Paul is the author of "iPhone 3GS Portable Genius: Also covers iPhone 3G", and has 10 iPhone Apps to recommend to you.
iPhone Apps
Canon Photographers Discuss the iPhone and iPhone Apps – Lots of useful information in there.
Evernote vs Simplenote? – Sam Harrelson:
Simplenote does exactly what I want a note taking app to do… it takes notes quickly, easily and syncs automagically. I love Evernote, but I've found myself overwhlemed there as of late since there are so many features (and since I do have so much data there). Simplenote is… well, simple. And that's refreshing.
John Gruber compares both programs:
I have no doubt that many people love Evernote. That’s great. But I don’t like it at all. I don’t like the Mac app. I don’t like the web app. And I especially dislike the iPhone app, which, even if I did like it, doesn’t work at all on the iPhone OS 3.1 betas. (I’m sure they’ll fix that before OS 3.1 actually ships, but every app I do depend on runs just fine on the OS 3.1 betas.)
… and …
Evernote goes in a very different direction: a long list of features but a janky experience.
Simplenote, an iPhone App with over-the air Internet syncing – A splendid review of the note-taking app by John Gruber, who says:
Since November, shortly after posting the aforementioned article, I’ve been using a splendid iPhone app called Simplenote. I’ve tried a slew of iPhone note editing apps, and not only is Simplenote my favorite, it might be my favorite third-party iPhone app, period. It’s that good.
The second part of the article has John explaining in great depth the various syncing strategies, with pros and cons of each method.
One of the best uses of the magnetometer / compass plus camera plus accelerometer plus GPS functions on the iPhone 3GS I've ever seen.
(via Daring Fireball)
Typical Apps Usage on the iPhone? – GregoriusM:
I have purchased some good quality apps, and will keep some of the free Lite apps, and a few of the free full apps. So, I'm sure I'll have at least 35 to 40 apps on the touch at any one time, or probably more.
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That being said, I love the choice we are given. This is the best PDA I have ever owned, and that is only the very basic function that I started with when moving from a Palm TX, and we all know what else is on the device that brings it to the very cool, very productive, very entertaining device that it is.
Apps are a very big part of that.
eBuddy Chat Client for the iPhone (Has Push Notification) – "eBuddy is a free mobile app that enables users to communicate with others using AIM, Facebook Chat, ICQ, Gtalk, Windows Live Messenger etc. in one, aggregated interface."
In End User: The Three iPhone Applications That Are Keeping Me From Buying a Palm Pre, Aric Annear says this of IMEEM mobile compared with Pandora:
Both the iPhone and the Pre have Pandora, which is a great application, but the recently-released imeem app takes it a step further with the ability to upload your entire music collection to imeem and stream it to the app, so you don't have to take up storage space on your iPhone. It also has other features from the imeem.com site, such as Spotlight artists, recommended music, and featured stations. And if you find new music you can't live without, you can click in the app to go straight to that artist's iTunes page. Pandora's fantastic, but the ability to jump within one app between new music and my own uploaded favorite tunes makes this one a winner for me.
