Saturday, May 23, 2009

Interesting Apps for your iPhone

By Thom Yarbrough

There are those days when we don't know what to do with our time. It's on those days that we're fiddling with our phones looking for ways in which it can entertain us. The iPhone is a feature rich phone which offers users the ability to download numerous paid and free applications that cover a variety of categories. Some of these are related to entertainment, business, health, lifestyle and various other interesting fields. Here's a look at some of the iPhone apps which can add value to your life in terms of increasing your productivity or simply making life more fun.

Pocket Therapist

Wouldn't it be cool if you could just tell your troubles to someone whenever you wanted to? The Pocket Therapist does just that. This cool app actually listens to your audio files and offers suggestions on how to handle your problems through the help of quotes. The interface shows a doctor, a cheerful character, who will listen to your problem and show you how to handle it. To make this work, you only need to shake the iPhone.

iNap@work

We all need that power nap sometimes when we've had a late night and need to energize ourselves at work. But your office will not take kindly to you taking a nap in the middle of the work day! Don't worry, you can still nap and get refreshed once you download the iNap@work application for your iPhone. This app makes realistic working sounds for you, such as rustling of paper, staplers working, keyboard getting tapped, mouse clicks, and numerous such sounds, which will make it sound as though you are actually working! Some of the options that you can also have would be the sounds of throats being cleared and sniffing etc.

Yelp

If you've always been a fan of the Yellow Pages and the subsequent web version Yelp, then you'll surely love Yelp for the iPhone. This fantastic app will let you find the things you need without much hassle. Yelp will keep you updated about the latest happenings in the neighborhood, and it will review all the cool new restaurants in town so you'll know which place you'll get a good meal with a great deal and which place you could possibly get ripped off. What's more, Yelp is not static, its constantly growing because users keep sending their feedback consistently to make Yelp stay current.

WordPress

For inveterate bloggers who rely on WordPress to keep their blogosphere updated with their latest posts, WordPress for iPhone is a must have application a first of its kind Open Source app with which you can write your posts, put up photos, and even edit the blog from your iPhone directly. There are so many things you can do with this app and it's a treat for complete bloggers who want to create multiple posts. You can take photos from your iPhone camera directly and add them to your post or even add them from the iPhone library.

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