Jan 14, 2009
Best iPhone App?
I love the iPhone. I use mine incessantly. Mostly I use Mail, Safari, Google Apps, and Facebook. Maybe I'm just jaded, but most of the applications on the App store are garbage and don't do anything terribly exciting. The other morning I downloaded the AccuWeather GPS-enabled iPhone app, though, and wow. This is the weather App for which you've been waiting. It uses GPS to give you the temperature at your current location, plus a "feels like" temperature. Plus there's a radar section , finally. And to top it off a risk bar set up. It's not perfect, but it's the most perfect free weather App I've found. Also, it's one of the more useful applications. Anybody have thoughts on other useful applications? Leave them in the comments. (By the way, the working definition for useful is something like "Not a light saber, zippo, or glass of beer."
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Since writing this post a couple weeks ago, I've noticed a few quirks in the app that I would change if I was building the BEST iPhone app. If you're looking at the 5-day forecast and you switch to a day a couple days away, it goes back to today when you toggle between night and day. Also, you can't view today's forecast more than a few hours into the future? It would be good if you could hit 'next' and move forward. Fact remains, it's still more useful than all the others and I want to know what you're using.
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Update: Thanks to digiphile in the comments for pointing out my error in leaving out Pandora. I was remiss. I don't use it much, but that's a great app. Also, since iTunes started streaming podcasts, I appreciate it even more.
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Since writing this post a couple weeks ago, I've noticed a few quirks in the app that I would change if I was building the BEST iPhone app. If you're looking at the 5-day forecast and you switch to a day a couple days away, it goes back to today when you toggle between night and day. Also, you can't view today's forecast more than a few hours into the future? It would be good if you could hit 'next' and move forward. Fact remains, it's still more useful than all the others and I want to know what you're using.
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Update: Thanks to digiphile in the comments for pointing out my error in leaving out Pandora. I was remiss. I don't use it much, but that's a great app. Also, since iTunes started streaming podcasts, I appreciate it even more.
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I didn’t really covet the iPhone until I saw the metronome app that a friend had installed on his.
What, no WeatherBug? That’s pretty decent. I’m surprised you didn’t mention Pandora, too.