Every day i wake up to my phones built in alarm clock. i usually check the weather once a day with it. i get on facebook/twitter. when i go to the gym i use the key card app to sign in. then use my phone as mp3 player. IM constantly shazamming new songs, then downloading them. i also check my checking account daily with it. if i need to take a pic, its there. constantly using the maps as GPS.
basically what IM saying is i use my phone for everything in my life now, and still feel like there is more i could be using it for. Just wondering what some other people are constantly using there phone for besides the basic phone usage.
I use mine to check and respond to all of my emails. Check my bank accounts, transfer money if I need to. Schedule classes for college. I bought a bluetooth keyboard that I use to type some of my papers on. I sketch some of my designs for stuff I want to make.
However, I still feel that sometimes I spend too much time modding it to make it the "coolest" or most aesthetically pleasing phone, that I never get the chance to actually use it the most of its abilities. I feel you on this one OP.
I have a lot of music videos so I use it as an in dash in my car
A flash light
Navigation/GPS
Music player
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i also just bought a pebble watch to pair it with, i also seen the other night on shark tank where i will be able to buy my dead bolt for my house with bluetooth enabled locking. where when i walk up to my house with my phone it will automatically unlock.
I am always looking for ways of using my phone for more and more. And why not, we should all be doing it. It makes sense right? We have forked over a considerable amount of money for this phone, whether in the form of green cash or by signing a contract and paying for it over the months to come. Folks have worked hard, many for no other reward then to make a successful free app. They have toiled to make our device into soo many things. Life would go on without my phone, but it would change drastically.
Alarm wakes me up.
I check the weather.
I browse through emails picking out important ones.
(all before getting out of bed)
I dock it in bathroom and listen to news in the shower
I look up whats on the menu for this morning at the cafeteria at my work to decide if I want that or something from home.
I listen to slacker on my drive to work
No signal at my desk, so I listen to music on and off at work
I use it for its calender to keep tabs on things
When I am up and out of the office, I use it to assist in wireless scans.
I use it for work email when not at my desk.
I keep an eye on it for folks broadcasting private hotspots (prohibited at my work)
I go outside at lunch to the outdoor eatery and browse FB, multiple forums via tapatalk, and so on.
After I get off, I walk do to the gym for a workout before leaving. there I use it for music and tracking my workouts.
Afterwards, I call the wife on my way across the parkinglot to see how her day went.
Get in truck, some more FB for a few minutes, then slacker as I head to pick up kids.
If I'm feeling creative, I have apps that help me pick whats for dinner and how to cook it.
I then goof around on forums on and off through the night and read a plethora of aricles I've been meaning to catch up on with Pocket (formerly read it later)
Kids want to watch some cartoon, why look for remote, I have google TV Revue box, will use the remote app.
On top of all that dailey use stuff I also:
Take hundreds of pictures a week
Read ebooks/PDFs
Practice for tech exams with test sims and "studyblue"
Watch movies while traveling or waiting on appointments
Use the flashlight feature (awesome easy on King Kang)
Remote access to my home server for music, movies, pictures, and other files
Kick off torrents to my home machine remotely
Remote view home security cameras
Use "MyTracks" to map my weekend hikes and cycling
Oh and lets not forget the hours of Temple Run and other games while in the bathroom.
More that I can think of...
Navigation on trips
jump drive
porn
What key card app are you using op
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Me? Kind of.
I use my phone for e-mails, pdfs, documents, internet activity, etc.
However, the iPad I have...now that is pretty much just an e-book reader. Explains why I'll be listing it on eBay shortly!
I have a couple app suggestions to get more use:
Llama - to automate your phone for example when I connect my headphones the music player opens and volume turns up, when I disconnect them the volume goes down
Super video- allows you to do the pop up videos like on the gs3 so you can do other things while watching a video (great for listening to music videos
Go sms pro - really cleans up the messaging interface much better than stock
Also if your running out of battery, I bought 3 batteries and a charger for like 15 bucks
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there are so many uses for this device, there are not enough hours in the day, so I have to say no.
