iPhone apps - favourites?

[gidon]

Well since I'm not getting a lot of time woodworking anyone with an iPhone? What are you favourite apps? I'll start with ones related to woodworking :

Decibel - I have nothing to measure its accuracy but seems pretty good to me.
Rulerphone - I love this - place a credit card or such like on the thing you want to measure and take a pic - then you can make measurements on the photo - really pretty accurate! (Bit expensive at £2.39 but free version to try out)
PocketMeter - emits a pulsed sound and measures distance from time it takes to hear sound reflected back. Fun but couldn't really rely on it!
Carpenter - level, inclinometer, plumb - great fun and accurate!
ConvertBot - converts everything (check settings to reveal more units) - really everything! Even cubic feet to cubic metres.

Others:

Routebuddy Atlas - Ordnance Survey maps on your iPhone. I've used Memory Map for years on my Windows Mobile devices which is much better but the only real option at the moment and when they start adding some more features will be good I'm sure. A bit expensive - Dartmoor 1:25000 cost me £20.
iOSMaps - free OS mapping of the whole country - but you need a connection (no caching) and very flakey. 1:50000 maps and 1:10000 (incredible detail).
Sky+ app - program your Sky+ box from your iPhone
CoPoilot - bargain SatNav - works ok for £25 - not a TomTom beater and the GPS on the iPhone is not brilliant (TomTom on my old HTC Touch Pro was better) but saves me having to buy a dedicated satnav.
Photogene - edit your photos - very nifty little app.
Let's golf - fun golf game
Brain Exercise - addictive brain training

There you go - what are your faves? Any woodworking related?

Cheers

Gidon

 

[Vormulac]

Not iPhone, HTC G2, but similar in concept:

Wikitude and Layar, brilliant 'Augmented Reality' apps that overlay information about the area, pub reviews, cafes etc over the live feed from your camera. Rather like a Head Up Display for real life
Bubble - a spirit level
Shop Savvy - scan a barcode with your camera and it retrieves product information and tells you where to buy it cheapest
Glympse - gets the phone to upload positional data from the gps to a website and allows you to send links so you can log on from a pc and track the position - good for keeping track of the kids, etc.
Metal Detector - turns phone into a metal detector, very silly but fun
Shazam - listening to a groovy tune but don't know what it is? Shazam will listen to it, go online and tell you the track name, artist, album name, where you can buy it, etc etc.

I haven't looked for any woodworking apps, but I will now!

 

[Anonymous]

Inspire - paint app that leaves Brushes way behind in my opinion

HiCalc - awesome scientific calculator. Very flexible and powerful

Maths tool - loads of formulae - better than this statement makes it sound

Outliner - as it says , an outliner program in which one may record thoughts, lists, plans, ideas etc. etc. I use this all the time and love it

Hibiorhythm - biorhythms on the iphone, fun and pointless but I like it

Headspace - incredible 3D outliner tool - see the interface to believe it! Not as useful or easy to use as Outliner, but far prettier

IXpenseit - keep track of what you spend and where

Oxford shorter English dictionary - yes, on the Iphone!!! (my number one app)

Oxford thesaurus - what it says

Oxford dictionary of philosophy - interesting and informative though not too well organised and certainly not comprehensive. Worth the money though

Sky voyager - got a telescope or an interest in the night sky? I love this and it helps me to drum up the enthusiasm to drag the rather large and heavy 'scope out and wonder at the planets/stars/nebulae

Sudoku - loads of fun when you have a couple of free minutes

iThoughts - mindmapping on the Iphone. Not brilliant and doesn't sync to Imindmap or Mindmanager, but useful

Brain Blaze Multiply - little maths game

 

[gidon]

Ah forgot Shazam - very clever. No decent equivalent to Shop Savvy on the iPhone unfortunately.

Tony - haven't got any of those did look at the OED but too pricey for me - use the free Dictionary.com which is ok even though it's American.

Cheers

Gidon

 

[wizer]

Funnily enough I was in the supermarket today and I thought it would be good to have a device that can scan each item that goes in the trolley and keep a running total. It would obviously require the supermarkets to co-operate which will probably never happen. But I'd buy and iPhone or HTC for that functionality. Especially if all shops took it on. How many times have you had to hunt down a snotty teenage shop assistant for a price, only for them to bugger off for 10mins trying to do exactly what you've just done. :evil:

Nice little apps but I got bored of having this functionality tied to my mobile phone. I now have a small convenient mobile phone and a PDA. The PDA can stay in a bag or on my desk while I'm not using it.

 

[kityuser]

Funnily enough I was in the supermarket today and I thought it would be good to have a device that can scan each item that goes in the trolley and keep a running total. It would obviously require the supermarkets to co-operate which will probably never happen. But I'd buy and iPhone or HTC for that functionality. Especially if all shops took it on. How many times have you had to hunt down a snotty teenage shop assistant for a price, only for them to bugger off for 10mins trying to do exactly what you've just done. :evil:

Nice little apps but I got bored of having this functionality tied to my mobile phone. I now have a small convenient mobile phone and a PDA. The PDA can stay in a bag or on my desk while I'm not using it.

our local Tesco has barcode readers on the walls and choice at choice points throughout the store so you can scan an item and find out its cost.

Steve

 

[wizer]

yeh I was trying to remember which SM did that. They should all have them. Not helpful to keep a running total tho.

