Rave: My final iPhone Apps

I recently got a cool new Samsung Infuse 4G Android phone and am now free from the Apple tyranny. I decided I would still give a list of those apps which if I ever went back to an iPhone, which I would only do for battery life, which still isn't worth it, I would get. These are my recommendations to every with an iPhone. I will sort them by groups.

Any one with a * I think everyone should have or at least try.

Money

*Pageonce - gets you up to date info on all your accounts/bills.

Square - lets you receive credit card payments. Great for small businesses.

mooch - tracks what people owe you and you owe them.

*Shop Savvy Barcode Scanner - scans barcodes and QR and gives good prices.

Paperlinks - just does QR codes if you don't want the other barcode scanning.

SnapTell - uses the camera to scan bar codes or book covers or cds to give you the best prices.

*Where - I just use it for cheapest gas prices, but it does much more.

PayPal - cash checks into your paypal account using your camera.

Food\Weight\Self improvement

*Urbanspoon - fun shake to find a restaurant app.

*CheckPlease - my favorite tip calculator.

Target WEIGHT - shows you your progress losing weight and has notifications for pounds you still want to lose.

Calorie Counter - follow your calories and scan food products to show what you ate.

Nike+ GPS - it tracks your running and tells you how fast your go.

Streaks - lets you check daily if you accomplished things you wanted to.

Math\Reference

Convertbot - awesome converter for any kind of measure.

Computing Assistant - great calculator for anyone that uses binary, hex or octal.

Pi Cubed - an awesome calculator.

*Dictionary.com - a good dictionary.

*Google Translate - translates even between Spanish and Farsi.

Speedtest.net - find out your internet speed.

iBooks- it is good for stuff you want to read.

Music

*Soundhound - it listens to the radio or you humming and find the song with lyrics.

*Tunewiki - scrolls the lyrics of the song you are listening to with the "iPod."

Pandora Radio - good stations for long time listening.

Magic Stave - listens to notes and tells you which one it is.

Ocarina - play an instrument by blowing on your speaker.

Symphony - compose your own music.

Movies\TV

IMDB -who else was that guy in?

Fandango - what is in the theater right now?

Netflix - lets go watch some show that went off the air 10 years ago.

Google TV Remote - if you have a google tv you now have an extra remote with voice recoginiton.

Kids In Mind - find out how bad movies actually are.

Peel - it shows you what is on your TV in a very nice way. No more TV guide channel.

Redflix - lets you find coupons for redbox movies.

RunPee - tells you the best time to take a bathroom break in a movie.

Social

Google+ - the newest and happiest social network.

Facebook- you know the drill/

Twitter - for any good beliber.

BlogBooster - update your blogger or others blogs.

Tumblr - for all you tumblr bloggers.

*Meebo - the best chat client ever.

Talkatone - a google talk client that automatically makes internet calls through google voice.

fring - useful for some chat, but more importantly includes voip/sip.

Google Voice - google's somewhat annoying app.

GV Mobile + - cost some, but often prefereable to the Google Voice app.

contactus - edit your google contact groups, only makes sense if you use gvmax for mass texts.

Church (I am a good LDS boy.)

Bible.is - the bible, written or read to you, with or without dramatic background music.

*LDS Gospel Library - scriptures and more.

LDS Tools - on the go ward/stake list.

LDS Hymns - sing your heart out.

*Mormon Channel - listen to scriptures, ensigns and much more.

LDS Why? - youth questions, with good answers

Games

Falling Balls - fun accelerometer game.

*Geocaching - pricey, but way great for dates, here's the intro version.

Get Your Bearings - do you know where things are?

Hungry Shark - girls love this for some reason.

*Lightsaber - everyone needs one sometimes.

Paper Toss - can you throw the paper away?

Parallelous - how good are you at multitasking?

:Shift: - this and the squeal are fun.

Smack that Gugl - really kiddy, but fun.

Tilt to Live - best iPhone game ever.

Touch Hockey - air hockey with friends is fun.

Tunnel 3D - another fun accelerometer game.

WeDraw - if you have a smart TV and a bunch of friends with smart phones, try it.

Most of the apps I had I got for free, but some really were worth buying. Mostly I got lucky and got while they were free for a limited time.

I recommend looking at most of these, I have gone through more apps than anyone I know, and these are the ones that I decided to keep. All you Appolytes out there should check them out. Android people, half of them are available, and some even work much better, like google+, although most are a build or two behind. I hope all the time I spent linking every app was worth it.

Rant: Dell Network Card

This is the main reason that I do not like dell products and haven't since I was like 15. That at least a 10 year grudge. In those ten years dell could have solved this problem but even last week the problem still exists. None plug and play network cards! Seriously though this is the most annoying thing ever. About the only time you will ever notice this is on a fresh install of Windows. After windows installs you need to go to the Windows update page, and fix all your drivers so that everything works like it is supposed to. This is where you hit the problem. There is no possible way to get to the internet, or even your home network. You have to go on another computer download the network driver from Dells web page, and then transfer it to the computer by something physical like a cd, or jump drive. 10 years ago when I didn't have wireless access to other computer or jump drives it was a bit more annoying, I had to find the cd that came with the computer. The technology for network cards hasn't really changed, so I don't know why in the world we still dont' have plug and play network cards.

Dell you suck! Fix this! I have already waited 10 years! At least make a deal with Microsoft to include your driver in windows so this problem doesn't happen.