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What apps have you actually found useful?

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Daily:
ixpensit
Pace
Facebook
Air Sharing
Accuweather

Frequently:
Stanza
Pandora
Shazam
msecure
Mobile news network
Accufuel

And lots more!
 
Intelliscreen
Earthcomber
Splash ID
Whats On
Crosswords

Those are the ones I use probably daily and find the most useful

Tris
Monkey Ball
Shazam
Rowmote
Save Benjis

These are the ones I use occasionally
 
Apps I use a lot:

  • WeatherEye
  • Google App (though less and less lately)
  • Facebook
  • Remote
  • IGN
  • Night Camera
  • midomi
  • i.TV
  • Now Playing

Apps I use a bit:
  • SnapTell
  • Units
  • UrbanSpoon

Plus a whole bunch of games.
 
As a side note, I see many hear use either Free Memory or iStat.

My question is, which one is better? (iStat LOOKS better, but that isn't always the case.)

Also, what is it doing to free up this memory? Just closing stuff that the iPhone doesn't close when it should?
 
Rat-Boy said:
As a side note, I see many hear use either Free Memory or iStat.

My question is, which one is better? (iStat LOOKS better, but that isn't always the case.)

Also, what is it doing to free up this memory? Just closing stuff that the iPhone doesn't close when it should?
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I used to use FreeMemory but the same guys made a new version that free's up more then FM. It is MemoryInfo. I choose this one over iStat because it has the battery % where iStat does not.

All 3 shut down apps that are still running in the background to free up the 128mb of available memory. With normal operations you have less then 50mb left to run apps and with Safari or iPod up that takes it down to less then 20mb. This frees stuff up so that you can play graphic intensive apps.

Hope that helps.
 
SFC Archer said:
I used to use FreeMemory but the same guys made a new version that free's up more then FM. It is MemoryInfo. I choose this one over iStat because it has the battery % where iStat does not.

All 3 shut down apps that are still running in the background to free up the 128mb of available memory. With normal operations you have less then 50mb left to run apps and with Safari or iPod up that takes it down to less then 20mb. This frees stuff up so that you can play graphic intensive apps.

Hope that helps.
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Perfectly.

And you just earned that developer his share of the 99c the app costs. :D
 
SFC Archer said:
I used to use FreeMemory but the same guys made a new version that free's up more then FM. It is MemoryInfo. I choose this one over iStat because it has the battery % where iStat does not.

All 3 shut down apps that are still running in the background to free up the 128mb of available memory. With normal operations you have less then 50mb left to run apps and with Safari or iPod up that takes it down to less then 20mb. This frees stuff up so that you can play graphic intensive apps.

Hope that helps.
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But doesn't that memory get freed up as the app needs it, anyway?

Which is to say - if I only have 20 megs free, and I run a graphic intensive app, doesn't the needed memory get freed up automatically?
 
I regularly use:

IXpenseit
TWC
Bank of America
Tiny Freecell
Stanza (latest update is the bomb!)

The other 4 pages of apps I have are filled with other apps that I have convinced myself are "must-have" apps, but seldom use.
 
SFC Archer said:
I used to use FreeMemory but the same guys made a new version that free's up more then FM. It is MemoryInfo. I choose this one over iStat because it has the battery % where iStat does not.

All 3 shut down apps that are still running in the background to free up the 128mb of available memory. With normal operations you have less then 50mb left to run apps and with Safari or iPod up that takes it down to less then 20mb. This frees stuff up so that you can play graphic intensive apps.

Hope that helps.
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+1 I use MemoryInfo as well and am quite pleased with it.
 
cellocello said:
But doesn't that memory get freed up as the app needs it, anyway?

Which is to say - if I only have 20 megs free, and I run a graphic intensive app, doesn't the needed memory get freed up automatically?
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No it does not. That is why your app, such as a game, crashes back to the home page. I did some testing with FreeMemory and the results are posted in my 100 Features thread. In case I got the link wrong...just go to the bottom of page 1 Entry 1 and click on the Here link.
 
SFC Archer said:
No it does not. That is why your app, such as a game, crashes back to the home page. I did some testing with FreeMemory and the results are posted in my 100 Features thread. In case I got the link wrong...just go to the bottom of page 1 Entry 1 and click on the Here link.
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I suppose ... but honestly, I haven't had an app crash back to the home screen in quite a while.

Wouldn't that speak to poor programming on the Dev's part, more than anything else? I mean, isn't the reason we don't get background apps is because the OS keeps the full memory for use by the foreground app?

Is a memory management tool really needed on the iPhone? Isn't that precisely what Apple wanted to avoid?
 
cellocello said:
I suppose ... but honestly, I haven't had an app crash back to the home screen in quite a while.

Wouldn't that speak to poor programming on the Dev's part, more than anything else? I mean, isn't the reason we don't get background apps is because the OS keeps the full memory for use by the foreground app?

Is a memory management tool really needed on the iPhone? Isn't that precisely what Apple wanted to avoid?
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Well, we are using beta right now and with force close (holding home for 5 sec) being deactivated then yes, this is a very important app. Yes there are some very bad apps out there that keep running do to poor development.

Another example is that Google Mobile App is actually very incompatible with 3.0 and was running in the background through Safari and actually drained my battery 3 times in one day. Removed it and I am back to normal.

With beta you need all the tools you can get to help you test and still use your phone normally.
 
SFC Archer said:
Well, we are using beta right now and with force close (holding home for 5 sec) being deactivated then yes, this is a very important app. Yes there are some very bad apps out there that keep running do to poor development.

Another example is that Google Mobile App is actually very incompatible with 3.0 and was running in the background through Safari and actually drained my battery 3 times in one day. Removed it and I am back to normal.

With beta you need all the tools you can get to help you test and still use your phone normally.
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I didn't realize we were talking about the beta (were we?).
 
cellocello said:
I didn't realize we were talking about the beta (were we?).
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I was, but it can still be applied to any situation. There are badly developed apps. The battery meter comes in handy to for other testing situations. Developers can use it to test their app before release. Its a choice just like any other app that one uses/purchases.
 
Wikipanion
Now Playing
USA Today
Google
Inquisitor
LocalEats
Cooliris
Open Table
MobileFiles
Bank of America

reMovem free
Morocco
FourFree
 
SFC Archer said:
I was, but it can still be applied to any situation. There are badly developed apps. The battery meter comes in handy to for other testing situations. Developers can use it to test their app before release. Its a choice just like any other app that one uses/purchases.
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Yeah .... but I mean, does my original statement still stand, though?

If I run a heavy (well-made) app; doesn't it just take the memory it needs from background stuff like safari?
 
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