this gets asked *all* the time...but.....what apps? (iphone)

[jennlin]

thx!

i have facebook, candy crush (of course), fitbit, words with friends, mint, becu, and all the fisher price games.

[jennlin]

and i've *never* paid for an app in my life. so..free apps, please!

[picksthemusic]

Twitter, Shazam, Pandora, Pinterest, Yelp, Amazon, Urbanspoon, Paypal, Zulily...

ETA: DrawSome so we can play!

[niq]

TuneIn, Spotify, OurGroceries, Epicurious, Parkdroid (I assume there's an iphone thing too), Onebusaway, Feedly, Crosswords, Dice Bag, Lastpass (!!!), Orbitz, Barcode Scanner

I'm trying this new Google Keep thing. We'll see how it goes.

Oh and the proboards app .

[Kahala]

I just downloaded 'retail me not' today and i thought about u when i did jenn

[Deleted]

My phone is downstairs so I'll have to look and see what hasn't been mentioned but I *think* the best have been. Oh, there's a cool free flashlight one that makes it so you can use your LED camera light as a flashlight. That has come in handy more than once! It sucks battery power like a mo-fo but when in a jam, or just needing a moment, its great.

I want more Draw Something friends, too, but I don't know if that's free or not.

[sarack]

isn't your iphone broken already?

instagram, fb, I use browsers for tb and pb.

[jennlin]

Mar 25, 2013 21:21:08 GMT -5 sarack said:

isn't your iphone broken already?

instagram, fb, I use browsers for tb and pb.

yes, but i paid someone we found on yelp to replace the screen.

so far, i've downloaded based on your suggestions--

pandora, yelp, zulily, amazon, pinterest, retailmenot.


i don't usually take the bus, drink coffee (what does the starbucks app do?), or watch tv..so i wouldn't need a few of these...

niq, why would i choose spotify over pandora? i already have a very well established pandora account.

[niq]

You can make actual playlists on Spotify, and then make radio stations based on that playlist. If you have Pandora stations you like there's not much reason to switch, but i got tired of it thinking every station I made should have Muse on it.

Also the pay version of spotify is Netflix for music. $10 month lets you listen to whatever you want, whenever you want, no advertisements. The free version has ads though, and playlists (instead of radio stations) only work from a computer without the subscription.

Sorry, this was horribly worded.

Spotify Free: Anything you want to listen to from a computer, with advertisements. Phone only has radio (including radio based on your playlists!), and has ads
Spotify Unlimited: $5/month, no ads, but still only on a computer
Spotify Premium: $10/month, no ads, can download and play on your phone, tablet, Roku, etc.

I blame all wring words on Swype

[jennlin]

Mar 26, 2013 9:20:58 GMT -5 niq said:

You can make actual playlists on Spotify, and then make radio stations based on that playlist. If you have Pandora stations you like there's not much reason to switch, but i got tired of it thinking every station I made should have Muse on it.

Also the pay version of spotify is Netflix for music. $10 month lets you listen to whatever you want, whenever you want, no advertisements. The free version has ads though, and playlists (instead of radio stations) only work from a computer without the subscription.

I blame all wring words on Swype

WHATEVER i want? what if i have strange taste in music?

[niq]

Mar 26, 2013 10:37:40 GMT -5 jennlin said:

Mar 26, 2013 9:20:58 GMT -5 niq said:

You can make actual playlists on Spotify, and then make radio stations based on that playlist. If you have Pandora stations you like there's not much reason to switch, but i got tired of it thinking every station I made should have Muse on it.

Also the pay version of spotify is Netflix for music. $10 month lets you listen to whatever you want, whenever you want, no advertisements. The free version has ads though, and playlists (instead of radio stations) only work from a computer without the subscription.

I blame all wring words on Swype

WHATEVER i want? what if i have strange taste in music?

... they have most of the k-pop I started listening to via Starcraft?

Seriously, they have almost everything. Obscure club mixes, or sometimes newest club hits, are harder to find (e.g. I can find "Rattle" by Bingo Players but not "Rattle - Get Up" by BP + Far East Movement). I can't get any AKB48. Sometimes the k-pop shows up and then disappears and then shows up again. There are a few other mixes that I haven't been able to find. There's no Beatles or Led Zepplin because of rights issues. But, for almost all purposes, they have everything.

[jennlin]

Mar 26, 2013 11:29:58 GMT -5 @jennuinne said:

Mar 26, 2013 10:48:46 GMT -5 Tiff said:

Starbucks ap is the best ever. You can load your gold card on there directly and scan your phone to pay. Best thing ever. Plus free drinks!
I also have King 5 news ap and their traffic ap, so I can drive home the least traffic way possible, which usually isn't much help.
I also like the Linkedin and Red Fin aps but those may not apply to you. Oh and TMZ because every now and then I need some trash to read

Also, Starbucks gives you a free download every week, usually a song, sometimes a book, movie, or app.

are the apps/music/books any good? how many/how often free drinks? i go to starbucks less than 6x's a year.

and Tiff, i love redfin, and am still addicted, so maybe i will download that one too (when i get home!). i hate linkedin though. they spam the crap out of my email..so maybe i don't want that one.

[llh0211]

FB, ProBoards, Groupon, Yelp, Fandango, Redbox, Living Social,Pandora, IHeartRadio, Timehop, Amazon, Skype

I also have a ton of photo editing apps. But I can't remember which ones were free. I love love love Instagram. Others I have that I use a lot are Camera+, PerfectPhoto, CameraBag, InstaFrame (for collage photos)& Pic Collage.

[jennlin]

niq..i don't *really* have strange taste in music..i just like old, nostalgic stuff. i don't listen to a lot of kpop, although i did a lot when i was in HS. i'll look into it, though, bc yesterday we were listening to pandora at home for bjl at bed time, and a pretty intrusive commercial came up during our peaceful stations for putting her to bed.

[niq]

Mar 26, 2013 12:16:55 GMT -5 jennlin said:

niq..i don't *really* have strange taste in music..i just like old, nostalgic stuff. i don't listen to a lot of kpop, although i did a lot when i was in HS. i'll look into it, though, bc yesterday we were listening to pandora at home for bjl at bed time, and a pretty intrusive commercial came up during our peaceful stations for putting her to bed.

What sort of nostalgia? I just dug through some of the greatest hits of my middle school years and they were all there. Whatever artists I know by name from the 50s and 60s are there. Plenty of Jazz Age stuff is in there, we use it for swing dancing all the time.

[jennlin]

Mar 26, 2013 13:16:03 GMT -5 niq said:

Mar 26, 2013 12:16:55 GMT -5 jennlin said:

niq..i don't *really* have strange taste in music..i just like old, nostalgic stuff. i don't listen to a lot of kpop, although i did a lot when i was in HS. i'll look into it, though, bc yesterday we were listening to pandora at home for bjl at bed time, and a pretty intrusive commercial came up during our peaceful stations for putting her to bed.

What sort of nostalgia? I just dug through some of the greatest hits of my middle school years and they were all there. Whatever artists I know by name from the 50s and 60s are there. Plenty of Jazz Age stuff is in there, we use it for swing dancing all the time.

rod stewart, peter cetera....the stuff they *used* to play on 106.9 until they started playing all this modern crap.