Question of the Day | 05/18/2009 11:00 pm

What fantasy iPhone App would you go crazy for?

While everyone loves iPhone Apps (train schedules, identifying music, etc.), let’s get really creative. What fantasy iPhone App would you go crazy for?

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Mary Wells | 05/18/2009 11:00 pm

Mary Wells: Is There an App for 'The Beyond'?

Apps – aren’t they extraordinary and fun! Trouble is they could take up a month of your life once you get into shopping for them. It is impossible to imagine just one new one I would love, but I certainly would enjoy an App that told me every place in every sea where there were jellyfish so I would always be able to find places to swim without worrying, now that jellyfish are breeding so wildly.

An App that tuned into my mother or my husband to tell me secrets from the beyond would be good, too.

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Liz Smith | 05/18/2009 11:00 pm

Liz Smith Sticks to a Land Line

I gave up on my iPhone, given to me by the sainted Joni Evans of wOw, and passed it on to one of our hard-working wOw kids. I am just going to content myself with signal flags, bonfires and that famous old gadget, the land telephone. If anybody ever invents anything that works easily I will try it again, but for now. No.

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Joan Ganz Cooney | 05/18/2009 11:00 pm

Joan Ganz Cooney Has No Fantasies About Apps

I have no interest in apps and have no fantasies about them.

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Candice Bergen | 05/18/2009 11:00 pm

Candice Bergen: Movies vs. Apps, Which Are 'Recession-Proof'?

I have no answer to this question. Unless it would be to invent a recession-proof business, which seems these days like movies, which are once again a refuge.

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Well…I do not have an iphone. So I do not know. I’m not much of a phone person. I like email and I love my laptop.

By siasp surate on 05/19/2009 12:38 am

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My Husband and I are both looking into purchasing the i-phone. The only inhibitor is the fact that only AT&T is the provider of service and they are ridiculously expensive, when I can do so much already on my Blackberry. So we’ll hold off until other options or we just say to heck with it, "Let’s go for it".

By HA BIBI on 05/19/2009 7:52 am

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Maybe I’m old fashioned or just boring - my "phone" I use for connecting with other people. The last thing I want to do is bring my "work" with me everywhere I go and since I work with a computer all day long - that’s what these advanced phones feel like to me - work.

If I’m heading out for a photo shoot in the woods or on the beach the last thing I’m worried about is most of the time-wasting stuff these apps offer. If I need to call for a ride or text my family - great - that’s what my phone is for.

I guess I just don’t want all phases of my life computerized - I need some "down time" and my cell phone is simply for the use it was intended for.

I sometimes get the feeling that so much of our society has forgotton how to turn the gadgets off and just live - just simply enjoying what is right in front of our faces - or within reach of a hug. I enjoy the human interaction of asking an attendant about the train schedule - much more so than the fight it seems to take to get a phone app to work to get me that same information. I get much further with a smile and a simple request to another human being than I’ve ever gotten downloading data.

By Alesia Kaye on 05/19/2009 8:40 am

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Alesia Kaye — I too must be old fashioned or boring. I have an ancient cell phone. Most of its time is spent in the off mode. I use it ONLY for emergencies! Everyone knows where I am 24/7. I am either at work 9-5 or at home 6-infinity! So, if you need me call me at those numbers. I have seen people driving with elbows in order to talk on their cell phone and look something up! I wonder if anyone has written about the accidents caused because someone is on their cell phone. And, the bizillion phone calls while in a restaurant or other public place. Forget having a nice quite lunch or dinner. I thank God the airlines make people turn them off. At least I don’t have to listen to people trying to convince others about their importance. And, I am totally turned off by the idiots who run around with the ugly "gadget" hanging on their ear.

Then we now have the text messaging craze! Last Sunday a woman was text messaging during the sermon much to the chagrin of her fellow seat occupants. Or, how about the dizzy broad who had traffic tied up for two city blocks because she was texting to someone.

