Top 3 Most Popular iPhone Apps For The Web
By Iberkenbosch
A few years ago, Apple decided to let third-party software writers release their own applications for iPhones, and the result has been an explosion of useful apps that can do everything from order pizzas to track packages being shipped cross-country.
These days, there are more than 100,000 useful iPhone apps available from the Apple store – many of them free. And with so much customer support and enthusiasm behind the Apple brand, it’s easy to log in and see which apps are generating the most excitement on any given day.
The short-list of which apps are spreading the fastest is constantly changing, but there are a few defining characteristics that destine an app for a huge base of users.
Many of the favorite apps are games or gimmicks, and they spread fast because the user can download them quickly and then use them until they’re bored and move on. But there are more than a few timeless iPhone apps that come in handy again and again. These are the apps that end up staying on board for the life of the phone.
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Here are a few most popular iPhone apps:
Launch Pad:
Launch Pad may not be a glamorous iPhone web app with all kinds of clever gadgetry on board, but it’s a great streamliner that comes in handy for anyone who uses their phone to surf the Web. Launch Pad is a top contender in the "Productivity" category on Apple’s homepage.
What It Is and How to Use It
When an iPhone user installs Launch Pad on their phone, it becomes the starting point for any internet searches. Launch Pad lets users connect to popular sites like Wikipedia, Google, Youtube and other favorite destinations in a single click. Rather than navigating first to the parent website, the user can fly with their search terms directly from the launch pad to their site of choice.
Here are a few special features of Launch Pad:
- Launch Pad items: this feature lets the user link immediately to any applications or websites. These links are marked with a familiar icon and tucked into the Launch Pad toolbar for quick and easy access.
- Page indicator: this feature automatically starts up when the control has two or more pages going at once. It lets users quickly select which page they want to use.
- Change angles: Launch Pad automatically adjusts for landscape and portrait orientations and it keeps up with users on the fly.
Where Traveler
This web app is perfect for the kind of business-oriented travelers who can’t remember how they ever got by without an iPhone 5. It already has tens of thousands of entries covering restaurants, hotels, shops and entertainment venues around the world. The list continues to grow as more users climb on board.
What It Is and How to Use It
Where Traveler has been in the travel guide business for more than seven decades, so they have plenty of experience connecting people on the move with the places they’re most interested in finding. Before going digital, the company published guidebooks on more than 120 distinct destinations. Most of these destinations where in the United States, but they also have information on several capital cities in Europe.
Where Traveler is ideal for globetrotting iPhone users who don’t have time to ask around for advice on restaurants and hotel rooms. The service is completely free from the Where Traveler website.
Here are a few of the apps leading features:
- Translation: this archive of information is available in 27 languages, so that the more than 50,000 entries are available to the masses.
- Real-time currency conversion: on-the-fly conversion between all major currencies – an invaluable tool for checking bills in restaurants and hotels.
- Up-to-the-minute airport information: including a full roster of arrivals and departures, flight cancellations, traffic conditions around the airport and expected security wait-time at the gate.
URL to setup Where Traveler on your Iphone:
Geo Meter
This little web app doesn’t inspire awe when users first hear about it, but there’s a reason that it tops the list in Apple’s "Utilities" category. Geo Meter delivers accurate GPS details on the user’s latitude and longitude, outputting information that can be used in conjunction with a host of other apps.
What It Is and How to Use It
Geo Meter keeps the user constantly updated regarding their current latitude and longitude, altitude, heading and speed. It also keeps track of its margin of error at all times, so the user knows how reliable the reading is at any given moment.
This GPS information is triangulated with the help of GPS satellites, cell phone towers and even wireless internet signals, the entire set of which guarantee accurate results. This handy app is especially with avid geocachers.
Here are a few of the special features of Geo Meter:
- Coordinates: the app perpetually recalculates GPS coordinates and outputs up-to-the-minute latitude, longitude, speed, heading and altitude measurements.
- Google Maps: it features a crossover interface so that users can view their location on Google Maps.
- Cut-and-paste data: coordinates and other information can be cut out of the app’s user interface and pasted into another, so users can tweet their coordinates or enter them into other GPS-related web apps.
URL to setup GEO Meter on your Iphone:
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Great tips. I could definitely use the launch pad!
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LaunchPad sounds cool.. I'll have to check it out.
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I still haven't got on the "iPhone train" yet. But I intend to do so soon. Really liked this hub! Thanks
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These are the Best Applications for the Apple iPhone. The instructions given are very useful.
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The Sky Plus app is my favourite
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Love the new Kindle apps, and other bookstores apps that are coming out.
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Very cool, gotta love the iPhone!
I am not a fan of the iphone..but I will admit, these apps look pretty cool.
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These apps are useful, but I think that something like yelp would provide more interaction with respect to the web. Users rating places from their own phones and allowing you to see the ratings in real time is true utilization of web capabilities.
There are new apps coming out every day, please keep us all updated. Great hub!
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Just got an iphone so I'll look into these :). The traveler app seems really useful!
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Thanks for sharing this info. Btw, augmented reality apps like Wikitude or Worksnug also really cool apps.
Great Hub! I can't wait to try out those apps!
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Kindle app!!
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I like Where Traveler.
Not the best iPhone apps, could of been a little better, some of them seem pretty useless to me as a avid user.
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So many apps. I can't keep up.
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Thanks for the excellent information. There are so many apps it is hard to know which one will work best for you.
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Woah, I've never seen all those apps before!
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You can also decide to only mix the faces and share these amazing new faces with your friends!
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Nice tips here Iberken. Indeed these new applications will surely be of help for some businessmen who are fund of using gadgets as a way to ease up recording and reminders. Apple definitely has innovated into a lot since it gained popularity. Their products are just very helpful.
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I don't really know what is the big hype on iphone but there are other phones with great platforms as well.
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As far as other useful apps go, Cloudbrowse is definitely worth scoping out. Works around that annoying lack of flash, and operates just like firefox.
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Great hub and I just linked this hub to mine on iphone apps. Thanks for the info!
Thanks for making these apps more clear regarding their usefulness especially the Launch pad and the Geo meter.
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That GEO Meter app looks great for hiking. I'll definitely have to download that one!
After reading this hub, I decided to try launchpad, and I love it. Thanks
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Cell phones have evolved into miniature computers, it's really amazing how technology has evolved.
These apps remind me of WP plug-ins, except for your cell. :)
Really cool apps, I'l be checking them out shortly. I just did the jailbreak on my iPhone so I have a lot of new stuff to be looking at, but always love some new software goodies!
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Definitely a nice description of all these apps. I've been using Launch Pad since it was released and it's one of my favorite as well!
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Iphone is cool gadget and all those application make it more cooler as well as very much attractive. Launch pad is great application. It comes up with all required web sites handy and suits for business class. I rally appreciate your work of mentioning these web application for I-phone.
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