Friday, August 22, 2008

Lets Talk about Apps Man

Ok I have recently been doing some long delayed investigative work into new applications that I can be obsessed with for about a week and then forget about. Check them out.

This one is fab for all my musical friends out there. And when I say musical I don't mean my sister who gets hammered and then sits in the living room with her bongo drum and her mini steel drum making sweet tunes.


www.iconcertcal.com/-

This is a free plug in for your itunes. It is super easy to download and takes like seconds to install. It works with your itunes to find all the upcoming concerts in your area for the musicians you have in your library. Yay…..


www.mint.com

This site is excellent for anal rententive money managers like my sister. It allows you to give it access to all your financial accounts (credit cards, bank accounts, loans) and then it lets you know all kinds of neat things like where you can save money, where most of your money goes, what your cash flow is. Etc. this is a relatively depressing thing for me to look at since I have no money because I make no money but hey at least it tells me about my own poverty using lovely pink graphs.

**Naturally some of you are reading this and getting all jacked up because of potential security breaches. I say be bold. Read the security articles out there, most of them say its pretty iron clad but there is always a risk. No more risky than the last hipster outfit you bought at American Apparel.


https://www.google.com/health

This my friends is a hypercondriacs wet dream. Are you in the midst of a hideous medical crisis? Have you switched doctors like fifty times in the past three years and have no fucking clue where your records are? