Free Iphone Applications

Birds eye for iPhone

Iphone’s BirdsEye is one of the simplest, unique and most useful birding application which uses the power of eBird, a collaboration between The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audubon Society. Bird sights are collected from birdwatchers all over the world. Mostly the data in the BirdsEye app are about the birds found in North America.

BirdsEye which is developed by Birds in the Hand has database of almost 470 most regularly observed birds in North America. If you are ready to invest another $20 you can make an in-app purchase of 377 additional species. You also have choice to buy specific families of birds instead of 377 species database. BirdsEye’s database has field notes from Kenn Kaufman’s Field Guide, from Macaulay Library of Sound they have birds call and photographs taken from Vireo collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences. The electronic Field Guide is not as good as the printed field guides.

This app has a feature where you can compile a list of birds you have seen yourself known as Life List. This feature is most beneficial yet is incomplete as it only creates a list but doesn’t allow you to make personal notes on your sightseeing. The personal sightings will be visible in the BirdsEye if you post your bird sightings to ebird.com but you can’t link the BirdsEye app with your eBird account. You have to do all those manually. Helps in finding whatever bird species you are looking for. They show you a map which shows where and when a particular species was reported and then they also give you directions to the location. But they don’t give the exact location of finding the bird which is a demerit. The app is so intuitive that you can figure out what to do by just looking at the screen once. The layout is quite simple, very well designed and easy to navigate.

Camera Level for IPhone

Camera Level is useful app for keeping your iPhone camera level at all times. Camera level will help you a lot in shooting great composed photos. To manage your photos composition there is option for camera level’s grid view. This saves a lot of time of yours from all the editing you ever did. You have to adjust point and make sure that the view is level using the guides and then start shooting. This is all you have to do. It helps you in taking ultra fast shots. You just need to tap to get auto focus support. You can toggle between level and grid guides so that you can change colour based on the camera’s tilt level. You don’t have to use external tools to straighten your photos.

Camera level has two modes one by default is the grid line mode which helps in adding grid overlay to the entire screen. The second mode has a simple line across the bottom third of the screen of your iPhone. Switching to and fro from one mode to other is quite easy via the setting button. You can recalibrate the app’s level easily via the calibration mode.

WolframAlpha for IPhone

Recently Wolfram Alpha’s iPhone was released which gives users full access to Wolfram Alpha’s capabilities and immensely improved in speed and ergonomics of Wolframs Alpha’s mobile site. The main aim of the company is to replace stand alone graphic calculators by targeting this app at students and professionals.

One of the amazing features of this app is its dual keyboards. One keyboard is for numbers and symbols and other a regular QWERTY keyboard. This app works only when you are connected to the Internet. This might be a deal breaker for many but then it has plenty to offer like the basic graphing calculators when you can’t access Internet. It is well suited to solve a high school or college goer through its vast database of chemical compounds, nutritional data, geographical information, financial data etc.

Using Alpha isn’t as easy as using Google. It’s rather strict on how you structure a querry while Google has no such specification. It has a demo video to help you out with lots of example queries.
Though the price is too high the Wolfram Alpha team is stressing on the part of this app having lot to offer that a Web app can’t offer. This app is capable of making assumptions based on your location they also have included some features that make using the app easier than using the web service.

Google voice for iPhone

Google Voice for iPhone will be released in two versions one would be full featured version and other the light version which will be made available to the users free of cost.

When you would launch the app for the first time there are few basic set ups that needs to be attended. These would be logging into your Google Voice account and then entering your phone number that is going to be used for calling. This quite simple and easy and to make it more easy there is a “remember me” toggle which will store your login information. Once you finish this set up then you see several icons on the bottom of the app. These icons include the Keypad, SMS, History, Voicemail and settings. You can use the Keypad to dial the numbers you want to make a call to. You can dial a number or use iPhone contacts for existing numbers. You can send SMS via Google Voice. You can simply type a message and send to your iPhone contacts. The replies of the SMS will be automatically forwarded to the default SMS app on your iPhone. History will give access to both incoming and outgoing calls from the Google Voice account. In visual voice mail settings you can find the voicemails and listen to them using regular phone, speaker or a headset.

In all Google Voice is worth waiting for as its simple to use and price is fair enough.

IVideoCamera for IPhone

The iVideo camera allows user to record short videos on any phone. This app works with any 2G or 3G iPhone with iPhone OS 3.1 or above installed in it. This app has ability to save videos directly to the camera roll or “photos” and then you are ready to share it. You have options to share it on YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, flickr Video, Vimeo and camera Roll Export for trimming or editing. The new version of iVideo camera allows you to e-mail video clips or you can upload videos using wireless via FTP.

