Sam Brown is a freelance Web Designer and Developer from Edinburgh, Scotland who specializes in interface design and web standards, is a geek and loves all things technology. You can read his musings on his blog Sam Brown and view his portfolio at Massive Blue.
Twitter: This used to be Tweetie of course but is first and foremost on my iPhone because I use it all the time. I must admit I quite like the new icon, it’s not as good as the original Tweetie icon but to be honest, that wasn’t brilliant either. It’s a just move by Twitter and it fits well. The app is of course, fundamentally still Tweetie and still the best Twitter experience on the iPhone.
Instapaper: This was one of those apps that I didn’t know I needed until I tried the free version, only to almost instantly buy the Pro version - I use it all the time on both my iPhone and iPad and couldn’t live without it now. Reading long articles in Instapaper is such a nice experience.
Things: My preferred task manager that does exactly what I need it to do. I don’t use it as much as I used to on the iPhone and the syncing is a bit of a pain, especially when I forget to do it.
foursquare: my favourite geosocial location-based networking checking-in gaming tipping discovering stalking app.
Attic: This replaced the iPod app as a great way to discover what music is on my iPhone that I haven’t been listening to. I have an 8GB and it houses a bunch of photos, tv shows and other apps that I really can’t store much music on it so this app combined with some smart iTunes playlists ensure music is never left unplayed on my device.
WriteRoom: I simply love the fullscreen writing environment in WriteRoom and use it on the Desktop as well. Plus, no bloody Marker Felt. Hooray!
Dropbox: Gives me access to all my work files when I am out and about, lately I have been designing for the iPhone and being able to launch mockups fullscreen at the proper resolution on the device is such a neat way to test.
Remindness: My personal project management app that I built a few years ago, it’s vapourware essentially and I’d like to get a working copy online for people to use one day in the not too distant future - although I’ve been promising that for a while. This is just a Bookmarked Web App.
Fever°: RSS at it’s best. I subscribe to a lot of feeds and the Hot tab within Fever is invaluable - the iPhone version off the full app is pretty good and again is only a bookmark to the web app.
Phone, Mail, Messages & Safari as expected.
Interestingly you’ll notice I have quite a few screens on my iPhone, these are based on groups and will in OS4.0 be folders of course.
Page 2 holds all of the default apps that come installed on the iPhone.
Page 3 has single purpose apps such as Tipulator, FlipTime, Remote etc.
Page 4 are apps that connect to the web, Facebook, Ego, Shazam and the like.
Page 5 hosts a bunch of bookmarks such as BBC News, BBC iPlayer, and my sites.
Page 6 is full of games Flight Control, Angry Birds, Strategery etc.
Double-clicking on my home screen does nothing - my home button is fubared, can’t wait for the new iPhone!
Attic is a slick music controller for all those unplayed albums that are collecting...
Access your Dropbox on the go. Download files for offline viewing. Sync photos and...
Your current feed reader is full of unread items. You’re hesitant to subscribe to...
It's foursquare! Think: 50% friend-finder, 30% social cityguide, 20% nightlife game....
Save web pages for later offline reading, optimized for readability on your iPhone or...
Helping you remember what the fuck it is you are supposed to be doing!
Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task manager. Other task...
Tweetie is a fast, full-featured twitter client for iPhone and iPod Touch. It offers...
For people who want to write and take notes on their iPhone. WriteRoom. iPhone is a...
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