Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Three free cool iPhone apps that may make the holidays a little easier to manage.

It’s a hectic time of year.

Maybe you’re preparing the house for parties or family from out of town. Maybe you’re trying to schedule time for gift shopping between work and themed pageants and school productions. Maybe you’re just so busy you’re not even sure what you need to do.

Remember the Milk is a task management app that allows users to develop task lists, view tasks based on current location, sync and add new tasks via Gmail and Twitter (may be synced with Outlook, Blackberry, and other platforms with a pro-account), and send tasks to others, in the event they need a gentle reminder.


There are a handful of very cool photo apps that allow users to enhance their pictures with filters. I’m a big fan of Hipstamatic and the ability to mix and match film, filters, flashes, and lenses, however, it can prove to be a little slow when I just want to snap a photo. Plus, some of the combos are so thick with effects, the images are difficult to see.

Instagram offers a similar end result and applies the filter process after a photo has been taken. This allows users to take a snapshot then decide which effect looks best, without wasting valuable time beforehand. But the element that takes this app a step above the rest (aside from it’s $0.00 price tag) is it’s integration into multiple social networking platforms.

It’s ultimately designed as a photo-sharing application, which is ideal for sending holiday photos to friends and family.



Gift cards. They’re handy and they’re an easy gift item. But what happens when you use one, then another, then can’t remember just how much you spent or how much was on the card? Tango has taken this into account and created an app that keeps track of all this information for you into an easily manageable interface.

On top of a brilliant organization concept, the Tango website also offers the option of a gift card that’s useable at a variety of different stores (Starbucks, Amazon, Target) as well as providing charitable options for unused gift card balances.

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