Utilities Apps

Have you ever had a document on your computer that you wanted to take with you but didn’t want to waste paper or printer ink on? What did you do? If you had the ACTPrinter Virtual Paper app for your iPhone or iPod touch, you sent the document from your Mac to your phone and you were on your way.

Tagged: printer app

dB - For those of you that love things that help you chronicle all facets of your life, Faber Acoustical has developed a uniquely original application that deserves your attention. In the age of Web 2.

Tagged: audio apps, record sound

I wanted to like iSurvive Wilderness but in the end, it lost me.

Tagged: survival guide

If you're a weather dweeb like I am, WeatherCyclopedia will send you sky high. Telemet, the developer, bills this app as "The Most Comprehensive Weather Encyclopedia Under the Sun," and I believe it.

If you want to enable emoji or emoticons system wide on your iPhone or iPod touch, you need to act fast. Apple has informed developers that as of today, the company will remove from the App Store all apps capable of enabling the emoji everywhere preference feature hidden in devices updated to 2.

Tagged: emoji, emoticons, international keyboards

Currency Converter, from dev Paolo Grifantini, is one of several similar apps in the App Store designed to convert dollars into dinars, drachmae, dirhams or some other denomination.

Tagged: currency converter, desktop widget, exchange rates

Common sense should tell you that it's risky storing highly sensitive data such as login IDs and credit card numbers on your iPhone or iPod touch, but if you insist, the best option I've found thus far is Callpod's Keeper. Keeper is a database for info that you need to keep to yourself.

Tagged: password manager, private information

iGuardDog - Cell phones have always been a pretty personal thing, and the more features and abilities those phones have, the more personal they become.

Need to know what your Mac (Macs) is up to while you're away from your desk? Bjango's iStat — System Monitoring will keep you posted and it will do that very well. This powerful little utility enables iPhoners to remotely monitor their Macs as well as their iPhone's inner workings.

Tagged: desktop widget, free memory, system monitor

Despite its claims, Multimedia Messages, from Hook Mobile, is not a multimedia messaging service for the iPhone.

Tagged: multimedia messages

"Stay alert," my father always told me; a reminder to his little girl that it pays to be careful, that safety is not just a matter of luck, but something to actively seek.

iHandySoft's iHandy Carpenter is like a Swiss Army knife: It has doo-dads you'll probably never use but it nice to know you have them if you ever have to kill a grizzly bear or yank a fish hook out of your finger.

Tagged: carpentry, how-to

To be honest, I’m sitting on the fence where iCatchall: 16+ Apps in One is concerned. Brought to you by Headlight Software Inc.

Tagged: flashlight app, poker tips, tip calculator

iSpectrum Color Blind Assistant by Wishbone Apps offers up some very useful features for the color blind as well as those who are not. The app is straight forward and a breeze to use.

Tagged: color blind, color picker

Links In a Blink, from Sync In a Blink, solves one of the problems that frustrates me most about the iPhone. Sure, this app has a few quirks, but it does what I want it to do, which is to easily import my bookmarks from Mozilla Firefox on my Windows PC and Ubuntu desktops.