Crazy with the iPhone apps
I’ve gone a little nuts with the iPhone apps lately adding:
Toodledo – I’ve been looking for a while for a cheap, effective way to get tasks on my iPhone, that being the big productivity gap on that device. Plenty of good apps to do this, but I needed one that would 1) sync with Outlook/Exchange and 2) support categorization so I could give the Getting Things Done methodology a try.
While the app does not natively do that first thing, it does do the second. To do the first, I’m using a third-party free tool that syncs your Outlook tasks with Toodledo and makes them available to the Toodledo iPhone app.
I’m not sure I’m going to stick with this as the app has presented some issues, like getting things out of sync, tasks disappear because they’re marked as completed. I can easily recover from these things, but it’s still a little bothersome.
Watchmen – Promo tool for the movie. Kind of fun.
Kindle – Just released early today, let’s you download Kindle books, magazines, etc., to your iPhone. You still need to buy content at the Kindle Store.
iDracula – Fun game, and on sale for $0.99. I found out about this from the great twitter feed that follows all the price drops on iTunes.
New York Times – Just a quick way to get the Times headlines. Yes, I could go to the web site with Safari on the iPhone, just like they showed in the first iPhone ads, but this is a lot easier to read.
TV.com – A great first start at streaming TV shows to your iPhone. A bit rough, and the content is pretty sparse (mostly clips), but it has potential.
Thanks for the Kindle tip.
I’m using the other two apps. I’m synching my Toodledo tasks with the website which is free unless you want to use subtasks and then it’s $15 per year. I like it.
Pity it’s not available in the UK.
I use Omnifocus (Mac) with the iPhone sync — it uses Kinkless ToDo List GTD (plan by project, execute by context/due date) planning. I love it because I can keep track of all aspects of my life — family/church/work/home business/personal/financial deadlines and synergize opportunities where contexts overlap.
I use Stanza for reading: download from Gutenberg or other sites to the laptop, then use the Stanza interface to read them there or use wireless to down load to the iPhone stanza. Both Stanza and Gutenberg are free….am reading “Whose Body” by Sayers on my iPhone now.
Also try AirShare for downloading files — if you don’t need pretty to read. Will handle and display most formats (txt, rtd, doc, ppt, xls) so is a good way to carry important docs that you need to consult around without having to be online.
There are a number of Planetarium programs: I like GoSkyWatch and StarMap best for actually finding things; Uranus is pretty for displays, and I’m still learning Distant Suns. Frotz lets you play interactive fiction games (Zork-type); you can download many IF games from the web. Like the YouVersion Bible app; it can work both online or you can download versions for offline reading now and has lots of translations. I also like Epicentral for tracking earthquake activity.
BTW have you tried Webex yet?