 

[gidon]

Wizer
I've had numerous PDAs then Phone/PDAs and only recently have they managed to work well as both a phone and a PDA. The latest iPhone really does work very well as both - even better than my old HTC Touch Pro (which was actually pretty good).
Cheers
Gidon

 

[kityuser]

My fav is safari and mail , my iPod touch meets all my netbook needs and is an iPod to-boot.
I don't really need flash and apps like facebook and eBay put the cherry on the cake!

Got a first gen 16 gig that is still going strong

Steve

 

[RogerS]

yeh I was trying to remember which SM did that. They should all have them. Not helpful to keep a running total tho.

QuickScan at Waitrose does that for you.

 

[Argee]

QuickScan at Waitrose does that for you.

Plus you can pack as you shop and hand them the barcode reader at the checkout, from which they print your bill. That's the winning feature for me, as I detest the triple-handling of stuff in conventional SMs.

OK, with these schemes you're occasionally subject to a random check and re-pack, but the staff do that anyway. Sainsburys do an identical service, using your Nectar card as entry, AFAIR, whereas you have to sign up for Waitrose's scheme, but it's free otherwise and entitles you to a free monthly store magazine. You can use any card to pay the bill and don't have to run a store credit account either.

Ray

 

[wizer]

Cheers, didn't know that. Shame I'm not rich enough to shop at waitrose. :lol:

Gidon. My XDAII worked perfectly as a phone and true PDA. It was the first thing I used for GPS with TomTom, I watched movies and TV shows on the train, played games, listened to music, etc, etc. That was SIX years ago. Ok it was a little bulky and it's successors were never quite as good IMO. Iphone has got it right with styling, but the technology isn't exactly new (and its a MAC )

 

[yo_chuci]

Not iPhone, HTC G2, but similar in concept:

Wikitude and Layar, brilliant 'Augmented Reality' apps that overlay information about the area, pub reviews, cafes etc over the live feed from your camera. Rather like a Head Up Display for real life
Bubble - a spirit level

hows the g2? only got a 1 atm but might root it soon. (that sounds so wrong)

have been doing searches for iphone apps to see if they are on android...

inclinometer was on... i'll use that when mtb-ing and building trails...
look forward to testing wikitude...
is layer an add-on for it or sep app... couldn't find it when i searched.

 

[neilc]

Good thread Gidon. My favourites are:-

Runkeeper Pro Records my runs, distance, pace etc and plots it to a map. For example this is my run from last Sunday http://bit.ly/GbINc I know, I know very slow.

My Bill Allows me to check how much minutes, texts, data usage and days I have left in my current O2 billing period.

Eirtext Allows me to use my monthly O2 webtexts directly from my iphone.

iDisk Mobile Me app.

Tweetie Keeps me up to date on twitter.

TV Plus I think this is a better/quicker app for setting your sky+ box remotely. Tried both.

Units Convert nearly anything.

Flight Control The only game I have on my phone, quite good.

Skype Need WiFi but works perfect.

Sky Sports Latest scores and football news.

Universalis A religious app. Ignore if your not into it.

TomTom Western Europe Couldn't resist getting this one. Works very well, only complaint is they didn't use the most up to date maps for Ireland.

ebay Works well.

Have some others but these would be my most commonly used.
Neil

 

[gidon]

Neil - some good ones there - there's something similiar to My Bill for UK customers that I might have to try. Those run statistics look impressive - might have to see if there's something similiar for cycling.
iDisk is good but so slow! Agree about Skype - it's just like you're using the normal phone connection. You held out for TomTom hey? I almost did but originally was told the cradle would be chucked in - fat chance! Still CoPilot is pretty good for now ...
Cheers
Gidon

 

[neilc]

Gidon,
There's a cycling setting on runkeeper plus there's a free version to try out before you commit to the pro version. It's doesn't have all the features but enough to give you an idea of what it's capable of.
Neil

 

[Vormulac]

Not iPhone, HTC G2, but similar in concept:

Wikitude and Layar, brilliant 'Augmented Reality' apps that overlay information about the area, pub reviews, cafes etc over the live feed from your camera. Rather like a Head Up Display for real life
Bubble - a spirit level

hows the g2? only got a 1 atm but might root it soon. (that sounds so wrong)

have been doing searches for iphone apps to see if they are on android...

inclinometer was on... i'll use that when mtb-ing and building trails...
look forward to testing wikitude...
is layer an add-on for it or sep app... couldn't find it when i searched.

Hi there,

The G2 is the best phone I've ever used - full stop (and I've used *alot*!). I know one of the attractions for many people to Android is the ability to root it and play with the guts, but that's not for me, I can't afford to brick my new phone and buy a new one purely out of curiosity (not sure what the other benefits of rooting a phone are!).

There are issues with it of course, but any early adopter accepts that:

The battery life is poor for a mobile phone, but treat it like a pda instead (ie. charge it over night) and it's fine.

The current version of Android on the G2 doesn't support file transfer over Bluetooth, but it's only a matter of time before some smart fellow sorts that out so it's hardly a deal-breaker.

Other than that it is a joy to use, the addition of the trackball is genius, the controls are slick and intuitive - I'm very impressed and very happy (although if I was with Oriange and only had 500mb a month to play with I'd be very unhappy and very poor by now into the bargain!).

Oh and it's layar - that may be why you couldn't find it - it's a separate program to Wikitude, not an add-on.

 

[Calpol]

There's a free Stanley spirit level with different skins, that's quite peachy

 

[matt]

Does anyone use their iPhone to browse the web? For example, would you browse and participate in this forum using your iPhone or is it too much of a faff?

 

[neilc]

Does anyone use their iPhone to browse the web? For example, would you browse and participate in this forum using your iPhone or is it too much of a faff?

Regularly do.
Neil