25 Best iPhone Apps At Work

November 18, 2009 | Filed under: iPhone | Posted by: Rai Niaz

How do you make the point that the iPhone has changed the world? The easy answer is “use statistics”—25 million sold in the first two years, availability in 85 countries, 60,000 downloadable programs on the iPhone app Store, 1.25 billion downloads in the first year. Trouble is, those statistics get stale almost before you’ve finished typing them.

More importantly, there’s a new, free version of the iPhone’s software, called iPhone 3.0. it adds all kinds of new features people have been pining for: Copy and Paste, a whole-phone Search, picture and video messaging, an audio recorder, wireless Bluetooth stereo music, “shake to shuffle” (to play a different random song), Design and develop your Apps for iphone and so on.
iPhone at work might not be such a bad idea, so I have collected few more important iphone apps that must be good at your work.

Best App for Font Fanatics

1. Best App for Font Fanatics

Are you a graphic designer? Do you know the difference between a font and a typeface? Do your eyes light up when conversations turn to ems, kerning, and baseline grids? If you answered yes to these questions, then The Typography Manual for the iPhone and iPod Touch is for you!

2. Honorable Mention

Quick! Name that font! As if you didn’t already know, WhatTheFont will tell you that the title of the Best iPhone Apps book is set in Myriad Pro. No kidding: Snap a photo of a typeface, pass it to WhatTheFont, and the app lists the most likely fonts, along with links to buy the typefaces (the app is made by a font retailer). Designers, font fans, and the morbidly curious will find WhatTheFont super-handy. The rest of us can simply marvel.

Best App for Syncing and Sharing Files

3. Dropbox

Dropbox offers quick access to the latest version of important or shared files. The app talks to getdropbox.com, a service for syncing files among multiple computers—perfect for folks who scramble between home, work, and laptop computers or who collaborate with a team. Add or edit a file in your special Dropbox folder on one computer, and the file updates automatically on the rest, including your iPhone, so you’re always up to date.

Best App for Sending Faxes

4. FinarX Fax For iPhone

The first real fax software for the iPhone – you can send faxes with your iPhone.Like from fax machine to fax machine you can now fax text documents, photographs and other documents with your iPhone to any fax machine – choose a photo from your cameraroll or make a new photo with your iPhone camera from any original

Best App for Shutting Out Noise

5. SoundCurtain: FutureAcoustic

Noise buster: Plug a microphone into your iPhone or iPod Touch (the standard iPhone headphones work just fine), and SoundCurtain plays one of five audio themes, adjusting the levels to compensate for surrounding noise. The “Rain Masker” theme is especially soothing, but you can choose from other sounds, including two that play new-agey harmonic tunes. Tap the screen to call up settings to adjust sound level and sensitivity.

6. Honorable Mention:

Ambiance: Urban Apps

Unlike SoundCurtain, Ambiance doesn’t respond to the surrounding environment. Instead it simply provides a big, big collection of calming sounds to drown out the clamor around you. Think iTunes for zen audio. The app comes loaded with three sounds—rain, wind chimes, and loon calls—and you can download more from a free library of hundreds of tension-melting clips. Make a mix of sounds, play them in loops, or set a timer to stop—after you fall asleep, for example.

Best App for Reaching a Human Being

7. Dial Zero: Next Mobile Web

Live and in person: Tap the name of a company to get its customer-service number along with instructions for sidestepping the answering system. Tap the number to dial. The app also includes “tips” from other callers, a good idea that unfortunately disintegrates under the pressure of human nature. While the comments are occasionally useful, most are rants about the specific company or adolescent pull-my-finger graffiti.

Best App for Working Your Rolodex

8. Groups: Guided Ways Technologies

Groups takes contacts group management to a totally different level. With a highly innovative user interface, you get to manage your contacts the iPhone way; drag them, drop them or trash them. As they say, “a Drag & Drop is worth a thousand operations”…

Best App for Typing Faster

9. TextExpander: SmileOnMyMac

With TextExpander touch, you can type faster on your iPhone or iPod touch using short abbreviations that expand into long snippets. Compose notes and send them directly to Mail and Twitter clients, or use them in other apps on your iPhone via copy-and-paste.

Best App for Tracking Conversations

10. Contacts Journal: zaal

Contacts Journal is a revolutionary approach to organizing your personal and professional relationships. Fully integrated with your iPhone Contacts, Contacts Journal is the first app that lets you keep person-by-person records of past interactions, upcoming events/reminders and favors. It’s like having a diary, a to-do list and a favors list for each person, all in one app.

