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Favourite iPhone App #10: #SplashID

August 10th, 2009 Comments off

SplashID is one of the many, many password storing apps out there. I paticularly like it because there are iPhone, Mac and PC versions. The iPhone version syncs wirelessly with the other two and makes it pretty easy to keep all your web passwords, bank and other details safe, secure and where and when you need them. $9.99.

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Favourite iPhone App #6: #Photogene

August 9th, 2009 Comments off

Photogene is an image editing app that provides cropping, straightening, rotating, text bubbles and a number of other tools. I use it to create the images for these blog entries. Certainly not Photoshop, but it does more than enough to be a useful addition to the toolbox. $2.99

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Favourite iPhone App #9: #iPass

August 9th, 2009 1 comment

The recent update to iPass for iPhone has addressed the #1 complaint about earlier versions by finally providing support for corporate users. For a monthly fee iPass gives you access to over 100,000 wifi hotspots around the world.

For road warriors it provides cheap access to the many varied hotspots in airports, hotels, etc.

On the downside, despite the very extensive list of supported locations I still run into hotels where iPass doesnt work.

There is also a functionality problem with some T-Mobile hotspots that I described in this post.

My final complaint is that unlike the iPass desktop app which lists available and supported wifi networks, the iPhone version required that you connect to the network before launching the app. This seems somewhat backward to me.

Despite these niggles it is a real money saver.

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Favourite iPhone App #8: #NowPlaying

August 8th, 2009 Comments off

Now Playing shows local movie times, supports online booking of movie tickets and includes RottenTomatoes reviews. Nice UI, simple to use. Free

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Favourite iPhone App #7: #TripIt

August 7th, 2009 Comments off

TripIt for iPhone brings TripIt functionality to the iPhone. Duh. What is tripit? Register at www.tripit.com then email any travel confirmations you receive from travel agents and web sites to plans@tripit.com and TripIt does the rest. It builds and tracks your itinerary, creates Outlook calendar entries, provides live flight status and direction maps.

A must have for frequent travellers. Best of all it is free.

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