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6 Must Have iPhone Apps
Jun 16th
| Ultimate Guitar Toolkit – $9.99 |
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- Highly accurate tuner (EADGBe + others) - Scales - Chords - Great layout / look - Metronome |
| Mint – Free |
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- Great financial tracking tool - Includes ability to track car, house, student loans etc. - Warnings with preset thresholds - Budgeting System - Free! - Incredibly professional & secure - Great website that works seamlessly wit application - Push alerts - One touch access to all assets & accounts - Stock monitoring - Financial trends & more |
| eBuddy – Free |
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- Provides a system that synthesizes all your messengers - Includes support for: Facebook, AIM, ICQ, Google etc. - Push notification - Free App that competes if you can deal with the ads - Now includes the ability to maintain login for 12 Hrs - Keeps a nice chat log similar to your SMS messenger |
| MyPhone+ – $3.99 |
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- Interfaces with your facebook to fully complete contacts - Includes current profile picture in your phone book - Adds: emails, chat names, employers etc. to your contacts - Syncs quickly - Attractive GUI - Great way to organize your friends completely |
| Skobbler – Free |
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- The ONLY true turn by turn navigation client thats FREE! - Similar to the AT&T turn by turn application ($10/m) - Doesn’t require registration - Includes ‘Go Home’, Recent Destinations etc. - Slightly buggy but the developers are always releasing updates - Pleasant turn-by-turn audio |
| Dragon Dictation – Free |
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- Ever wanted a tool that transcribes what you say? - Dragon Dictation is the company behind MACSpeech - For the most part very effective and accurate - Has powerful tools for app to app copy paste - Can be great in a society where texting and driving is a no no |
iPhone App: iCam
Jan 30th
Living in downtown the threat of theft is of constant worry. So one day at work I whipped out my trusty iPhone and went about finding an application that could potentially harness webcams in order to monitor my house while I was away — iCAM is what I found.
iCAM allows you to use up to 4 different web cams to monitor your home business or whatever while your away — but thats not what makes this application incredible. iCAM brings together computer software with iPhone application to make one of the most powerful webcam monitoring programs (if not the most powerful) I have come across.
To the right is the iPhone interface — this allows you to hear through the microphone on the webcam itself in addition to toggling on/off ‘push notifications,’ ‘record motion events,’ checking past motion events, & changing the sensitivity of the push notifications.
Push Notifications is an additional service ($0.99) on top of the iCAM application ($4.99) — but well worth the buck. Basically the software on your computer will read when there is motion in whatever room you have your webcam stationed and send you whats called a push notification (looks like a text). You can then choose to view the webcam which had the latest ‘action’ or leave it be and your iCAM software will take snapshots of the subject in question which can be reviewed at a later time by click ‘view motion events’ in the upper right hand corner of your iPhone iCAM interface.
In terms of setup it really isn’t that difficult. On your computer you have a similar screen to the one you see here (iPhones iCAM settings); you input a username and password (no registration required) and then press ‘start recording’ and match your login/pass on your comp with your phone — and your off and running. You can toggle push notifications and the whole 9 yards from your phone with one exception, you can’t press the “start recording” from your phone so its imperative that you get the webcam up and running before you leave!
The bottom line: this is a must buy! If you would ever like to keep an eye on something without KEEPING and eye on it, this is your tool. I’ve purchased tons of apps but this is literally the best in terms of practicality and peace of mind and quite possibly the best $6.00 I’ve ever spent. That’s why I’m giving this guy a 3/3; not only is it compatible for both Windows and Macintosh but its also relatively affordable when you consider what a normal security system goes for (cheapos @ $100).
