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Essential Apps of 2011

49 points by pg 15y ago

mmx 15y ago
Didn't see anything health related in there, hoping to change that this year.
- jimmyjim 15y ago
  Very impressive. Besides your very clever ploy to get us all to see your profile for the link ;-), the landing page is beautifully well done. I found it immediately useful for my own purposes.
  - pinaceae 15y ago
    but your comment is even more clever as it raises awareness of his profile link and about that "beautiful" landing page. as a certified paranoid person I wonder...
    - mmx 15y ago
      haha, wow, I made my comment at 1:30am and passed out soon after, I don't know Jim but I see what you're saying.
- pasbesoin 15y ago
  Just heard today about a phone app that helps the user practice CPR correctly. It even uses the accelerometer to measure the depth of compressions. (Apparently, there is a comfortable/correct way to hold the phone (fingers of upper hand) while doing CPR (heel of palm of lower hand). It was mentioned on one or another public radio show, in an interview with a professor or authority in Wales. Actually, there are a few CPR apps; this one is called somethingCPR, IIRC.
itsnotvalid 15y ago
Most of the apps are iOS based (or at least what their screenshots suggested). The team should have called it iOS essential apps of 2011.
- mdc 15y ago
  Having an iOS version is a lot different than being iOS based. I use Dropbox, Instapaper and Pandora on iOS, but I use the web-based version from my laptop just as often. I think many if not most people, especially in Wired's audience, access these tools from multiple platforms. If you had a list of "essential" desktop apps or web services, would you exclude those which also had an iOS version because they weren't exclusively on your target platform?
waterlesscloud 15y ago
I'm finding Spotify to be infinitely more essential than Pandora. And I'm even paying the subscription fee to use it.
rasur 15y ago
Garageband? Really? I mean, I suppose one persons "essential" is another's "total and utter waste of time, space and energy", but.. I respectfully disagree with it's placement on the list.

49 points by pg 15y ago

mmx 15y ago

Didn't see anything health related in there, hoping to change that this year.

jimmyjim 15y ago
Very impressive. Besides your very clever ploy to get us all to see your profile for the link ;-), the landing page is beautifully well done. I found it immediately useful for my own purposes.
- pinaceae 15y ago
  but your comment is even more clever as it raises awareness of his profile link and about that "beautiful" landing page. as a certified paranoid person I wonder...
  - mmx 15y ago
    haha, wow, I made my comment at 1:30am and passed out soon after, I don't know Jim but I see what you're saying.
pasbesoin 15y ago
Just heard today about a phone app that helps the user practice CPR correctly. It even uses the accelerometer to measure the depth of compressions. (Apparently, there is a comfortable/correct way to hold the phone (fingers of upper hand) while doing CPR (heel of palm of lower hand). It was mentioned on one or another public radio show, in an interview with a professor or authority in Wales. Actually, there are a few CPR apps; this one is called somethingCPR, IIRC.

itsnotvalid 15y ago

Most of the apps are iOS based (or at least what their screenshots suggested). The team should have called it iOS essential apps of 2011.

mdc 15y ago
Having an iOS version is a lot different than being iOS based. I use Dropbox, Instapaper and Pandora on iOS, but I use the web-based version from my laptop just as often. I think many if not most people, especially in Wired's audience, access these tools from multiple platforms. If you had a list of "essential" desktop apps or web services, would you exclude those which also had an iOS version because they weren't exclusively on your target platform?

waterlesscloud 15y ago

I'm finding Spotify to be infinitely more essential than Pandora. And I'm even paying the subscription fee to use it.

rasur 15y ago

Garageband? Really? I mean, I suppose one persons "essential" is another's "total and utter waste of time, space and energy", but.. I respectfully disagree with it's placement on the list.