Apps for iPhone 2.0
My top 5 apps from the AppStore
• Twitterrific
This is a twitter client from Craig Hockenberry of the Iconfactory, the maker of Twitterrific for Mac OS X. If you're on Twitter and are mobile, this is one app you need to have. It works just like Twitterrific on the Mac and it has a built in browser so you don't have to switch to Safari when you click on a link on your friend's tweet.
•Phone Saber
It's a lot less impressive on an iPod touch (due to having no proper speaker) but on an iPhone it really brings out the geek in you. Phone Saber emits noises that a light saber would make so you and your friends can pretend to be Luke, Anakin, Mace, or any other Jedi and use your iPod or iPhone as a light saber.
*updated August 19 - Phone Saber no longer available from AppStore. LucasFilms/LucasArts supposedly coming out with a proper lightsaber app
• Remote
Apple's remote application turns your iPod touch into a full fledged remote control for iTunes and AppleTV. Just pair up the iPod with the corresponding iTunes and you'll have complete control over the network. This explains why Apple dropped the infra red remote from notebooks as of this year. Just make sure your wireless network is active.
•NetNewsWire
I re
ad a lot of blogs and most of my news sources are from the net so having NNW available wherever I go is priceless. I have NNW on my Mac, it's one of the apps that I would never close because when I finish reading everything, it's time to refresh and grab more news! Problem is it's not convenient to read in the car or bus while commuting between home and work, so before I leave work, I sync my mobile NNW to the NewsGator service and I'll have the same list of news on the iPod as I do on the Mac.
•Facebook
Like a lot of people, I have a Facebook account. The Facebook app makes it really easy to find out what your friends are doing and dispenses with the superfluous apps. It really cuts the site down to the bare necessities; your profile page, list of friends, chat, inbox and your home page which you'll be forgiven for mistaking it for Twitter at a glance.
