Mobile Thing #23

• Go back to your thoughts/ideas about  mobile devices and apps. Has anything changed as a result of this experience?
• Not really.  I guess I'm more aware of somethings and maybe more likely to seek out a solution through an App now.  Maybe.
• What were your favorite Things and discoveries?
• Favorite thing: TED talks App.  Loving it!
• Discoveries: App utility and ease.  I have discovered I can tell which Apps suck faster.
• How did you connect with others doing the 23 Mobile Things?
• I went to their office and talked to them about it and commented on comments they posted on my blog/
• Were there any take-a-ways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
• I finished 4 days early.
• What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or content?
• Not much.  I think the self paced format works well.  I like the variety. 
• If we offered a another 23 Things program like this in the future would you participate?
• Sure!
• How would you describe your learning experience in one word or in one sentence, so we could use your words to promote 23 Things learning activities to others?
• Appy (to the tune of Happy sung by Pharrell Wiliams)

*Mic Drop*

Mobile Thing #22

I'm very much enjoying Droid of the day.  It's fun and there are some cool Apps.  Also I find browsing on Quixey to be easy and helpful.  I found some great random name generator.  No more with all my NPCs be named stuff like Bill Bilson or Jack Jackson or Andrea Andreason.  I like the gambling type Droid of the Day thing too.  You never know what you're gonna get.  I'm listening to the Robocop Theme as I type this and it makes it sounds so very epic.

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Mobile Thing # 21

Hmmm, favorite App?  Well the App I use most is probably the Facebook App, but mostly for utilitarian purposes.  Communicating and the like.  The App I find the most useful is probably the Think bank App along with the Chase bank App.  The App I find I turn to when I'm bored is the Kindle App.  The app that most intrigues me is Snapchat.  I stand by my statements about it being developed for congress people to send photos of their junk, but I still find it intriguing.  And the App I feel I should use more than I do: HBOgo.  Why am I not watching Game of Thrones right now?  I laugh every time the Mountain crushes the Viper's skull.

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More Vine Stuff

Mobile Thing #20

Oh Candy Crush, how glad I am no longer to be addicted to you.   I've moved on to the Doctor Who bubble game.  Not as fun but out it's officially licensed.  I'm a gander but I haven't made the leap to phone gaming.   I'm old school.  I do Pen and Paper RPGs and Boardgame.  I think I'll be playing Firefly the Boardgame tomorrow night.

Mobile Thing #19

I've been using spotify for a while.  I like it fine.   I find I like Amazon's MP3 player better.  The radio stuff on Spotify is cool and all but I just want to listen to my stuff most of the time.  What I really want is a super easy way to put MP3 audio books on to multiple devices and be able to have all the devices know where I left off on an audio book.   So far the audible apps the best I've got but I can't add my own cool stuff like Doctor Audios.  I also checked out Road Ninja. That'll be fun when Theo and I road trip to Gen Con in August.

Mobile Thing #18

So first I tried the Eat This Not That Game.  It's okay.  Verging on fun even, but I learned very little from it.   Next I tried the TED tasks app.  So awesome!  I love that I can tell it hire much time I have and select a topic and boom!  There's something cool to watch.   Most impressive.  And I learned something: in Japan blocks are named not streets.

Mobile Thing #17

So I tried the Beer Activist app first,  but I couldn't find it so I tried the SE Minnesota app.  It was acceptable.  A little generic but it got the job done. 

Mobile Thing #16

I tried Soundcloud. I was able to find copious amounts of dubstep and record myself saying "hello".  I could find this useful for sending myself audio notes.  It might even be faster than going some things.

Mobile Thing #15

Infographics I'm familiar with as a concept and I've created some.  Mostly for my desk shift busyness data.  So much easier in graph form than looking at numbers on a piece of paper.  However,  none of the apps listed were available to me.  I tried some other app, but all it did was show me a bunch of info graphics.  I couldn't crate anything.  Not especially helpful.

Mobile Thing #14

Vine is so fun!  My other blog (http://jonallenfanblog.blogspot.com/) has a few Vines of Jon Allen doing various things like demonstrating his shelving technique and eating.  Love the bit sized videos! 

