Part of living vintage for me is keeping things organized and simple. So every time I start using a new app I ask myself is this going to make life easier or is this just one more thing for me to update/manage. I try things for a while and then make a decision whether or not it’s beneficial to my life. These apps below have stood the test of time in my lifestyle and helped me in some significant way. I hope enjoy them as well…
DAILYBURN
Daily Burn is a fitness and nutrition site/app that is amazingly easy, accurate, and accessible. Daily burn is a free service (you can pay and get more features). It helps you keep up with what you eat, workouts, and achieve fitness and weight goals. They have a killer iPhone app that is free and a food scanner app that is only $2. The food scanner enables you to scan UPC codes with your iPhone and enter the servings that you have eaten. Everything stays synced up flawlessly and you can even get perks for inviting your friends to join check it here: www.dailyburn.com
INSTAPAPER
Instapaper is a web service/app that installs a book mark in your web brower that says “read later”. When you are on a blog or site you are interested in, but just don’t have time now to read it just click the “read later” bookmarklet in your browser and it’s instantly stored to your instapaper account. You can go back and read the page/blog and then either delete it or archive it. You can organize your entries in folders for research later if you wish. Instapaper is a free service and their iPhone app is free as well. They have a beautiful iPad app that is only $5. This has been particularly great for storing blogs I come across through twitter. Your instapaper apps and web account also stay synced. Check it here: www.instapaper.com
FLAVORS
Flavors is a web site/service that allows you to link all your social networking information into one place as a sort of digital business card. It’s one place that people can go to view your blog, twitter stream, facebook, etc… They work with over 20 services/social networks so you can connect whatever you use. Flavors is a free service, but if you pay only $20 a year it unlocks a lot of cool features.
You can check my flavors site out here:
www.flavors.me/leebaker
You can check out the flavors site here:
www.flavors.me
I would love to know what you think of these apps and what apps you’re using as well. I am always searching for things that help life to be more simple and accessible.
Paula Baker
2 July 2010 at 8:47 pm
We use Our Groceries. We both have the app on our phones. When I put a grocery list on it, it appears on Mark’s phone too. I can create a list and he can go by the grocery store on his way home.
lee
2 July 2010 at 8:53 pm
That’s awesome I’ll have to check that app out. Jaclyn and I are always trying to figure out the Grocery list.