The Absolute Essential Must Have iPhone Apps
So you got a new iPhone or iPod touch and you don't quite know which apps to spoil it with? There's an AppList for that! This list will help you get started with some of the best and most essential apps so you can enjoy your iPhone or iPod Touch to the fullest!
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Gas Cubby - Fuel Economy (MPG, Mileage) Calculator and Car Maintenance & Service Log
by App Cubby
With all the driving you do (home from the Apple store with iPhone in hand, perhaps), you may wonder how much you really spend on gas or what the MPG of your car is. Well, Gas Cubby accomplishes all that and more! With this easy to use app all you do is enter a vehicle (you can have multiple) and enter how much gas you put in, how many gallons or how much it was (it only needs 2 out of the 3), plus your odometer reading, and Gas Cubby will show you everything you could want to know about your car's fuel usage performance. You can also input service visits like oil changes which will give you a more accurate cost of ownership for your car. Wait, there is more, rotate into landscape mode to see tabulated and graphical views of all your data!
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TuneIn Radio Pro
by TuneIn
Who doesn't enjoy listening to music while driving? TuneIn Radio adds AM/FM radio capabilities to your iPhone with a DVR twist. You can scrub through, record, and pause live radio stations from all across the country. The app has a very simple, yet effective search interface, which makes it very easy to find radio stations. Especially nice for all the users who listen to their iPhone in their car!
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Things
by Cultured Code GmbH & Co. KG
How about an app to make your workday more efficient? Things, the iPhone version of the well known mac desktop app, is an awesome todo manager. Things' real power is its UI, it features the traditional task editing functions and a very advanced classifications. You can add new tasks in an inbox, just to put down what you've got to do. Then you can classify them under today, later, someday or schedule them. You can also bundle more advanced tasks as projects. Finally, another differentiating feature of the app is its ability to sync with the Mac desktop app which makes it a must-have.
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Dropbox
by Dropbox
Dropbox is an integral part of my workflow. People are really starting to see the power of the cloud and a lot of apps have backup solutions that require a Dropbox account. The app allows you to easily view photos, videos, documents, and presentations in your Dropbox. Write a document on your computer, and it will just sync to the app as well as to the internet (where you can access it from any computer). Best of all, the app and the service is free, with paid upgrades available for extremely heavy users.
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RedLaser – Barcode Scanner, Shopping Assistant & QR Code Reader
by eBay Inc.
Perhaps you are running some errands while you're out and about. Red laser as the New York Times puts it "...is a perfect shopping companion". This app turns your iPhone into a bar code scanner that can read UPC, EAN, UPC-E and EAN-8 barcodes. Not only that, the app will search for prices with Google, TheFind, eBay and Half.com on the item you just scanned. If you scanned a book it will even search local libraries to locate the book. On top of all that, it is enabled with QR code scanning with support for URL's, contact info, calendar events, emails, and more!
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HeyTell
by Voxilate
Looking for something a bit different for staying in touch with your friends? Basically the HeyTell app turns your iPhone into a walkie talkie, it functions a lot like the old school direct connect phones from Nextel. Just select your contact or contacts (broadcast 1 message to up to 25 recipients with an in-app add on) press and hold the button, say your message and boom you are done. The simplicity and usefulness of this app make it an essential for anyone with an iPhone and will soon become your choice method of communication. One more thing, the app is cross-platform so you can HeyTell your Android friends as well!
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King Camera
by Applications Saycheezzz.com
You don't always carry a camera, but you always carry your iPhone. So why not make the most of the camera you have with you? King Camera has just about every feature imaginable, such as burst mode, time lapse, big button, timer, flashlight and many more features. It doesn't stop there, you can also process photos with advanced editing features and filters! Get a lot more from your iphoneography with King Camera.
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Epicurious Recipes & Shopping List
by Condé Nast Digital
So what's for dinner? The ultimate cookbook is here and in app form! Epicurious lets you search over 30,000 professionally created recipes, cookbooks and cocktails, but it doesn't stop there. The app allows you to favorite recipes, sync your favorites (Recipe Box Sync required), create shopping lists, share recipes (via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter), browse the most popular featured recipe collection, weeknight dinners, cool cocktails, and much more. A great in app purchase ($1.99) called Recipe Box Sync enables you to save all your favorite recipes in one spot and access it online or on your device. If you buy Recipe Box Sync on the iPhone or iPad you don't have to pay for the feature again on the other device, so $1.99 gets you Recipe Box Sync on all your devices!
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Netflix
by Netflix, Inc.
After dinner, you may want to unwind with a movie. From the Netflix app you can easily browse the enormous catalog of movies, TV Shows, and documentaries that NetFlix has amassed (if you live in the US you see the real lion's share of this library) and watch any of them instantly! One of my favorite features within Netflix is the dynamic bookmarking it has, meaning if you start watching something on your TV or computer and stop before it is done, Netflix will automagically queue whatever you were watching to that exact spot on your iDevice so no more guessing where you left off or scrubbing through! Another really great feature only for iPad, iPhone 4, and iPod Touch 4G owners is video out, which is really nice if you want to hook your iDevice to a bigger external display. If you're not sure you want to plop down the money for a Netflix membership, no problem, Netflix offers a free month long trial!
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Remote
by Apple
Or maybe it's not a Netflix night. The Remote app allows you to control iTunes on your Mac or PC and your Apple TV. It has volume control and everything you would want out of a remote such as gesture control for your Apple TV, create and update playlists, control AirPlay Speakers, access shared libraries, and my favorite iTunes DJ. The iTunes DJ feature within Remote allows other people using the Remote app who are connected to your wi-fi network to vote and suggests songs to be played next, which is a real luxury if for hosting a party!
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IMDb Movies & TV
by IMDb
When you watch a movie, do you find yourself wondering, "What else has that actor been in? He's so familiar..." The world's largest collection of movie, TV and celebrity information is now in your pocket! IMDb allows you to search over 1.5 million movie & TV titles and over 3.2 million celebrities, actors, actresses, directors, and other crew members. IMDb allows you to rate movies and TV shows, watch movie trailers, see US Box office results, find celebrity birthdays, browse quotes & trivia, and much more. IMDb is like the app that would have resulted if Hollywood and Wikipedia had a baby!
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Find My iPhone
by Apple
Hopefully you'll never need this, but it's essential to have, anyway. Find My iPhone was originally part of the paid MobileMe subscription service. Apple now offers it free to anyone with an iPhone 4, iPhone 4S new iPod touch, and/or iPad (there is a work around for 3G/3GS and iPod 2G/3G users). The app allows you to log on to me.com or use the Find My iPhone app and locate your registered iDevices (you can have multiple, the most I have seen is 5 on one account) and then it gives you the options of sending a sound or message, sending a message and sound, locking your iDevice, or wiping your iDevice. Two examples where this might come in handy: the couch monster ate your iPhone again or someone stole your iPhone. In the first case, you can send a sound (the sound will play even if your iDevice is on silent) and use it to locate your iPhone. For the second case, you can remotely lock your iDevice or remotely wipe it if there is sensitive data on it from any computer or another iDevice that has Find my iPhone on it! A nice safeguard for your sacred iDevice!
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