6 iPhone Apps You Can’t Live Without

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    • topiphoneapps.jpgApple commercials are known for their effectiveness or smugness depending on where you sit. Have you seen the one that begins, “If you don’t have an iPhone…” I find that one particularly snobby, but as someone who has both a Blackberry and an iPhone, I have to agree.

    While the Blackberry is my business workhorse, allowing me to quickly access and respond to emails and Skypes, Blackberry apps just don’t compare to iPhone apps. From the ease of installing (I despise the Blackberry app store and installation process) to the incredible and varied selection, Apple wins apps.

    Here are six of my suggestions for (mostly) iPhone apps you didn’t knew you can’t live without:

    RunPee

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    Can’t make it through a movie without having to go to the bathroom? This app tells when the plot takes a non-essential turn so you can “run pee.” It even archives movies in theaters now.

    C25Kapp

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    Speaking of running, last year, C25Kapp (Couch to 5k) turned me into a runner. The app also tracks your pace and distance and you can share your runs with your social networks, inspiring others to get off the couch, too. If you never thought you could be a runner but you are willing to try, I highly recommend this app. Add your music and go. In just nine weeks, you’ll be running a 5K.

    Pinterest

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    This is my go-to app (there is also a web version) when I have 5 or 10 minutes to kill. Think of it as a grouping of bulletin boards where you pin images of pretty or interesting things. Things that inspire you or things you want to remember. I’m using it to plan a living room decorating project. I pin things that I like and I can share my board with my husband so he can see what I’m thinking.

    Socialcam

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    Finally, a relatively quick and ridiculously easy way to take video and then share it, either with your social networks or via email. Think of it like instagram for video (without the fun effects.) This is the video app I’ve been waiting for.

    CubeDog

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    If you’re a parent, you know that one of the best uses for your iPhone is to keep your kids occupied in desperate moments. Cube Dog is an adorable dog who is always with you. It’s the tamagochi for now generation. My 7-year-old daughter loves playing with her Cube Dogs (she has three) who respond when you pet or tickle them. There are some amazing “tricks” you can do with your Cube Dog, too. And best of all, no poop to pick up! (Note: Podotree is a Clever Girls Collective client.)

    Stefania Pomponi Butler
    Stefania Pomponi Butler
    Stefania Pomponi Butler is a long-time blogger and blog editor/producer as well as a principal and co-founder of Clever Girls Collective, Inc.  In addition to founding the popular and successful cooking, parenting, and design blog CityMama™ in 2003, Stefania is one of the Founding Editors of Kimchi Mamas™ and the MOMocrats™.

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    • http://profile.typepad.com/redmermaid Redmermaid

      Makes me feel so nerdy always demanding that the apps do something important before i install. What makes matter worse is that i really love the nerd charts on this app for…climbing the social ladder!

      http://www.socialladderapp.com

      now i can download the run pee app for myself AND my mom!

    • http://profile.typepad.com/fubarus Fubarus Surabuf

      Considering I don’t even own an iPhone.. yeah.. yes I CAN live without these “apps”.

      People need to take their noses out of their phones and hug their loved ones more often… that’s my life scoop for yay!

      • Ugh

        Yeah, instead of being on their awful iPhones, they should spend more time giving others hypocritical advice on random message boards. Thanks for greatly helping me to be a better person! (Electronic hug to you)

        • Chaz

          LOL

          to those not on an iPhone…do you still have a rotary phone at home?

          • azhansel

            yes, and I’m going to offer it on E-bay in 2025 – it’s my retirement nestegg.

    • http://profile.typepad.com/soyismurder Soyismurder

      I get that this is a female-oriented site, so I will let Pinterest and Weight Watchers slide, but I can’t understand why these two apps are included:

      RunPee: “Must have”? This assumes a high number of incontinent people among your readers. Also, who is to say that the best scenes in a movie are the ones that drive the plot? Is it really worth antagonizing your fellow theater-goers with the light from your screen?

      Socialcam: Why force your friends to install another chatty Facebook app just to see your video? Uploading directly from Facebook or iPhone camera is easier and less obnoxious.

      • imjustsayin78

        Ditto!!! I’m a woman, and I really found these to be … meh. I was hoping for some real enlightenment. ;)

    • Michael A Titmus

      I love the IMDB app! Watching a TV show or movie I always see people but either don’t know or can’t remember their names, particularly for old films and TV shows I didn’t watch, I can just go to IMDB app and the search is easy and fast, tap the full cast button and voila, question answered. They also have a complete list of all Best Movie Oscar winners back to 1929. Man, I’d be lost without this app.

    • imjustsayin78

      MUST have Fitocracy!!!! Such a cool program/site, earn achievements for workouts. I love it!

    • Washingsocks

      Apparently I must cease living.

      • http://campkohler.blogspot.com/ Camp Kohler – Sacto CA

        They have an app for that. When you request to be killed, 10 nearby murderers will be sent your GPS coordinates.

