Best iPhone Apps for Dad

Dads may be sweet and uncomplaining, but they're also impossible to buy presents for. But if your dad has an iPhone, we've got you covered with our guide to the perfect apps for fathers of all ages. Some are even free. Not that you need to tell him that.

GolfCard


Does your dad hit the links? Maybe with his socks pulled up to the knee? His fashion sense may be irredeemable, but teeing off with GolfCard can up the cool factor a bit. This app keeps track of scores and analyzes trends in a player's game by comparing it to previous rounds. Find local greens with the GPS range finder and track ball distance too. When the round is over, he can email his scores to everyone he just played with or upload them to the golf social networking site, Oobgolf.com. (GolfCard, $7.99)

iHandyCarpenter


There's no need to wear a bulky tool belt anymore since this app comes complete with five different tools that fit in the palm of your hand. Use the bubble level to verify if your floor tile installations are flat or recently hung pictures are remotely even, and try out the protractor for planning bathroom renovations and roofing projects. There's no Allen wrench, so don't expect any help setting up that IKEA bedroom set. (iHandyCarpenter, $1.99)

GasCubby


Download GasCubby to track gas mileage and vehicle upkeep. Dad can enter in the price he pays per gallon, total gallons used and overall cost. Then the app calculates the trip's MPGs and overall efficiency. Chart this information over time to see where money is being wasted or saved and email the data to your home computer to set up reminders for regular maintenance appointments. (Gas Cubby, $9.99)

Grill Guide


All dads think they're masters of the grill, but most need help—help that they will never ever ask for. Download the iPhone's Grill Guide and your dad can quietly measure the thickness of a chicken breast or rib eye steak with the digital ruler, and then look up how long the meat should be grilled for and at what temperature. There are ninety-five foods on file including ground lamb, salmon and even fennel and pumpkin. (Grill Guide, $.99)
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Classic puzzle-based to the iPhone

Myst was originally released in 1993. And so forth became a huge hit with critics and gamers alike. Up until 2002 the puzzle-based adventure game held the record for the best-selling PC game ever; today, it’s still ranked among the classics.
Now the venerable game from Cyan Worlds is back, just a touch away in the form of Myst for the IPhone and IPod touch. Those who remember playing Myst on their desktops are in for a nostalgic trip back to the game’s haunting and mysterious world. If you’ve never played Myst before, you’ll find it unlike any other game, complete with mystery, puzzles, a rich backstory, and immersive graphics and music.

Myst is a first-person adventure through a beautiful and highly engaging world. When you start the $6 game, you’ll find yourself on a seemingly deserted island with no backstory or specified goals. It’s adequate to you to explore and find clues to what’s advancing. Traveling around this interactive world, you’ll find many items and puzzles that will reveal more of the story and even transport you to other ages to continue your quest.

As you explore and uncover secrets of the island’s history, you soon find yourself fully engrossed in the plot. Within the realm of Myst, you're presented with decisions which will affect the game’s ending. Different choices will produce different outcomes, which makes the game extremely replayable.

You travel through the world of Myst by tapping on a location in the distance; the onscreen picture cross-fades into an image of your destination. Myst features very little animation, with most of it consisting of levers to pull or objects to move.

The game’s graphics are really beautiful, prompting you to see what’s around the next corner, while the music and sounds help to fully immerse you into afresh and intriguing world. At any time you are able to save your current spot in the game by dragging and dropping it into among four empty bookmark slots.

Myst is not a fast-paced action game, and there are no physical enemies to fight or chances of dying. Instead, it's a relaxing-yet-challenging game of discovery, exploration, and abstract thought. If you like playing at your own speed while solving puzzles and riddles, then you’re sure to enjoy Myst. On the other hand, if you've a touch of ADD or just prefer fast-paced action, this may not Hans Bethe game for you.

Overall, this port of Myst to the iPhone and iPod touch has remained extremely faithful to the original game—it looks even better than you may remember ascribable the iPhone’s high-resolution screen.

Myst is a rather large download of 727 MB and you’ll actually need 1.5GB of free space to install it. Considering the many hours of intriguing play and the depth of its plot line, Myst should be a welcome addition to your iPhone or iPod touch.

Myst keeps going any iPhone or iPod touch running the iPhone 2.2.1 software update.
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Live Baseball Games to the iPhone

On Wednesday, Apple promotes the iPhone with the 3.0 version of its OS. The new era coulded with a home run.

MLB.com, which deals the popular At Bat application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, stated it will add live feeds of a few games for no another charge, at the least for at once.

Owners of the $9.99 application program will at the start get to see two games every day, chosen by MLB.com. (The games are subject to local blackout restrictions—and your iPhone, remember, knows where you're.) Wednesday’s 2:20 p.m. game between the Cubs and White Sox will be the first to be streamed live on the At Bat application program; the Tigers-Cardinals game at 8:15 p.m. will follow.

MLB.com says it plans to roll the entire slate of games as the season progresses. Presumably it will make users pay to watch some games, using the new ability of iPhone developers to charge users for content within applications. The company says it accepts not yet fixated a price.

The video will act regardless of whether an iPhone is connected to a wireless local area network network or a 3G network. MLB.com says its hosts will detect the strength of the phone’s connection and adapt the quality of the video accordingly. (It should be interesting to see the quality of the video over AT&T’s sometime spotty network.) The application also has DVR features, so users can pause and rewind live games from their device.

The implications of MLB’s move are significant. Live television on mobile devices has been slow to take hold in the U.S., as channel aggregators like MobiTV tried to recreate the cable model in the wireless ecosystem. Content owners themselves, using mobile applications to offer their video a la carte to the people who are willing to invite it, coulded more traction.
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