Creative people never truly leave their work behind. Designers in particular are always imagining something new for the next project, and never before has there been so much technical support for keeping up with those dreams accessible at the touch of the fingertips. iPhone apps are bringing designers’ thoughts from their imaginations into reality 24/7. Whatever you have been waiting for is here. Just take a look at these ten terrific apps.

The Typography Manual

The Typography Manual is just that—a manual with features that are more helpful than a print book. It is actually two apps in one—a manual and a set of resources. The fabulous mix of tools and reference has educational information, such as a history of printing, as well as functional helps for doing the job. Its 100-term glossary of typography gives you a definition and then it shows what it looks like. The style guide covers grammar and typographic rules. It has an em calculator, a font size ruler, a standard ruler, and a conversion table. The manual has a full listing of standard html codes for letters, numbers, and special characters. Updates are added regularly.
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Palettes Pro

Palettes lets you create and maintain color palettes. It gives you the ability to automatically load color palettes from a website, or to use a camera to capture an image from life. It is compatible for use with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks, GIMP, Paintshop Pro, and OS X Color Chooser. One especially nice feature is that the pallets can be emailed without leaving the application. You can mix your own colors or you can use Palettes to generate monochromatic, analogous, triadic, and complementary color schemes. Real world items can be compared to a full-screen display to check accuracy. Never worry about losing your hard work because Palettes can automatically save the work as you go.
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Files

File is aptly named because it allows you to store and view files on your iPhone. You can connect to files from any Mac or PC and drag and drop files to your iPhone just as you would with any other shared folder. Sharing is easy because it works with all standard word processor documents, rich text, adobe pdf, html, images, video and audio files. Zoom and pan in your choice of either landscape or portrait mode to get the view that best fits your project. It has security settings for both remote and local access, so your work stays yours.
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Paint for Evernote

Evernote can create text, photo, and voice notes on your iPhone. Whether you take a picture of a big whiteboard presentation or snap an image of a tiny business card, Evernote can recognize the text in those images and make a note of it. Everything you capture is automatically indexed, even handwritten text on images, so you can find it later by searching for keywords, titles, or tags. Some printers are capable of printing your Evernotes directly, but if yours isn’t, you can always route them through your computer to a conventional printer.
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Units

Units is a unit converter, plain and simple. While there are plenty of free converters available, it is worth taking another look at Units because it’s comprehensive, it works like a calculator, and it is so fast that it converts even as you are entering the values. The modes you use most often can be saved so you don’t have to go through menus every time you use it. One tap will reverse the direction of a conversion; converting yards to meters becomes meters to yards with one press of a button. In addition to converting length, area, volume, mass, weight, force, torque, speed, pressure, power, luminance and time units, it also coverts currency. The exchange rates are updated daily and can be manually updated at any time.
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ShapeWriter

Shapewriter frees you from the frustration of miniaturized keyboards, For composing words with ShapeWriter, you use your finger to trace pathways between the letters. For example, sliding your finger from the z key to the e key to the s key to the t gives zest. ShapeWriter recognizes the word and displays it on the screen. It is very cool—and on ShapeWriter you can ignore double letters, so that makes it very c-o-l. If you want to use an unusual word that is not stored in its 60,000 word lexicon, you can type it in and add it to the memory. ShapeWriter also takes care of most of the spacing and capitalization for you, making this one of the fastest ways to take notes ever. It even comes with a tutorial balloon popping game to speed your learning curve.
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Brushes

Brushes is the one app that takes your touch screen from finger painting to real painting. Brush sizes range form one to sixty-four pixels and come in three different styles. Brushes comes with an inexhaustible supply of ‘paint’ in any hue or saturation, including transparency. You don’t have to start with a blank canvas unless you want to; you can also paint over photos from your photo album/CameraRoll. Brushes can support up to four layers of painting that can be rearranged, deleted, merged, or copied. Your paintings can be stored and viewed in your iPhone gallery.
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Color Expert

