{"id":1922,"date":"2009-07-10T19:42:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T18:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2009\/07\/10\/my-top-iphone-plugins.\/"},"modified":"2009-07-10T19:42:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T18:42:40","slug":"my-top-iphone-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"My top iPhone plugins."},"content":{"rendered":"

My very good friend Michael, who has such a way with words, today emailed me “I’ve just requested a PAC from Orange so I am heading inexorably toward an iPhone. You will have to recommend 10 must have apps.”<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>So here are my favourite apps. (Skewed towards travelling) – In no particular order…<\/p>\n

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Skype\u00a0 – Great when travelling to avoid the stupid O2 roaming fees and those \u00a31 for 1 second calls because the folks you are calling aren’t at home.<\/p>\n

WifiTrak<\/a> – Essential when travelling to find those open networks and to move around to get highest signal strength – warning it eats the battery!<\/p>\n

Brightkite – finds out where you are and Twitters it – note that the iPhone GPS only seems to work if there is a cellphone signal \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

SOStorch – converts the iphone to a torch, neat for those midnight soirees to the GOT (Great outside Toilet)<\/p>\n

AroundMe – Great if you need to know the\u00a0 nearest Apple store is 3.500 miles away! or that the hospital is around the corner!<\/p>\n

Bloomberg – so you can keep track of your stocks and see how much money you are losing or gaining.<\/p>\n

Currency – great for checking out exactly how many Bolivars there are to the pound or if the local dealer is ripping you off.<\/p>\n

Facebook – so you can see what your friends are up to and where you should be heading next.<\/p>\n

BP Tracker – Not so handy when travelling but good for home so you can see how stressed and unhealthy you are.<\/p>\n

Google – quick access to all your google stuff.<\/p>\n

TwitterFon – My favourite twitter client – has neat way of displaying which Twitter folks are replying too..<\/p>\n

Fatwatch – Another home based app. pretty cool at generating nice graphs like this.<\/a><\/p>\n

DualLevel – Handy for checking out that the buildings actually are leaning by 5 degrees although I forgot to measure how steep the Inca staircases actually are.<\/p>\n

DailyMug – take a picture of yourself every day – pretty neat – my series is here.<\/p>\n

NewsUk Lite – Akin to walking past a newsagents stand and glimpsing at the headlines – all you really need to know about what is happening.<\/p>\n

WordPress – ideal for posting blog entries, OK I never used it, whilst away \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My very good friend Michael, who has such a way with words, today emailed me “I’ve just requested a PAC from Orange so I am heading inexorably toward an iPhone. You will have to recommend 10 must have apps.” So here are my favourite apps. (Skewed towards travelling) – In no particular order… so: Skype\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}