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My Favorite iPhone Apps

Posted in iPhone by Alan Keister on February 15, 2009

I have installed a lot of the free apps on my iPhone but usually end of deleting them.  Only a handful are still on there.  I use only a few on a regular basis and they are my favorites by far. They are all free.  Here they are in order:

1.  Melodis Dialer (iTunes link).  This is a great app that makes phone calls much easier.  I put it just above my phone icon on the main screen.  Start the app, say a name, and it finds the contact for you.  Very simple and very accurate.  Free.

dialer melodis-dialer

2.  Instapaper.  This ingenious little app is kind of like sending a web page from my PC to my iPhone.  Put a “read later” button on your browser tool bar.  Click it when you find an article you want to read later.  Viola!  It is now on your iPhone.   I usually have five or ten articles on my phone for when I have a few minutes to kill.  Free.

3.  Public Radio (iTunes link).  I often listen to NPR in my car on the way to the Metro.  This app lets me keep listening to it all the way to work.  Surprisingly, the iPhone app is about a second ahead of the radio station!!! Go figure.  Free.

Public Radio

4.  DC Traffic Cam.  Sure, Google Maps has live traffic but it is horribly inaccurate.  If you want to see what is really happing on your commute, try this app.  It is a live traffic feed to your iPhone.  They support many other cities in the US as well.  Free.

NBC Traffic Cam

5.  WeatherBug (iTunes link).  I have tried a lot of weather apps to find my favorite.  I like an easy to read forecast and live radar.  This one has both.  While the PC version of WeatherBug is downright annoying, the iPhone version is simple, clean and functional.  Free.

WeatherBug weatherbug-radar

It really is amazing how many great free apps are out there.  Please let me know which are your favorites.

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  1. Steve said, on February 15, 2009 at 10:48 am

    Thanks for putting this together – I had no idea there was an NPR tuner. I’ve wanted one for a while.

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  2. WeatherBug « iApps Everywhere said, on April 22, 2009 at 4:00 pm

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  3. David said, on July 20, 2009 at 11:48 am

    Thanks for the list. We just upgraded to the 3GS. Downloading the weatherbug app now to give it a shot.

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  4. Jason Feather said, on July 24, 2009 at 6:58 am

    Great post – thanks for the heads up re melodies dialer which I’m now using! Check out my fav apps at my blog http://www.appertunity.com. Fav at mo is Artificial life which simulates the actions of real protazoa! Jas

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