    • Michael

      Oh, I can live without them alright! In fact, I can live without ANY Apple app. You couldn’t GIVE me, or pay me to touch an iPhone. Or, for that matter, ANYTHING Apple makes! Don’t need Apple. Don’t want Apple. Never owned Apple. Never will own Apple. Overpriced. Over hyped. Overrated. Besides that I use Android powered smartphones, superior, and I don’t have some company telling me what I can, or can’t have for apps like Apple dictates to app makers, and users.

      • Matthew

        Strange how you can have such a strong opinion about something that you have never owned or apparently used.

      • adjeff8

        Enjoy your viruses. Me myself, as a 20 year Mac user, I have never had a virus. You get what you pay for, Pal.

        Oh, and the Genius bar alone makes buying a Apple product worth a few extra bucks

        • azhansel

          the virus free environment that Apple enjoys is more about market penetration than system protection. – want to create a stir you go after the 90% not the 10% market holder!!!!!

    • Milwoky

      Goodbye cruel world

    • GetAlife

      Really? I can’t *live* without these apps? People dying all over the world from malnutrition and disease and you’re telling me that my hope for life depends upon iPhone apps. You don’t live in reality. You are about as shallow as a human being can be these days. Get a life. If you want to tell me that these are great iPhone apps, fine, but to tell me I can’t live without them is just stupid. Obviously you mean this as a hyperbole. Bad choice for a hyperbole then.

      • republican8

        Take a chill pill moron, its a figure of speech numnuts

        • erasmocepeda

          We all know it is a figure of speech. And a pretty dumb and out of the line, don’t you agree?

          • Chaz

            no, not really. Its an article about APPS. If you want to preach, go over to the religious blog.

    • acaldwell1958

      i need to RUN PEE!!!!

    • duh

      All soap-box preaching aside…these choices really are uninspired!

    • erasmocepeda

      So dumb! Amazing

    • erasmocepeda

      He is calm down. The one who is nuts is the silly writer using her out-of-this-world hyperboles for praising such dumb things as RunPee, Pinterest and sort of.

      Now, if you think the writer choose a PERFECT choice, it’s fine. But as you like that choice, there are people who do not, and it is some intolerance from you saying “calm down”. But then you go on and on making fun on saving the world. Yes you can, just keen and eyesight on yourself, Ugh

    • http://www.facebook.com/mark.kuck.792 Mark Kuck

      Wow. In 18 years as a paramedic, I never realized how many codes I’ve worked that ,ust have been caused by the patient not having these apps. Maybe we should replace our defibrillators with iPhones preloaded with these apps. After all, if a person can’t live without them, they have to be at least as important as, say, having a heartbeat.

    • jerkface8585

      I’m waiting for the new app that makes your screen look bigger. That way my android using friends will quit laughing at my tiny little screen.

    • Dragonstyle

      STEPHANIA–Take a moment to digest your comments–maybe you will rethink your wording on your next assignment.

    • TheRestOfUs

      It’d be awesome if all you people who think anybody is serious about not living without these apps would stop reading this blog.

    • IPhone User

      Cute suggestions, but I’ll pass. Not sure why everyone is getting so bent out of shape, the article is a nice fit for publisher – people need to check that before going postal.

    • rrrr

      fuck off

    • dukenukem3d

      hehehe I don’t even have an Iphone or any other smartphones.

    • Rebecca

      Seriously, the apps may or may not trip your trigger, but at least someone is taking the time to post them. Is this really all you have to bitch about?

    • Alex

      Thanks for encouraging more people to use their phones in theaters and disrupt everyone else’s movie-going experience!

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wm-Kabrich/1230874280 Wm Kabrich

      Apple zombies need to be shot on sight, or at least taken out with an axe

    • Frank

      what? where do u get these can’t leave without? i LIVE without them

    • http://twitter.com/TexXxas_Made Joe Kuykendall

      Why isn’t Porn Town app on here? To many, it’s an app they can’t live without either…article’s biased.

    • http://www.facebook.com/peter.joshua.3766 Peter Joshua

      I am mortified that I didn’t know that I was dead, as I don’t have and never will have a single one of these junk apps. “Run Pee”? How much did Stephiana Pampona Butler get paid to plug these trash apps?

    • user1495

      wtf – not even an interesting app… can’t live without?!?!?

    • Best_Options

      Wow , talk about lame Apps

    • Janina

      Nonsense. BTW: I noticed in my class that the students who use their smart phones a lot are all heading for F’s as final grades.

    • http://www.facebook.com/steven.irvin.714 Steven Irvin

      very good point, and true. hate it how the app parlance is so mindlessly equated to Apple. and how business, newpaper, etc. web sites will use a portal named “iphone apps” when any user can get them. d u m b.

    • Texancobra

      I never dreamed they would come out with an app telling me when to pee…..geez

    • john256

      when “run pee” is on a list of best apps, i know i’m on the wrong list.

    • Steve

      You’re wrong….I can live w/o all of these apps.