One of the reasons for the iPhone and iPod’s popularity are the hundreds of thousands – 350,000 at last count – of applications that enhance the devices and make them more useful for work, home and play.
While it’s not possible to look at every app available, here’s a few useful ones that can make things easier for you at home.
Better Christmas List
For the super organised, it’s never too early to start shopping for Christmas list, the Better Christmas List app allows you to track gifts. The Christmas app uses your contact list for you to budget and organise gift and ideas for your Christmas shopping
GiftPlan
Staying on the gift theme, GiftPlan lets you create occasions as well as import contacts and birthdays, anniversaries and profile photos from Facebook. For each person’s profile you can add likes, dislikes, what you’ve previously given, clothing sizes and other types of gift ideas.
Expenditure
Tracking your expenses is not just an issue at Christmas, the expenditure app not only allows you to keep note of your own expenses but also keep tabs on items like kids’ pocket money.
Classes
Keeping track of school timetables can be a challenge for kids, the Classes iPhone app keeps track of school and university schedules along with the progress and due dates for assignments and projects.
Weekcal
The built in iPhone calendar is good, but the Weekcal app extend its capabilities. Weekcal allows you to flag, prioritise and track your events and appointments as well as drag and drop with other iPhone applications.
Evernote
A great productivity tool for the iPhone and iPad is Evernote which saves your notes, diagrams and pictures on to the cloud. It’s great for saving ideas and notes as well as being an invaluable tool for anyone asked to take minutes of meetings.
Dropbox
Anyone who tries to co-ordinate groups, be they project teams, volunteer groups or organising the local football club know that sharing documents can be a pain. the Dropbox app plugs into their file sharing service and helps you manage documents while on the go.
Park Patrol
A nifty tool for city dwellers is Park Patrol, an application that tells you if there are parking rangers nearby and when to move your car. Great for avoiding fines.
Labor Mate
For expectant mothers, Labor Mate an application that times labour contractions, tracks progress and alerts you for when you need to start heading for the hospital.
Shazam
Can’t identify the song that’s stuck in you head? Shazam is an application that identifies a song playing and tells you the title and artist.
Maybe Baby
The Maybe Baby iPhone app tracks fertility, ovulation and the pregnancy progress.
Tripview
Regular users of Sydney’s public transport system know it’s a sprawling, complex beast. The Tripview Sydney public transport planner is essential if you use buses, trains or ferries to get around the city.
This is only a tiny sample of the over 350,000 applications available in the iTunes store, many of which are free and most of the paid ones are under $5.
It’s worth exploring to see what tools are available to help you at home and in business.
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