This iVideo camera app has its share of limitations. This app allows you to shoot a video of up to 1 minute in length and captures 3 frames per second. The resolution of the camera is 160 X 213 resolutions which is quite low. But then the latest version has made some improvement in its feature. The recording time limit has been extended to 15 minutes and records at 10 frames per second. This is not quite good but better than previous versions. The iVideo Camera works best if theirs is ample free space in your iPhone. The high quality mode consumes memory fast. This iVideo camera is best for first generation iPhone users as they get videos than no video at all.

Hyperoffice

Apart from gaming and multimedia applications iPhone also has other applications which can make your work easier. One of them is Hyperoffice. It is confirmed now that iPhone 3G will support Microsoft exchange ActiveSync and Cisco VPN. Hyperoffice helps you to access your corporate email box with high security and easiness. This application also allows you to access storage areas at your corporate place.

Hyperoffice is complete replacement of Microsoft outlook. It contains all the outlook services like calendar, discussions, public folders, RSS and more. You can also manage documents and access online storage. All this comes at a little price of $7/month, which is nothing as compared to its features it offers. You can download this application from iPhone application store or through the website. This application also works with blackberry and smartphones. Just install this application and enjoy working from your home.

Skype for iPhone

Skype is all set with its new iPhone application which has net based phone service to Apple’s mobile platform. This Skype iphone app will give users benefit of making free calls using Wi-Fi to other Skype users and much reduced price calls to landlines.

With its marvellous features user may get disappointed that calls are only possible via Wi-Fi not over cellular networks. But for international calls Skype’s iPhone app will save callers money by just avoiding AT & T’s wireless phone network. You can sign in using 3G, WiFi, GPRS or Edge and can send instant message to whoever is online. Skype features five tabs at the bottom of the screen unlike the desktop version. It displays contacts, chats, a calling panel, call history and your profile which is more like facebook style. Skype for iPhone uses phone numbers directly from your phone’s address book so you save the effort of duplicating contacts. Photos of the contacts can be displayed and conferences also possible. iPod touch users too can enjoy Skype but with a purchase of a microphone or headphones with built in microphones similar to the iPhone’s.

It misses many of the features its desktop version has like SMS, video and proper conference calling, file transfer, and voicemail.

Block fall for iPhone

Morphy software has launched Block Fall with some variations to the similar games like Bejeweled. Block Fall is a game where you can tap away clusters of blocks but you have only three lives to survive the game and score highest. You lose a life each time you tap a group of blocks smaller than three. But if you have used up lives and more blocks fall your lives are gained back and then you just have to continue tapping blocks until the blocks disappeared. Then you enter to next higher level. If while playing the blocks reach the top of the screen then the game is over.

The levels of the game are not set up to end cleanly. Many a times you will end up with whole lots of single blocks. You have to tap those single blocks risking your lives. But if you get to tap blocks of same colour then the new bunch of blocks won’t include that colour. After playing few times you can easily know the strategy of the game. You can easily use single and double blocks in your favour to create bigger groups to score more.

This game comes with 30 levels and three difficulty modes. You can always get started when you want to play and get out of the game when you had enough for a day. It takes a good amount of your concentration to play well

Gowalla for iPhone

The Gowalla, app from Alamofire is designed for the iPhone. This new app is basically for the location based social networking. The main purpose behind the design of this app is to share your comings and goings with your beloved and friends. You can also choose Gowalla or Twitter and Facebook too.

For this app to work you must have iPhone with built in GPS and Wi-Fi triangulation so that your exact location can be known. It can very well inform you if you are in or anywhere near an already created “Spot”. If there isn’t any created you can easily create one yourself. Spot here can be anything from a coffee shop to bars, restaurant, and retail store. If your Spot has been very well selected then you can just check-in. Then you can easily toggle the share with twitter/facebook option. You can also keep the information just limited to few people.

You get your Gowalla passport stamped each time you check in somewhere. More the places you check in more you will discover items that are connected to specific venues. You can also pick new item but you have to compromise with one of yours. This becomes fun when you watch items being picked and then dropped by others. Every city here has its own unique featured spots and recommended trips. You can explore them as you wish to and collect various items and stamps too.

The look and the design of the app is one of the best. This app is designed with keeping the usability in mind. The layout of the city and the areas are impressive and thoughtful. Playing around with Gowalla is lot fun.

Heavy Crossbar II

Heavy Crossbow has increased the count of strategy games build for iPhone. If you like strategy games, then heavy crossbow II is for you. This game has age of empires look and allow you to the features like castle building, defense, weapons, guns and zombies. The graphics are good and it allows you to take best out of your iPhone. Sounds are great and you can enjoy this game with your speakers ON.

Playing this game is a real fun and you will surly enjoy this. The game offers you almost all kind of weapons ranging from ancient axes to modern guns. Most of the effort goes in reloading the gun as you need to use a combination to reload it. The controls are bit nasty and found little trouble while playing it for first time.

This game is real fun for people who love strategy games. It will use a lot of your brain to win the game. Play the game and you will definitely enjoy this.