The meat safe and the study desk

Since I purchased my iphone ten days back, I have been downloading applications that I view useful and of course, those which are free. Here are my impressions on some of them:

1. Evernote: Evernote is a quick note making, idea jotting, photo spotting, audio saving application. This app on the iphone lets you save any text or photo or audio file to the iphone and automatically (Update: There is a setting which lets turn On/Off syncing through the Cellular Network) syncs the same with your evernote account online. I signed up for the free account on the web which allows upto 40 MB (monthly usage). I was also quite impressed with the way the Tips screen shows up. Though I haven’t used this app a lot yet, I imagine myself using it regularly in future.

2. WordPress: Thanks to my iPhone, I have started blogging again. This should continue and the iphone app only makes it easier. No more excuses. Let’s you capture a photo and create a new post about it right away. The interface is very clean and lets you manage your posts save drafts, comments and pages. You can even add another blog and start afresh. Here’s an example of a blog post (with photos) that was made by Shalin when we were at lunch a few days back.

3. IM+ Lite(iTunes Link): Need to have a IM application on the phone. For Gtalk particularly. After trying out Fring for a bit, I settled for IM+ Lite. Clean interface, ichat like chat window. I don’t make calls to my gmail contacts as much, and that is what made me switch from Fring to IM Lite. Fring looks like it is better if you want to make calls.

On the media and entertainment front, I tried MiniPiano, iBowl, Sleepmaker (this one works beautifully!) and Backgrounds (all iTunes Store links).

Any one know any applications that can monitor frequencies? Maybe I can find an iphone app which acts as a picth pipe and help when I tune a tambura!

One major complaint – I get about 50 emails a day and manage them on my Macbook and iPhone. Invariably all the emails I get during the day are seen on my laptop. However, once I open Mail in my iPhone sometime in the evening all the emails are downloaded again. Is there a “Mark All as Read” option available? I know my account is POP3 and having an IMAP account should solve the problem, but we had an issue once in the past making all the company accounts IMAP and that’s something we cannot try now. Any suggestions?

This is awfully simple as I see it now. This post is from my iPhone.

And yes, I can even click a photo and add it to the post. See below. That’s how my office looks at 7.30 pm.