What's In My iPhone - Part Six: Shopping For Design
App additions from previous post are:
"Blogs & Magazines" now has the addition of:
App: TED
Rating: ✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: TED is a video bank of speakers from various leaders and in their respective fields.
Cost: Free
Comments: This is wonderful resource is filled with equally wonderful minds, talking on topics from social media, technology to sculpture.
The contents of my "Design Folder" is as follows:
App: What The Font
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This tool allows you to select a unknown fonts from graphics and it will reference it and suggest possible matches.
Cost: Free
Comments: This is a great tool, especially for trying to figure out specialty fonts.
App: Color Expert
Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This versatile tool allows you to make endless color combinations, shoot a photo and isolated a color to the pixel as well as other functions.
Cost: $9.99
Comments: This is totally worth the $10 bucks. I love this app.
App: Alltop - Design
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This is a feeds aggregator for the AllTop.com website specializing in posts about design
Cost: Free
Comments: Solid feed app with very topical information from a diverse array of content providers.
App: Font Combinations
Rating: ✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: A great little tool that shows various font combinations in basic layouts.
Cost: $1.99
Comments: Starting in design or just need a shot of creative inspiration, this is a good app to have.
App: Vectips
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: A decent resource for all things vector graphics related.
Cost: Free
Comments: While I draw from it often I do like to check out Vectips content to stay current and updated.
App: World Grafic Design
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This is a portfolio site that allows you to review a myriad of world-class designers.
Cost: Free
Comments: Good tool for quick reference, inspiration and freelance talent.
App: Typo Junkies
Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: A great font resource for education, trends and entertainment.
Cost: Free
Comments: Be sure to check out the media resource, great video content for all you font lovers.
App: Workbook
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: Another portfolio site but it also expands to photographers and illustrators as well as other talent.
Cost: Free
Comments: Good tool for quick reference, inspiration and freelance talent.
Who doesn't need a "Shopping & Lifestyle" folder in their iPhone?
App: SnapTell
Rating: ✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This amazing little app allows you to shoot a photo of a product, it then searches the internet for cost comparisons based on the products image.
Cost: Free
Comments: I find this a great tool for videos, books and games. Be sure to shoot the box cover, just shooting a photo of the product will probably render no results.
App: Starbucks Mobile Card
Rating: ✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This app provide a barcode to your online credit account and allows for product purchase.
Cost: Free
Comments: Most Starbucks that are not located in Target stores however do not have the proper scanning devices to make it work. I'm sure this will be resolved over time.
App: Walgreens
Rating: ✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: A great app for those of us on more meds' than Christmas.
Cost: Free
Comments: Punch in your script' number, select your Walgreens and wah-lah! Done.
App: Target
Rating: ✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: It's Target's products in an app.
Cost: Free
Comments: Not rocket science.
App: Craigslist
Rating: ✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: This is the free [actual] Craigslist app.
Cost: Free
Comments: This app is about as no-frills as the actual Craigslist.
App: CraigsPro+
Rating: ✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: A more robust Craigslist app that allows for alerts and additional functionality.
Cost: $.99
Comments: A must have for Craig-junkies.
App: eBay
Rating: ✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: Ebay's website in a non-handy app-like version.
Cost: Free
Comments: It is what it is.
App: Amazon.com
Rating: ✩✩✩✩ (out of 5)
What is it?: A great application representing the endless hole that is one of the web's oldest.
Cost: Free
Comments: A must have if your going to shop with your phone.
