There's an App For That

Here's a good article from lifehacker.com about the great free or cheap apps for the iPhone. I can vouch for several of these apps, including some that I use daily, like the Facebook app. Here's a list of some of the apps I like; almost all of which I got for free or when they were on sale for free.

Apps I use every day:
• Maps finds things fast and gives directions using Google maps. I've noticed that when I'm out calling on people that the maps in Bing seem more accurate for residential addresses.
• iBooks is a great way to read books but now I use it to store all the PDFs I get via email. I also download the PDF version of Ozark Christian College's "Compass" magazine and read it here.
• Dictionary from Dictionary.com is the best dictionary and thesaurus in my opinion.
• Bible by LifeChurch.tv is so useful that I've actually used it in church services before.

Apps I highly recommend:
• The IMDB app is a must have if you want to know what actor was in what movie.
• TV Forecast gives you the next showing of your favorite TV shows.
• Dragon Dictation types what you speak and emails or texts it for you.
• Pandora is hands down the best internet radio station, tailored to your tastes.
• Cyclemeter (pictured) is the best GPS bike computer I could ask for.
• BlogPress; every time I blog a picture from my phone, this is the app for me.
• Star Walk is the best night sky astronomy app by far. I use this app a lot more than I thought I would.
• Convertbot is a great unit conversion tool for almost any measurement.

Apps I intend to use more in the future:
• Evernote stores notes and pics online with optical character recognition. I intend to use this to store sermon notes and ideas.
• Dropbox sounds fantastic as a way to share files online between computers but I haven't had the need to use it a lot. I do the same thing with Google Docs everywhere but on my phone.