Another 10 must have iphone apps

My “10 must-have iphone apps” post back in November was rather popular. And since I folded in December and got myself an iphone, I thought you might be interested in another top 10 apps that I’ve discovered, post purchase:

What the Font – Actually, I’ve just downloaded this, so can’t really say whether it’s must have, but I think it will be. What the font allows you to whip out your camera, take a photo of some type, and wait patiently to find out what the font is. Fontastic!  

Tweetie – After a long love affair with Twitterific, I have recently swapped to Tweetie as my iphone Twitter client. Better for retweets, replies and dms. $3 well spent.

CSS Cheat Sheet – Now that I’m teaching myself CSS, I’m finding this handy little app very useful. CSS Cheat Sheet is what it says, an app that gives you a quick refresher on all things CSS. Not 100% perfect, but I’m sure it will improve in time.

Things – ’bout time I got things done. Things is handy little GTD app is the priciest app I’ve bought. But it’s only $12. Heck, that’s only 2 beers. A very simple app to use and get organised – for once and for all.

Remote – Now i can wirelessly change tracks on my mac’s itunes, which wirelessly changes songs on my stereo via this very hand app from apple themselves.. An amazing revelation, or a one way ticket to obesity? You decide.

CameraBag – Camera Bag is an essential tool for taking photos on your iphone. It comes with a stack of photo filter effects to emulate different camera and film styles. It’s like having a lomo camera on your iphone – and more.

Bloom – I admit, I was lured into buying this one purely because Brian Eno was involved in the creation of it. But it was worth it. Bloom a nifty little ambient music generator with a beautiful UI, and soothes one’s soul. 

CliqCliq colors – CliqCliq is a beautiful little app you can use to lookup color references and create color pallettes. It’s a keeper for any designer or color lover. You can even create colour paletters from photos you take. Lovely.

Touchgrind - I don’t really do games on my iphone. But Touchgrind, the finger skateboard game takes me back to a my teen skating days. It’s great, and tremendously addictive. If you only have one game on your iphone, this is it kids.

WordPress – You all know how much I love wordpress. Did I mention that the blogging platform also has it’s own iphone app? Splendid.

Here’s the link to my first post, with another 10 iphone apps you may very well be interested in.

And if there are some other apps you’d like to point out, I’m all ears.

10 must-have iphone apps

I hate to admit it, but it’s true – I am a consumer. And I can’t hold out much longer until I buy an iphone.

I’m two months away until the end of my current phone contract, so I’ll probably wait until then. So in preperation for the big day, I put together a list of “Must Have” iphone apps. The ones that I must have, that is

Photoswap – Photoswap sounds like a very simple, and highly addictapp. You take a photo of something, and Photoswap sends it to another random user. In return, you receive a random picture taken by someone else.

FourTrack – Four track is a beautifully designed four track recorder – attach a microphone to your ipod and get recording.

Urban Spoon – Urban spoon’s iphone app looks like a very way to find new restaurants. You can search by area, cuisine type, and price. And you can ‘Shake’ the app for a random restaurant suggestion. Like playing a pokie machine but infinitely better. And there are restaurants in Australia (Melbourne and Sydney) too.

Twitteriffic – I’ve been using Twitterific as my Twitter client on the Mac for a few months now. Can’t see any reason why I would use Twitterific on iphone too.

Drink – Nice to see some Melbourne based iphone apps are out there. Drink is the iphone app version of Melbourne ‘Bar Secrets’, the Melbourne bar guide that you usually buy offline in a “deck of cards” format. Very cool.

Evernote – Evernote for iPhone sounds like the ultimate idea storage device. It allows you to take and tag notes, audio memos and photos. From all repots this one is a real winner (and it’s free!).

Midomi – Don’t know the name of that song? Sing it, or hum it into the Midomi song recognition app, and you will.

Ocarina – Up until about a week ago, I didn’t know what an Ocarina was (It’s an ancient flute-like wind instrument, by the way). But it’s made a resurgance in the modern day, reaching the top of the list in the app store in recent weeks. beautiful UI, and looks very addictive.

Flip Clock – A simple analogue clock for the ever-increasing digital world, Flip Clock is definitely worth a look.

Brightkite – I’ve saved this one until last, as it looks like a real ggame changer to me. This location based social network uses the GPS on your iphone. Which means you can locate, message and potentially meet up with people who are in your vicinity. To me this seems like much more than just an app – but potentially a whole new way that people will interact with each other. Here’s a video to give you the idea:

Has anyone used these apps? Does anyone else have some good suggestions of apps they’ve used? Or heard of? Let me know in the comments if you have some others. Thanks.

Update – You  might be interested in reading about another 10 iphone apps that I’ve blogged about recently.