My favorite smart phone apps

[JustinR]

the Geek Detector App is similar when your Star Trek/Star Wars/Firefly/Dr. Who ringtones are revealed;

Yea, Cowboy Bebop ringtone here.

[Greg]

I'm always amused by the ignore every other person on the subway/train/bus/airplane app.

Speaking as someone who's spent a lot of hours on the New York and Boston subway systems.... that app is just a polite cover for something you would be doing anyway. Like having a white noise generator in the bathroom.

[Greg]

My wife has a great fondness for the floor tile strength tester app. So far she's managed to test a half dozen floor tiles successfully. They are in fact stronger.

She is especially fond of EXTREME testing, with the much larger and heavier 7", 9", and 10" testing apparatus known as tablets.

I'm not sure if that app is better or worse than the toe structural integrity testing app.

[Greg]

I'm not sure if that app is better or worse than the toe structural integrity testing app.

Well, a few ounces dropped on my toe... Or even a few pounds in the case of a laptop... Is significantly less painful... To me at least... Than the $250 to $700 for a phone or tablet, or $350 to $2500 for a laptop.

Ah. I've dropped a firesale Touchpad on my toes. In hindsight, it probably wasn't worth it to sacrifice the toes.

[Netpackrat]

I'm not sure if that app is better or worse than the toe structural integrity testing app.

Well, a few ounces dropped on my toe... Or even a few pounds in the case of a laptop... Is significantly less painful... To me at least... Than the $250 to $700 for a phone or tablet, or $350 to $2500 for a laptop.

Ah. I've dropped a firesale Touchpad on my toes. In hindsight, it probably wasn't worth it to sacrifice the toes.

Yeah... One of the first tools I ever owned was an x-acto knife at about the age of 6... Dad and I used to build model airplanes together. My instinctive reaction to a dropped object is to immediately shift my feet away. I can sometimes overcome that if I am alert enough and the object is expensive enough, but usually not.

I did drop my cell phone in a camp fire once. It was in my shirt pocket and fell out as I was adjusting a log or something. Managed to fish it out before significant damage was done. Used it for a year or two after that.