In this post I’m going to be taking a look at the features of four of my new favorite apps for the iphone/ipod touch. Ones which should come in handy in day to day life as a designer, I will also keep following this up as new apps come online in the itunes app store to keep you updated with new developments from the very talented app developers out there.
Airsharing
$6.99/€5.49 [itunes link]
Allows you to mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a wireless drive on any Mac, Windows, or Linux computer.
You can then drag-drop files between your iPhone or iPod touch and your computers. Very handy when moving files from one PC to another.
Viewable Formats
iWork (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote), full resolution if saved with preview
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), with limited support for XML formats
Web Archive (web-page downloads packaged by Safari)
Web page
PDF
HTML
RTF (Rich Text Format)
RTFD (TextEdit documents with embedded images)
Plain text (many different file extensions), with Unicode support
Source code (C/C++, Objective C/C++, C#, Java, Javascript, XML, shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python, and more), with color-coded formatting
Movie (standard iPhone formats: H.264, MPEG-4, 3GPP, etc.)
Audio (standard iPhone formats: MP3 VBR, AAC, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, CAF, etc.)
Image (standard iPhone formats: GIF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, etc.)
Requirements
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.0 Software Update
WiFi connection (ad-hoc or regular network)
Colorexpert
$9.99/€7.99 [itunes link]
Color Expert’s exclusive “snap & tap” technology allow you to take a photo(snap) and select a color within that image by touching the screen(tap). It has an interactive color wheel with multiple color schemes including Monochromatic, Analogous, Complementary, Split Complementary and Triadic.
You can quickly search through PANTONE® solid coated, PANTONE® solid uncoated, PANTONE® Goe™ coated, PANTONE® Goe™ uncoated, Web Safe Colors and HTML Colors.
You can then email your palette ideas to friends, colleagues and even clients. Color Expert provides a rich, HTML based email you can send from your iPhone or iPod touch.
Requirements
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.0 Software Update
Evernote
Free [itunes link]
Evernote lets you capture any moment or idea as it happens, wherever you may find yourself. And, with Evernote’s cloud-based sync, you can recall it all any time from your iPhone.
Features
Create and edit new notes on the fly
Snap a photo right into your account
Record a quick voice memo
Easily access all of your notes
Select notes for offline viewing
Requirements
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.0 Software Update
Things
$9.99/€7.99 [itunes link]
Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task manager. It offers the perfect balance between ease of use and powerful features. You can manage to-dos, notes, due dates and projects. A smart today list and the scheduling feature allow you to work as effectively as possible. You can also wirelessly sync with the desktop version.
Requirements
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.0 Software Update
