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[turnonmyheels]

Happy birthday cityphonelines!!!!

Calling all iphone users.

Tell me, what apps can you not live without? Does the iphone need a battery management app like the droid does? Anything you can think of that you *use*.

Hit me.

Also: how do you change the slide to open to a password?

Thank you!!!!

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[moosesal.livejournal.com]

My latest app addition - Vlingo (allows talk to text and talk to e-mail).

Pandora, Public Radio, Home Radio (Canadian stations)
Vogue Knitting (you probably don't need that, but I use it constantly)
IMDb
ESPN ScoreCenter, Yahoo! Fantasy 11 (for fantasy football)
iP (period tracker - I have the paid version, but the free one is fine too)
banking apps for my banks
Lose It! (which I use to journal food off and on when I feel I'm eating too much junk)
7 Words (a word game) and the free version of Quarters (as in the drinking game, yes)
iBooks, OverDrive (for dlding books from library), Merriam-Webster dictionary

And my new favorite -- TurboScan. This lets you scan documents to PDF by taking photos. It's fucking amazing. I scanned 7 or 8 knitting patterns yesterday from Vogue Knitting at the library. Usually I just put the magazine on the scanner/copier there and e-mail to myself. But this I was able to do while working the circ desk and the quality is amazing. So if you ever have scanning needs (see a recipe in a mag while waiting at the dentist for example), this does the trick.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

That last one sounds especially nifty! Apps continually amaze me

[moosesal.livejournal.com]

Oh and I meant to say that I don't use a battery management app. I haven't felt the need for one. But I keep my phone plugged in at work, so YMMV.

I think ladycat took care of your password lock issue, yes?

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

Yes, she did. I haven't noticed a battery issue yet, with my old Droid I had an app that turned off apps running in the background to save the battery. So far, it doesn't appear necessary with the iphone.

[moosesal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, on the iPhone they just kind of sit "inactive" if they're open. Exceptions would be facebook and twitter apps if you're a super heavy user maybe. But you aren't. Bluetooth will drain your battery, so if you don't use a Bluetooth device, turn the feature off in Settings. And I keep WiFi turned off unless i'm actually using it (at home or somewhere else). And then screen brightness; I keep mine fairly low (I figure I can always turn it up if I'm looking at something that's difficult to see).