11. iThoughts: CMS

iThoughts is a mind mapping tool that runs on your iPod Touch or iPhone. It enables you to create, view, edit, upload and download mind maps in Freemind, MindManager, Novamind and OPML compatible file formats. It can be purchased from the Apple iTunes ‘AppStore’ for £4.99

12. Outliner: CarbonFin

Outstanding outlines: Create an outline of topics and subtopics. Tap one of the + icons in the dock to add an item at the same level as the selected topic, or to create a subtopic. Move a topic in the outline by tapping the four-point compass arrow; you can indent, outdent, or move it higher or lower in the list. Tap the blue arrow for an item to edit it, add a note, or turn the item into a task for your to-do list.

Best App for Cheap International Calls

13. Call Global App

Most mobile phone plans offer free national calls, but woe to your wallet when dialing abroad. Call Global sidesteps the international intrigue by routing calls through its discount network, available everywhere. Unlike Skype, which requires WiFi, the app does its work over regular phone networks. It’s a slick interface for a familiar concept: The calling card. Calls go through a toll-free number, charging your account just pennies per minute.

Best App for Documents on the Go

14. ReaddleDocs

ReaddleDocs is the Rolls Royce of document portfolios. Lots of other apps (including Quickoffice and Evernote) let you share, store, and browse files, but this app offers the cleverest mix of methods to spirit files on and off your iPhone. It talks to most online storage services (like MobileMe or Box.net), downloads from websites, exchanges with computers on the same network, and lets you email files back and forth.

Best App for Tracking Packages

15. Delivery Status Touch: Junecloud

Who knew tracking deliveries could be so classy? This stylish, efficient app tracks packages from over 40 stores and delivery services, even mapping your package’s current-ish location. Set up a free account at the app’s website to sync tracking info; once done, you can paste or bookmark tracking numbers from your computer instead of tapping them into your iPhone.

Best App for Desktop Remote Access

16. Jaadu VNC: Jugaari

Jaadu puts your entire desktop on your iPhone or iPod Touch, working your computer when it’s on the same WiFi network—or across the Internet, with a bit of network know-how. After some modest setup on your computer (it’s a snap on Macs, slightly more involved on PCs), you can do anything from your iPhone that you could at your keyboard. It’s pricey, but it buys complete access to your computer from anywhere in the world.

Best App for Taking Notes

17. Evernote

Evernote for iPhone lets you create notes, snap photos, and record voice memos that you can then access any time — from your iPhone, computer, or the web.

Best Remote Control

18. Air Mouse Pro: RPA Tech

Turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into a mouse, keyboard, and remote control for your PC or Mac, a boon for stage-stalking presenters or couch-happy movie watchers. Along with free software that you install on your WiFi-connected computer, Air Mouse Pro steers the cursor like a laser pointer or trackpad; its keyboard does the typing. The app morphs based on what’s onscreen, so you get playback controls when you use iTunes, for example.

Best App for Tracking Time

19. Jobs: Bjango

Time is money, especially if you’re a freelance designer or an hour-tallying lawyer. When you need exact counts of billable hours—or just want to track how you spend your time—Jobs watches the clock for you. Add all your projects to the app, and run the stopwatch for a job while you’re working on it. When you’re ready to send a bill, email yourself the timesheet info in one of several formats to whip up your invoice.

Best App for Free and Cheap Calls

20. Skype Software

Put Skype’s popular Internet phone calling service on your iPhone to make free or dirt-cheap calls to anyone in the world when you’re connected to a WiFi network. Skype calls don’t count against your regular cellphone minutes, so you can stretch your phone time at very little cost. Call other Skype users for free, or dial regular phones for a modest fee. Turn your iPod Touch into a phone, too, with a microphone headset.

Best App for Editing Office Documents

21. Quickoffice Mobile Office Suite

Edit Microsoft Word and Excel files—and view a slew of other file types—with this capable suite for editing and sharing documents. It’s actually three apps in one, or you can buy them one at a time.

Best App for Remembering Stuff

22. reQall-QTech

Turn your iPhone into an unfailing executive assistant, ready to remind you of calendar items, notes, and todos. It’s almost magic: Say, “Meet Rich at 4:30 pm tomorrow,” and reQall transcribes the text, creates a to-do, adds an event to your calendar, and sends you a reminder before the meeting. It’s like an outboard memory for the overloaded modern mind. The app requires a free account at reqall.com.

Best App for Tracking Big Goals

23. Goal Tender: Roobasoft

Don’t let the small things you’ve gotta do today make you forget your grand plans for tomorrow. Goal Tender is a little app about the big picture, a tidy complement to the nitty-gritty task manager apps. Tap in the goal to accomplish, and watch the progress bar surge as you wind your way to completion. The app optionally stores your goals online, too, letting you see them in your Outlook 2007, iCal, or Google calendar.