless coverage? Store articles in Instapaper before you leave, then read them later on the train. Instapaper's one of those iPhone apps that may not seem strictly necessary at first, but once you start using it, you'll never want to be without it again.
8. Evernote - With a simple interface that lets you make notes with text, photos, or audio, this is your brain on iPhone. This free app can also sync notes with its Mac-based counterpart, so you can type up a grocery list in Evernote on your Mac, sync it to Evernote's online servers, and have that information waiting on your iPhone when you hit the store. With Evernote on your iPhone, you never need to worry about forgetting anything again -- at least as long as you remember to look it up in Evernote, that is.
9. An ebook reader app - The thought of reading entire novels on the iPhone's tiny screen might seem ridiculous at first, at least until you try out either Amazon's Kindle app or Apple's own iBooks. If you've already got a Kindle, you can sync over any Kind
le books you've purchased to your iPhone, and you can even sync your reading progress between the devices.
The only drawback to the Kindle app is that you have to back out into Safari if you want to buy more books. Apple's iBooks isn't saddled with that restriction, offering you access to a wide variety of titles in the iBookstore (though not nearly as wide a variety as what Amazon offers). Both apps are very competent ereaders, and while you won't get that book smell while you're reading, the ability to carry an entire library of books around in your pants pocket is pretty phenomenal.
10. Any game – Here’s a list of my top Ten Games for the iPhone and iPad.
Top Ten Game Apps for the Iphone 4
Angry Bird- I have included the free version of angry bird because I think it is want of better games played on your iPhone it is very addictive game so I would recommend a giving try on the iPhone you will enjoy not only the free version but I think you will want to purchase the paid version also.
Bejeweled 2 and Blitz- This is an almost addictive game. You have to get three colors in certain order and beat the clock to score. It updates with facebook and keeps your high score against all your friends who play Blitz. Great app
Guitar Hero- this is as close as it comes to the actual game on wii and playstation. It does have limited songs but I think they will update these as time goes by. This is one of my favorites. As you go through the Game and progress you en bloc different things such as other songs, clothing, instruments, and much more. Check it out
Trophy Hunt- By Cabelas simulates a real hunt. Graphics are very good and the game is interactive as well. Nice game. You can change your weapon from a raffle, pistol, or compound bow. The graphics on this game are extraordinary you can hunt several different animals such as buyer, AL, go, or Moose. It has a map different states to hunting in its is close to the game on PlayStation as I've ever same. It's an awesome game . It is a bit pricey but it is entertaining.
Global War- this game is a war simulation using different military weapons to back. The graphics are awesome as well as sound effects. I would probably give this campaign and 8/10 for being one of my favorite games to play personally.
Solitaire-what iPhone with the complete without one of the most popular card games ever made. If you enjoy solitaire you probably would enjoy the is as much as playing with a real deck of cards it's an awesome solitaire game check it out
Texas poker-this is another one of my favorite card games it is a round table display the gifts the person playing the feeling they are sitting at a table playing cards among friends. And the Rose for playing the game are just as they are with Texas poker played anywhere.
Words with friends- this game is much live solid scrapple if you enjoy playing Scrabble you will like this game the free version is just as good as the paid version the only thing being in the free version Barry is a limited amount of ads or advertisement displayed as you play the game but this is not a distracting at all.
Squirmy-this campaign is by TAPSY. AThis game is played much alive the game snake buries applying the graphics are very good.
Farmville- if you enjoy farming on the PC you will truly enjoy yourself playing this game. It is for the most part just slide the game as you play it on the PC. Just consider it Farmville in your phone.
Springtomize-this allows the user many different features all in one application and sentence it includes things such as allowing the user to had or disable screen flashed, spotlight, Web search, spate page dots, paging. Capabilities are allows the user to toggle on and off the home screen wallpaper, voice control, from the front camera, HDR, and iPod in descendents this is an unbelievable application the features are in place as to what the user can do another example is it allows the user to modify the lock screen to display the second, the toggle off the lock screen, had the navigation bar, you can resize your icons, you can add more icons in a row or I will pay, as you can see from readiness study of features are in place and it allows many ways to tweak or modify your iPhone.
