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A Brief Peek Into The World Of IPhone Apps

By Brian Coryat

From toppings on our burgers to features in our automobiles, we love to have lots and lots of options. The same holds true with our electronics, namely our phones. The iPhone has over 140,000 applications to make using our phone fun, educational and helpful. The following is a look at some of the cool iPhone apps available.

Since the iPhone has up to 32GB of storage with its built-in flash drive, you have plenty of space to store your applications. The size of an average application comes in at approximately 5MB, so you see that there is plenty of room for dozens of apps. Of course if you store a huge music library on the phone there will be less space available for programs.

Are you looking to get into shape? A plethora of fitness apps are available. With these you can track the number of miles you have ridden your bicycle, have a personalized Pilates instructor, and even engage the services of a yoga instructor who shows you more than seventy poses.

Sports, finance and other news are also at your fingertips. Find out whether your favorite baseball team has blown the lead or check in to see how your stock investments are doing. You may also choose to subscribe to various news organizations and receive hourly news brief videos. Staying on top of the latest events could not be easier.

Food and wine aficionados will be exuberant over the culinary related applications. Fresh food fans can, via the phones built-in GPS capability, track down all the farmers markets in their area. You can turn your iPhone into a cookbook by downloading an app that describes over 25,000 recipes. And if you are going to be serving wine with that meal, get a program that lists and rates thousands of wines from around the globe.

Frustrated musicians can find dozens of music-related applications to encourage them. One turns your iPhone into an ocarina; you blow into the microphone while holding down finger combinations and out comes a melody. Another program transforms the phone into an 88-key piano with sustaining pedal action. For guitar fans, you can use your iPhone as a guitar tuner and metronome.

Unfortunately not all in life is fun and games. No problem. You can cater to your practical side. You can manage business expenses, track sales leads and sales, monitor work projects, and be a pro at task management. Your new business partner can also be turned into a mobile cash register, capable of accepting credit card purchases and logging sales refunds.

And these are merely a small fraction of the things that can be with the iphone. Its many apps bring brand new worlds of learning, working and playing right into your hands. To list them all would require the use of a book larger and heavier than the Michael Jackson Opus. But once you start to investigate, you will discover several apps that strike your fancy. You may even wonder how you lived without them for so long.

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