To fix my battery issue with the iPhone, Apple did a complete software restore. When I synced the next time, I had 8 pages of apps. @_@ Yikes! Apparently iTunes syncs all of the apps I ever downloaded.
Some asked me what could those possibly be, so here they are along with a short description of what I use them for. My favorites are in bold.
Home Screen
Calendar
Photos
Camera
Stocks
Maps
Weather
Voice Memos
Notes
Clock
Calculator
Contacts
iTunes
Mail
Tweetie – My favorite Twitter App so far
App Store
iPod
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Color Process – A really cool photo filtering app
The Love Dare – from the movie Fireproof
Abduzeedo – Amazing art & design inspiration
ActionMethod – A different kind of GTD App by Behance
AirMouse – I can’t believe I bought this. It’s crap.
Analytics – Very useful app to see all of my sites’s traffic data
ArcadeBowling – A very addicting game
Avatar Creator – Not worth $0.99
Beauty Tips – This app is actually very helpful. I’ve learned a few cool tips & tricks with it
Bejeweled 2 – Another app to waste my time
Best Camera – Alright camera app (not the “Best”)
Holy Bible – Great app and it’s FREE
Engadget – Not a fan. Not sure why I downloaded it.
Billings – Great app. Love the interface!
Birdbrain – I can see who unfollows me. Woot!
Birdfeed – Good Twitter app. Kind of expensive for what it has.
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Bank of America – To see how rich (or poor) I am.
Bump – Share contacts while touching fists. Kind of uncomfortable with people you hardly know.
CameraBag – Totally love this app. Cool photo filters.
CameraFlash – Suks.
CC Terminal – Works great. Very impressive for $0.99
Classics – Nice interface and great books.
Collapse – Another awesome game to pass the time.
Daily Mug – Cool app but I have not kept up with it. I know, I suk.
DoodleJump – Everyone said this was great. I don’t agree. Waste of money.
Dropbox – I heart Dropbox forever. Awesome file app that syncs with your iPhone, Mac, PC & has online interface.
Ego – To see how many people care about the stuff I talk about.
Ellen – I love Ellen. She’s my favorite. Gotta have her app.
iBattery – To prepare myself emotionally.
Evernote – I have everything on Evernote (ideas, dreams, songs, code, recipes, thoughts, etc.)
Facebook – Not sure why I still have a Facebook. Mostly to talk to my mom. Sad, I know.
iFarm – No comment.
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Flickr – Where I share my photos with the world. Scary.
Fling Free – Difficult game. Don’t like it.
Flixter – Movie times & reviews.
Font Game – To perfect my font knowledge.
Format 126 – Retro camera app.
Fountain Pen Free – Actually pretty cool but not so useful.
Google – You just have to have the Google app.
Gowalla – To share where I am, see how many people are around me and see what they think about the location.
Grammys – POC App
Groundwork – For Basecamp (Project Management)
Hipstamatic – Retro Camera. One of the best interfaces ever. Very fun to use. Great results too.
I love the 80’s – I suk at this game.
Old Booth – Put your face in some funny old pictures. Very realistic results.
iDisk – to see files from MobileMe
iHandy Level – To make sure things are straight
Instapaper – Where I keep a bunch of articles to read as I have the time
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iVideoCamera – A really good video camera for the iPhone 3G
JungleCrash – Fun game. Very well done. Super strategic.
LineUp – Like tetris but not as fun.
LittleSnapper – I’ve used this once. Not sure why I bought it. Very nice interface.
LoMob – Another Retro Camera but this one is really nice. I like it a lot.
Mars Hill – Mars Hill Church’s app – I don’t open it at all.
MeasuresLite – Very cool app to covert measures
Momento – One of my favorite apps. Sorta like a journal. You can also connect flickr, twitter & facebook to it.
MoronTest – It’s a test to see if you’re a moron for buying it and clearly I am. Dumb app.
Mover – Share contacts by flicking a contact to your buddy’s iPhone. Better than Bump in my opinion.
Moxie – Cool words game. Addictive.
MySpace – Um. I don’t have a MySpace account anymore.
Shazam – To figure out what song is playing and buy if you wish. Very cool app.
Old Camera – Another retro camera app.
P Tracker – Tracks that time a month. In my case, I have not been able to use this just yet. :-/
Pandora – Type the name of an artist and you get a radio station with similar music.
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PhotoForge – A photo editor. Not as good as Photoshop.
