Break

I spent about 30 seconds too long looking for an app on my iPhone and realized it was time to clean off some of the apps. Again, these reviews aren’t meant to be complete, just merely quick thoughts on why I’m dumping them.

Labyrinth Lite Edition – this game used the accelerometer to allow the iPhone to simulate wooden labyrinth boards. It was neat when I first got the phone. Now I’m bored with it.

Google Mobile App – Brings your favorite google apps into one place. Don’t really ever need them.

Stanza – pretty cool book reader. Great user interface. Two problems, 1 screen is really too small. 2, I got a Kindle

Edibles Diet Journal – don’t remember why I stopped using this, as diet apps go, I prefer Lose It!
Calorie Tracker by Live Strong – see above

QR app – it reads bar codes and QR codes, don’t really need to read QR codes and RedLaser is soo much better.

Juxtaposer – this takes allows you to swap heads on a picture. It is really *not* easy to do this on an iPhone.

Shazam – allows the iPhone to listen to something and identify a song. Midomi is a better option.

Last.FM – I really want to continue to use this app, however, more and more I find myself going to Pandora.

Craigsphone – if you’re a craigslist junkie than get this app. For me it’s been idle for about a year.

Cardstar – This app allows you to store your loyalty cards in a database. It was featured in the Apple iPhone commercials. My wife does all our shopping

I found this out by mistake but it’s possible to take screen shots of your iPhone screen. Why might you want to do this? Not sure but here is how you do it.

Press the Home button and the Sleep/Wake button on the top of the phone simultaneously. When you release them, the screen will flash and your screen grab is saved. Neat.

YouNote is a note taking application that lets you capture text, audio and images. Nothing special here, Evernote is better. ‘Nuff said.

Loopt is a location based social network application which let’s you tell your friends where you are and find out where they are.

The application itself is designed well it’s easy to tag your location. For me the novelty wore off after the first few weeks. I haven’t used it in months and am deleting it.

I feel like I was ripped off with this application. In an ideal world I would have an integrated CRM system that would allow me to log all of my calls into a web based system so I can track when I last communicated with someone.

Highrise from 37signals is a pretty simple (both in usability and functionality) CRM. Top Floor is a client built to use the Highrise API. It’s a buggy mess. When I first purchased it, it was completely broken. The developer has since updated it however it still crashes way to much for my own good.

This was maybe the first or second iPhone app I downloaded. It was an interesting diversion at a time where there wasn’t really any other options. It is time for it to go.

I was interested in trying to improve my face cognition a few months ago. Of course I looked for an iPhone app that would help me with this. I came across Faces and gave it a try. It’s not even worth reviewing. One star and I’m deleting it now.

I’ve tried two clients on the iPhone, Wikiamo and Quickipedia. They both have their merits but since there is no need to keep two Wikipedia clients on my iPhone I have to choose.

In my five minute review of both applications, I’ve settled on Quickipedia. I like the job Quickipedia does rendering the pages, especially with larger images. Wikiamo seems a bit faster but on my 3Gs it’s not really a factor.

Wikipedia has also just released their own official client. If anyone has any experience with this let me know.

Felt great yesterday, worked out today. ‘Nuff said

A few days since I’ve trained.

Work, soccer and a holiday weekend all conspired against me. Luckily having the dog got me up off my butt to do something.

Today is my first day back and I feel really good. I worked out this morning and am not suffering through the mid-afternoon sleepiness.