7 special applications for the iPhone

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Hi, my name is Eugene Efimochkin, I'm a longtime fan of Apple and, in particular, the iPhone. I love to try new applications. Ctavit most interesting and evaluate them - my hobby.

iPhone has become a revolution in the history of mobile devices, not only thanks to the innovative approach to solve many problems, but also because of the vast collection of applications that make it not just a phone. And not even a Pocket PC.

The App Store does not count a variety of applications in a familiar format - to-do lists or purchases, calendars, e-mail clients or cameras. However, all this is rather boring. Well, what kind of revolution in the simple fact that the good old organizer is now being sold in a stylish package with a glass surface, and his camera even able to photograph?

Personally, I've always liked the application that is versatile to rely for their work of the mobile iPhone, use it multiple sensors some new, unexpected way. Repeat the functionality and success of, for example, on a laptop are unlikely to succeed.

Let me offer a small selection of these applications - perhaps you are too impressed, though some of them you probably already know.

Do you want to share with other owners of the smartphone numbers or photos? Do not need to dictate to each other by email or khimichit Direct wireless connection. Install Bump and lightly tap each other on the two iPhone (bash phones themselves, by the way, not necessarily - a collision with his fists clutched in their phones work fine).

Bump tracks accelerometer data (to detect the moment of impact) and location - all this together gives an indication that the two user programs decided to exchange data in the same time in the same place, and they are quite trust each other, once performed a quite friendly gesture.

After impact, you acknowledge what data you transmit and to whom. You can transfer photos, contacts (primarily its own card - hurray, it is not necessary to rewrite the room with someone else's screen, making dial-up or dictate!), And even files. The transfer, however, takes place over the Internet, but in fact when you use an iPhone without the Internet is still not a day goes by.

Not long ago, the authors of the application also devised a way to transfer files from your phone on a regular computer.

Azumio chose the theme of their applications and the health of developed technology "guessing" natural human rhythms taken from different encoders. The technology they use a variety of ways, and one of the applications that they found - to consider the heart rate based on the testimony of the phone's built-in camera.

Heart Rate Monitor uses for this iPhone rear camera and flash lamp. Before you start the app will show you how to correctly position your finger on the camera, and after a few seconds will begin to detect your heart rate. In fact, it shines through your finger and monitors the brightness changes caused by tides of blood in the vessels when the pulse.

This approach is logical and surprising simultaneously. The app allows you to not only remove the countdown now, but also record the readings in a diary, accompanying them with tags, and track changes to your rhythm in the long term.

However, Azumio did not stop and released another application, Cardio Buddy, which also detects the heart rate, but this time using the front-facing camera. For the application, just enough to look at your phone (which you already do every day), and heart rhythm is detected by microchanges the brightness of your skin.

Frankly, Cardio Buddy wrong more often (and sometimes very significantly), so I prefer to use the Heart Rate Monitor.

Both applications let you store all captured data in a single Azumio account (which can also use and many other programs of this manufacturer - would highly recommend to take a look at each of the them).

Who does not want to feel like a hero steep movie? For example, such a steep as the famous Inception Nolan.

Igroproizvoditeli has long mastered change the background music for a tense moment. There's easier to do - there all simulated virtuality is controlled by a program and the program it is known, runs a hero or standing. In reality, change the music to match what is happening can only be if your player watching the world go by with you.

Owned and it deals with the application. Using all the phone sensors, it monitors your physical activity, lighting, external sounds and other ambient factors of reality, and mix soundtrack with you in the lead role on the right fly. As a musical source material used is the official soundtrack to Inception, written by Hans Zimmer, so for sure it will impress you.

Surely you at least once in life there are a morning when you wake up sore and sleepy, despite the fact that for a long time and slept peacefully. The problem - in the phase of sleep, from which you are awake.

Chelovesky dream - a cycle of several phases of differing character of activity of the brain and muscles. To sleep well, you need to go through the entire cycle of full (per night this can happen several times) and wake up at a certain phase.

Sleep Cycle and Sleep Time - smart alarms that detect the correct phase for the awakening of your physical activity. They do not wake you up to the minute - it's impossible to predict exactly how you are going to sleep - but most likely just before the specified time you. In order to allow applications to work properly, you will need to take your phone with you to bed (in an embrace with him do not need to sleep - both applications allow notes and hints of where and how to locate it). Then they can through the accelerometer to track the moments when you are tossing and turning in his sleep - is an indicator of one of the phases. By the way, if you sleep are not alone - both applications will not understand it and can make a mistake with the definition phase.

