Let see...
Instapaper has a free and paid version of their app. I think instapaper is brilliant and I love it and won't live long enough to read all the articles I have archived.
HomeRoutine is a really great, highly customizable app that helped keep me sane when I was home during the day with Thea and working nights and weekends. Keeping up with her and trying to remember everything I needed to get done was too crazy. I added things like "Owen's medications" and "brush hair" and then just did what the list told me. When I use the built-in timer, I want to cry I am so proud of my self. Love, love love it.
Big Picture - Of course, their pictures should be viewed on a big screen, but I still like having them to look at on an iPhone when I have down time at work.
Pandora, This American Life (for $2.99 you get their entire archive), NPR News - Get yourself a speaker dock/charger.
Kindle - You don't have to have an Kindle to download and read books on your phone. I just got a Kindle for my birthday, and they sync well. I don't really like reading books on my phone, but it is a nice to have access to them anywhere I might be, anytime. Plus, I can read in the dark which you can't do with the Kindle.
ToyCamera, OldCamera, 8mm -- <3<3<3
MacGourmet - I am in love with cooking. I have the app for my MacBook and use it alllll the time for clipping, saving and organizing recipes, and for creating menu plans and shopping lists. The iPhone app gets some mixed reviews for it's syncing issues, but I haven't had any problems. It is really useful to have when I am at the grocery store and can't remember what I was planning to make, or what I have to buy to make it. There are lots of great recipe apps. A couple more that I have, and like a lot, but use less often: Whole Foods, and How to Cook Everything
mSecure, Units, PageOnce, Mint.com, Groupon, Evernote, Tomorrow, Gift List, Alarmed, RunKeeper, Dragondiction, WorkLog, Meditator, AroundMe, CheapGas, SleepMachine, RedLaser, and Zappos are all other apps that I have, and like.
There are many ingenious apps that often end up having limited real practical use. And tons of apps that have a ridiculous clutter of features. I searched for an app that would send me reminders to drink water. I found tons of hydration apps that have enable the user to geo-tag each drink of water they take, catalog all their drinking vessles, take pictures of each incident of water consumption and post it to various social media sites, etc.etc. useless clutter. Less is more. The best apps do one simple thing well.
Good luck Roy.
PS - Plants Versus Zombies. Don't tell anybody I told you.
8 comments:
Roy got a smartphone before me. I am deeply ... pleased.
(I love This American Life. One of the best things in any media.)
you should use instagram! i love it!! thanks for your reviw of apps! nice to always learn about more!! (check out fruit ninja)
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Thank you! This will keep me busy while I'm not doing other stuff I should be doing. I appreciate you.
My phone is as old as I am, and neither one of us has many useful applications. ;)
I'm jealous. I can't make the leap, physically, cognitively or emotionally.
Your paintings are ready. I'll deliver, or wait for asha to arrive.... as you wish.
as I scroll down to post my comment, and note the word "chonic" that I have to type to prove I am who I say I am, I think I should keep track of all these non-words used as "word verification." someone should.
is there an app for that?
My word verification is "dismstic," which I take to be an adjective describing someone who no longer cares about housework.
@roy: yes! I'm the dismstic type.
I am becread, glad to say.
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