iPhone Apps Part 2

Here are some more apps that I have found fun, useful or interesting.

If you have a Facebook account, you can download the Facebook app that will allow you to quickly update your status, check mail, send pictures, chat etc from your iPhone. It is different than the iphone.facebook.com web page. I have both on the phone but mainly use the Facebook app. The webpage is more thorough but for quick updates I like the app.

Air Sharing is a program that allows you to access your iPhone as a portable wireless hard drive. Works pretty slick but I think it only works over Wireless networks (not 3G or Edge). It gives your phone an IP address which you can access from a Mac or PC on the current network and transfer files to and from your phone using a sevure username and password. It sets up a partition for file sharing, so you don't have access to all of your music, photos and videos on the phone this way....only the files you've transferred with Air Sharing. Pretty cool.

I've been looking for a fre or inexpensive IM program that will work with Windows Live. So far the only one that is free that gets any decent reviews is one called Palringo. I installed it and set it up this morning so I haven't had a lot of time to mess around with it but so far it works....and it works fast. I sat at my computer logged in as one user and on my iPhone as another cnd chatted with myself to see how quickly it would respond. It was intantaneous. I have read reviews of peolpe having trouble adding Google Chat accounts, but I have only tried MSN and it works fine.

Cannon Game is a great game app. It is from Discovery Channel and and gives you access to a Non-Line-Of-Sight cannon and you must use elevation and velocity to catapult your projectile over mountains to destroy your targets. I haven't found a way to mute the sound yet, so it's not good for secret playing while in a boring meeting.

Not actually an app, but I did find a third party A/V cable that allows you to connect your iPhone to a TV or stereo so you can play your music or videos/photos on the TV. Haven't had any problems with it until yesterday when I plugged it in it indicated that it was not an Apple approved product and may not work properly. I did get a little bit of noise through the speakers while playing Pandora Radio but quickly went away. The cable also has USB on it so you can charge your phone too. $30....not bad at all.

More to come later!!