O'Grady's Best iOS apps of 2012
Summary: A lot of great iOS apps were released this year. Here's a list of my favorite apps of 2012.
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Addappt - Automatic contact management - Free
This year when we mailed out our Christmas cards I had to email, text or telephone at least a dozen people to confirm that they were still at their same address as last year. If they were using Addappt for iOS (free, App Store) their new contact information would have been sent to me automatically when it changed. It's an up-to-date address book that's maintained by your friends. Addappt is a bootstrapped operation founded by former LinkedIn employee Mrinal Desai and some ex-Microsoftees. They haven't accept outside financing so Addappt's not completely polished yet, but there's also no corporate strings attached or pressure to "monetize" your contacts. After you install Addappt, you need to request an invitation, but mine arrived via email within 24 hours. From there it imports your iOS address book, and looks for other users on Addappt. Then you request a link to your contacts and (if they approve) you're done. Whenever a linked contact updates their address, phone number or email, it's automatically updated in your contacts. Addappt has a strong privacy policy and promises not to sell, rent or share your contacts, and I trust them a lot more than Facebook with my contact data.
Further Reading
- Jason Hiner's review for ZDNET's Between The Lines
- Walt Mossberg's video review on WSJ.com
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Remote
Perhaps the most useful for me has been Jump Desktop for remote connection to PC's either by VNC or RDP. So well written, stable, smooth, cleverly laid out on iPad (but especially on the small iPhone display) that you wish all apps were done by these guys.
Support/responsiveness from developers top-notch.
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Jump Desktop - Remote Desktop Control
Perhaps the most useful for me has been Jump Desktop for remote connection to PC's either by VNC or RDP. So well written, stable, smooth, cleverly laid out on iPad (but especially on the small iPhone display) that you wish all apps were done by these guys.
Support/responsiveness from developers top-notch.
Wow one man's best an other's worst
MyBoxOffice
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myboxoffice/id317039484?mt=8
It's saved me a few times from buying the same movie again.
Really,fantastical
Top New Years Countdown App is free today
Sparrow? An e-mail app?
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