Handy iPhone apps

• Features: Seamless stitching of photos for wiiiide things like this and this
• Pros: Faster, higher rez, more stable and better designed that the other iPhone panorama app \ Saves work if interrupted
• Cons: Kind of expensive (but well worth it given it can do a 360 panorama). Not updated recently, but still works well in iOS4.

• Features: Arrange and layer photos around a sphere \ Stretches but does not stitch. Think Hockney, or tiles — like this
• Pros: Great GUI, easy and fun to drag and rotate pictures \ Cool results.
• Cons: If you want seamless, use Panorama \ Can crash with more than 15 images

• Features: Streaming audio/radio
• Pros: Extensive station directory \ Handles pretty much every format out there, even wma/asf \ Great support — contact them to confirm if your favorite station is supported before buying.
• Cons: No Real Audio support \ Some stations using windows media formats have whacked cookie registration that don’t work properly (but email their support, sometimes they can fix it)

Handy comparison table

• Features: Cheap international calling (pseudo call-back) \ iPhone Web app with dialer and address book
• Pros: 1/10th or 1/20th AT&T’s usurious international rates. (AT&T=20 to 60¢/min to Canada? WTF? I’m calling Canada, not Ghana) \ No monthly fees
• Cons:
  Not a WiFi VOIP app like TruPhone – requires dial tone, so not helpful if you are roaming on AT&T outside of the US \ Not a true iPhone app, so does not tie into iPhone address book \ Pain in the ass to add numbers to web address book \ Reauthentication happens way too often (once a week or so)

• Features: VOIP app + SIP + Skype + IM client (Google, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ)
• Pros: Simple to use / integrates with iPhone address book
• Cons: Can’t group contacts / hard to tell who is on what service people are on / VOIP has some latency / doesn’t run in the background unless you jailbreak your iPhone

• Features: Kick-ass VNC (screen sharing) client — jaadu = magic
• Pros: auto-discovery of VNC hosts (i.e. any Mac with screen sharing on your local network) / works very well over distance (if you know how to configure ports on your router) / arrow key control means you can use it as a remote control for PowerPoint
• Cons: Ridiculously expensive, but it does the job better than any other VNC client out there — it literally is magic

• Features: You fly a helicopter by tilting the iPhone, and get to blow stuff up
• Pros: Ridiculously entertaining, controls are fantastic, best iPhone game I’ve played
• Cons: You will end up playing it way too much

• Features: Track flights, gate changes, baggage claim — flighttracker.com, but optimized for your iPhone
• Pros: way faster than digging though poorly designed web pages / flight status maps with weather / shake iPhone to get a random flight
• Cons: Can’t zoom into maps / no estimate of flight time remaining