Social Machinery

Making a list of exciting Iphone applications is always a task, moreover when you have more than 100.000 applications available. Nevertheless, I choose 10 applications that are extremely useful for your daily life and you shouldn’t miss.

1. Skype

This application shouldn’t surprise anyone and is an essential tool for any Iphone user. Skype on your mobile will add the mobility aspect to your Skype account on your dsktop.  Is quite amazing that by just having wi-fi access,  your Iphone becomes a free-mobile phone with Skype.

2. Awesome Note Lite

A great way of making to-do lists is by using your mobile phone. From pending action points, to grocery store list this application helps you all the way trough. With a user-friendly design Awesome Note is one of the best applications on Appstore for creating all sort of lists under different categories and using several visual effects to make the process easier.

3. Chorus

With more than 100.000 applications on Appstore is always a challenge to find the best ones, withour getting overwhelmed by the long tail of content. With Chorus you can easily get information about the best apps coming and emerging trends on the application space. The application works as a social network where people recommend best applications, leaving reviews and rating them. It works very nice and is easy to use.

4. Bump 

Bump is very simple: You bump you hands with another iphone bump user to connect and the magic begins. After you bump and connect, you can start sharing contact details, business card, phone numbers, photos or email. Bump objective is to make your sharing experience easy and fun.  In the next release, you will be able to share information with other devices like Android mobile devices. Also the application is integrated with Facebook.

5.  Photoshop.com Mobile

One of the best things about Iphone is the easiness of taking pictures and sharing it with your friends. But, what about using Photoshop for enhancing the picture or fixing some details? With Photoshop.com Mobile you can fix Picture on the fly improving their exposure, color saturation or giving special effects like White and Black. Also you can rotate, cut or add and additional artistic touch to it. The service is also integrated with Photoshop.com, from where you can upload, store and create photo albums on the web.

6. Tweetdeck

TweetDeck is the most popular desktop app for managing your Twitter account. The Iphone version brings the same amazing user experience on the go and for free. TweetDeck for iPhone and iPod Touch leverage on customizable columns where users can create one for things like direct messages, replies, retweet and friends. iPhone perfectly replicates the Tweet deck experience of the desktop on your  iPhone adding perfect usability and cool user interface. The app responds instantly as you move from column to column, from tweet to friends or to other columns. You can receive constant updates in the form of little popups telling you how many new messages are waiting for you to read them.

7. Pandora

Since its release in July of 2008, the Pandora Internet radio iPhone app has been one of the favorites and a consistent top download from Apple’s iTunes App Store. A solid and intuitive user interface and their smart recommendation engine, makes the perfect application for someone interested in social radio phenomenon. Pandora allows you to create personalized radio stations by entering artist, song or genre as a starting point. Also users can create stations on the fly based around any song or artist and received Pandora’s recommendations. With some new features on their new version users can now listen 30-secs previews directly in the application. You can also send links to songs, stations to anyone in you address book.

 8. Kindle for iPhone

Kindle for iPhone works hand in hand with the Kindle service. You need create your Amazon.com account and password and if you already have e-books that you’ve bought for your Kindle , you can access your archive on Amazon’s servers and download your purchased Kindle e-books to your iPhone. Unfortunately you can’t initiate purchases within the Kindle for iPhone application itself and only supports e-books. Besides, Kindle for iPhone can sync with your Kindle device to match up your e-books and bookmarks, and it finds where you left off reading on your Kindle.

9.  Echofon

Echofon for iPhone is a simple, superfast, easy to use Twitter client for your iPhone and iPod Touch. It is focused on ease of use and 90% of your daily Twitter tasks, such as check your friends, replies, messages timeline,favorites, and send or reply a tweet. You can also search tweets, upload photos, get twitter trends and update your location status.

10. Shazam

Still try to figure it out the name of that song you always heard at the coffee shop? Let Shazam help you to find more information. Shazam iphone application let users identify the name, album, and artist of a song just by hearing it over your iPhone’s microphone. You’ll have to hold the iPhone close to the speaker for a few seconds as a song plays on the radio or any public place. After this,  Shazam will send you a report with the song’s name, artist info, YouTube videos and iTunes store links.