Tacky Techie

As I've written before, I'm a pretty big nerd when it comes to my Apple products. iPhone, MacBook Pro, iTouch, etc, I love them all. I wanted to take a few minutes tonight and fill you all in on my new favorite iPhone apps. 

When I first started I Bought A Lawnmower, I highlighted Mint, Starbucks, Waze, Lift, Key Ring, Catch, Find iPhone, and I Heart Radio as some of my favorite apps for my phone. As I've changed, so have the apps on my phone, so I wanted to type up a quick blog explaining some of my new favorite choices!

1. Living Social: An app for shopping, basically, Living Social offers discounted deals in your area. Some things that I have purchased from Living Social includes 1 year magazine subscriptions for $5 each and a $10 Starbucks gift card for $5. Many of the deals are similar to the Starbucks offer, including a gift amount for half the price. It's a really neat website for those of us who don't like to pay full price for anything!
2. Blogger: I figure you guys had to see this one coming! I love blogging at the most random times, and inspiration can come when you least expect it. Since I always carry my iPhone but rarely take my computer everywhere, I love the ability to write, post, update, and comment on posts all from my phone. It's awesome! If you have a blog, I highly recommend downloading it. 
3. AP: As a journalism major, I'm obsessed with new. My phone contains apps for NBC, Huffington Post, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, CBS News, Yahoo!, ESPN, and the AP Mobile app, which I am highlighting in this post. The AP is one of the more "in the middle" news providers, and I like how thorough their coverage is. I like to have a variety of different news apps so that I can read a story from many different points of view, so if you like news and current events, I highly recommend not only this app, but having a variety in general.
4. Snapchat:  Okay by now the majority of you probably know what this is. In case you don't, Snapchat is an app that is used to send and receive pictures, but the catch is that the pictures you send and receive can only be seen for up to ten seconds before they are erased forever. A lot of people claim that it's the perfect app for naughty photos, but considering that there is always a ways for someone to take a picture of their phone screen or use a screenshot (however if a screenshot is taken, the sender is notified, so that's cool!), so no matter what, it's a BAD IDEA. I personally use it to send funny faces to people. 
5. Multi Edit: For those of you who don't like having an actual address book and worry about losing your contacts should something ever happen to you phone, Multi Edit is a perfect solution. It not only tells you details about your contacts such as the number you have and any duplicate contacts, it also tells you any duplicate email, phone, and email fields, as well as entries without phone numbers, email addresses, names, etc. You can see fields by Company, Job Title, Email Domains, and Birthdays. It's awesome. Plus, you can also back up your contacts and email a link to yourself in case your phone ever has a problem. and you lose your contacts. GENIUS!
6. Relax Melodies: One of the simplest yet most favorite apps ever! I never really liked falling asleep to noise until I realized that it was so quiet when the power went out. Relax Melodies is a noise maker app for when you fall asleep, but it also has a "concentration" mode, allowing you to put in ear phones during tasks that you need to be alert for. It plays a certain melody that is known to perk you up. It's so awesome. It also allows you to mix your favorite noises together at different levels to form your own unique noise board. My favorite is probably Relaxing at the Ocean or Stormy Night. They're great and remind me of being back home in the woods during a thunderstorm.