Since your iPhone and iPad are just extra thin, good-lookin’, superportable computers, it’s fun to employ a few apps that talk to your Mac. These pairs are best buddies.
iProcrastinate for iPhone keeps your to-do list handy.
This to-do list is free in the Mac App Store and only $0.99 for the iPhone. It’s not quite as robust as Things ($49.99 on Mac, $9.99 for iPhone, $19.99 for iPad), but it’s obviously a great deal cheaper. You sort your to-dos into projects, add due dates, break them into steps, and set up recurrences when necessary. And it syncs effortlessly to your iPhone over local Wi-Fi—or syncs to Dropbox for automagic syncing wherever you are.
iProcrastinate’s Dropbox syncing is brilliant.
Send photos from your iPhone to your Mac…
If you’re tired of having to sync your photos from your iPhone or iPad and your Mac (and vice versa) with a cable, PhotoSync has your back. It’s free in the Mac App Store, and a $1.99 universal iPhone/iPad app. We wirelessly synced 83 full-resolution iPhone 4 photos in about a minute—not bad! The devices do have to be on the same Wi-Fi network, but there’s no other setup involved. It’ll also sync videos, upload to Flickr, and sync from one iDevice to another with no computer involved.
…or the other way around.
Evernote for iPhone is our favorite recipe organizer.
We’ve definitely talked about Evernote before, but the service just keeps on improving, and it’s still free in both the Mac App Store and the iOS App Store, where it’s universal for iPhone and iPad. We love using the iPhone app to take voice memos that wirelessly sync to our Mac, and taking snapshots of business cards that are automatically searchable by the text in them. On the Mac we save recipes with the Safari web clip feature and then reading them back in the kitchen on an iDevice—the genius use cases never stop. It’s an essential pairing that just works.
Evernote keeps all your notes, license keys, business cards, interesting articles…anything.
qua
June 02, 2011 at 7:17am
Password Wallet is great at keeping passwords, and any other "secret info" at my fingertips. Bento keeps art records and full portfolio synced to iPad, and with me w/o having to port a laptop everywhere. Very cool.
strabes
June 01, 2011 at 4:44pm
Dropbox, Simplenote, Delivery Status, GoTasks (for google tasks), exchange syncing contacts calendars and mail with google. There are so many great apps that sync over the air.
Redhead95
June 01, 2011 at 3:55pm
Dropbox (as well as evernote) is a must for me. Basically, it syncs all my files and allows me to easily access them anywhere Now that Pages is out for itouch, I can easily edit them through dropdav. Seriously, big mistake to leave it off