I agree, I sometimes get the feeling that much of our society has forgotten to "stop and smell the roses". Who, certainly not me, wants to have business calls when you are finally at home and want peace and tranquility. I also want people to start respecting other peoples ‘space’. I’m not interested in your conversations or your music.

I further agree, that the human interaction beats all the tech equipment by a mile.

Thanks for your post and your patience in reading mine.

By Lady Gator on 05/19/2009 2:18 pm

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I completely agree.

Cell phones have become a bit of an evil necessity - but the problem is people’s definition of "necessity". For me - it’s the convenience and safety of having a means of quick communication during an emergency, or staying in touch with my family when we are all scattered everywhere with different schedules. (And I’m a heavy tech person in most normal circumstances).

I find it hard to believe that there is such an "necessity" that would warrant texting (or even talking for that matter) while driving or listening to a sermon!! So many people have just forgotten (or no longer care) that there is a time and place for everything and I am SO not impressed that they have someone to talk to out in public.

It’s all just kind of sad.

Regarding texting & accidents - just do a quick search on the keywords "car accident texting" - you’ll find more than you care to on the subject. Sadly starting out with the recent trolley car accident in Boston. *sigh*

By Alesia Kaye on 05/19/2009 2:37 pm

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I want an app where you type in a product while grocery shopping and it sends an electronic coupon to your keytag at checkout

and one that tells me where my kids (or at least, their cell phones and cars) are whenever I click on it

and one that gives immediate, keyword access to all state and federal reporters for instant legal research

those would all be great; get cracking writing them, twelve-year olds ;D

By Ruth M on 05/19/2009 8:44 am

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Really great ideas. And you’re right - a twelve year old could probably do one heck of a good job writing the code. [Kind of embarrassing for the rest of us.]

By Andrea Brandon on 05/19/2009 11:59 am

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I would love a "Bull-shit detector" app - Type in the words of any politician or talking head and the app would tell you if what they are saying is accurate or Bull.

I love Ruth’s idea for coupons !

I just heard of a great one that I am looking into - "1password ", it stores all your passwords in a safe place and automatically generates new safe ones

Everything else I can think of … they already have !!! My favorite gadget since my iPod …. oh wait, it IS an iPod !

By EKA - on 05/19/2009 9:34 am

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A bull shit detector! I wish I thought of that…great idea.

By Tee Zee on 05/19/2009 9:34 pm

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Throw the phone in the ocean. ha

By James the Game on 05/19/2009 9:59 am

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One that would alert me to all the available jobs in Washington D.C. on a minute by minute basis.

By Belinda Joy on 05/19/2009 10:06 am

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Liz you crack me up. As for the question, It would have to be one that I could make notes, send notes as emails. I know of 2 iphone apps you can also use on your ibook. I can’t think of them now. I saw them on a back of a New Yorker Magazine ad my brother had at this place. I believe one was Jott.

By Beth Cornell on 05/19/2009 10:48 am

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An app to whitelist positioning information - to control who can know where you are through your cell phone.

My cell phone is a phone. It’s not a camera, or an answering machine, or a billboard, or a web browser, or an email client, or a game console, or a CD player or a TV. I do not want a lot of bells and whistles burning through the battery time. I don’t want extras burning through my minutes.

Your lights are on, but you’re not home
Your mind…is not your own
Your heart sweats, your body shakes
Another app…is what it takes

You can’t sleep, you can’t eat
There’s no doubt, you’re in deep
Your throat is tight, you can’t breathe
Another app…is all you need

Whoa, you like to think that you’re immune to the stuff, oh Yeah

It’s closer to the truth to say you can’t get enough, you Know you’re

Gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to tech.

You see the signs, but you can’t read
You’re runnin’ at…a different speed
You heart beats…in double time
Another app…and you’ll be mine, a one track mind.

You can’t be saved
Oblivion is all you crave
If there’s some left for you
You don’t mind if you do

Whoa, you like to think that you’re immune to the stuff, oh Yeah

It’s closer to the truth to say you can’t get enough, you Know you’re

Gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to tech.

With all due respect to Robert Palmer.

By Steve R on 05/19/2009 11:09 am