Next start some differences. Sleep Cycle is necessary to calibrate before use (this is long, but it is important for the proper operation and calibration of pretty funny). Sleep Time somehow adapts itself to your way of sleep, without calibration.

Sleep Cycle looks frankly disadvantageous (even scary) as compared to the magnificent Sleep Time. But this Sleep Cycle works more accurately, "getting used" to your sleep for the first couple of nights, and in addition, does not allow you to doze off on the set time for recovery. Sleep Time (perhaps due to lack of calibration and opportunistic analysis of any incoming data) can be mistaken for a long time (more than once I showed him that "I wake up" a couple of hours at night, although I do know that sleeping), and in the morning the alarm clock pretty soft for sleeping and napping may allow at least an hour after the operation. By the way, drowsiness after waking up in the correct phase is harmful in itself.

Another important point - a background job. To iOS 7 release applications have been limited in the ways and times of the background work. In normal language this means that if you click the lock at the running application has only a few seconds of full operation, after which it will suspend automatically. A similar story with the click of the Home button. It turns out that for these alarms is undesirable to lock the phone or press Home - it should remain unlocked all night. "A terrible» Sleep Cycle learned to get it to work in the background (Program pretends engaged in sound recording, and it leaves its fully working). Beautiful Sleep Time believes that pressing Home tantamount to turn off the alarm, lock and turn it from a smart alarm to normal.

Because of these differences Sleep Time can be recommended for a free schedule and lack of problems in the case of being late for work or on vacation. It can help you develop a healthy sleep schedule, not will drive themselves into the rigid framework of the first night.

Sleep Cycle - a Spartan program both in terms of work and design, it can be recommended, if you really need to wake up at a certain time and not later.

By the way, iPhone operation of these alarms is recommended to keep on charging all night, but you did, and so do, right?

The iOS already built panoramic camera, and pretty good, but admit - at 360˚ panorama, where you can see all around, and sometimes even under your feet and over your head, is much more interesting.

Legendary 360 panorama app allows you to do just that. Moreover, the shooting process is very simple and undemanding - just turn in place on all sides. Smart camera itself understands how she turned, and how much of the surrounding area are now sees, and automatically takes another shot when aimed at has not yet Exposed area. This occurs through the use of built-in iPhone accelerometer.

The fun starts after. Take the time to go to some exciting place to capture the full scope, and then return home and show your friends as you take a panorama on the same phone (or share the image on social networks). When viewing the panorama also uses an accelerometer, do not point a finger at the screen - you can just look at the regions of interest panorama unfolding in the right side of the device itself. iPhone will be a sort of "magic mirror" of fairy tales., Turn the phone from portrait to landscape (or vice versa) to finally convince the audience in this effect. That view panoramas with this program is very interesting.

Another application that is using the camera and the accelerometer of your iOS devices, but this time for a much more impressive goal - to capture the floor plan.

If you ever needed a plan of your home (for example, for repair), almost certainly you have not had it in advance, and almost certainly you were not enthusiastic about the idea to be worn around the apartment with a tape measure and a pencil and remember school lessons drawing. Sometimes after such exercises also discover that according to the plan you have just shot you live in a pentagonal house, and interest in plotting extinguished forever.

With Magic Plan shooting plan becomes just a game. However, with some rules, and requires some attention, but not much else. We must stand up to this point in the room, which shows all the angles, and, turning to her running on the device application to display on each corner of the camera premises and mark the corners and doorways.

Basically it all, but first your room is likely to take several attempts. Go to the original point is impossible, you can only turn on the spot. Our habit clutter the apartment closets along all the walls also add complexity the game, but in general it's better and easier than a tape measure to measure the wall.

According to the results you will get a rough plan of the room, which can then be clarified in the editor. Several captured Rooms easy to sew in a plan of the apartment, which can then be exported into the format you need.

Today went to a heap of places, but like yesterday tired much stronger. Or not? Yesterday, sitting the whole day in the office, even walk a little. It seems. This weekend it is necessary to carry out somehow poraznoobraznee than the last. By the way, I do not remember where it had been in before last weekend. Here's how to find out?

Learn possible. Let your phone be watching you, and use that information to analyze your habits. It moves just for this set. It will track the geographical location and accelerometer data to know when and where you were riding on whether transport or walked - or maybe riding a bike or running. Count the number of steps taken by you on the day of (the more you go on foot, the easier it is to maintain health), spent the day calories and bring entire route of the day on the map.

The great thing - the program runs silently in the background. It is not necessary specifically to run, press the button once to record its activities separately. In the application you will look except to verify where and how was your day today, on what paths you ran, how fast riding a bike. This simple magic sets it apart from many other similar. For those forgetful people like me, this is the best tracker activity.