Ipad/Iphone Apps List

IPad

• Ocado

 

Very well suited to the Ipad, here is a typical use case:

1. Book your delivery slot (slots for the following evening are usually free).
2. Add all items from the previous order
3. Display basket and go to your kitchen
4. Remove unwanted items (check your fridge and cupboards)
5. Add items you know are missing
6. Go back to your sofa and browse your favourites for things you might have forgotten
7. Checkout: type in the voucher (Ocado often emails 15% or 20% reduction vouchers)
8. Type in the 4-digit pin to authorise the transaction, and that’s it.

 

• Reeder

• Quickly syncs with Google Reader.
• Elegantly displays groups of feeds
• How I use it: I star articles I want to read during the week and take the time to read them at the week-end.
• No pictures, no colors :-(
• Too bad you can’t subscribe to a new RSS feed from within Reeder.

 

•  Pulse

Unlike Reeder, this one will show the pictures included in the RSS feeds.

You can create tabs to arrange your feeds. Inside each tab you can add feeds imported from Google Reader. Note you can only import from Google Reader, it does not sync.

Pleasant to look at but from a functional point of view, Reeder is still better because it syncs with any change you make to your subscriptions in Google Reader.

• DropBox

There is a small set of files I always want to have with me. I use DropBox to keep them in sync. I installed it on my PC, 2 laptops, an Iphone and an Ipad. Changes made on any device are immediately propagated to the others if they’re on.

The Windows version gives a version history of each file.

IPhone

• 2Do Lite

Clever little app for TODOs. You can associate a TODO with a geographical location. Click the nearby button to filter TODOs by current location. This is good for the situations where you say “Next time I go to Boots, I should get some shampoo”. Elegant, fast, good-looking.

• TimeOut London

Search films by location, by date, by cinema.

I use it to look-up the films available in a short list of of favorite cinemas.

• FourSquare

This is what Google Latitude should have been. Check-in to pre-defined places (restaurants, bars, companies, hotels, train station platforms, forests…) to tell where you are or add tips about a particular place. This app would be great if only more people used it: the nearby tips tend to age a bit.

It’s all I wanted to do with Google maps: see a place I like, make a note of it to come back later or go to a place and leave a note about it. I used to do it with Google maps, it’s much more clever with FourSquare.

A friend talks to you about this new restaurant he tried: look-up the name, add it as todo and attach a tip “Remi recommended the Savoy bar because it was recently refurbished and just re-opened”

A number of little apps are available to make it easier to use FourSquare, in particular to automate the check-ins: CheckMate and FourMinder.

• TimeOut London

Search films by location, by date, by cinema.

I use it to look-up the films available within my short list of favorite London cinemas.

• DropBox

The Iphone version allows you to cache some of the files for offline view (by making them favorites). You can’t view the version history though.