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Gas Buddy is a good one. I've been a member since 2004, and use it all the time, first on my iPod Touch and now on my Droid X.

 

Throw in another recommendation for GasBuddy.

WAZE is a good free navigation app if you have the bandwidth (I'm lucky and am grandfathered into an unlimited data plan).

Pandora for tunes

NPR News app for streaming Car Talk (which you can also podcast if you want)

Greatest Drive to find good routes for motoring (it's a bit better than MINI Link in that regard)

And I can't recommend Urbanspoon enough for finding restaurants.

Most of these should be available on Android as well as iPhone, and all are free downloads. The streaming ones do require that you have the bandwidth though, and the phone companies are getting stingy with that these days.

 

Open Table ...it has gotten me reservations when a direct phone call didn't.

 

Here's one I snatched recently and it's freeeeeeee......

DerManDar..... Takes panorama's, with software that stitches the scene together. The final pic on the Iphone is seamless end to end, unlike my example from my dog walk this morning. Look closely and you can see my little buddy....

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I'm in the need of new iPhone, I'm getting horrible battery life and I've somehow got schmutz around the button rendering it useless at times. However, I'm holding off a few more months till the latest is released.

 

Go out to a bar you old fart :devil:

 

My favorite App is the Granny Smith.

We were talking about apples, right!?

Dave

 

I am older and married now. Beer is cheep to bring home and drink in my own house.

 

He He He...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbNl3J8HXw4]Pacman Frog catch some touch screen bugs. - YouTube[/ame]

 

Along the lines of the Frog playing games on the iPad we have a cat playing Fruit Ninja

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdEBgZ5Y46U]Cat Plays Fruit Ninja on iPad - YouTube[/ame]

 

They are similar but different.

Zite grabs content you like and puts in an easy to find format. However, the vast majority of that content, at least in my case, is in short article format. Quick things like Autoblog posts, or even MotoringFile posts. Zite seems to me to center on the blogs and not that 15 page expose in the New York Times Magazine that delves deep into the subject matter. This is where Longform shines. They have no compunction showing a 5000 word article from Esquire. They also do not recommend similar topics. In Zite today in my Motorsports section there are 6 articles right now on VW and the possibility of an F1 presence from 6 different sources. Longform is smart enough to know that if I just read a 10,000 word article in National Geographic on the plight of Big Cats it's not going to recommend another one. Zite will have all the spin off articles about the same subject.

With Zite I'm getting the journalistic equivalent of fast food. Longform is a home cooked multi-course meal.

 

I finely got around to trying "Pandora". Got the free app, programmed in the Moody Blues and Steppnwolf. In three hours of listening, I never heard a song I didn't like. Got home and upgraded to "Pandora One". This will be my LAST year for Sirius/XM.

Jim

 

Ya know Jim... Chickins lay better when listening to good music......

 

All those years of marine sciences just paid off!

Zoeae with the Z on a double letter and e on triple word. 102 points for a larval crab. WOOT!

 

Haze ~ Put some color on your forecast is a whole new way to look at weather in an app. I like it.

On sale today for 99 cents too.

 

Shazam for the iPhone. Love it.
It listens and tells you who is playing on the radio and the name of the song.

 

This changes almost daily for me.

Yesterday it was Cut The Rope, a fun little game that makes you think a bit.

Today...who knows, it's still early

 

The problem with GasBuddy is that it relies on Crowd Sourcing and if you are in an area where these is not much of a crowd the data is suspect. I've been using iGasUp. The app does cost but the data is more up to date as it uses credit card transactions for more up to date information. With prices changing as fast as they do these days I think it gives a more accurate picture.

 

Gas Cubby - a great alternative to maintaining a "paper" record of gas mileage and maintenance; has an online synch feature for preserving data

RadarUS - the best weather radar app; GPS-enabled so it allows you to track adverse weather on-the-fly (i.e., while motoring) and adjust your route if warranted

ForumRunner - for staying connected with MA

 

Road Trip Lite, the free version of Road Trip. Tracks mileage, MPG and price per gallon. It provides the MPG for the last fill up and a running average. There is a graph that displays the changes from fill to fill. No fancy bells or whistles, just basic info.

I just downloaded Gas Buddy. Sounds like a useful app and with all of the recommendations, I had to try it.

Thumbs up on Shazam and Pandora.

ESPN ScoreCenter is handy. Very customizable. Has everything from Pro Hockey to College Football. And it's free.

Motor On!
Chris