Top 5 iPhone Apps
By Dipankar Das, Gaea News NetworkTuesday, February 23, 2010
The following is the 5 of the years best iPhone apps as per review site 148apps.com
- Pocket God: The story of this apps portrays you as the powerful ruler of this tropical island. You can control everything over here. The pygmies, island’s dependent are totally dependent on you. You can give them weapon to fight with the predators or can cause natural disaster like Hurricane.
Developers Bolt Creative adds new features or updates of the game on daily basis. The game costs $0.99. - Dropbox: Sometimes we use so many gadgets that it is very difficult to keep track which file belongs to which device. Drop box takes care of the problem. It keeps the computer files in a particular and secure place so that the files can be accessed from any location and the files are also backed up. You can add a file at your laptop and it will be accessible from iPhone, desktop, work computer, or wherever you like. Dropbox is the developer for this apps. Pro versions are $9.99/month for 50GB and $19.99/month for 100GB and basic version with 2GB storage is free.
- AroundMe: Using iPhone’s GPS feature, this app can find a business around you. You can select a category like movie theaters, gas stations, coffee shops, bars etc and the app shows your point of interest in order of their proximity to your current location or it can show red dot on a map. Additionally, you can click on your destination. AroundMe will show address, phone number and distance of that place from your location.
This is a free software, developed by Tweakersoft. - QuadCamera: This app converts your iPhone in a photocenter. You just click once, the apps lets you take 5-8 serial shots which can be laid out in a line or two parallel rows. The unique feature of the app adds saturated color and overexposed edges on the image. You can add filter with the images like Vivid” and “Blight” and upload the pics on line with a few clicks. Art & Mobile is the developer of the software and it costs $1.99.
- Instapaper Pro: The apps turns your iPhone into an e-reader. You can bookmark your favorite article in your Web browser and the text is saved to Instapaper. You can read them later, even if you’re offline. You can also set a folder to feed content in real time from your favorite sites as they post updates. After you have finished reading the article, you can change its font size and style and email the text to a friend or add a star to your favorites.
Macro Arment is the developer of the software and it costs $4.99.
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