Lists

Apple doesn’t comment on rumors or give users a roadmap to the future so no one is quite sure what today’s press conference about iPhone 3.0 will reveal. That doesn’t mean you can’t dream (for a few more hours anyway, after that your hopes for an iPhone nano will be smashed against the unyielding wall of reality) for nifty new features. Macworld has done just that with a list of fifteen things they’d like to see revealed at today’s event.

All the usual suspects are on the list: cut and paste, Spotlight, tethering etc. The more interesting thing about the list isn’t what is there but how basic the stuff on the list is. It’s basically fifteen items of “Wy the hell hasn’t this been here since the first iPhone came out?”  A little depressing really but it is important to remember that the iPhone excels at usability. Sure a lot of phones can do everything on the list but none of them do it very easily.

The iPhone can do a lot of good things for you. Keep you connected on road trips, double as a flashlight in a pinch, teach you to count cards and so on. But the iPhone can also get you fired. How can you be sure of this? By the nifty list of Apps than could get you fired post at International Business Times.

Sure there are a few apps you’ve heard of in the list but a few you probably haven’t. Saying much more would spoil the fun but who knew there was an iJiggly Bikini app?

The weather is warming up and we know that all you rich iPhoners will be busting out your sticks and hitting the fairway. Now golf is a sport aimed at those with disposable income so there are plenty of gadgets on the market for specialized purposes. Range finders, shot tracking etc. None of them will make you a better golfer but everyone tries them because they think you can buy a swing.

Skip all the gimmick gadgetry and just grab your iPhone, there are a ton of great apps for all your golfing needs. For a list check out 10 Kick Ass Golf Apps ay mygolfspy. I was honestly surprised at all the oolness offered by the various apps so I’ll be loading up my iPhone for a few of these when I hit hit the links this spring. And, to answer the obvious question, there is no app that will drain the pool to clean up the Baby Ruth bar.

At iPhone Matters we love the iPhone as much as anyone but we understand the thing isn’t perfect for everyone all the time. Which is why we found this list from Seeking Alpha a little on the light side. Sure Seeking Alpha hits some major points: the weirdish text messaging truncation, the UI inconsistencies and so forth. But they leave out a ton. That’s okay, an article that covered every iPhone annoyance would be too long to actually read. So what’s your favorite, err, most hated iPhone annoyance? We’ll go with smudgy screen #1 and put no video recording at #2.

If Android is going to beat the iPhone in cell phone space anytime soon (and it isn’t clear that this is a goal of Google) one of the keys is going to have to be applications. Android, like the iPhone, has an application store but unlike Apple Google doesn’t control the contents of the store nearly as tightly as Apple does. That, one would think, would be a competitive advantage for Android based phones. It turns out that the advantage is slim. For proof take a look at this list of apps you can get in the Android store that would never make it in the App Store. Except for the tethering nothing on the list seems remotely compelling.

When it comes to App Store openness there are persuasive arguments on both sides of the issue. A free for all means more choice for consumers but also more really bad apps. Tighter control of the App Store means better (better for whom isn’t always clear) but fewer apps. But the convenience and the lock in of the App Store trumps everything else. Since you’ve got nowhere to turn for apps short of jailbreaking your phone Apple can run the App Store how it feels and you’re stuck. Should you be angry? Happy? Apathetic? We have no idea, try not to get so worked up about an app store!

IF you’re just curious about what you might be missing PC World has put together a list of ten rejected iPhone apps. The list is interesting but out the 10 apps listed the only app that interested me personally was Podcaster. You might have a different take, maybe you would’ve bought MyShoe or Murderdrome. Check out what you’re missing with the list.

The fine folks over at tnerd have put up a list of 13+ ways you can use your iPhone to save some cash. Of course if you have $80+ a month to drop on your cell phone bill saving cash probably isn’t your biggest concern. But even if you’re rolling in dough saving more of the stuff is nice.

The thirteen ways amount to thirteen apps. Some are obvious (VoIP calls on Wi Fi)but there are some surprises on the list. Did you know that there is an app that will tell you what restaurants offer free meals for kids? There’s an app for that. Though when trying it out I was a little disappointed. Turns out you can’t just drop your kids off and expect the place to feed them, the managers expect you to buy a meal as well. Excuse the tangent. There is something on the list for about everyone so if you want to save a few bucks head over to tnerd and give it a read.… more...

At iPhone Matters we love lists about apps. That shouldn’t really be a surprise with over 10,000 apps in the App Store we’re always looking for a quick way to learn about more apps and lists serve that need. What is better than just any list?  Alist with a few clever jokes thrown in.

Mike Smith has just such a list up over at Yahoo! where he not only lists five “weird” apps but throws in a few jokes about them. The best jokes surround the sad trombone of Rimshot and Crickets. Mike comes up with some great uses for the sad trombone sound and we’re aren’t going to steal his jokes but House (Hadley Stern’s favorite show) would be a lot better in the titular character whipped out the iPhone and played the sad trombone sound whenever he told someone they were going to die.

the rest of the list is pretty good as well. You’ll find some standard picks in there but some you probably haven’t heard of before (bonus points for Mike: not… more...

Ask anyone who has been on the internet more than twice and they will tell you that print media is dead. Yeah, you lose some of the serendipity with the internet and coupons are much harder to cut out (I keep scratching my screen) but the future is clear and dead trees aren’t in the equation.

All that noted the old school magazines still carry a certain cachet. Particularly the big ones. You know: NewsWeek, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Parade (well just the Howard Huge part).

But no mag carries more automatic respect than Time magazine and Time loves the iPhone. How can you be sure? First Time named the iPhone the #1 gadget of the year (2007) and secondly the mag has devoted an entire piece to the best apps for the iPhones.

The bad thing about the list? It is a slideshow. iPM is here to help. Time’s choices are:

1. Pandora Internet Radio
2. AroundMe
3. AP… more...

So you’re an iPhone type person but you’re also a business tyoe person. What you want is a list of business apps to make your life easier. And your life is tough. You’ve got to submit expenses, convert currencies on over seas trips and track your time. Usually that kind of stuff means dragging your notebook around and a lot of phone calls.

Not anymore. Resourcenation has a pretty great list of 11 surprisingly useful business apps for your iPhone. We haven’t tried out any of the apps yet but if the descriptions are correct some the apps on the list are pretty damn cool.