No Brainer

For those of you who have iPhones and a Mac, there are quite a few To Do apps available for your iPhone, but few compare to the Appigo ToDos Lite app.

The biggest difference is most of the other apps don’t sync with your computer and/or cost money if they do sync.

The Appigo ToDos Lite version, like you may have already figured out by the name, is the Free Version. The paid version gives you unlimited ToDos. The Lite version gives you up to 50. So if you don’t have all that many things to list, go for the Lite version and it will do everything you need a ToDo app to do, plus sync with your computer using their downloadable free syncing software.

The app syncs with Mac iCal and/or Mail. Set it up and sync it and you’re done!

You can setup categories, different calendars that tie nicely into your Google Gmail account. Using this app, there’s no reason for you to miss doing something or being notified about some important event or chore. The app emails notifications right to your iPhone to keep you up to date and tuned into your schedule and tasks.

I just installed it and deleted my other ToDo apps because they can’t live up to this app!

Now let’s see how well I stay ahead of things on my schedule and ToDo list!!

Do you own an iPhone? Are you running 2.1+ and can’t wait to install the latest version OS, 3.0? Well, wait no longer because Apple released 3.0 today!

To download and install 3.0 on your iPhone, you first need to download the latest version of iTunes 8.2, about 72 megabytes. Open iTunes and click on Update.

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Once iTunes is updated, plug your iPhone into the computer and run iTunes then click on your iPhone and Update. The 3.0 iPhone OS download is around 230 megabytes and will take a few minutes to several hours depending on your Internet speed. It will automatically download the file and install the updated OS. Before the process begins, it will ask you if you want to backup your data. Don’t avoid this if you value the information on your iPhone.

NOTE: If you have not tied your iPhone into Google or MobileMe, you should create an account and upload your contacts to one of these before doing the update so you don’t lose your contacts. I use Google because MobileMe costs extra to use and is unnecessary in my book.

To get your Contacts back on your phone, go to Settings and then Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Scroll down to the bottom and find Import SIM Contacts. Once that has been clicked, your Contacts will be filled back up with the people you previously had input into the device.

Overall, it took me about an hour to download everything and install the new OS.

In April, I bought a new 3G iPhone. But that wasn’t enough. Because my Sony Vaio died way back in October and my wife began putting money aside for a new notebook, I was able to go to Osaka last week, Den-Den Town, and get a new notebook. However, I didn’t get just a new notebook computer, I got a new MacBook.

Now, my iPhone communicates with my notebook computer much better. I can actually see the files on my iPhone and transfer them back and forth not through a browser window, but through a piece of software that allows me to control what is on my iPhone much more indepth.

Pod to Mac is the title of the software. If you don’t have it yet, download and install it. It’s great if you have an iPod or an iPhone!

Just got an iPhone last week and now I’m trying to load it up with applications to juice it up a bit. The stock apps are pretty nice but lack some of the basic functions cellular phones have had for years like grouping contacts and sending multiple photos.

From the looks of things, after searching the Internet far and wide for several days, there are tons of apps available. But how many of them are really useful?

The main functions behind the phone are emailing, photos, music, videos and phone calling. However, because the iPhone doubles as a computer, it has even more potential uses than the average cellular phone and apps are what give it the difference.

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I’m not a huge gamer anymore so I’m not really interested in finding good games to play. If I have spare time I usually spend it on my computer designing websites, graphics or teaching curriculum, or I’m off the computer completely and outside playing with my kids.

One really great app that I have found and consider very useful is the one I’m using right now, the Wordpress app. This is a great app for those who like to blog. I can type my blog post almost as easily as I can on a regular computer because the app can be used with the wide keyboard for typing along utilizes the amazing word recognition software built into the iPhone. The user dashboard is simple and provides the main options to write a blog. You can type out the title, the tags, chose and create a category, write the blog article and even add photos to the post. It’s the best thing about the iPhone in my book!

Another great and useful app for the not-so-gamer-minded person is the Japanese to English to Japanese dictionary. It is a must for any foreigner living in Japan. I think it was the second app I downloaded and installed on here.

My next app was a better contacts manager that allows users to create and manage groups. There are several good apps that help users create groups for the address book, however, they do not fully integrate like I had hoped they would.

I hope future searches help me find something to do exactly what I need a groups manager to do, like sync with my groups on my computer. The only really good manager I have found so far is the Exchange function that ties into Google. But the problem with that app is that it uses the Internet and causes my monthly bill to go up.

Maybe Apple will hurry and finish their latest version update to the iPhone OS and include some of the functions they failed to include from the beginning, basics that older model phones still surpass the iPhone in.

But for now, until I something better comes out or Apple comes out with 3.0, I’m going to search the Internet for apps that can improve my iPhone’s usefulness. And when I come across one that is good, I will write about it on this blog.