Monday, August 18, 2008

    iPhone Applications

    A few weeks ago, I stood in line at the Apple Store here in Chandler, Arizona to get my new iPhone 3G. It took about 2 hours to get my white 16-GB phone.

    I've been downloading a bunch of free apps. My favorites so far are Pandora Radio (which, apparently, is on the verge of shutting down), Showtimes, UrbanSpoon, Simplify Media, and Aurora Feint.
    • Pandora Radio - Free, streaming Internet radio. This app allows you to create your own radio station based on your personal tastes
    • Showtimes - This app finds your locations and shows you nearby movie theaters with movie showtimes
    • UrbanSpoon - This app randomly selects a nearby restaurant based on a few parameters that you can lock in. If your work lunch group is anything like mine, you can never agree on a lunch spot. Now, we just let my iPhone decide.
    • Simplify Media - This app allows you to stream music from your iTunes library on your PC or Mac to your iPhone. Yep, you no longer need to sync all of your music to the Flash memory on your iPhone; Stream it instead.
    • Aurora Feint - This game is a memory hog and has occasionally crashed on me. Yet, somehow, the RPG element has me hooked. I'm addicted to leveling up and buying new challenges.
    Nope, no MPLAB IDE for iPhone yet.

    1 comment:

    Anonymous said...

    MPLAB IDE for iPhone?
    Are you crazy?
    I'm still waiting to see if it'll happen for Linux. (not that I really care)

    Hope Pandora stays alive.
    They're a really cool notion and way better than last.fm.