iPhone apps for August
This month I’ve added the following apps to my iPhone.
Finally got around to having a play with Foursquare, just in time for Facebook to start doing pretty much the same thing. I like the Foursquare app, very simple to check in quickly, and I like that any tips people have left for a venue are easy to access. To be honest I don’t think I’ll keep using it, but that’s more about not having a large network of friends on there rather than any issue with the app itself.
A nice visual way to display the latest news content from the BBC. Great if you have a wireless connection, little bit slow over the 3G. I still prefer The Guardian app for my morning news, and the Google Reader interface on iPhone is pretty good too.
This is the free app that goes with our shiny new VOIP system at work. It logs in to my extension number so I can pick up messages/etc, and I can also make calls back through the setup. You enter the number you want to call and the school system calls the iPhone. They also do an app for Blackberry, going to try that out in September too.
This month I switched from running XBMC to Boxee on my little media centre PC. Boxee also has a nice little iPhone app to remote control it. Two versions, one with the standard set of buttons but the second is a more interesting gesture based interface. Works pretty well once you get used to how sensitive it is.
This is very cool. It’s GPS for iPhone, and it’s free! Uses the open streetmap project for all the map data and adds navigation on top of this. I’ve done a few local test drives with it and it seems to work really well. Picked up the destinations I entered with no problem, and once it has picked up the GPS signal the navigation worked really well. I don’t think I’m quite at the point where I’ll stop carrying around the TomTom unit yet, but I like this a lot.
And a little game to finish off the list for the month. Feels kind of similar to DoodleJump again, but another really catchy little iPhone game.
And that’s the list. With any luck we’ll have some iPads on test by next month so the list should include a few things for that too.
Image source- iPhone 4 bumper by Yutaka Tsutano. CC licensed on Flickr
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