Best iPhone apps

SweptEdge

SweptEdge

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Hey guys. I recently got an iPhone 4, and I have been trying out some apps. I have: Google Earth, Flashlight, Knots 3d, Survival guide, Find iPhone, and Topo Maps+. (I have others, but they aren't along the lines of outdoors and knives and things). I thought I saw a thread similar to this one a long time ago, but I couldnt find it in different searches. Leave a link if you all know if there are any other threads on this.

What apps to you recommend?

Thanks
 
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Pandora, free music
5-0 police scanner
Google translate
How to tie a tie
Your banks app (Chase)
Evernote
VOXER free walkie talkie, like leaving a voice mail without waiting.
Amazon
Geocaching
PayPal
YouTube
Space view
All the above are free apps!

Free games,
Clash of clans
Chess with friends
Bejeweled
Cleopatra slots
Nuts
Subway surf
Tower defense 4

Use the genius in the App Store to help you find what you like.
 
There is an app called appsgonefree which finds apps that usually are $$ and posts when they are freebies.

I've downloaded a bunch of stuff with it for fun for apps that I never would pay for but wanted to try out. The apps they post are pretty random, they just post the daily freebies so you can't search for what you want but its still pretty fun.
 
I have an app that I believe is called Convert Units free. It converts back and forth from standard, metric, and a couple of other systems. It has length, mass, speed, volume, etc. Pretty handy for figuring out knife measurements, etc. It even has grains so you can see what your favorite bullet weighs in ounces, pounds, grams, etc.
 
IMO most apps for businesses are down right useless. You have a smart phone. Why use an app when you can pull up the webpage. Free advertising for them and a waste of phone memory for you. Other then games the only thing I have on my phone is pandora.
 
Knife Steel Composition, think it has the same name on Iphone. Great tool for looking up steel properties on the go.
 
I would add: CalcPro HD, Over 40+, My Radar, Bubble Level, Ted, PBS, Heritage, Tunein Radio, Grog Knots, LeafsnapHD, Planets, Audubon Nature Guides as marketed by Nature Share. The nature guides go on sale periodically if you get on their email list.
 
The star viewing apps are absolutely fantastic. "Skyview", "Planets", and "Distant Suns". You can point your phone at a starry sky, and they tell you what you are looking at including constellations, planets, satellites and space junk. Amazed a lot of people with these apps on camping trips.
 
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^ I've tried several of the star ID apps on iphone and I prefer night sky ($1.29 when i bought it, sometimes its for free, plus an optional $5.99). The basic version [without upgrade pack] is plenty for me- planets, stars and constellations, satellites, space junk (like old R/B and crap). It shows everything, if you point it down at the ground is shows you what's above the other side of the earth. It's what I used to find the ISS when it was visable a few weeks ago. Actually I don't even know what the "upgrade" could add to make it more informative, maybe coordinated in space, but I wouldn't even want that.

Other than that I have the TV guide app since we don't have a DVR, it sets push notifications for TV shows and series and if I miss the new episode of one of my series I just push a button and it tells me when that episode will air again so I can make sure I catch it.
 
"I angle finder" is handy to have and if you get "trig solver" to go with it you can easily tell how tall things are... It would be good with the distance apps too...
 
I bought a magazine on Iphone called Survivalist it has 12 issues and there a few bucks a pop.
 
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