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July 24, 2009
iPhone Apps
I've been deciding what iPhone apps to download this week and have gotten some good advice just by tweeting and Facebooking the request. I was mainly interested in getting Twitter and Facebook to work well. A few folks recommended a few movie review and travel apps. I'll try them eventually too. All of my e-mail accounts are working fine now. I thought I might as well ask on my old-fashioned blog - Anything anyone can't live without out there? I am sticking to 15 minutes a day to learn and choose this stuff or I could get addicted.
And broke, apparently: "Just in case you felt compelled to assemble a collection of every push-to-fart program out there, Forbes calculates the price of purchasing all 55,732 available iPhone apps to be $144,326.06." [Forbes via Gizmodo]
I'll start downloading some SirsiDynix ILS apps once I get good at this phone. I'm still a bit all thumbs.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at July 24, 2009 11:25 PM
Comments
One of the free apps for the iphone which I like is the "if found" app, it won't deter those who are after a free iphone by theft or 'finding it', but for the honest ones, this is a great way to let people know who and where you are so your phone can be returned to you if you inadvertantely leave it somewhere.
Other ones are Photonote and a voice recorder like Quick voice or Voice memo's (also free).
Just be sure you test your apps one a day to make sure none slow down your OS - if you load too many in one day and then you have problems, you need to get them all off and start again.
Posted by: Dianne McKenzie at July 25, 2009 7:56 AM
My favorite (free) apps for my iPod Touch are: Pandora internet radio, and Stanza, a book reader that has a Library of free books to download.
Posted by: Kathie Olds at July 26, 2009 4:06 PM
Well apart from free apps i bought iwound.It cost me $4.99, contains 402 pages of original content, 15 minutes of audio and video and several features
Posted by: Anne at July 27, 2009 4:59 AM
I wasn't able to find any SirsiDynix ILS apps on the App Store.
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They're being released on our site soon. Of course, the apps are necessarily library specific. A SirsiDynix app would not be particularly useful unless it was customized for a local library by that library such as the DCPL apps.
SA
Posted by: Brian Davis at October 13, 2009 12:15 PM