(Note: This is the first in a series of reviews of weather applications and webapps for the iPhone, which will culminate in a head-to-head comparison)
The weather application that most iPhone owners are familiar with is the one that comes with it. And while it can satisfy the need to know the most basic forecast details (sunny, rainy, etc), it certainly leaves many people wanting more information to help them better plan their day. Several web applications and iPhone applications have been written address this need - both for the casual user and those more meteorologically-minded. Today, we take a look at MyWeather.
First off, you should know that Evernote is not only for iPhone. It also offers a web-based service, and a desktop application for Mac and PC.
Evernote on iPhone allows you to take notes in four four forms: Text Note, Snapshot Note, Saved Photo Note, and Audio Note. Once you have composed a note, it is synced with your Evernote account, and the note will immediately appear in your online account and on your Mac or PC. You can also use a very nice feature to search for text not only in your Text Notes, but in your Photo Notes as well. Once a photo has been synced with Evernote’s servers, text inside photos can be recognized. Read more… »
Ah, springtime! That time of year when a young man’s fancy turns to…. Baseball! As we pause briefly in the regular season to give the venerable Yankee Stadium a fitting tribute during this year’s All-Star game, MLB.com has delivered to the App Store an application to keep track of your favorite teams as they play the second half of the season.
OVERVIEW
MLB At Bat can best be described as a heavily stripped-down version of MLB.com, providing the basics of games in progress and completed games, along with video highlights from each game. For $4.99, baseball fans can view all of the games for the "rest of the season" - bringing to mind the question of whether or not this will prove to be a yearly charge.
I tell ya, if it’s one thing I’ve missed in my move from Windows Mobile to the iPhone, it’s the Today Screen. It’s an important part of the Windows Mobile experience, and it’s really a pretty cool idea. You have all your important information like calls, RSS, weather, calendar, and tasks — all in one, centralized location. You can even customize a today screen with different plugins. But on the iPhone you’re stuck with a blank screen that you can slide to unlock. I say "stuck" as an iPhone user, but there are quite a few apps on Windows Mobile to mimic the iPhone unlock screen. Ironic.
Anyhow, I was really interested in the beta of Intelliscreen when it came out. I wasn’t there right from the start, but development from 0.7 onwards got really interesting. A lot changed when the software hit version 1.0, so if you’re interested in exploring all the nooks and crannies, you’ve come to the right spot.
Twinkle is a shiny (cough, excuse bad pun) new native Twitter client for the iPhone, that adds location-aware features to your Twittering. It has a very nice and easy to use interface and works very well so far in my testing of it.
I’ve been using Twinkle fairly heavily for about a week now and have found quite a bit to like about it, and of course have also got some ‘wish list’ items for its next version. Hit the jump for a quick rundown on each of these:
Travel guides strike me as a perfect type of application for the iPhone. A good guide to a city you’re going to visit for work or pleasure can be a huge timesaver, and if it’s thorough and well done, it just may save you carrying around various road maps, city guides, and assorted other printed materials.
The London Travel Guide - developed by Coolgorilla - sets out to be this sort of useful companion for anyone who is visiting (or maybe even moving to) London.
I lived in London for more than 10 years and absolutely love it. It’s a city that’s so large, so diverse, so vibrant, that whatever your interests and likes, you’ll find lots to do there. So I was very keen to see whether The London Travel Guide does it justice …
Can You Not Hear Me Now??? A review of Voice Dial, the first native voice command app for the iPhone
A good voice dialing / voice control application is a must-have for lots of people. A voice command program can be a real killer app when you’re driving or in quite a few situations where simply saying a command - let’s just say Notebook for pulling up your Google Notebook page - is the fastest way to get something launched.
Until recently, there were no voice command apps available for the iPhone - and many of us who were used to using one on Palm or Windows Mobile devices were sorely missing having one around.
Then a few weeks back, Makayama launched Voice Dial, the first native voice command app for the iPhone, and lots of us were very glad to see it. Voice Dial is intended to be a paid-for application - something that is still fairly rare for apps like this that requite that you jailbreak your iPhone in order to use them. It will normally sell for $32.95, although it is being offered at a special price of $27.95 right now. That’s a relatively high price for a mobile application, so Voice Dial is obviously aiming to be considered a premium-level iPhone application.
Read on to see whether it’s living up to its ambitions …
TimeTracker is a new (still beta) iPhone web application that helps you track billable time, or just account for your time spent on particular projects or tasks.
Its interface is easy to navigate and looks pretty good on the iPhone, with features like:
Large buttons across the bottom of all screens, which change depending on what level of the app you’re at, to be relevant for where you are
Views of All Tickets (like projects), All Tasks, Active Tasks
Nice, large editing windows when creating or editing tasks, with decent space for adding notes
One tap (on a big easy-to-spot button) to start or stop a timer on individual tasks
I’m a huge fan of To Do lists - obsessed with them nearly. A good task management / to do list application is an absolute essential for me on any mobile device. So finding a to do program that worked well with the iPhone was one of my first missions once I realized there was no in-built tasks program (I still find this a bit of a shocking thing to leave out!).
Coming from being a long-time Windows Mobile user, and a heavy reliance on programs like Pocket Informant, Agenda One and others over the years, I did not feel real warm and fuzzy about changing to an online application for managing tasks.
I’m happy to say I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how easy I’ve found it to switch though. Luckily, there are a number of very good online ToDo applications out there to choose from, that work very nicely with the iPhone - so my transition has not been as painful as I expected.
Here’s the shortlist of todo applications I’ve tried out over recent weeks:
Listingly
pTasks
TaDa Lists
Toodledo
Vitalist
Read on for lots of screencaps of some of the contenders I’ve tried out, impressions of each of them, and a few words on my favorite iPhone-friendly todo list application …
So far, Twinkle is very nice to use, and has some unique, fun features. It is missing some more basic ones that are found, for instance, in the Hahlo web app Twitter client, which it would be nice to see added, but I have to say this is already my favorite iPhone Twitter app. — Patrick's Twinkle review
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