iPhone 2.0 – Apps I Like

Gowtham — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:42:05 +0000

It has been a couple days since most of the mankind, including myself, went through the pains of updating to the latest and greatest iPhone software yet, and I have had some time to play around with some of its new features and try out some of the free cool apps. What follows below are screenshots of some of these features and free apps-in-action (thanks to dear friend Amy for showing me how snap these screenshots):

My Home Screens

AIM Chat

Saying Yellow To The Future

SportsTap

AOL Radio and Radio 105

New York Times & WeatherBug

CheckPlease and EasyTask

Zip Code

Dial Zero and Facebook

Remote – controls iTunes on a Mac (PC too?) from iPhone

Google & Color Coded Calendar

There are a plethora of other applications – some free and some not so free. I must say I haven’t used them all and I am sure I have missed out on some cooler apps – if you know of any that I might like, drop the information as a comment and I will try it out.

If only some one, either Apple or an enthusiastic iPhone developer, would make the Terminal app – it would make my life so much more easier and geekier

iPhone Software Update 2.0

Gowtham — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:23:45 +0000

Belonging to the kind of neophiliacs who just can’t prevent the itch for new things as well as cannot rest until trying it out, I too connected my iPhone (the 2G version) to iTunes and hit the Update button. Things looked slow yet promising but then came a series of dreaded error messages (I should have figured that there are a few million others who are trying to do the same thing at about the same time and especially so after dear friend Amy warned me, but you know how it is with folks like us):

Following a how-to-do advise from Amy, I even took out the SIM card from iPhone and put it in my backup instrument but the itch just kept getting itchier. Few more tries and a bunch of error messages later, my iPhone finally – after about 2 hours of struggle and misery – synced up (being patient and some random luck helped I guess) and to say the least, I am very pleased with the added features – the color coded calendar display, some cool App Store Apps (AIM, YPMobile, SportsTap, Facebook, WeatherBug, NYTimes, ZipCode, Google, Remote, …) being my favorites so far.

Wish I could say the same about the whole update process though…

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iPhone 2.0 – Apps I Like

iPhone Software Update 2.0