Triumverate of Productivity

Three Apps that are either new or recently updated... I am finding these apps useful for data capture.

• Dragon Dictation (Free) - great for composing a quick email, text message or twitter message.. while driving!
• JotNot Scanner ($4.99) - turns your iPhone into a pocket scanner.  Support for multiple page PDF creation, share to Evernote and webDAV.  The new version includes a form of camera stabilization (SW implementation).  Very good results.
• Dan Bricklin's Note Taker ($1.99, there is a free lite version) - Data entry via your finger!  It works.. try it... the only think missing.. OCR to convert the image to text.  As it stands now, this app will be useful for quick notes.

Good stuff.

NetNewswire 2.0 Now on the App store

Check it out!
First Impressions... Lightening fast!


-- Posted from my iPhone

NetNewsWire for iPhone

NNW for iPhone 2.0 has been submitted to Apple for review. Now it's a waiting game... 3 days or 3 weeks! Hurry up Apple, it is time for a new RSS reader.


-- Posted from my iPhone

Great New Website: First & 20

Are you looking for new useful applications for your iPhone? Firstand20.com might be the answer. It is a website of iPhone homescreens from tech dignitaries, complete with explanations of why and how they use those applications - in all, it makes for a good read. The tagline on the website says it all:

— "A Collection of iPhone Home Screens — from some very talented designers, developers and tech writers"

Good stuff, you can see what tools others are using...

FYI.. along the same lines.. below is my homescreen:

Highly Recomended: Macworld's App Gems

For regular readers of this blog.. I highly recommend App Gems from Macworld ($1.99). Intelligent reviews of iPhone/Touch applications. The essentials tab is very useful, breaking applications into smart categories and covering the cream of the crop in that category.
Monitoring new applications on the App Store is too over-whelming at this point.. App Gems is here to help!

New iPods Today?

I have not seen this mentioned in the rumor mill... but I would like to see GPS added to the iPod Touch. Making it an ideal GPS track logger.

InfoWorld's App Finder

InfoWorld is billing their new web resource as the "no-junk" business iPhone apps finder. An interactive catalog of iPhone applications designed for businesses, professionals and IT staff. It sounds good to me!
InfoWorld App Finder