Also...we have a S-Pen which most of us forget about.
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
NOTE user:
"take a deep breath, make sure to get a good look at it, relax and slowly take it in, the size is overwhelming at first but you will have a happy ending afterwards".
Woman:
:O
SKyRocKeting727 said:
Also...we have a S-Pen which most of us forget about.
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
NOTE user:
"take a deep breath, make sure to get a good look at it, relax and slowly take it in, the size is overwhelming at first but you will have a happy ending afterwards".
Woman:
:O
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Drawl something, screen shot then edit, and one or two other things. It's a nice to have when needed feature, but I really havnt come to rely on it yet. Perhaps I need to play with it a little more.
s-pen is good for people to sign a receipt(square or intuit) looks more like real signiture then using finger so they cant say it was forged. and just seems more profesional then signing with your finger
OP can u share with us which key card app. What benefits is it
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lets see...
- typical, email (work personal), browsing (luv the search button haha), read books on kindle, listen to books on audible. online radios, iheart and pandora. camera and pics. netflix movies.
- social stuff, facebook, twitter, this site , yahoo messenger, google talk
- ported my phone number to google voice, i make calls on my phone and pc's so everything looks like it comes from one #
- video phone calls using tango or google voice
- google apps that sync everything, all my docs and media sync all on the cloud between my home pc, work pc, and device (google drive, picasa, google chrome/bookmarks, google music etc)
- apps for controlling my directv receiver and samsung tv, no need to track down the remote (that drives me crazy). since my device never leaves my hands.. problem solved!! hahah
ps there is also an app called tvcallnotify that pops up a screen on the tv when i get a phone call/text , and directv app, i schedule recordings if i need to
- public and private media serving, watching videos on my note from my home pc using orb (public) and serviio (private/home). then installing android apps skifta and/or orb live. (used to be able to stream tv to my pc and watch on my note, but orb live on ics doesnt work yet)
- pocketcloud so i can remote into my pc's when i need to access something from my phone (RDP or VNC)
- nintendo emulator gaming (yes super mario bros) and random play store games
- other hackerville stuff, u know root, roms, flashing, tweaks, etc cant forget that hobby
- AND THE BEST THING EVER "WATCHESPN" app. you need time warner for this so guess im lucky.
i know im missing some stuff, but thats the jist of it...
if it's a techie thing, i try to find ways to do it on my phone... so i guess id like to say that i try to use my phone to its full potential... :silly:
I still run servio on my server but have switched to Plex primarily, you should try it if you havnt. Seemed a lot more useful.
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I saw another thread about hiding apps in some guy's wife's phone to track her. I'm looking for something similar with my wife, but it does not need to be hidden. Mainly to be used because I commute quite a distance and this would let her know how close I am to home (rather than having me text while driving). Similarly for her when she's travelling.
Just an app that would:-
1. Allow me to see where she is (and vice-versa)
2. Use GPS if on, otherwise fall back on net information
3. Not use SMSes (some sort of internet-based communication between phones)
I could probably hack something up using Tasker but her phone isn't rooted like mine is so the capabilities for GPS etc are a bit more limited (and time is limited, of course).
Thanks!
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I saw another thread about hiding apps in some guy's wife's phone to track her. I'm looking for something similar with my wife, but it does not need to be hidden. Mainly to be used because I commute quite a distance and this would let her know how close I am to home (rather than having me text while driving). Similarly for her when she's travelling.
Just an app that would:-
1. Allow me to see where she is (and vice-versa)
2. Use GPS if on, otherwise fall back on net information
3. Not use SMSes (some sort of internet-based communication between phones)
I could probably hack something up using Tasker but her phone isn't rooted like mine is so the capabilities for GPS etc are a bit more limited (and time is limited, of course).
