Machete don't text

[gwyn]

Now that I have an iPhone, I'm playing around with my apps way too much considering how much work I have to do. So I've DLed a couple of free apps, but I don't know what else to pick up (and I already have Angry Birds on my Nook Color, so I don't want to spend the money to get that again). If you use an iPhone, what do you like? I was wondering about those photo doctoring apps, especially -- I see all these interesting treatments of pictures, and I assume they're apps, but I don't know which one's best or coolest or what have you. I'm also interested in some GPS apps -- do you use one you like? It seems the best ones are very expensive in the long run, and you have to re-up your service annually or semi-annually.

Anything else that's cool? I'm not a games player, but you could possibly sell me on something intellectually focused.

I'm trying to get better at the texting thing, but I don't really have anyone to text with, so it seems kind of moot. The onscreen keyboard is nice, but wow, am I bad with it. I always hit the wrong keys. I think it's a matter of time before I end up on one of those autofill joke pages.

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[raine]

I use Google Maps, which is a free app and does really well. I also use InRix Traffic, which isn't free (and is one of the more expensive apps), but it has a feature I really, really like in the premium version: I can save my frequent routes, and it will calculate, with traffic, how long it will take me to get there.

Beyond that: I use Stanza as my ereader (I can't stand iBooks; it doesn't sort stuff the way I want it to). I also have a tip calculator, DocstoGo for writing/viewing Word docs and various other apps for stuff I use (like Twitterific, Vevo, OpenTable, and Dragon Dictation). There are tons of lists of "best apps" out there (Time magazine has one that's pretty recent), but what I've discovered is that the apps I keep are the ones that I use frequently, regardless of whether or not they were free to start.