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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Make Time For Useful Applications

A few of my favorite iPhone Applications:

Whole Foods Market Recipes - The most useful part of this application is its "On Hand" feature.  Add several ingredients that you have "on hand" at home and this app will show you what you can make with those ingredients.  You can also add ingredients from their recipes to your shopping list, and it will automatically list the correct quantity.

Groupon - Never miss a great deal!  With the Groupon app, you can buy deals, access your purchased Groupons and redeem them electronically (no need to print them out)!

Urbanspoon - Can't decide where to eat?  Hungry for a particular type of cuisine and need to find someplace nearby?  Looking for a last minute reservation.  This application can help you out with all of that.

Momento - A journal on your phone.  You can type in funny things that your kids say or a diary entry, import photos or your Facebook status updates, and Momento organizes and stores everything by date.  It's even password-protected, like a lock and key on your old diary.

Period Tracker Lite - Ladies, how many times has the nurse asked you to recall the first date of your last period, and you have no idea because who keeps track of that stuff?  Well, now you can with this application.  You input the first and last days of your period on the calendar, and if you're trying to conceive (or not conceive), it displays when you're likely to be most fertile.

Shazam - Next time a song comes on the radio that you're digging (but have no idea what it's called or whose it is), pull out your phone and hit the button on your Shazam app.  Within a few seconds, Shazam displays the song title and artist.  You can think hit another button to download the song from iTunes or post it to your Twitter or Facebook page.

Red Laser - Out shopping and about to make a purchase, but wondering if you're getting a good deal or paying too much?  Curious how healthy that food item or beverage is before you eat it?  Pull out your phone and click on the Red Laser app, then follow the instructions to scan the barcode of the item.  Within seconds, you will see a list of results - from where you can buy it and who has the lowest price, to nutrition facts (supplied by DailyBurn) to Google search results.  Really cool!

Hipstamatic and Pocketbooth - Two essential iPhone camera apps.  (I wrote recently on my photography blog about the Hipstamatic camera app, and can't recommend it enough.  Read more at www.teddiyaeger.blogspot.com)

Scrabble - I try to play at least one round of Scrabble every day (you know, to try to recover my pre-kids brain).

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