Mobile Thing #13

I tried Deck Slide Presentations. I hope I never have to use it for anything real.  I could see it being useful after a few years of patches and upgrades.  Also not great on a tiny phone screen.  Cool that it exists,  but the functionality just doesn't feel like it's all there yet.  I could see using it if I was desperate.  Laggy and you had to pay for the really cool themes.

Mobile Thing #12

I tried wattpad.  It was pretty sweet.  For books in the public domain,  I'd totally use this ap.  Interesting fanfiction choices too.  All in all a nice interface and plenty of content.

Mobile Thing #11

The Elm mobile site seems to have everything the regular site does.  I found it easy to use except for one small issue of not being able the find the item I downloaded.  And then having to download all this other stuff And the log-ins.  Oh my stars and garters!  The log-ins!  I still haven't gotten the see the content.  Nothing to do with ELM itself though.

Mobile Thing #10

I've used both snap chat and instagram.  I think snapchat was invented for sending nude selfies.  I also think many politicians don't realize you can actual save a snapchat photo.  I've never used snapchat for (what I can only guess is) it's original propose, and I have a hard time deriving any many for the photos that have been sent to me.  Perhaps again, it's that I'm just not a picture person.    Although I think instagram was invented for the sole purpose of Cat Beards.  If my cat ever cooperates, I'm totes instagramming everyone an awesome cat beard.

Mobile Thing #9

Tried LINE camera.  It was easy to use. I liked how I could choose which ap to share with.  I'm not super picture-y.  I don't take many.  I upload all my pictures to dropbox so I have them  forevers.  What I really want is just 1 ap that does everything.

Addendum:  I just discovered the volumize feature of LINE camera.

Mobile Thing #8

I tried Cloze. What I like is instead of going to 4 different sites I can get all my daily interwebs irritation in one place. So helpful!

Mobile Thing #7

I've been using pinterest for a while. I'm not totally sold on bitly for links.  Pinterest is an excellent source of catbeards.  I would like something to store links with especially to my phone. My google stuff works okay, but I'd like an app I can open and have a list of links.  Just that no bells or whistles.

Mobile Thing #6

I dig CloudOn. I like that I can access both dropbox and google drive.  I must say I don't like creating documents on my  phone but I do like having access to my documents.  Especially my  list of Doctor Who novels I need to buy.  Great for used books stores I just happen upon.

Mobile Thing #5

I tried both Remember the Milk and Springpad.  First, let me say I use Workflowy for note taking and it's worked well for me. That being said I like the books thing in Springpad.  I'm always looking for better ways to keep track of all the books I want to read.   I use both goodreads and Librarything.  But I find a lot of the time I just need to remember the title.  I don't need all that other stuff.   Springpad might be good for that.   I'm not seeing too much work stuff use for these.  Well, except for the work stuff I've already got on Workflowy.

Mobile Thing #4

I tried Flipboard.  While I don't dislike it, I find I easily get overwhelm when all of my stuff comes into one ap or aggregator, and I often end up just going back to looking at one site or feed at a time.  I'm going to give it a go for a bit and see what happens.  Perhaps I just have a tendency to over do things with feeds.

Mobile Thing #3

I tried the Google Goggles.  It could be super cool.  I haven't gotten it to work well yet.  It didn't recognize my Mjölnir or my Doctor Who action figures.  It did tell me where I could find boots like Matt Smith's so that's something.

Mobile Thing #2

I have a Samsung Galaxy S3.  I looked at a few video specific to my device.  I have a habit of only using the features that are obvious to me, so it was nice to find out a couple cool tricks.  I liked the picture in picture stuff.  I didn't know about that at all.  I also liked the camera stuff especially, as I no longer only a camera outside of my phone.  I don't take a lot of pictures, but I intend to take a cat beard selfie in the not too distant future.

Mobile Thing #1

So,  I would enjoy gaining greater proficiency using certain aps through 23 Mobile Things.  Additionally, I'd like to find new stupendous aps for my pleasure and to increase my ap knowledge base.  Also I'd like to enhance my blind cat's web presence.

Back in the Saddle Again

23  Things is back and so in my blog!   I'm getting used to the idea of blogging on my phone.   So far so good.