Today I was reading Scott Kelby’s blog, ‘Photoshop Insider’ (today’s entry here) and it mentioned yet another iPhone App site by his friend Terry White called BestAppSite.com. Of course, I went to visit and it had a number of handy new apps reviews, videos and his list of top apps. I found it interesting that our most use apps were related and in some cases the same. I would like to know which are your top five apps, because if a trend starts to develop maybe we should get one of my co-workers to build on currently existing apps and make them better, once he is done with the BG App of course.
Following are my top five apps, not counting the browser and texting app (although I would like some improvements on those apps as well).
1. Diner Dash – A pretty addicting game which gets you started with it’s simplicity, but keeps you intrigue with their expert score challenge. This is one of those games that does a great job when you need to kill some time while waiting for the doctor, waiting for your fiancé to finish getting dress or when she is watching ‘In The Middle.’ My alternative in the game category would have been Civ Rev, but it is a more involved game, it takes more time and sucks the life out of your iPhone battery pretty quick.
2. Chase Application – If you think online banking is awesome then you will love iPhone banking. With the Chase application I can pay bills, check account balances, transaction history and find the closes ATM or bank. If you are concern with your security and privacy, web security standards are used during your connection with the bank. I don’t need to be close to a computer to pay my bills anymore, I can just log in my phone and set up a payment as I read the bill. There are similar apps for Bank of America and other banks.
3. Open Table – This a nice little app for making restaurant reservations. As you make more reservations and respond to a survey after every restaurant visit you gain points which could be use for a free dinner. V and I like going to restaurants locally, but also when out of town; the app does a good job at recommending restaurants to try and showing reviews. The big brother website is very helpful and they sync well. The only problem is that sometime the app gets a ‘bit sluggish and freezes, but I’ve notice that after the last upgrade it works pretty good.
4. Now Playing – This app has been the most complete app I’ve found for movie listings, buying tickets and reviews. Now if I could get an app that unites Open Table and this one in order to have the Dinner and a Movie combo all in one place…. Listening co-worker?
5. Best Camera – This fairly new app is my iPhone photo editing app of choice. It lets me crop and apply a number of filters to my iPhone photos, but where it shines is in the available options for sharing in social networking sites. The Facebook app would have been in this listing, but I only use it for updating my status and posting mobile photos, now I don’t need the Facebook App for updating the photos so it dropped out of the top five. Sorry Facebook freaks (mom)… Also, if you are looking for a free alternative photo editing app, then the Adobe Photoshop App is for your, PS Mobile.
Please, remember to comment on your top used apps. Thanks!
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