I’m going to attempt to keep an updated list of what is currently installed on my iPhone and a current screenshot of the home screen. This should give a good overall idea of what I find most important on my phone and also I’m going to offer a quick sentence or two review of each thing I have installed. As things move off my phone they will be moved down the page into the Uninstalled section.
Home Screen:
- Text: the built in sms application, it’s ok. I’m super tired of the 5 second delay on launch no matter how much I have stored in it, clearing doesn’t seem to help.
- Calendar: The built in calendar application, I use Neuvasync to sync to google calendar
- Photos: The built in photo roll. I wish I could move pictures between rolls
- Camera: The built in camera application
- Clock: I use this constantly for timers i.e. laundry transfer, cookies are done etc..
- Settings: I need to have this handy for wifi/airplane mode selection
- Maps: The built in maps application is nice for searching and street view
- Shovel: This application is nice for wasting time browsing stories on digg.com
- BeejiveIM: This is a great instant messaging application
- Pandora: Client player for pandora.com. I use this on the go and sometimes in bed in conjunction with the above Clock to shut it off after an hour or so. Details on that setup here
- TWC: The Weather Channel application is pretty nice, I’m currently using this over weatherbug which I was using for quite awhile. Not sure exactly why I changed I guess I think this one is faster to launch
- Seadragon: The Microsoft image browser, this doesn’t belong on my home screen but I haven’t moved it yet.
- reddit: Browse and read stories on reddit.com
- TwitterFon: I recently went back to TwitterFon as my main twitter client over Tweetie because Tweetie’s only loading 20 tweets at a time and not auto refreshing makes for a lot of missed messages on a timeline as busy as mine.
Other applications installed:
- Tweetie: A nice twitter client but needs to fetch more than 20 at a time, the multiple account support and search are awesome though
- Mantis: A pretty decent Bible study program finding verses is really fast, comes with a free KJV
- eBay: I only use this when I have an auction going or if I’m bidding/watching something
- Faceboook: Client for the ever popular facebook.com
- Mental Lite: Client software for mental a nice Mac flashcard program
- Amazon.com: Shop and buy at amazon.com, also neat way to log items to a wish list via camera
- 1Password: the client software to 1Password on the Mac, the best password management system going
- Evernote: Client software for evernote.com, I use this a ton for cooking, add a recipe on the desktop cook from the recipe on my iPhone
- Google: Quick google searches via voice with location awareness. Nice for finding phone numbers in your area.
- i.TV: Free program with tv listings, also schedule tivo recordings and check local movie showtimes
- Instapaper (free): Client software for instapaper.com
- ScoreMobile: Sports scores, this one is about to go on uninstalled list due to unuse
- iTalk: Voice recorder, Pretty nice actually, I use it quite a bit for listening to myself practice harmonica
- Pro Football: Detailed info on NFL, nice interface and good deep info for fantasy etc…
- SportsTap: Nice all sports application I use this on the most of the sports apps
- Remote: Remote control your iTunes
- WordPress: Blogging client for wordpress, this is pretty nice for a quick touch up. You can write a whole post from it and even include images but it’s pretty difficult to get correct formatting. Best to write and publish a draft and touch up on the desktop.
- RDP: Remote desktop client for windows remote desktop
- VNC: VNC client to remote control computers with VNC installed ( i wish this had ssh tunneling )
- Stanza: Nice eBook reader, I have it installed but never use it as I have a Kindle but it’s good software
- TouchTerm: SSH terminal
- SnapTell: Take a picture of a DVD/CD or other products and it finds it online and gives you reviews and prices, pretty neat. I don’t use it much but it has a high wow factor when you show your friends.
- Air Sharing: Make your iPhone into a flash drive. It pretty much turns your iPhone into a little web server and allows you to put files onto and off of it. Also allows viewing of most file types on the phone.
- Easy Wi-Fi: Quick access to login to ATT hot spots without all of the texting nonsense
- AquaForest: A high neat factor game I keep around for demoing what the iPhone can do graphics wise (I got on sale for .99 cents, wouldn’t pay full price)
- Trace: A really cool physics game with hand drawn crayon and pencil type lines.
- Enigmo: A nice game that will occupy you for hours, totally worth buying.
- Deep Green: Chess engine, needs to allow move take backs for mis dropped pieces (ok I’m just bitter about loosing that one game)
- Cyber Chess: Play chess online or use a simple chess engine locally, I haven’t tried the online play but this one has good reviews
- K Corners: Kings corners solitaire
- TapDefense: An awesome free game of tower defense, worst thing is you have to pretty much start over after you fail no picking up from level 20 again. I hope they correct this in the future.
- LOLcatMaker: What can I say I have a cat.
- Spore: I bought this. I don’t really like it, it feels the same after level 20, a wasted $9 bucks
- MazeFinger: A nice free game with pretty cool graphics and sound
- Darts: A free darts game that I quite like. Good for a quick game and has some nice graphics. I wish you could skip the animation on the computer throws after quite a few games I get tired of waiting on it.
- Pianist: I had to buy a piano application just to show friends, It’s fun to pull it out now and then but it doesn’t get much use.