Color Expert is a portable palette that uses “snap & tap” technology. The snap is snapping a picture and the tap is the application’s ability to analyze and tap into the dominant colors from the photo and then render a perfect color scheme. It lets you capture colors from any place that your iPhone can travel, match them on the interactive color wheel, and save them for use on your projects. The color wheel can be set to work in either artistic pigments (RYB) or in scientific light values (RGB). The swatch book feature acts as an on-the-go reference chart.
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iBlueSky

iBlueSky is a terrific app for the visual organization of thoughts and ideas. In a blend of simplicity and function, this app helps you create a mind map to see how your ideas naturally group together. It keeps your inspired ideas from becoming sidelined or lost in the crowd of other thoughts. iBlueSky makes adding new branches and sub-branches incredibly simple. Navigating through your mind map is easy and uncomplicated, so you won’t get lost in thought. Once you’ve organized and completed the project, your mind maps can be instantly emailed in PDF and PNG formats to any contact on your phone.
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ZeptoPad

ZeptoPad is an application that lets you turn your iPhone into a note pad or whiteboard. If you had concerns about its rocky launch last year, be assured the bugs are out and this app is ready to perform. Make freehand drawings and take handwritten notes in your choice of color and line width. In addition, the toolbox offers an assortment of rectangles, circles, arrows, and connectors that can all be easily stretched, skewed and manipulated by simply dragging the elements. The ZeptoPad image is easily transferred to a wireless PC, and if that is connected to a projector, you can give a full size presentation to large meetings from your iPhone. Your creations can also be sent by email as image files.
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Thanks to iPhone apps designed with webmasters in mind, you never have to be away from your websites, your databases, or your web analytics again. Whether you’re sitting in an airport or relaxing at a cafe, vacationing abroad or commuting to the office, iPhone apps for webmasters allow you to manage your websites and start new ones from wherever you happen to be. Here’s a look at the ten very best apps for webmasters.

PHP Cheat Sheet

Shoot, what’s the syntax supposed to be again? With PHP Cheat Sheet you can check the accuracy of your code on the spot. Like crib notes for PHP, PHP Cheat Sheet is a native app rather than a link out to internet references. Since it’s searchable, it makes it easy to find the string you’re looking for. Besides the search capacity, PHP Cheat Sheet is divided into well-defined categories. Functions and descriptions for Date & Time, MySQL, SimpleXML, String, Handling, File System, and more are included. The best part is that PHP Cheat Sheet was written and reviewed by professional web developers. Free updates are available once you’ve purchased the app.

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Chartbeat

For the webmaster who can’t stand to be away from his visitor stats for more than a few minutes, there’s the chartbeat app. Not unlike standard web analytics programs like AWStats and Google Analytics (arguably, chartbeat is far more robust than either), chartbeat provides up-to-the-minute information regarding where visitors are coming from, what they’re viewing, and who’s new – all in real-time. Push notification alerts tell you as soon as something big happens on your site, whether that’s a traffic spike a a slow-loading page. Especially for websites that cannot allowed to go down for any length of time, the chartbeat app is a particularly valuable tool.

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Analytics App

The only downside to chartbeat is that it requires a subscription to the chartbeat analytics. If you’ve already got Google Analytics running and you want to stick with it, the Analytics App provides a way to keep in touch with your Google Analytics data while you’re on the go. However, you might enjoy this app so much that you’ll find yourself using it even when you’re not on the go. After all, why open up yet another browser tab to check your stats when you can use your iPhone instead?

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Ego

Yet another web stats app, Ego gives you the benefit of checking all your stats in one central location. Why have one app to check Google Analytics, another app to check your views at Vimeo, and yet a third app to check Feedburner? Put all these stats into one place, saving you time and making you more productive. Is someone new following you on Twitter? Did that latest blog post totally flop? In a glance at your Ego app, you’ll know the answer, without having to login to each site individually.

