1) Twitter - I like the basic Twitter app - it does everything I feel it needs to do. Although I would love it if it had a "retweet old school" option like I do with the Chrome browser. (UPDATE: I just noticed that it does allow you to quote tweets with an newer update I got automatically. The annoying thing now is, it puts quote marks around the whole thing and you can't delete the quote marks to make a nice, clean RT.)
2) Merriam-Webster's Dictionary - I only discovered this one recently. You can do a voice search and it has an audio clip for each word. Ever wonder how a word you've only seen written actually should sound? This app solves that issue. It also has a "word of the day" button which is cool, too.
3) Youversion's Bible app is brilliant. You have online access to most Bible versions in many different languages. You can also download many of those to your phone to use when outbid wireless range, like when I'm at church. I can quickly view the same reference in NIV, NLT, The Message, KJV, etc. (UPDATE: The latest update has so improved the function of this app. I'm wondering if it will always be free, now. It's worth paying for, though.)
4) Google - voice search on Google. I use this at school a lot.
5) Weather Eye - This is the Weather Network's app - I find it more useful than the iPhone's default weather app. Canadians are really "into" the weather, so the Canadian Weather Network's app being way cool should not be a surpise.
6) Google Translate - Speak into the phone. It instantly translates what you say into most any language you can think of. Most language have an audio button. Press it and you hear it spoken in that language! My only beef: Yiddish doesn't have an audio button. I really want to hear that one!
7) Canpages - The Canadian Yellow pages with audio recognition. Speak whatever business you want and it gives you all the contact information you need. Press the phone number and you're calling them. It also has white pages, but you have to type the person's name in.
8) Flixster - Great for local movie showtimes. Now I always know what's playing close by and when. This is put out by Rotten Tomatoes, so you get all the reviews linked to the movie you're wondering about, too.
9) IMBD - Another movie app (I love movies). This has all the info you can get from the IMBD website, including the top 250, info on actors, directors, etc.
10) Cowbell! - I put this here because I actually do use this in the classroom to get the kids' attention sometimes and I just couldn't leave the list at 9.
I'll leave the list at that so far. There's a bunch of others that I use, but the above are ones that I've downloaded and use quite frequently.
All of the above apps, by the way, have one thing in common: They're free apps! I'm really amazed by the high quality of even free apps, although that whole "I swear I'll only stick to free apps" resolution when I first got the phone really didn't work out. It's just soooo hard when the Apple people put apps for their store right on the phone!
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