My Top Free Apps
One of the great things about the App store is the wide variety of free apps. A lot of these are pretty well done, some even being higher quality to some paid apps. These applications do a number of things including storing and displaying different kinds of information and performing various tasks. I have used quite a number of apps on my iPhone and here is a wide selection of ones I have on my iPhone. These are my top free applications for iPhone and iPod Touch.
1Password – This application is great for storing your passwords onto your iPhone. It is PIN and password protected so you don’t have to worry about someone finding out your passwords. It can be time consuming to type in a password using the iPhone and this app makes its a piece of cake to login. Also, if you have heaps of different passwords for sites, this will make it easy to manage them on this device.
Balance – I use this application to keep track of the money that I have stored in one of my bank accounts. This is not a very feature full app but it does what I want it to do, keep track of deposits, and any odd withdrawals, on my account. I can access and see the balance of my account anywhere. I’m sure there are many other applications this can be used for too.
DoBot ToDos – This is a free to do list application. What makes this one great, is that you can have multiple categories of list, and inside them have your todo’s for that. You can write notes with them and set due dates, like you can do with most other todo applications. I use this for keeping track of personal tasks as well as school tasks. These are kept in separately, which is how I like them.
Fring – This app is pretty new but I can see it being a really useful app. What this does it allow for VoIP calls over wifi. You can use this to talk over Skype or SIP or lots of other common voice chat messaging clients. The quality is really good as well. There are still features that could be added, but this is a really nice, and promising app. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do VoIP over 3G, which is what a lot of iPhone users want.
Light – The Light app I use has been removed from the app store for some reason. Still, you should definitely find a good light app from the store. You may not use it for a while and it will just be sitting there on your home screen but one day, it will come in handy, and you can thank me then. My one has a bunch of customizations, you can change the colour of the light, and there were even some flashing ones. My personal favourite is the police light, a blue and red flashing light. In saying that, the white is the best, because it is practical to use so I can see in the dark.
MiGhtyDocs – If you use Google Docs, this application is great! No, this doesn’t allow you to edit your documents or spreadsheets, but it does let you view them on the iPhone. But there is an added bonus, you can view any cached documents for offline viewing when you don’t have an internet connection. It’s really good for storing files you may want to look at offline, and on our iPhone.
Pocketpedia – Got any of the Pedia software on your Mac? If so, then this is definitely a must have app. This allows you to access your media collections right on your device. Even if you don’t have this software, it allows you to create collections right on the device. You just search for the Movie, Album, Game, or Book, and it finds on Amazon and you can add it to your list. You can also use it to make wishlists, so if you find an item you want, you can add it to your list to get at a later date.
Remote – This has to be the first application that you download! It does wonders. It allows you to control your iTunes via your iPhone or iPod Touch. It has a similar interface to the iPod tools on the device, so you should already be familiar with how to use it. It looks exactly as if you were controlling the music on your device, except you are really controlling music on an external iTunes library on your network. I found it to work really well when using a full screen application, such as a game, and didn’t want to minimise to exit to control my music. Remote allowed me to do this easily.
Shazam – I’m sure you’ve been either listening to the radio or in a shop playing music and wonder what is the name of the song playing. Well this app helps you with answering that question. You launch the app and get it to listen to a few seconds of a song and it will return you back the name of the song, the artist and the album and save it in a list, and even provide you with links to purchase it in the iTunes store. With this app, never again will you be wishing you knew what the name of the song playing.
WeDict – This is a pocket dictionary, on your iPhone! It comes with word lists and allows you to easily find the definition of a word in a few seconds. No longer do you have to find a dictionary, and then spend time searching for the word. This take 10 seconds to get you the definition of the word you are looking for. Not everyone needs a dictionary, but if you do, why not get this app?
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I think the DoBot ToDos is the best one. Sounds pretty interesting. To-dos are so awesome.
And what do you use the Light app for? Seeing in the dark? o.0