My Top 5 iPhone Apps
I remember when I got my first iPod Touch, and later the iPhone — I was anxious to dive into the thousands of apps floating around, but I had no idea where to start. Now that I’ve had some time to fool around with them, I’m here to write about my top 5 apps. If you just received your own iPhone, these are the apps I’d recommend you get:
BeeJiveIM [$9.99]
BeeJiveIM is an amazing app for chatting on the iPhone. You can sign into most of your favorite chat programs, and continue to stay online even after you closed the app. Then,
if you were to get an IM during that time, BeeJiveIM will send you a push notification. The only downside to this application is the cost. However, $10 really isn’t that much for something you can use every day and get free updates for. If you’re looking for a free alternative to this, try eBuddy. I was impressed with their app as well, but it is missing some of the nice features that BeeJiveIM has (landscape mode, meta names, etc).
Facebook [Free]
Facebook is an addiction, and it doesn’t stop with the iPhone. This application makes it so you can log in and keep up to date with all of your friends. There isn’t much to say about this app, it is what it is.
TweetDeck [Free]
I’ve tried several twitter applications and finally settled on this one. Not only is it an amazing application, but it’s free. It allows you to do all of the general twitter things, including tweeting, mentions, direct messages, replying, trends, and url shortening for images.
Rename [Free]
You won’t find this app in the app store. It’s only available to people who jailbreak their iPhone. And now with the iPhone Dev Team releasing redsn0w, there is no reason why you can’t have this app yourself. It allows you to change the name of any other app you have. You can change “Amazon.com” to “Amazon”, or “What’s On” to “TV Guide”. To some people this may not be a big deal, but I cannot stand seeing “ICanHazCheeseBurger” squished down to try to fit in small space provided.
SBSettings [Free]
This is another app that is only available for jailbroken iPhones. But again, this is one that I really just can’t live without. The app is designed to give you quick access to toggles for services like Phone, SMS, Wifi, etc, so you can easily turn them on and off without digging through menu after menu. Not only does it offer these toggles, but it also offers the ability hide applications that you’re not using (or can’t uninstall). This is particularly useful for apps that come with the iPhone that you don’t need (like the compass, perhaps).
