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5 iPhone Apps I Can’t Live Without

May 2, 2009 in Software, iPhone by LwEEs

Productivity, that’s what is all about, when I initially purchase the iPhone I wonder if I really needed the device. Spending $200 and paying a hefty data plan for the iPhone is something you should consider seriously before you get into it. After some time now, the feeling of being connected all the time is priceless, I can’t leave without my iPhone.

How good is to have a device like the iPhone if you are not going to use it for what it is intended? This is not just a phone, if all you need is to make phone calls, get something else, the interactivity you get with the iPhone is far more advanced than that of any other phone, and that’s just my opinion.

I don’t need to carry my MacBook everywhere, except when I do and my wife complaints about it, the extensibility of the iPhone allows you to be productive anywhere, anytime. Here are some examples of applications I use everyday: Read the rest of this entry →

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What is your iPhone Usage?

May 8, 2008 in Apple, iPhone by LwEEs

In the last MacCast, a podcast about all things Macintosh with Adam Christianson, he asked his listeners to send him a note with their iPhone web usage to do an informal poll. I went to my online AT&T account and screen-print my usage for April for Adam, he just replied to me saying, “Wow you are serious user.”Data Usage

I started thinking about my data usage and I’m not that bad, I think. My data usage is mostly to check my emails, my NetNewsWire Online account, my bank account, and occasionally to check on news articles, prices for stuff I’m thinking on getting, and playing Bejeweled from PopCat. There is other stuff that I do, but they fall in the rarely used sections so is not worth even to mention them.

Even with all the use I had during the month of April I manage to stay under 300MB, I think that the site that uses most of this bandwidth is NetNewsWire. When I’m checking my RSS entries I notice that most of them have some sort of image attached to it, some of the feeds that I follow are from photo related websites which normally would take a big chunk of bandwidth.

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