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Cliqcliq Colors

Anyone who’s ever designed a website or two – especially in CSS, Flex, Flash, or Objective-C – knows how much time can be wasted looking for the right color palette. With cliqcliq Colors, palettes can be easily created, then converted into integer and floating point scales, or RGB, HSB, and CMYK. cliqcliq also makes extracting colors from your iPhone camera, your Photo Library, or from Flickr a cinch. Once you’ve got the palette you want, you can email it to yourself in formats compatible with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, or Microsoft Office. When you send it to yourself, you’ll get a text, CSV, and BMP file just for your reference.

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FTP On The Go

Imagine the ability to login to your FTP site, download a file, edit it, and upload it back onto your site. With FTP On The Go, you can do just that and more. Apple’s own “iPhone in Business” site describes this app as “essential for website administrators who need to make adjustments and updates to websites on the go.” Indeed, FTP On The Go is the first app a webmaster should purchase for his iPhone. Not unlike a regular FTP program such as SmartFTP, you can create bookmarks to servers you frequently access, change file permissions on Unix servers, and upload photos directly from your iPhone into your FTP site. The potential uses for FTP On The Go are endless.

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Web Tools

If you like the iPhone app Domain Scout, you’ll like Web Tools even more. Like Domain Scout, busy webmasters can use this app to look up the domain name and check its availability. Web Tools also provides contact details and DNS information for registered domain names. Unlike Domain Scout, Web Tools has additional functionality, including viewing server information, such as hostname and location, and pinging the servers.

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Jaadu VNC

Have you ever used GoToMyPC to access your computer remotely? Jaadu VNC is basically the same idea, except you can access your computer handily from your iPhone. Imagine being on holiday and receiving a call from your boss asking about a particular file that he needs immediately. All you can do is groan: you know exactly where that file is, it’s on your computer at home, and there’s no way you can reach it. Jaadu VNC changes all that. With a few clicks you can access your computer, and a helpful zoom feature allows you to zero in on the part of the workspace you need to see. Within minutes, you can access that file and email it to your boss.

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pTerm

pTerm turns your iPhone into a terminal, giving you SSH, Telnet, and raw TCP client. Based on the popular desktop client PuTTY, in a few seconds you can login and start editing. pTerm also adds in a CTRL and ESC key – an improvement over other terminal apps. While the keyboard takes up a lot of screen space, you can use pTerm in landscape mode or portrait mode, and like most iPhone apps, pinch and zoom are in effect.

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Database Viewer Plus

For anyone who needs MySQL access from iPhone, Database Viewer Plus is a must-have. Besides MySQL, Database Viewer Plus also supports Excel, FileMaker Pro, Oracle, SQL, DB2, dBase, and others. With easy navigation and 128 bit encryption, not to mention supporting Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, and more, Database Viewer Plus is a great way to update data while in the field or on the go. What’s more, when you make a change from your iPhone, it will sync instantly with your desktop database. Likewise, changes on the desktop database can be sent wirelessly and immediately to iPhone whenever you start the app. You can be confident when you start using this app that you have the most recent version of your database.

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The strides in technology have far outstripped what used to pass for navigational expertise. Yesterday, the drill consisted of using a paper map, and convincing your passengers to stay awake long enough to get there. This of course meant being sure that your chosen navigator knew the difference between the black lines and the blue. Today the GPS systems available are equipped to not only get you to where you are going, but also guide you to points of interest in the area. So grab your iPhone or iPod Touch and get downloading, because these applications are must haves for any person on the go.

MobileNavigator North America

This application is easily on of the most reliable and fun to work with. One of the best time savers available is the ability to access contacts while on the navigation application. Navigon even allows the user to select a contact as a destination, without having to type it in manually. This should also double as a safety feature, as we all know a driver who tries to do way to much while behind the wheel. Some of the key features include being Bluetooth enabled, 3D map views, and voice guidance ability.
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Magellan RoadMate 2010 North America

The Magellan Car Kit is compatible with the iPhone 3G and 3GS. This application also has one feature that has not been noted in any other. The Magellan Car Kit also acts as a charger for the iPhone, encouraging travelers to stray farther from home.

