iPhone Apps You Can’t Live Without
Posted by Stanley Brasen under iphone tips on Saturday Jan 30, 2010Can your phone read you Shakespeare as you go to bed at night? With the right selection of iPhone apps available, it probably can. IPhone technology has really gotten off the hook, with possibilities ranging from music streaming to finding the best hotel prices to 16th century literature, all in the palm of your hand.
In fact, the iPhone is capable of so much that admittedly, not all of it is worth doing. While some iPhone apps merely give a technological nerd a job, others will dramatically improve your every day life. Here are a few of the iPhone apps worth shouting about.
Yelp – Lost in the city with no place to go? Time to Yelp. This iPhone app will find you the nearest bars, restaurants and banks to whatever locale you’re wandering through. If you don’t like to dive into a bar or restaurant like a bad blind date, you can read thousands of reviews by regular Joe Smoes like yourself who don’t write for the New York times.
NYTimes – Speaking of the New York Times, you can easily stream its voluminous sections with this iPhone app. Find stories by section or scan the most popular. The text is surprisingly easy to read on the screen and it’s backed by full-color photos that are about as good as print. There are almost no other iPhone apps available that stream entire media publications, but expect more to come.
Stanza – Stuck waiting for a train without a book? The Stanza puts every classic novel in the palm of your hand, as well as any book you can find in their large array of public domain files. You can even add lengthy Word of PDF files and edit your term paper on the train. This is one of those iPhone apps that appeal to a wide range of age groups and careers, from college students to federal attorneys. Don’t expect to find Healthcliff’s Just for Laughs in their public domain, however, if you can’t get your reading tastes out of the third grade.
Jott – Does the iPhone’s virtual keyboard give you carpel tunnel syndrome of the brain? Jott transfers voice mails into text to file for future reference. You can leave yourself messages for up to 15 seconds. It’s great for text messaging if you don’t like putting in all that text.
Stanley Brasen can’t stop raving about the capabilities of the iPhone and all the iPhone apps available.
