Finding The Best iPhone Applications
With thousands of iphone applications available at the Apple Store, it’s not easy to get a handle on what the best iPhone apps really are. Every person will have different wants and priorities, and will look for different things. Whether it’s a game, an application that allows a person to organize their digital photograph collection or a GPS map application, someone is bound to find different sorts of applications to be just what they need to help them function. However, in the latter part of 2009, the site www.cnet.com, which is a tech review and news website, drew attention to some especially interesting ones.
In October of 2009, Caroline McCarthy wrote on the www.cnet.com website about one of the best iPhone apps that serve people who have given up permanent car ownership and use a shared rental system whenever they need a vehicle. Among the free iPhone downloads, the “Zipcar” app is growing in popularity. It allows people to find the closest available cars through a GPS system, access info about the car, contact headquarters to book it, and even lock or unlock the car. As McCarthy put it, tongue in cheek, “you now no longer need a computer to book that Prius for your weekend Whole Foods run.”
The App Store itself on the Apple website provides a few ways for people to discover applications that do something they need, but sometimes the site can be confusing. If accessed from the iPhone itself, there are a few categories that people can look under. But most organize apps mainly by how recent or popular they are, relying on the number of downloads and the ratings of reviewers. Unfortunately, though, this may not help someone looking for the best iPhone apps for a very specific, possibly even obscure task.
Apple has tried to supplement the main categories in its App Store by adding a page called “Apps for Everything” (www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-everything), where it narrows things down or categorizes them differently. So it has the best iPhone apps for parenting gathered under the heading, “Apps for Moms and Dads.” There are “Apps for Going Out,” “Apps for Managing Money,” and so on. It may take some exploring, both at the online store and through other people’s lists, but most of the time you should be able to find applications that will be just what you’re looking for.
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