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.
