What are Your Favorite iPhone Apps?

I’m quite often abroad and unwilling to spend heaps of money on roaming charges I like the app: OffMaps.

While it isn’t perfect yet, I love the idea of downloading a city, or other parts of a map I choose before I leave and can view them without the use of an internet connection.

eMees is my favorite app atm. I have 400 contacts alot of which i dont have pictures for so i use the app to create a little emee of them and use that.

The Public Radio app. I live in Alabama which is in the Central Time Zone. When I miss my morning fix of NPR, I simply listen to public radio over my iPhone from Eugene Oregon or some other station in the Pacific Time Zone. Plus, while our stations here are still mired in the old concepts of what public radio should offer, stations in more progressive areas offer some really wonderful radio programming which often includes the very latest music.

JourneyCast is my current favorite app. It uploads your GPS-determined location to its servers and it provides you with a secret link to view the location of the point(s) on a Google Map. If there are mulitple waypoints to your journey, it connects them sequentially with a red line. You can email the link to friends and family so they can follow along with your progress. You can press a button whenever you want it to log your location or you can set it to do this automagically at a variety of intervals. You can set the “autopilot” AND use the manual button during the journey. When you add a point manually, it gives you the option of adding a note to the point. And, just in case you’re in an area with poor cell service (like that ever happens with AT&T), it’ll store your data and upload it when service returns.

If you’re a long roadtrip home, your family can get a pretty good idea of when you’ll arrive by looking at your progress.

When I’m running in a marathon, my friends/family/”fans” can check on my progress to see if I’ve DNFed (I never have) and to see how slow I’m running (typically, very).

Another feature I like is that you can exit the app and return later to continue your journey. The journey continues until you hit the “end journey” button. I’m pretty sure it stops logging points automatically when it’s not active.

What I don’t like: not much. I wish I could tweak the points and the connecting lines a bit on the map.

For 99 cents, this is a “Best Of App Store” application. It’s worth quite a lot more, but, with no exchange/refund policy in place on the App Store, everyone, myself included, freaks out when the price is much higher.