Pic Posterous – Take a pic and share it with the world via posterous.com
Polarize – Make Fauxlaroid photos
Position App – Check out the most popular apps all over the World
PS Mobile (Photoshop by Adobe) – Great photo editing app.
Rat on the Run – Very difficult game.
RockBand Free – Rockband with 1 song from the Foo Fighters – Awesome app!
Redbox – Reserve redbox movies and check redbox locations near you
The Love Dare Reminders – Yes. I need reminders since it’s a daily thing.
The Book of Revelation – An app to study the book of Revelation with Mike Bickle’s notes. Absolutely love it.
Scrabble – Who doesn’t like scrabble. Best game ever.
Scramble – Great word game, also very difficult.
The Typography Manual – Awesome info about typography. A must-have for all designers.
Skype – Chat & talk on the phone using your phone No video yet.
Snapture – Take photos faster. No need to wait. Also, you can take pics by touching anywhere in the screen.
SneakyPix – Take photos discretely as if you were talking on the phone.
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SparkPeople – Community for people that want to lose weight. Also track your water and food intake as well as fitness.
Spikey – Really cool game. Can become very difficult at one point.
Stanza – To read books (free & by purchase)
Starbucks – To make my perfect drink & know how to order it.
TextPlus – To text people. I don’t really need it but I downloaded it to take a peek.
Things – My GTD (Get Things Done) app. I absolutely love this app. It also syncs with the desktop version.
TiltShiftGen – Very nice camera & photo editing app.
Tipulator – To calculate how much I should tip our waiter/waitress
ToonPaint – Make cartoon images out of pics you take with the iPhone
A beautiful informative and didactic animation around the chart of the key figures of Internet in the world (Twitter, Facebook or Google). A brilliance work and an excellent setting in images by Jesse Thomas, inspired by the statistics of AIGA Baltimore.
I was brought up in a musical family. My parents, my sisters and myself would gather in the living room and there we would begin to sing gospel songs. Mom and Dad would often utilize this time to teach us the wonderful art of music. We’d make contests of who could harmonize better and who could create a better arrangement of the song. This was my life as an ten-year old child.
Years later I began to sing at church, lead worship, sing in a band, and even record background vocals for some friends, but the real fun was to help arrange the harmony for a group of singers. I loved listening to the sound of perfect harmony. It’s true beauty. Throughout the years, my ear has been trained to listen to even the most minute details in a person’s voice. Sometimes it can be a wonderful thing, sometimes not so much.
When I heard about the International House of Prayer and The Prayer Room, I really was shocked to see so many talented people. Unless you are in a school of music, it is very rare to find a large amount of extremely good singers and musicians all located in one place. And to put the cherry on top, I live here (sigh of relief).
One of those amazing singers that I began to listen to on a constant basis was Joy Maves. What a voice. It’s like listening to 10 angels sing the most beautiful songs you’ve heard, ever. I’m not exaggerating. Since I began to listen to Joy (about three years ago), I wanted to meet her and tell her how amazing she is and how much her music had inspired me. It wasn’t until this year that I got the pleasure to meet Joy and though in the beginning I was a bit star struck and kinda giddish, I just had to tell her. Joy just smiled, kind of embarrassed, said: “Aw, thank you!”.
All that to say that I got the opportunity to work with Joy on her website and I feel incredibly blessed for being able to have done so.
As business owners with 42 things to do to get through the daily grind, not to mention long-term business goals to pursue, most of us are constantly seeking new ways to create accountability – to drag ourselves (kicking and screaming, if necessary) to the finish line.
Here’s five ways to build accountability into your daily routine:
1. Declare goals publicly. This functions on many levels. In terms of an entire company, it could mean publicly stating an ambitious goal and tying it to a date. In terms of individuals, it can mean declaring your goals in front of those you respect – your team, your inner circle of friends, or your family. The moment that you tell someone else you ARE going to do something, an outside gravitational force takes hold, making you feel more duty-bound to reach your objective.
2. Share your planning documents and to-do lists. Whether it’s a timeline with project milestones or a regular old list of to-dos, sharing your working documents transparently with your team builds trust and increases accountability. Essentially, it’s a passive way of publicly stating your agenda and creating a powerful accountability mechanism for getting things done. If your colleagues notice you are constantly missing milestones, they’ll start asking questions.
