8 Pages of Apps – What & Why

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

Page 2

• 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.

Page 3

• 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.

Page 4

• 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

Page 5

• 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.

Page 6

• 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.

Page 7

• 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
• TrafficRush – Crappy game too. Hard to beat.
• Tumblr – To create posts on my Tumblr blog.
• Twitterific – Good Twitter app, but not the best in my opinion.
• Typography Junkies – Cool app for typography junkies like me.
• X3watch – Accountability app
• UPS – To track packages
• Urbanspoon – To check out restaurants around the area as well as reviews.

Page 8

• Video Camera – Another video camera for the iPhone 3G – This one has effects you can apply. Pretty cool stuff.
• WebMD – To check on symptoms and see how I should take care of myself.
• WeeMee – Similar to the Wii Mii Creator but a little more current.
• Weightbot – To track my weight and see my progress. Haven’t really used it much.
• What the Font – Take a pic of a word and upload it. What the Font will tell you what font it is.
• Where – Great to see what’s around (shopping, food, etc)
• Wordpress & Wordpress – Not sure why there are two versions. I use Wordpress to post to my blog.
• Words with Friends – It’s like scrabble but more people have it because there’s a free version.
• Lynda.com – Just downloaded it. Lynda.com is a place for designers to learn all sorts of stuff.
• Twittelator – Another twitter client. It was the most expensive and the most useless of them all.
• Labyrinth LE – Cool game – very similar to the real life deal.
• Quip – Take pics & text them to people (I downloaded this app, prior to MMS being available)
• Tap Tap Revenge – Who doesn’t have Tap Tap Revenge. It’s the “Guitar Hero” of the iPhone
• TweetDeck – Another twitter app – I don’t like it.
• My AT&T – Check account & pay bill.

Modern Life

Source: http://www.dump.com/2010/02/25/modern-life/

The Evolution of Dance

Every time I watch this video, I end up crying from laughter. It’s so funny and so good! A true classic.

OUCH! 19-Pound Baby Born in Indonessia

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.

Source: Today MSNBC

Melting Men

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

Tweet of the Day

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.

Lego Arcade

Found this cool video! Enjoy.

Cool Photo Booth At Home

Can’t go to the fair to take those classy photo booth pictures? Now you can. A buddy of mine sent me this link and I must admit, it’s pretty cool! Very realistic.

Photo Cabine
http://www.laphotocabine.com

Actions or Words

You’ve heard everybody say it – “Actions speak louder than words.” I, sometimes, wonder: What happens when actions become a routine and sometimes all you need to hear is a word? What happens when you’ve gotten tired of someone putting on a mask to provide beautiful and great actions, but you very seldom hear words?

Balance is the key. There HAS to be a balance between actions and words. I absolutely detest when people tell me: “I do this, and that, and this, and that for her/him…” Many times, I said: Wow, I wonder why he/she pays no mind to those actions; then I ask: “Have you told the person how you feel”? Surprisingly, I got the response I was looking for: No. There has to be a balance in all relationships. I do a lot for God… But I’m sure He wouldn’t mind for me to stop in my day and just say: “I love you”. I can just imagine the smile on His face.

Sometimes people need to hear: “It’s going to be ok” or “I love you” or “You’re on my mind”, etc. Try mixing up some actions with some words, I believe you will obtain great results.

What I’m looking for…

Someone asked me a question today —

What do u look for in a person to talk or get close with when that time comes?

I answered –

I look for someone that is real. I don’t like liars or people that front to be something that they’re not just to impress me. I also look for someone that is realistic (has their feet on the ground but working to get to the sky). I’m looking for someone that doesn’t care about looks because that’s not all I have to offer. I’m also looking for someone that aspires to have a true relationship with God because He’s #1 in my life.

I would like to find someone that is faithful, loyal & true. Someone that believes in himself. Someone that has the courage to take risks in life no matter how high the cost. I’m looking for someone that will be willing to share a lifetime of happiness and live his life to the maximum without having regrets for any former mistakes – knowing that errors in life have made him a stronger human being. I’m looking for someone that is determined, who knows what he wants and is heading towards it. Someone that doesn’t need the attention of others to live, but rather, someone who is independent and can take care of himself.

There is so much more – If you want more details, feel free to reply to this blog as a comment and I will be sure to add more.