My Favourite iPhone App
February 10, 2010 at 8:53 pm
I’ve had the iPhone three whole weeks now and I haven’t written a single thing… I am talking about it, oh boy! With friends when we meet we fall into a routine of show and tell for iphone apps. With taxi drivers, it’s more of a competitive thing – see who’s got the better app. With my brother who also recently got one and had to be shown how to use the app store itself (bless!).
My favourite app of all is to do with a very basic physiological motion and that is sleep. I’m not alone. Sleep cycle is the number 1 paid app across the world. I love the fact that we’re all so human and flock to the apps that fulfill our most basic of needs!
What it does:
Because we don’t move when we are in a deep sleep, the app monitors your movements and charts your sleep – deep sleep, dreaming, waking up, etc. You set the alarm and it will readjust itself within half an hour to ensure that it goes off when you’re in a light sleep. When you wake up from a light sleep you wake up feeling more refreshed. It’s great!
The only downside came on Monday morning when I had to get up really early anyway – the alarm reset itself to go off half an hour earlier – at 5.45am which was not a good thing.
Here’s my sleep pattern the night before last, a pretty good sleep:
Tags: iPhone app, sleep cycle
iPhone app for Irish Rail
July 2, 2008 at 9:00 am
Dave Barrett showed us all what he got up to last weekend…
…With a lovely little site that’s made to look like an iPhone app but is accessible normally through the web. The site simply serves the busy commuter or tourist who needs to plan a journey where the Irish Rail site fails. I’ve often been frustrated at the Irish Rail site and how pedantic it tends to be. For example, if you don’t put in your station exactly as it appears on the station picker list, then it pushes you away. I ask you – how many people know that Dublin (Connolly) should be like that? Normal humans would probably try with Connolly…
Anyway, Dave came up with this little site so he can access train times from his iphone whenever he’s on the move. I love it! Don’t like the site so make his own version!
You can use this nice little Irish Rail for iPhone app too. And if you have any great ideas on how to enhance it, like integrating it with GPS or something better, please tell Dave (and he’ll probably knock it out over the weekend!).
Tags: iPhone app