This application is compatible with any location based or navigation system; meaning that there is no need to always use the Magellan RoadMate app. Key features includes 3D landmarks, address book integration, pedestrian mode and lane assist. For those who can never remember where they parked their car there is also car locator feature. Download »

Ndrive United States of America

This application has just become available for iPhone users. Available in several countries and in 28 different languages this application also includes a unique feature that fully optimizes the user interface. Rotate the iPhone and the map will automatically adjust. This application provides turn by turn visual and spoken directions with 3D photo maps that assist drivers with door to door directions. Making it easier to locate what you are looking for. Other key features include turn by turn spoken navigation; multi-touch gesture recognition and an adventure mode for those whose travels have do not include the highway.
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Gokivo Navigator

Designed with Apples customary design that makes it very easy to use and navigate. The moving 3D maps are extremely useful in finding where you want to go as well as any points of interest. When compared with applications more than twice its size the petite 2.78 MB is a refreshing change. It allows the user to listen to music while navigating and the voice prompts automatically turn the music down before giving additional instructions. Key features include voice prompted turn by turn directions, traffic conditions and updates, and a safety feature that allows you to share your locations with friends via an in application email.

If you think GPS systems are just for your car, then you have the wrong idea about what GPS can do for you. With a variety of interesting applications, you are sure to find one to fit your needs. From astrology to wake up calls, GPS systems are now aiming themselves at those less traveled.
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iNap@work

This is a terrific application for sleepy commuters on public transportation. Simply set the application for where you want to get off and the alarm will wake you up at a predetermined distance from the location. As long as the application is able to receive a GPS signal the alarm will go off right on time. No more sleeping past your destination with this handy little application.
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GoSkyWatch

If you want to impress a lady friend with a little star gazing, this handy little application is for you. With the iPhones internal accelerator the application is able to pinpoint your location and checks that against the current date and time. Just point the back of your phone to the group of stars to get the name. If you zoom in on a specific star or planet the application will also tell you how far away it is. This is the perfect application for a date with the stars or the budding astrologist.
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iNavX Marines Navigation

With access to thousands of maps and charts, this application brings official NOAA RNC raster of the United States waters right to your phone. Official Navionics Gold Charts, CHS, Trak Canada Lake fishing charts and you can always be sure that the charts are the latest available as they are downloaded from the charts server.

This amazing application does not require internet or Wi-Fi access. Once a chart has been downloaded, it can be used indefinitely, without any additional cost. To be sure would be nautical adventures are on the right track the application also supports 3GS compassing, supports AIS receivers and transponders, and distance measurements that are calculated by the Great Circle routing.
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Surf Report

If you planning your next vacation this is the application to take with you. If you are trying to “agg” on the next wave or do not want to be seen as a “touron” on the slopes, you will want this application to help you plan. It pays to know in advance the swell direction, tide, surf heights, and weather on thousands of beaches.
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Snow Report

With Snow Reports the latest information about the weather is at hand. With a flick of your wrist you can have 24/48/72 hour weather at your disposal. Find out early which lifts and hiking trails are closed at more than 2000 resorts around the world.
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MotionX GPS

When was the last time, your phone showed you a great hiking trail and you were no where near a cell phone tower? Unlike most GPS systems that concentrate on telling the user how to get someplace; this application focuses on the route you are taking. Recently users of this application gained the ability to take previously downloaded maps and charts with them on their off the grid excursions.

Out door enthusiast have more than over worked this application on such exploits as biking across the deserts in Abu Dhabi, hot air ballooning up the Rocky Mountains and even up the volcanoes of Guatemala. If you are into extreme sports you need an extreme application to get you there.
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Conclusion
No matter where are or what you are doing, there is a GPS application to help you on the way. A good GPS system is an great helping hand to either guide you on a cross country road trip or maybe just a trip around the block.

However, let’s not forget the other uses a GPS system can have. Many applications are designed to fill the user in on all types of data that is relevant in another part of the world. From navigating the ocean to mapping out the stars, GPS has an application for you.

