{"id":8940,"date":"2011-07-13T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=8940"},"modified":"2011-07-13T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T10:00:17","slug":"apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2011\/07\/apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>OK, I realize that I am late to this particular party, but I finally have an iPhone.\u00a0 I\u2019ve used it for awhile and liked it, but recently my sister has introduced me to the world of applications.\u00a0 That is to say, \u201capps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I now have apps to let me know the news, the weather, and sports scores.\u00a0 I can listen to my favorite kinds of music.\u00a0 Best of all, I have apps that use GPS data to locate everything from restaurants near me to where I parked my car.<\/p>\n<p>But I know I have barely scratched the surface.\u00a0 You readers, though, early adopters and savvy technophiles that you are,\u00a0 know far more than I do about this kind of thing.\u00a0\u00a0 And maybe some of you have found an \u201capp\u201d that the rest of us would benefit from.<\/p>\n<p>So what are some good apps?\u00a0 (Not only iPhones have apps these days, so feel free to suggest those for Androids or whatever.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I realize that I am late to this particular party, but I finally have an iPhone.\u00a0 I\u2019ve used it for awhile and liked it, but recently my sister has introduced me to the world of applications.\u00a0 That is to say, \u201capps.\u201d I now have apps to let me know the news, the weather, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,44],"tags":[393],"class_list":["post-8940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology","tag-cell-phones"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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