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My top XX iPhone apps are not your top XX apps
I am amazed when I hear that people only use a handful of apps. Loosely sorted by usage frequency, these are the third-party apps I use regularly:
- BBC News (listening to the BBC Wordservice)
- RSR (listening to my favorite music radio station)
- Reeder (RSS client)
- Shazam (identify music)
- Skype (VoIP, lowers your phone bill)
- Articles (Wikipedia client)
- Simplenote (synchronised notes across all your devices)
- SBB Mobile (public transport schedules)
- ZVV Fahrplan (ditto, better at finding local bus stops)
- Swiss Map (high quality topographical maps)
- Dropbox (easier than emailing you files you might need on the go)
- Weightbot
- eBay (watching auctions on the go)
- Amazon.de (looking up book titles, authors and lots of other stuff)
- The Economist (reading or listening to your favourite newspaper without having to carry anything extra)
- DB Navigator (public transport schedules for another country)
- LEO (the best online dictionary between German and six other languages)
- Ninjawords (the best English dictionary)
- PCalc (clean and useful RPN-capable calculator)
- i48 (when you need the full power of an HP48 calculator)
- Flashlight-4 (use the LED flash as a flashlight)
- IMDB (query the IMDB movie database)
- Kindle (e-book reader)
- Telefonbuch (German telephone directory)
- mobility car (carsharing access app)
- Public Toilets (find them wherever you are)
- iWeather.ch (rain radar for Switzerland)
- Star Walk (find any star or constellation, or just the moon or the sun ;))
- Convertbot (convert between units)
- Currencies (convert between currencies)
