Tag: iPhone

Current home screen

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My current home screen. Favorite new app of the bunch is Habit List.

Habit List. I’ve been looking for a simple app like this ever since Lift shifted toward coaching. Really clean and slimmed-down app for tracking and reminding yourself of habits to keep.

Current home screen

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My current iPhone home screen. You can also catch 2013, 2012, and 2011 in the archives.

Apple’s cloud

Around 11:30 today I dropped my iPhone from about six inches off the floor. It somehow landed in the one spot of the corner where the screen doesn’t crack or shatter but also isn’t quite whole. It looked as if the adhesive bonding screen and glass loosened.

By 12:10 I had a Genius Bar appointment. After talking with a wonderfully helpful employee I had a new phone in my hand for free. 40 minutes later it was as if I never dropped my phone in the first place.

iCloud made restoring that easy. Every application, every photo, every setting was right where I left it. I had to re-enter my password in a handful of apps and that was it.

Apple may have weaknesses in their web services, but the safety net iCloud provides feels truly magical.

Current iPhone Screen

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It’s fun to log these things every once in a while.

Status

Just updated to WP for iOS 3.1. Pretty solid improvement in things. I love that I can use post formats in the app now.

iA Writer for iPhone. My favorite writing application on the Mac is now live on the iPhone. It includes support for iCloud and Dropbox. I would love to pay them more than $0.99 for such a wonderful piece of software.

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Just used Find My iPhone to find a lost Hanni who had mistakenly taken my phone on a half marathon run. Win.

Work+ A new iPhone app from Tender Creative that aims to help you discover new places to get work done. Looks like a nifty tool. Kind of similar to an idea I wrote about previously.

Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers. Shouldn’t this be the kind of shady behavior that an app store review process prevents? Would be fantastic to see answers to these 3 questions.

Update: Path’s CEO answered those three questions a minute after I posted this. His response to #2 is a cop out. “Industry best practice” is just a way of avoiding blame. Protect your users data and do what’s right, not what’s typical.