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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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[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

*deep breath*

Weather: i like weatherbug the best

sports: sportacular. I keep trying other things and coming back to this one. It has the easiest interface and least crap

games: word warp, spider free, bubble shooter free, angry birds

Finding things: aroundme, imdb, find friends

Food: Epicruious, Check Please (I cannot figure out tip), All Recipes

Music: Soundhound, pandora, public radio

Media: ibooks, netflix

Utilities: LED Light, Battery Magic, PageOnce (finances)

Location/Driving: MapQuest (free turn by turn directions), AAA

App stuff: WallpapersHD, AppShopper, AppMiner

Those are the basics of what i use frequently. I have more, I've had a *lot* more, but these are the mainstays. Almost all are free or have a free version.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!!

*exactly* what I was looking for. You are genius! I've already got a few of those. Battery magic is something I need.

Do you know about the password/slidey thing? I *bought* what I thought was the right app yesterday and it turned out to be a toy. ::head desk::

Also, uninstaller?

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I have no idea with the password thing, I thought that was native to the phone. Gimme a bit and I'll play around with it.

Uninstalling is easy. Press and hold the icon for about three seconds. All your icons will start to shake. When they're in this state you can move them around, arranging all your screens, and those that can be deleted will have a black X in their upper left corner. Press it, and the app is gone.

You can also delete apps through the settings menu

Settings->General->Usage

This will show you a list of what you have by size. I find that really useful. Selecting any of the apps in this menu brings up a screen with a large "delete App" button. They work the same, it's whatever you prefer.

Let me get back to you on the password screen.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay.

For the password thing:

Settings->General->Passcode Lock

Turn it on and it'll ask you for the key-code you'd like. That's the internal one. I'll look around and see what the best apps are for a passlock. I know there are a bazillion.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

K, short answer is there is no longer a way to do the slide-a-pattern to turn on the phone. it's only the number combination.

Unless you want to jailbreak, which I do not recommend.

[turnonmyheels.livejournal.com]

Slide is awesome, but numbers are too. I don't have a whole lot of nosey people in my life, but there are enough ;-)

Thank you!!! I'm still playing and learning, it's rather fun.

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't have that turned on for my phone. I probably should but eh. Too lazy.

Feel free to ask more questions, etc. There are a lot of iphone users out there and this is just my interp of what should be around. Sadly, looking for things like "best iphone apps" or "best iphone utilities/games/music/etc" will give you a lot of options. I used to not want to pay for any of my apps. I've relented on that some, but I still like freebies first. I'm picky as hell and I don't want to pay for something I won't use.

AppMiner and AppShopper will let you know when things are on sale, etc. That's a good way to keep an eye out for things you like but won't buy at full price.