Infiniboard-this allows the user to scroll board vertically and you can add as many icons as you want each page without being limited to only 16 icons of folders per pay it allows you to have an endless number of icons on each page.
Infinidock- this allows the user to the ability to scroll their dock and add the to TNI icons her page on each page is doc before kicking over to the next page of is a good application I do recommend it I enjoy having on my personal phone myself.
Infinifolder-this allows the user the capability to add as many folders as they may want to to each folder. This is how should the them from Apple to start with.
Winter board this allows the user to add themes colors different below goes to their phone this is walk sepia places their whole tweak around basically without Winterbourne you could add things logos to your phone this is a must for any iPhone jail broken phone
speed intensifier this allows the user the capability to speed their phones applications of based only graph that is supplied you choose a number on the graph one being the low number on the left side have number on the right the higher the number the faster the applications open this is a good application but I have had problems were the application was, up Baxter but it didn't open faster overall I do think this is a good application.
Boot logo this gives the user the capability of adding other logos to the you reboot screen as the phone is boot up there is a limited number of logos provided although I will say that there probably will be more as time goes on I hope so.
Package backup -this is without a doubt a necessity for a person with a jailbroken phone it will backup on schedule. It backs up all the Cydia applications that have been downloaded onto the device. This is one of the apps that are a necessity rather than a want. If you have this and have to restore your iphone you can restore all the apps you previously had on your device without downloading them one at a time again.
Cydelete-this is why for the user to. It simply adds the X to the icons when they are in the general mode and the user to simply taps the gates to delete.
Graviboard, a springboard tweak for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, has just been released on Cydia. This tweak is quite stunning visually as it brings different levels of gravity to your springboard icons. The level of gravity (earth, moon, zero gravity, etc.) and how the tweak is activated can be set in the settings menu. While this tweak is activated you can also interact with your icons by grabbing them and throwing them against each other. You even have the option of being able to launch your apps while they are flying around. Graviboard can be purchased on Cydia right now for $2.99.
Android Loader - will essentially work like a big folder: slide up to see the apps, slide it down to dismiss them. There are also basic audio controls. We wish we didn’t have to slide the panel all the way up just to get to the controls, it might just cause too much screen clutter, but that’s almost a non-issue.
Effort has clearly been put into this mod: it looks polished and scrolling works just the way you’d expect it to. That said, there’s absolutely no way to search through your apps: it’s just a scrollable list, which can be a problem if you have a lot of apps installed. There’s also no clear way to sort the apps by folders inside the panel, which can upset a few users who rely on this feature. It cost 2.99
Barrel - is a new tweak available in Cydia, developed by Aaron Ash which adds a 3D “cube” effect to your iPhone’s springboard. This is a very cool tweak which changes the look of how your home screen icons scroll. Please note that this works for all devices running iOS 4.x + apart from the iPad or those with SBRotator installed.
DeepEnd – is a tweak from the Cydia store that makes the springboard appear three dimensional. This is a free tweak for jailbroken iphone. As of today it was for iphone only.
FakeClockUp- This is a tweak that enables apps to open faster. It has settings the user can modify to their liking.
FreeSync- Allows the user to use the iphone while it is syncing to tunes. You have the ability to accept and make calls as well as perform other operations on the iphone while its syncing.
MyWi 4.0 – gives the user the ability to use the iphones 3g connection by connecting the ipad 2 or other idevices or laptops as a ahot spot. You can also tether using USB and Bluetooth. This is an awesome app.
PDANet –is another Cydia application that allows user to tether their idevice and use the iphones 3g connection for surfing the internet with idevices that don’t have 3g capability.
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