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Favorite iPhone apps: Robert's take
Now that Steve, Victor, and Mike have all made their opinions clear, I get to tell you what apps I use most on my iPod touch.
My first favorite is Exposure, an app that lets you browse Flickr photos. Personally, my favorite thing to do in a boring phone meeting is to browse Flickr's "Featured" category, and find new wallpaper for my iPod. Which leads me to my only feature request: it doesn't let you save images to the local "Saved Photos" album. (What you can do, however, is open the image in Safari, and save it from there.) Exposure does much more than this, too -- browsing photos taken nearby, or searching for photos by keyword. Exposure is a great image browser all around, and it's free, but ad-supported. A premium version (sans ads) is $9.99.
The second is time:calc. It may seem a little strange, but I've always wanted a calculator that figures time instead of decimal numbers. As a freelancer, some of my contracts are retainer-based, so I have to calculate how much time I have left for a particular task after work has been done. time:calc does this effortlessly: just enter hours, minutes and seconds, and use mathematical operators as you would a normal calculator. For video editing, it also includes support for time code in a wide variety of frame rates. time:calc is $1.99, and well worth it.
Last but not least is my new favorite timewaster: Trism. Mike wrote about Trism in February, and I remember wanting it really bad when I first saw the video. It's an extremely fun Tetris-like game using three-sided tiles, and uses the device's accelerometer to determine which way is "down." It's not unlike Burning Monkey Puzzle Lab, for those that remember that game. Trism has three game modes, and a training mode. It's $4.99.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
f00fighter said 3:35PM on 8-27-2008
Trism is FANTASTIC! I wanted it ever since the demo videos first surfaced on the web. It was the first App that I bought on the AppStore - great choice Robert!
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Cameron Talley said 3:38PM on 8-27-2008
I paid $2.99 for "Mobile Fotos" after using exposure. It is leaps about bounds above exposure in every way. You can upload pictures, too. Mobile Fotos has one thing that Exposure was sorely lacking: Groups. I primarily browse Flickr via groups and Exposure did not have that capability.
Frankly, the $9.99 asking price for the "Premium" version of Exposure is absurd given that there are cheaper apps out there that do the same thing...
Just my two cents...
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jbrader said 4:01PM on 8-27-2008
TUAW: Now with 125% more iPhone, all day every day!
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Robert Palmer said 4:15PM on 8-27-2008
You can subscribe to an iPhone-free version of TUAW with RSS: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/08/20/iphone-free-feed-of-tuaw/
jbrader said 4:45PM on 8-27-2008
I'm only giving you a hard time. I'm sure that if I ran and Apple blog I'd be doing the same thing right now. Also I'm just jealous that I still don't have an iPhone.
DigitalFury said 4:24PM on 8-27-2008
You guys should now call your blog "The Unofficial iPhone Weblog (TUIW).
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Robert Palmer said 4:28PM on 8-27-2008
You can subscribe to an iPhone-free version of TUAW with RSS: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/08/20/iphone-free-feed-of-tuaw/
DigitalFury said 4:52PM on 8-27-2008
I just hope you actually manage to post one news each day, out of the deluge of iPhone related news, related to Macs.
Robert Palmer said 4:58PM on 8-27-2008
With all due respect, if you look at the last 15 stories I've written, over half had nothing to do with the iPhone.
wingz said 5:40PM on 8-27-2008
Actually, it should be changed to TUWLBCW - The Unofficial Whining Little Bitch Commenter Weblog. Some of you never let up, find something else to do or don't read the post! Way to break the Apple fanboy rep.
/Yes, I own many Apple products
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mtgear said 7:50PM on 8-27-2008
Mobile Fotos is MUCH better than Exposure. There's downlownload/upload & it has a user-controlled cache.
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Matt2k said 1:34AM on 8-28-2008
I for one am very glad that there are people posting reviews on iPhone apps, With so many apps and no way to try before you buy, I'm forced to Scour you tube for video of apps in action, usually in poor lighting with more video of the presenters hands then the app, or look to informed people for opinion's, is the $29 American Heritage dictionary Worth it? or The $24 jugaari? What I do know is I don't want to be the guy who pays $999 for an app that does nothing because I Thought it was fake and Did Not Get An Informed Opinion, Thank you Robert and Thank you TUAW,
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gear said 8:29AM on 8-28-2008
Thanks for the mention of the "Time calc" app. I record a handful of time cards each week and this will make it a bit easier to accomplish.
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