After my woeful iphone experiences (which apart from still not having any 3G) seem to have fixed themselves after upgrapding iTunes8 (eh?) I wanted to document what apps I’ve installed so that when I have to install them all again I can remind myself what I liked.

Lots of the apps I like are the sort that, although you know you might only need them once, in a very specific situation, unless you have them on your iphone then and there, you won’t be able to use them. An example of this might be an egg timer. You honestly aren’t going to bother going to download an egg timing application when the yolk-lust grabs you BUT if you happen to have already installed it then as you get the egg pan out you may decide to use it.

Another of the sort of application I like are the sort that show off a feature of the iphone. It sort of justifies buying the damn thing. A friend of mine almost fell off his chair when I proudly demo-ed the spirit level application. His chair was wonky.

Bizarrely, whilst walking through Easingwold last night someone pulled over and asked “Where is the nearest petrol station?” … which was doubly bizarre because they’ve just demolished the local garage and I’d just commented along the lines of “Where the hell IS the nearest petrol station for Easingwoldians?”… and so, to my delight I was able to whip out Locly and discover that the answer to the question is Thirsk (which can’t happen often either).

Another of the sorts of apps I like, are ones that when you are on a delayed train and going nowhere you can “entertain” yourself by exploring them. They’re like boredom insurance for a time when you probably don’t have access to the internet.

Yet another of the sorts of apps I like are the free ones. I’m from Yorkshire.

I haven’t JailBroke my iphone yet, partly because I expect to take it back soon…

Air Sharing - turns your iphone into a browsable hard disk over airport, great for dumping a PDF you want to read on the bus etc
Bakelite 1.0 - an old fashioned circular dialer (oh how we laughed)
Band - I paid for this (oh how they laughed)
Banner Free 1.0 (this came in useful ordering a pint across a crowded pub… oh how the entire pub laughed)
Bookmarks 1.0 (Delicious but fairly useless actually)
ClickWheel (don’t bother)
Cross Light (crosswords I can’t do..)
Cube Runner 1.2 (a game that demoes the rock n scroll interface of the iphone well)
Cubes Lite (good god this is addictive and I don’t even like games, just one more go… AND it demos the flicky-flicky interface quite well)
DizzyBeeFree 1.1 (rolly rolly)
DownTime 1.5.3 (A countdown (think egg) timer)
Dual Level (spirit level)
Eventful 1.0.1 (local events…. quite nice)
Evernote 1.3.0 (notes … crashed when taking a picture of Richard Millwood…. can’t really blame it though)
ezimba 2.0 (edit pictures… you’re gonna need this one strange day)
Facebook (has a better interface to contacts that the contacts app)
Google (it’s like God)
GuitarToolkit (I paid for this and used to work out what notes were in a melody I was singing (badly))
iFooty (wonderful football leagues, tables etc)
iPint 1.1 (I thought this was the one where you pretend to drink a beer… it wasn’t)
Labyrinth LE (great rolly rolly demo game)
Last.fm ( genius)
LinkedIn (quite nice)
Locly 2.0 (find petrol stations and more near you — go get this now)
MiGhtyDocs 1.1 1 (view Google Docs on your iphone)
Mobile News 1.2 (?)
Monkey Ball ( essential-ish)
MProfs 1.01 (Marketing news done quite nicely)
MTelnet 1.1 (I really want an SSH client.. but you have to pay for one of those… I’ll wait)
myLite 1.4 (Stupid makes the screen flash)
NeoReader 1.0 (One of those 3D barcode readers… trust me, one day … and only one… you’ll need this, go get it)
NetNewsWire 1.0.9 (Crashed because my reading list is huge)
Portuguese 1.0 (Fantastic if you happen to be Portugal… has audio examples of how to say something)
PuzzloopFree ( a game I haven’t played yet)
Rain Stick 1.1 (stupid, don’t)
Relax (videos of waterfalls etc)
Remote 1.0 (contol your iTunes)
reMovem free 1.0.3 (wonderful game that … just one more try)
Scribble 1.1 (hopeless drawing app)
Shazam 1.0 (sing a tune and it will tell you what it is… if this isn’t an example of an app that you will SO NEED one day then …)
Speed 1.0.4 (no idea, doesn’t seem to have synced)
Stanza 1.3 1 (A free book reader thingy… I started some odd books )
Stitcher 1.1.3231 (radio… I think)
TimeValue (for calculation compound interest…. although maybe not)
TouchClock 1.1 1 (a timer…one day…)
Trailguru 1.0 (A “plot your walk” type GPS app)
TubeStatus (this will come in handy one day)
Twitterrific 1.1 (of course)
Twittervision 1.1 (maybe not)
VoiceNotes 1.2 (record audio notes)
Wikipanion 1.2 (why yes)
WordPress 1.1 (this makes me smile… the ONE thing this app could do really well is moderate comments, because as I’ve ranted earlier, textual input on the iphone is a bit lameroo… and moderating needs only button clicks… and it doesn’t do it, instead focussing on writing blog posts… bonkers!)
へぇボタン 1.1 (eh?)

Here’s a load more iPhone Apps, iPhone Applications. As I write this… my iphone crashed while syncing these applications… oh how we laughed at the irony whilst holding down the power button and the home button for six seconds.

UPDATE: Sigh… you know what… it won’t boot now… it’s stuck at the Apple logo…. I bet when Steve Jobs reads this blog he’ll be furious…