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I’m always interested in what apps people have on their iPhone. Ok – I’m interested in what FREE apps people have on their iPhone. Free happens to be the only kind of apps I have!

Here is a quick list of the apps I currently have:

Flixster – Movie reviews, showtimes, dvds recently released, trailers
Aroundme – Tells you nearest banks, gas, shops, everything
Yelp – Yelp from anywhere
ATM Hunter – any ATMs around (avoid those fees)
Urban Spoon - Shake to find where to eat in any price range, food type, area
Taxi – Locate a Taxi wherever you are
TouchTerm – Remote access
Say Who – Say the name of anyone in your phone to dial (voice control on new iPhone)
Craigsphone – Craigslist on the iphone
Google Earth – Google Earth

Google – Access to your google
Yahoo – everything Yahoo on phone
Speller – Just like I can’t type I can’t spell
Dictionary – Webster on the phone
Wikamo – a Wiki
Epicurious – recipes for food
Evernote – sync notes between mac phone
myWireless – ATT
SportCenter – Sores and tracking for all sports
AAA Discounts – Find discounts if you have a AAA card
WootWatch – one a day electronic deals
ODAT – see current deals for whiskey, steepandcheap, brociety, chainlove all in one place

Facebook – Facebook from iPhone
Linkedin – Linkedin from iPhone
TwitterFon – Twitter for iPhone
Skype – Works just like from the computer
Paper Toss – Silly game, but entertaining
Blackjack – practicing for Vegas
ColorCanvas – edit pictures from the iPhone
SnapTell – snap a picture of a book, cd, dvd to buy
Darkroom – steady picture taking
Pandora – pick your type of music and listen
Shazam – find out artist and song of anything playing
Flashlight – screen white for light

I got two more…

BatteryStatus – shows what percent battery is left and how much time for talk/music/etc
Trapster – shows where speed traps and speed cameras are based on current location

Word Scramble – like Boggle
Where - navigation around you
Runkeeper – tracks distance, time, calories burned
Weather Channel – weather forecast by area
Mobiletag – bar code reader
If Found - name, reward if found, address
Siri Assistant – personal assistant. just speak “best restaurant in town” and it finds a result
Kayak – flight finder
Alarm Clock Free – alarm clock app
To Dos – check list for to dos
Universal Remote – universal remote
Dragon Diction – speak to text clipboard to put in email or text

I have found that lately I have been asked to advise what applications people should get for the mac, since I recently have been introduced to quite a few very useful ones.  That in combination with my recent post about SmartSleep, inspired me to put together a list of what I have on my Mac.

In no particular order:

Firefox – Alternative browser very useful add-ons like flash-blocker
Skype – chat client used at work
Adium – one application for all different instant message/chat clients (AIM, Yahoo, GChat, Jabber, Fbook, etc.)
Cyberduck- sftp for easy access, easy navigation to any server
Quicksilver – ability to open files, applications, etc. quickly and easily and execute actions like move, email, etc.
Growl – system notifications for applications – awesome
VLC – support multiple video streaming protocols across platforms, great when something won’t run on Quicktime
Jumpcut – clipboard buffer so you can get to something you copied and pasted 40 times back
Senuti -program to get songs from iPod back into iTunes on computer
Smart Sleep – see earlier post
iWork – Mac version of Office keynote, pages, and numbers
Microsoft Office – (for work) excel, word, pp , and the devil
Adobe CS 3 – dreamweaver, photoshop, illustrator, indesign, acrobat, etc.
Carbon Copy – backup creates a mirrored carbon copy of current drive, if I crashed today i could pop it in and be G2G
Screenflow – screencast editing software pretty easy to use
NeoOffice – use instead of Microsoft Excel when it starts wigging out
NTFS3G – this is amazing if coming from windows or have any NTFS formatted drives – makes them plug and play on mac
MacFuse – mount remote server as a drive locally to modify, edit files
iTerm – I use tabs galore, bookmarks for easy ssh, auto-copy when highlighted with cursor
Texmate – preferred editor
MySql – easy install (comes with a prefpane) makes developing locally easy
Theremin -  UI for music player in office (MuZac)
Drivers – Sierra Wireless (Sprint cell card). Keyspan (usb to serial driver for adapter)
Widgets – ‘Airport Radar’ shows signal strength of available wireless networks

My issue:

As most know I have the patience of a three year old. So when I’m done on my MacBook I simply close the lid and pack it up. This has created some issues for me. For some instances it is because I have had Microsoft Excel running (which doesn’t always play nice on Intel) and when I close the lid it doesn’t go to sleep. I have on occasion encountered similar problems with Adobe programs as well. But, those issues are easily solvable (close the applications before you close the machine).  A bigger issue was when I had very little battery and I would just close my lid.  Before SmartSleep I would often find that when I open my machine back up (presumably plugged in) that it had rebooted – Grrrr! I hate rebooting my machine, I get my environment set up and I like it to stay!

Fixing my issue:

SmartSleep adjusts the way that the machine sleeps based on how much battery is left. It will choose one of three states depending on percentage of battery remaining:

Taken from: SmartSleep

“sleep: machine will go to sleep only (saves state in RAM only, battery keeps RAM contents)

sleep & hibernate: machine sleeps and hibernates. (default)

hibernate only:machine will go to hibernate only. (saves state on disk, battery will not be used)

SmartSleep lets your notebook just sleep while the battery has a high level. If the battery level drops below a certain point ( default is less then 20% or 20 minutes ) it will switch to sleep and hibernate”

It’s quite useful.  If I have battery I can just close the lid and go and it will sleep super quickly choosing the ‘sleep’ state.  Then when battery is low it changes method so that the machine maintains state – no reboot!

I’ve had a very positive experience with SmartSleep – my machine wakes in the same state as when I left it! Check it out, click the link above to download.