Easywriter (free app) works well. It is basically a horizontal keyboard for typing emails, meaning you can use both thumbs easily plus there are fewer mistakes.
The best way of using it is to click reply to a mail in the mail programme, then press the home button and go to Easywriter to type the mail, then click send to mail and the text appears in your email you started.
Given Apple won't let you type a mail with a wide keyboard, this is the next best thing.
On the subject of widescreen format email typing apps, I can recommend Firemail. It's free - which is nice - and also has spellchecking.
What more do you want?
(well, I can answer that, but until apple sort out the api such that 3rd parties can write integrated mail apps or their own software allows landscape keyboards for any app that accepts keyboard input we'll just have to keep on wanting...)
I haven't seen it mentioned yet so I'll mention it. "TramDroid" is essential for those living in and around Zürich - The entire Zürich tram and bus timetable on your iPhone - and its free
Easywriter (free app) works well. It is basically a horizontal keyboard for typing emails, meaning you can use both thumbs easily plus there are fewer mistakes.
The best way of using it is to click reply to a mail in the mail programme, then press the home button and go to Easywriter to type the mail, then click send to mail and the text appears in your email you started.
Given Apple won't let you type a mail with a wide keyboard, this is the next best thing.
I can recommend firemail. Its now easy to write long e-mails on the iphone. Sounds like it is just the same as Easywriter, from the quoted description.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet so I'll mention it. "TramDroid" is essential for those living in and around Zürich - The entire Zürich tram and bus timetable on your iPhone - and its free
Along with Tramdroid, GottaGo is excellent for SBB times / connections.
I also recommend RememberTheMilk along with it's web based application for task tracking.
Not content with people looking like nutters on hands free kits, google have decided to make it worse, soon we'll have people on trains looking at their iphone and shouting "FREE PR0n!" repeatedly.
This one looks cool, Simplify Media, let's you stream music from your home library, and that of your friends. Anyone tried it?
From Gizmodo's current essential apps, few US only ones there though.
It was given away free when they first released it so I downloaded it. And I've used it approxmiately zero times.
I guess it depends on your home set up, if you have a media server then it might be useful, but, i cary the majority of my collection round on my iPod classic anway, so have no call for it.
On the subject of widescreen format email typing apps, I can recommend Firemail. It's free - which is nice - and also has spellchecking.
What more do you want?
(well, I can answer that, but until apple sort out the api such that 3rd parties can write integrated mail apps or their own software allows landscape keyboards for any app that accepts keyboard input we'll just have to keep on wanting...)
If you want a landscape SMS app, then irealsms is yet another good reason to jailbreak your iphone and stick two fingers up at Apple. It vastly improves the native SMS application by giving you a very usable landscape keyboard, large typing window, autocorrect toggle switch etc... basically it shows Apple how it should be done, which is probably why it didn't make it onto the App store
Killer apps for me:
Cams Ahoy (paid for but doesn't use data connection) and Trapster (free but needs a data connection) - speed camera notification systems that work in Switzerland.
WorldView -webcam viewers - good for checking snow conditions
Starmap - maps out night sky
Deezer - a bit like Pandora
TV Plus - UK tv guide (for Sky users in CH)
Midomi - better than Shazam in that you just have to hum or sing the song for it to be identified.
Brain Challenge - the only game i play on a regular and continued basis
Midomi - better than Shazam in that you just have to hum or sing the song for it to be identified.
I thought you could do that with Shazam too, not that I'd want to break my phone by singing to it.
For facebook fans, the new version released a while ago is a huge improvement over the first, though there are still some glitches, like times in the news feed, or not going to the article a notification is telling you about. Aside from that, it's a lot easier to use, and more of the basic functions are available, and the photo function almost makes up for the lack of MMS, so long as your friends are on facebook.
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