3. Rewire your focus on short-term rewards. We love instant gratification, which is why it’s so much easier to get the small, no-brainer to-dos done than the big tasks that require deep focus and hard thinking. We can spend our whole day just responding to emails, while we neglect the long-term future of our businesses. Rewiring is about finding ways to take pleasure in the long haul required to truly achieve great tasks and cause real change. We can’t get rid of our desire for short-term rewards, but we can be aware of it. The first step is identifying your long-term goals, and setting up a series of short-term rewards that keep you moving towards – and accountable to – those goals.
4. Leverage fighting to stay on track. In a work setting, we often shy away from arguments, thinking that easy agreement (and not rocking the boat) is preferable. But particularly productive teams actually encourage healthy fighting, where coworkers duke it out to explore all of the possible solutions for a given problem. While a quick consensus is comfortable, vigorous debate means our teams will stay accountable to finding the best solution.
5. List out action steps after brainstorming sessions and impromptu gatherings. Accountability often slips through the cracks when we get high on the rush of a good meeting or an ad hoc conversation about a new idea. To ensure that these daily insights get captured, every meeting of the minds should end with a quick recount of each person’s “action steps.” No amount of talking about the future helps if we don’t ensure that we’ve articulated the very concrete next steps necessary to get there.
I have found that when I create a new page template in Wordpress, it doesn’t appear on the ‘Template’ drop down menu, to assign it to a specific page. It is so frustrating to sit there and try everything and find that nothing gets your silly page template to show as available.
Here’s the Hack
Create the page template and save it.
Go to the ‘Themes’ area in Wordpress and deactivate and reactive your current theme.
Voila! This should force the new page template to appear on the ‘Template’ menu.
I took forever trying to figure this out so I understand how frustrating it can be now to know what to do and how silly this solution is. Hope it helps!
A diabetic woman from the North Sumatra province gave birth to a 19-pound baby boy, who is believed to have broken the size record for the Southeast Asian country.
I found this blog and just had to share it. I have my own thoughts about Global Warming, which I will share at a later date, but for now, enjoy the post.
Melting men: Thousand ice sculptures left to thaw in the sun to highlight climate change in Arctic By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:03 AM on 03rd September 2009
A thousand miniature people have slowly melted away in a Berlin square in an effort to draw attention to melting ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica.
Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo carved the figures out of ice and placed them on steps in the central Gendarmenmarkt square where they began to melt within about half an hour.
Temperatures in Berlin were about 73 degrees Fahrenheit (23 Celsius) Wednesday.
Ice cool: Small ice figures are seen on the stairs of Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, German today as part of an art project by World Wide Fund for Nature
The installation, Melting Men, was meant to spotlight the World Wildlife Fund’s warning that melting ice could possibly cause levels to rise more than 3.3 ft by 2100.
The group warns that the warming of the Arctic will change weather in different parts of the world and increase the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Since 2005, Azevedo has been setting up her Melting Men in various countries around the world. Although originally intended as a critic of the role of monuments in cities, environmentalists around the world are adopting her work as climate change art.
Ice ice, baby: Around a thousand ice figures by Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo were melting within 30 minutes symbolizing the effect of global warming
Center of attention: The action was meant to spotlight the World Wildlife Fund’s warning that melting ice could possibly cause levels to rise more than 3.3 ft by 2100
When asked if she was a climate activist, Azevedo told greenmuze.com: ‘No. I’m an artist, master of visual arts from the University of Sao Paolo.
‘This work was conceived as a critical view of the official historical monuments. As the reading and interpretation of an art piece is open, I’m glad it can also speak of urgent matters that threaten our existence on this planet.’
‘The project started with solitary figures, later a multitude of small sculptures of ice were placed in public spaces of several cities. The memory is inscribed in the photographic image and shared by everyone. It is not reserved to great heroes nor to great monuments.’
Burnt by the sun: Although originally intended as a critic of the role of monuments in cities, environmentalists around the world are adopting her work as climate change art
Little people: The installation lasted till the last one melted in the heat of the day
I’m confused. Why does Microsoft.com have 4 different widths (header, menu, main ad area and content)? Then this random ad on the lower left side of the page. :-/
I follow many fellow web designers on Twitter, but my favorite are my fellow girl web designers and for this reason exactly. Check out the Tweet of the Day by @meaganfisher.
I really enjoyed Mike Kus’ talk on Web Design being art. It’s interesting how we can easily forget that we’re artists when we sink in to a project. I highly encourage any web designer to watch this.
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