Touch Home screen

I thought I'd "touch" on what's on my PDA replacement iPod touch home screen (1st page of apps):
I'm re-arranging right now, so I'll only hit on the one's I'm using daily, built in apps have an asterisk (*) next to them.

* Clock: Best alarm clock app on any handheld device I've owned. No limit to alarms, and sooOOoo easy to add or change alarms.

*Photos: Just too simple and easy to use to bother trying anything else

*Weather: Provided by Yahoo! Handy, but you'll have to go into Safari to get more detailed weather info than the picture and temperature provided, The Y! link in the app opens Safari, and tries EVERY time to change your search engine to Yahoo! You have at least 4 to 5 more taps to get detailed weather info. This is one I'll be changing soon.

*Calculator: At first I thought it a simple four function app, but when you rotate to landscape, it becomes a scientific calculator.

*Notes: Just because I have so many from Outlook with useful info for home and work, I should probably move them to Evernote, but this app is faster/handier.

*Music (in the Dock): Obvious reasons.
*Settings (in the Dock): for fast access to WiFi and brightness controls.
*Contacts (in the Dock): Near perfect, sync's with GMail AND Outlook (2003/2007).
*Calendar (in the Dock: Same description as Contacts.

eReader: Even better than it's Palm and Windows Mobile incarnation. Font choices are much improved, and the Pro version and library conversion to iPod version are free for all registered users. My fav reader setting is still reversed (white lettering on black background). Very low resources required for this app, if you turn WiFi off, you can read for a couple days (with a low backlight setting) (Free).

eWallet: $10.00 to upgrade to ipod/current Windows version from previous versions. Can sync across multiple computers as well as with ipod. So useful and secure, it's a no-brainer.

FastFinga: Great for taking notes when you don't have the time to type. Has the option to automatically open into the current note and start entering data with only the tap to open the app required. I use this one at work constantly (as I did "Notes" in Windows Mobile) ( 99¢).

GoodReader: Not quite what it claims to be... Yes it reads large PDF's, but the text extraction feature is iffy at best. Good as a fast PDF reader. The latest version dropped the USB sync (per Apple's request), not much harder to do it via wifi, but USB was drag and drop ( 99¢, lite version available).

To Do's: Since I can't have ListPro, this will do in the meantime as a freebie. Simple checklist app (free).

Evernote: Need handwritten note conversion from the Windows Mobile "Notes" app?, this is a way to go. Even with Notes sync on Outlook, Apple does not bring over the handwritten notes that were synced to Outlook from Windows Mobile. Evernote allows you to cut and paste those notes, sync them to a Evernote account online, and have them on your Touch even without a wifi connection (if you mark them as "favorites" and view them at least one time while wifi is connected). At bit clunky, but once you're done, you have your notes. A Firefox plugin makes this app truly indispensable. Have a page (or pages), you'd like to read later? The plugin gives you a "Add to Evernote" button in Firefox which snips the page to your Evernote account, and syncs to your ipod as well (just remember to make it a "favorite" after you verify the sync).
The "pro" version gives you automatic offline access to your notebook, but at $44 a year, you can make a few taps to get the same functionality for free. I've found the Evernote notebook very handy when doing research for work, it's better than bookmarking links, because you get the actual page you were reading when you originally viewed it. Useful even without a ipod (free).

Fast Add: The Contacts app is great, but labor intensive in a pinch when adding contacts. Fast Add gives you a down and dirty one page screen to add a new Contact (especially useful when someone is reading off their info to you). You can add more info later in the regular contacts app if needed (free).

Dictionary.com: Based on the Random House Unabridged version, this is a very handy app as it operates offline (no wifi needed), keeps track of recent searches, and has a Thesaurus built in.
Takes some space, but well worth the space hit (free).

Battery Magic: This one is soon to be dropped, some ball-park usage hours left info is the only useful feature to this one (free).

Flashlight: Seems stupid i know.... but at work... in a pinch (saving me a trip back to the shop for a real flashlight)... absolutely HANDY!!! Better than the LED I have on my key chain, because it stays on and can usually be placed exactly where you need it (if your Touch is in a non-slip case) (free).

Just going through this list made me remove some apps from my Touch that hadn't been used in weeks, as well as making me reorganize them.

*update*
For painfully obvious spelling and grammar errors.


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