My Favourite iPhone apps - By Category

I was an early adopter of iPod touch + iPhone. Earlier on I mostly used the phone just for checking mails and casual net surfing (besides taking and making phone calls!). But now my spectrum of use has widened to the ever expanding list of fantastic apps. I am just amazed on g


how the apps thing has just taken off with the world. It is almost replacing the need for websites at a fast pace. I am sure many a companies might now be considering launching a smartphone app before they even start their online web page. I was just reading yesterday (in the preview of his latest biography) that Steve Jobs himself was first reluctant to open the app store, but he too was shocked on the way it has influenced our world now. Kudos to the visionary entrepreneur who brought this wonder to the world. Salute.

I am almost an addict of my iPhone now. Most of my non-office, waking hours are spent on this wonderful, other worldly gadget. Below is a catalog of the apps that I like the most to spend my time on.

News

	Bloomberg
	CNBC RT
	BBC Worldwide
	NY Times
	Huffington Post
	Engadget
	Times
	Metro

Native apps
- Mail
- Safari
- Notes
- Reminder List

iPhoneography
- Camera+
- HDR Fusion
- Lumiere
- nofinder
- FX Photo Studio
- PS Express
- Snapseed
- Iris

Social Networking
- Facebook
- Flickr

App Discovery
- App Shopper
- Appadvice
- Appsfire
- Mobitog

Reading
- iBooks
- Kindle
- Goodread
- Economist

Shopping
- Amazon
- eBay
- Sainsbury

Travel
- Tripadvisor
- Skyscanner
- Tube Map
- thetrainline
- TripIt

Reference
- Merriam Webster Dictionary
- American Heritage Dictionary
- Wikipedia
- Wordbook
- Qi

Blogging
- Blogger
- Wordpress

Diary/Journal
- Momento
- Springpad

Games
- Words with Friends
- Chess with Friends
- Real Racing 2

Net Browsing
- Opera Mini Browser

Greenwich Clock Tower

Greenwich Clock Tower, a photo by girish_nayyar on Flickr.

Taken with iPhone and then converted into Black and White in PS Express.

Bus on the bridge

Bus on the bridge, a photo by girish_nayyar on Flickr.

Selective coloring added in iQuickSplash: vintage effect added in PicTools

Book Reader at the station

Continuing with my strangers series, today I have a anonymous Book Reader at Greenwich Rail station. I see paper printed books disappearing at an astonishing rate and being replaced with all sorts of e-readers – iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, etc. I welcome the change, and photos like this will probably have a nostalgic effect in a few year’s time.

I caught this image on my iPhone using the nofinder app (its like blind man photography, where you just aim and shoot without seeing in the viewfinder). I applied a few effects to get the final result:
Converted into a monochrome in Snapseed
Added a vintage effect in FX Photo Studio
Added a vignette and border in Iris app

Pane in Rain

Rain drops from the clouds and onto trees,

Down the tree trunks and off the leaves.

Down a mountain, into a brook,

Past a chipmunk in a nook.

Into a pond, off a log.

On top of a turtle and onto a frog.

Onto roads, onto the grass,

Onto trains and trucks that pass.

On top of bridges, cars and boats.

Even onto people’s coats.

Onto houses and my windowpane.

I just love to watch the drops,

The drips and drops of rain.

- E.B. (1938- ) MotherGooseCaboose

 

Unlike Irene, we had some small rains last Friday, and I captured these two pics at our office window. First picture was taken with an iPhone; edited for selective coloring in Fotolr (CSplash Pro still remains my favourite) and Tilt-Shift filter added in FX Photo Studio. Second picture was taken with IXUS 310Hs and is largely unedited except for adding a bit of saturation in PS.

Rain painting London city Red...

I took this photo with my iPhone one rainy Tuesday morning this week while going to Santander at Ludgate. The scene was already in my mind before I even took the picture - the only thing that didn't go as per plan was a fractional delay in clicking because of which I could not get the lady with umbrella a bit closer in the frame (you see her walking by the phone booth).


I edited this picture in FX Photo Studio (Color Stroke + Vignetting + Texture).