Five Unsung iPhone Applications–Most of Them Free

At this week’s Macworld trade show in San Francisco, Google announced updates for its iPhone applications and Apple itself announced a free software update and new applications for the iPhone. Meanwhile, the list of useful applications for the iPhone from the development community is steadily growing. In this post, I’ll round up five unsung examples–most of them free.

PimpMyNews is a free offering from a startup company that delivers an audio version of news stories to your iPhone or to an iPod Touch. You can select types of news stories or blogs in 59 categories and have them regularly delivered to your iPhone. The effect is similar to getting a podcast based on your interests and updated throughout the day.


iZoho is a free way to bring Zoho’s popular productivity applications to your iPhone. With Zoho Writer you can view and edit documents on your iPhone. You also get Zoho Sheet for spreadsheets and Zoho Show for presentations. Note though, that you can’t edit spreadsheets or presentations, but you can view them.

RDM+ is a remote desktop application that allows you to access your desktop computer with your iPhone when you’re on the go. It’s good to have when you’ve left something critical behind.

Try @Task if you want a really robust mobile solution for managing projects on your iPhone. The charts and interface are very good for most types of projects. There’s a 30-day free trial, so you can see if your style of task management fits with the application. An account is $32 a month.

Even though many web workers use online applications for writing, Microsoft Word remains the most ubiquitous word processor out there. If you want to create Word documents on your iPhone and e-mail them to colleagues, gOffice is a good way to do it. It comes with a library of common letter formats to save you time if you’re writing a letter.

Do you know of any useful applications for the iPhone?

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