Yes, its true. I give. You win. It is time for me to buy an IPhone.

If you have been reading my blog for a while you may recall this post, I wrote called “The New IPhone Is Coming And I Don’t Care..”at my old site. So does this make me a hypercrite? Knocking the IPhone last year and now going out and buying one? Well, I would like to think not. I made a bad call. I have been known on occasion to make bad calls. You know, pick the wrong horse.  Go “All In” with the the wrong hand. Some notable wrong moves I have made are (I’ll share them in list form, as people like lists.”:

-I liked New Coke

-I not only paid to see “Howard The Duck“, after the movie I immediately  went out and bought the soundtrack at Tower Records

-I thought the Sony Betamax was going to be huge

-Loved the Arch Deluxe ( hey the lettuce was crisp and cold, and the hot was hot)

So that being said you get that I have been known to make some slight mistakes.

I plan to atone for this by getting a 3rd gen IPhone on Friday. I need to get involved with “applications”. They are just too powerful for me to ignore. I want to start using them. Making my life easier. I want info at a touch…. and to watch “The Office” while I am at the kids baseball games.

So, the point of this blog is not to share with you that in the ’80’s I was eating an Arch Deluxe, drinking a New Coke and watching Howard The Duck. It is to ask for your help.

As a “newbie” to the IPhone, I need to know what applications I should be using. What applications are the “Got to have”? Some applications I have been told to consider by Jeff Podraza are:

Tweetie - 1 of 2 great Twitter apps $2.99

TweetStack 1 of 2 great Twitter apps $2.99 (This is my favorite works with Tweetdeck if you use it)Skype for iPhone

Beejive - costly (15.99) But love the instant message interface.

LinkedIn

Lonely Planet San Francisco City guide normally 15.99 free during WWDC so grab it fast. (still free as of the 15th)

Searchme - this is a visual and media search engine

Evernote - great way to save information and sync with a desktop application
i.TV - I like this as you can integrate your Netflix account and Tivo
One Connect from Yahoo
Google
Yelp
Amazon (I use it a lot for price comparison)
Sea food Watch - from Monterey Bay Aquarium
AOL Radio - I love the comedy radio stations and 80’s stuff
Pandora
Shazam (hold it to a radio, when you want to identify a song)
Reader by Enormego (2.99 but allows for Google reader importing)
ABC News
Huffington Post
The Weather Channel
Ny Times - allows for offline reading
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
NPR
Public Radio
Flight Control - best 99 cents I spent on a challenging but simple addictive game
Lexel word  - game was free but worth paying for if not
Kindle for iPhone - From Amazon
eReader - From Barnes and Noble

What IPhone applications do you recommend and can not live with out? Are there some on this list you disagree with?

Thanks for your help!

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