Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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So, my use of the smartphone differs depending on my context:
Basic: Productivity (but I would put voice dial in productivity in there too)
But I need browsers, email (also productivity).
When I am out of town, I needed Navigation and Maps (and other travel related apps - e.g. tripit)
I would also include in Productivity apps stuff like Dropbox and Evernote which I do need. And apps to handle RSS feeds and twitter. And I have a password manager and an app to log into my desktop computers.
Android phone, stuff I use all day: browser, email, texting
Stuff I use at least once a day: evernote, astrid, music, scrabble, noom (health), electric sheep (sleep), timer
Stuff I use periodically: maps, navigation, camera, weather
Electric sheep is an android app? That's wonderful.
Electric sheep is an android app? That's wonderful.
SRSLY.
Typo'd. It's Electric Sleep, but yes, punned off what you think.
Gris, as far as I can work out with Locale, I have to name the WiFi network, which is part of the hangup. The other part is that the positioning goes to crap with hotspot on (like, I'd be okay with turning off the hotspot when I got to work, but it never notices I'm at work if the hotspot was just on).
I made that list by scanning the apps on my phone. I think I use something in all of those categories except for movies and music at least once a week, about 1/3 of them daily.
Ooh, except finance. I think I'm waiting for Mint to come to the tablet first, honestly.
I made that list by scanning the apps on my phone. I think I use something in all of those categories except for movies and music at least once a week, about 1/3 of them daily.
My response was based on what I have on the first page of my phone.
Some things like travel sites and traffic and crazy attempts to watch CW eps on my phone are useful but not daily things for me.
I know that we've talked about this before, but what's the PDF reader that everyone loves? Also, what's a good app for word processing? Open office?
Cass, you have an iPhone, right? So first page means what you use most? Going by my iPod Touch, there's no list of all the apps anywhere--it all has to be organised somehow on your home pages. Is that the same on the iPad? Huh. And my iPod only has two screens. I'm assuming iPhones have more, right?
You know what I wish had an app? Cook's Illustrated. Why I'm not satisfied with the website I'm not entirely sure. I just suspect--it'd be better with an app.
I spent a lot of time on the PC looking for the right recipe manager app, and never finding one I really liked. But these days, I'd be happy cooking and baking from CI and their affiliates if they just had tools like interfaces with shopping list apps and food calculators and the likes.
I use the CI iPhone app all the time. I wish it interfaced with shopping lists and nutrition databases, but it doesn't - I think it has a built-in shopping list functionality of some sort but I haven't used that. But for cooking from, it's very nice.