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(vanity) What are FReepers' favorite iPhone/iPod apps
6/22/14 | ol' marty

Posted on 06/22/2014 8:31:41 AM PDT by martin_fierro

It's been a couple of years since the last thread on this, so what are FReepers' favorite or recommended iPhone/iPod apps?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apps; iphone; phoneapps
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To: morphing libertarian

I live in southwest Florida. I have Verizon. In North Port, Fl. I cannot get a signal. Someone I work with in that area had to get ATT to get coverage. I can drive out Hwy. 64, 10 miles from I75 I drop signal, get it for 5miles around Zolof Springs, drop it, get it for 10 miles around Wachula, drop it until about 10 miles outside of Sebring. Look at a map. No mountains. Tell me that is good coverage. If I am up the person’s butt,I can just tap them on the shoulder. Like 10s of millions others.


41 posted on 06/22/2014 9:01:03 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: mountainlion

Indeed, my first phone call at about age 4-5 in 1951, consisted of picking up the phone and telling the operator who I wanted to call. She connected the call.

We brought a phone book for Logan WV with us when we moved to Cal in 59. The numbers were all 4 digits. 3,500 people in the county at that time, some with no phone some with party lines (cheaper rate).


42 posted on 06/22/2014 9:01:17 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: Olog-hai

My bag phone worked until they went digital and killed the signal. HD TV does not work here either.


43 posted on 06/22/2014 9:01:54 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
I love the concept of Trapster, but it’s a long way from actually being useful.

Another app that I've re-started using again recently -- and which appears to be very popular in my area -- is Waze (also owned now by Google).

It incorporates a lot of the Trapster features (plus those of GasBuddy) and is a crowd-sourced traffic app. At any given time on the road it claims to have a couple doxzen other users in my immediate area, reporting on traffic conditions in realtime.

44 posted on 06/22/2014 9:03:02 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: svcw
I talked to a guy 35 miles west of Richfield on a CB once. It worked better than a cell phone.
45 posted on 06/22/2014 9:03:28 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Gadsden1st

not saying there is good coverage by all companies everywhere, but the millions in the big cities make the percentage of ownership very high compared to the smaller numbers in rural area, who don’t have coverage.

My sister lives in Max Meadows VA, 1 miles from the interstate. Good coverage at her house. I have found that service is fairly consistent near the interstates in the rural areas.


46 posted on 06/22/2014 9:03:54 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: morphing libertarian

BTW, Don’t take my rant personally. I consider you a fellow FReeper. My anger is just against the marketing of a device that is supposed to make phone calls. I don’t care how nice the seats in a car are, or if it has sat nav, if it keeps dying on me while I am driving.


47 posted on 06/22/2014 9:04:53 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Gadsden1st

One day we’ll all be direct to a satellite.

No problem, too early to argue on this fine Sunday morning.


48 posted on 06/22/2014 9:06:08 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: mountainlion

I get that, especially if you gave an old one with tubes.
I think everyone should have a shortwave tube radio for emergencies as well


49 posted on 06/22/2014 9:07:20 AM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: martin_fierro

50 posted on 06/22/2014 9:07:33 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: morphing libertarian

Agreed. One last inquiry..Are you morphing toward or away from libertarian?


51 posted on 06/22/2014 9:10:01 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Tijeras_Slim; Constitution Day; SunkenCiv; Slings and Arrows

Let's try that again.

52 posted on 06/22/2014 9:11:06 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: svcw

One of the first things to go during the floods here in Colorado was the phones. Roads and electricity went in many places also. The 1 watt radios were of little use and the Sheriff and rescue workers had much trouble with their digital radios. At least a rotary dial phone works when the power is out.


53 posted on 06/22/2014 9:12:41 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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My most used iPhone apps:
Pedometer
Magellan RoadMate
Amazon
Weather Underground
MyRadar
Podcasts
Pandora
Geocaching
2048 XP
E*Trade


54 posted on 06/22/2014 9:13:49 AM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: martin_fierro

You might be better off asking about Linux apps for their Linux phones.


55 posted on 06/22/2014 9:14:34 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: martin_fierro

Waze. Better than any GPS I’ve ever used. I use it everyday to guide me to at least 7 unique addresses each day.


56 posted on 06/22/2014 9:15:27 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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To: TaxPayer2000

Does it bother anyone other than me that many of these apps (including Waze) track personal information and utilize my camera and microphone as part of getting the app?


57 posted on 06/22/2014 9:21:30 AM PDT by Dacula
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To: martin_fierro
Sleep Cycle is a great iPhone app.
58 posted on 06/22/2014 9:25:00 AM PDT by Hootowl99
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To: martin_fierro
I don't have an iPhone, it's a Droid RAZR. TuneIn Radio is cool, one can listen to just about anything in the world.

I have a couple of tuner and metronome apps, a copy of the Constitution, couple of piano and percussion apps.

I work at Home Depot, so I have the Home Depot app in case I need to look something up.

And of course, there's the Walking Dead 'Dead Yourself' app, which lets one zombify pictures, like I did to Heather here:


59 posted on 06/22/2014 9:26:20 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Shiny!)
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To: TaxPayer2000
Yep. Just re-started using that. It appears to be wildly popular in my area, which means the traffic (and cop) updates tend to be more accurate.
60 posted on 06/22/2014 9:33:40 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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