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iPhone apps can save you time in every way but one: With over 10,000 applications to choose from, finding the ones you would want to use is an odyssey of distraction. Most of the more than 200 new iPhone applications each day are a waste of your time, with poor stability or just not enough features. Although most iPhone applications are fairly inexpensive, buying duds can quickly eat up your funds and your time. Here you will find the ten best iPhone applications of 2009. We’ve done this for you because, when it comes to wasting time with your iPhone, isn’t it more fun to actually play with your applications than it is to clean the lemons from your phone’s memory?

Flight Status 4.0

Although toying around with iPhone apps is more entertaining than counting the ceiling tiles at the airport, it would be nice to know about a delayed flight before you are stuck in traffic or any of the other myriad of situations that cause you to sprint to the gate. You’ll never have to stress about being late for a flight again with Flight Status 4.0, selling for $4.99. With the flight and route information for over 4000 airports worldwide, you’ll even know if you have time to pick up the pampushki before you pick up your Ukrainian relatives. Few applications forgive the organizationally-challenged like Flight Status; a search feature will help you find your lost flight number and you can save your trip information.

Awesome Note

With Awesome Note you can save all sorts of information greater efficiency and speed than iPhone’s standard note taking application allows. A quick-note option on the homepage allows to quickly create a note and then return to it later for filing. This application has a variety of font options to customize the look of your notes, and you can organize the folders according to your preferences with ability to name, add and delete. With this application, you can email notes. You can even upload your notes into a Google documents account, or conversely, download your Google documents into Awesome Note. By being able to use the larger, wide screen keyboard, typing notes is fast and easy with Awesome Note.

Quickoffice Mobile

Users of Microsoft Office will find a value in Quickoffice Mobile for $9.99. Create, open and edit Word 07 documents and Excel 07 spreadsheets. Transfer your Microsoft files via WiFi between your computer and iPhone. With full text formatting features and spreadsheet calculation, you will be able to open and close your documents and spreadsheets without changing their look or file format. Quickoffice Mobile offers many of the same features as its full sized counterpart, such as highlighting, font size and color, and even a find feature. Best of all, you can email your spreadsheets and documents from your iPhone.

Camera Genius

Camera Genius, selling for just $0.99, will make your iPhone feel more like an iCamera that just happens to receive phone calls. A big button feature lets you snap the picture by touching anywhere on the screen, a great plus when your smile muscles are overworked and your technologically-impaired relative is trying to find the shutter button. Fore-go the technically-awkward relative all together with the shutter button countdown feature that will give you enough time to get in the picture. There is even a setting which will not allow a photo to be taken unless the camera is steady, preventing blurry photos.

Etiquette Avenue

Etiquette Avenue for $2.99 is like the ambassador that every business person wants whispering in his or her ear. This little application will teach you everything you need to know to meet with international clients. Learn the proper greetings and even get ideas for conversation topics. If your business school did not teach you which fork to use or how to eat an oyster, this application will put you in the good graces of the social elite.

Garden Plants Database

Your fingers will catch up with your green thumb, too, with Gardening 1.0 for only a $1.99. This application features a database of plants with helpful information such as planting and harvesting times, and a link to see a picture of a healthy plant. You can even store information pertaining to your own garden for a customizable experience. Learn how to take care of your garden by providing the right soil conditions and even learn everything you need to know about ph levels. Each plant entry in the database even has a space for your own notes.

Run Pee

Run Pee is a fun application that lets you know with amazing precision when the boring parts of the movie are so that you can, um, run and pee, or buy more popcorn. This is a great application for people whose love of movies is not compatible with their love for extra-large fountain sodas.

WeatherBug

WeatherBug is the application your mother always should have had. If Mom can’t get through to your iPhone to warn you stay off the roads because of impending bad weather, this application will keep you in the know for snow. With worldwide information you’ll even know if its a good time to be driving in Armenia.

Motion X GPS

No matter where you are driving, Motion X GPS for $3 per month will steer you the right way. This application is one of the most reliable around and definitely costs less than the GPS devices and subscriptions that plug into your car. The best part about having your GPS on your iPhone is that you can truly be a backseat driver when you are stuck in traffic in someone else’s car.

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