A few friends have gotten their first iPhone in the last week and I thought I’d list my current favorite iPhone apps (besides Text, Mail, Calendar, Phone).

Useful apps, in order of how much I use them:

1. Facebook
2. mBox Mail – for Hotmail/Live Mail
3. Listomni – this is how I manage my life! I have 200+ tasks prioritized which keeps me focused and not overwhelmed. The grocery list is worth the price of admission: it remembers what I shop for, knows where to find things, and it makes it super easy to shop
4. Mint.com – money management and budgeting.  Amazing.
5. Accuweather and The Weather Channel – Accuweather is pretty accurate
6. Tweetie – my favorite Twitter app
7. Yelp – This comes in handy often – I check it to see the best restaurant/shopping/repair place nearby and I write reviews that feed out to Windows Live and Facebook
8. Urbanspoon – A fun way to find restaurants
9. Wikipanion - Wikipedia
10. BigOven - Recipes
11. MyNetDiary – Food, Weight, Exercise tracking
12. Pandora – internet radio. Only problem with it is the speed/quality/connection but I use it at the gym when I have good reception
13. iPhlix – For managing Netflix
14. eBay – Dangerous!
15. Amazon – Even more dangerous!
16. Tipulator – An easy way to split a group check
17. Bump – Easily exchange contact info with another iPhone user

How I get my news:

1. Mobile News – all the basics, even local
2. Huff Post – the left
3. WSJ – the right
4. NYTimes – the Times
5. NetNewsWire - RSS

Fun stuff:

1. myLighter - fun at concerts
2. Flashlight - this has come in handy more than once
3. Rain Stick – what a nice sound
4. Labyrinth LE – tilt to move the marble around the wooden maze
5. LightSaber - great sound effects
6. Handy Level – it’s a real level!
7. Ocarina - amazing use of the iphone’s capabilities