So since this was pretty much the only chance I’ll get to post here since I will be extremely pressed for time later today, I decided to cram all my remaining ‘Best of…’ posts into one awesome, super, mega-post. Take your time to look through. There may be many apps you already heard of, and several you haven’t. Check it out!
Shazam
This is my favorite music-related application. You hold it up to music, and 98% of the time (make sure it’s English, though it may support your odd foreign song) it will track down and find exactly what song it is. I use this ESPECIALLY when there’s that one song on the radio you can’t seem to figure out. It’s free and works amazingly well. Check it out.
Simplify
I don’t use this app much ever since I got my iPod Classic, but if you have a huge music collection and your iPhone/iPod Touch doesn’t have enough storage: get simplify. I don’t know if it’s still free or costs a few bucks, but it works great. You download a desktop app (Mac and PC compatible) that pretty much broadcasts your iTunes library. You can have up to 25 (I THINK!) iPods and/or iPhones synced to this broadcast. Once your synced over Wi-Fi, you can browse you entire library on the go. Sweet stuff.
Where To?
I made a YouTube video about this app. It then disappeared from the App Store. The developers sold the application and it is not back on the App Store for $3. It is a convenience application. Check out my channel to SEE how it works. It resembles a rotary phone and you pretty much choose from a bunch of categories to find the nearest ANYTHING! If you use the GPS on the iPhone, it’s simple… you NEED this app.
Red Rocket
So this app is solely useful to Torontonians and others that may visit Toronto. It’s just a really easy to use app that tells you where the nearest bus is. That may be an oversimplification since it does MUCH MUCH more. You can save your ‘favorite’ routes and know well ahead of time where your bus is coming. Minus the odd snow storm, this app was accurate to about 3 seconds each time! If you take the bus in Toronto, or have $0.99 to toss, check it out!
NetNewsWire
Go to www.newsgator.com. Create an account. Add your favorite RSS feeds from the websites you love to follow. Then download this app. This app, I’m going to ruin the surprise here, is my MOST favorite iPhone app. It is simple. Minimalistic. Fast. Accurate. And simply the BEST way to stay in tune with what’s going with any of the sites you follow. This app is so good, they may as well ship every iPhone with it! Oh yes, it is free baby!
Digg (The Web App)
Alright, so the image is a little misleading. I will tell you techies right now. Go to http://digg.com/iphone on your iPhone or iPod Touch, and save it to your homescreen. This web app is, in my opinion, MUCH better than the ACTUAL Digg application for the platform. It’s fast and easy to use, especially if you just want to know what’s on Digg. Try it out.
So there are some of my top apps (for their respective genres) of 2008. I will try to follow this up with another portion, and wrap the entire blog-series with a video higlighting my top games of 2008 for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Happy holidays everybody!