Thanks!
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You can actually do this with the built in google maps application. It's called local/latitude. You can share where you are and control who sees it an when. Go ahead and look into it. Much better then downloading another app IMHO.
See here: Google search latitude android
Thanks, yeah I know about latitude features but it seems to lack a way to "ping" the other party with the equivalent of "hey, I've reached road X"
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Use an app called Backitude from the Play Store. Latitude updates pretty arbitrarily on its own. This app allows you to control how and when it updates, and also let's another person force an update on your phone by sending an SMS. It's all Internet based except the update triggering part. You can also use the tracking features of Cerberus, another app in the Play Store.
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As I am sure any resident of Boston knows, the MBTA (bus, subway and comm rail) has gps data availible for every line but the Greenline. As a frequent rider of said greenline, this is frustrating.
I was pondering how this could be remedied when I thought of an app I use occasionally when traveling: Trapster. Trapster, if you are not familiar with it, is a geo tagging app for speedtraps. People driving along simply tap on the app and mark the spot of a police car waiting to give some one a ticket. This information is then marked on the trapster app's map of anyone else using the app.
So my thought was that a crowd soursing app could be developed for the Greenline.
Naturally, there are limitation: it depends on lots of people using it. Data would have to be collected, distributed and stale dated. But there is absolutely nothing out there to track the greenline now, so maybe some one could make a few bucks selling ads or some pro version.
I'm no dev, so I'm just throwing this out there for anyone to do with it as they will.
Hi,
There is one good app for Green Line, it's MBTA Green Line Tracker. It has arrival time predictions, MBTA alerts, alarms, etc... very useful and accurate.
I'm not sure if I'm at the right place but mods can move it if they think I'm at the wrong one...
Anyways, I'm looking for an app that will track my push ups and sit ups. That's basically all I do regarding workouts (for running and biking I have a dedicated app).
The thing is that most popular apps on the Play Store offer only sit ups or only push ups. Not both with one app. Not to mention that the UI is usually messy and too complicated, focused a lot on sharing on Social Networks. Heck, on most of them you even have to touch your phone with the forehead in order to log them which doesn't suit me. Not at all.
I'd like to know if there is a simple app just to log those things. Some graphs and statistics would be nice as well. I don't need anything more than that. I used to use Excel for this stuff but an app would be a better way to keep track. I don't care about sharing my results at all. I don't need coaching. I don't need video tutorials. I don't need any of that.
Just a simple logger with some graphs and logged statistics. I was looking for something like that but haven't found anything.
It's either one-workout only or thousands of workouts with plans, videos and a lot of sharing.
Again, not sure if this is the place but I'd appreciate if you know an app that does what I ask for.
Thanks.
Hey there guys, I have a question first and foremost.
If an app updates daily, is there any way to make an app still be able to be updated online daily, while also having the functions to work while you are offline?
There are many people that travel, and don't have internet or phone service while they are commuting or waiting for someone or something, relaxing at home, at a campground in the wilderness, or underground in the subway, or maybe even up high on a mountain.
If there is a way to make this work, I would like to know what you guys and gals would suggest on what to do to get this started.
Some of the requirements of my hypothetical project would be as follows;
Needs to retain the Daily Update Feature so that the app can withdraw from the Happy Colour Server.
Has to have some working code workaround where a certain allotment of storage space can be used to store the app data (including the scrolling and entering the Picture that you want to color and complete) on a device.
(Currently, you can scroll the app for a little while and the coloring options will appear, but when clicking on a selection, it is not able to load.
That's pretty much the jist of it.. if you guys can give me suggestions or even remark on if this can be done, that would be great. I know that it would take some work, but if it seems like its plausible, we can see where this thing goes as a team and maybe make it a paid project really depends on how much work would need to be done.
Thanks to those of you that have read this and really looking forward to hearing your ideas and thoughts.
-MCrandall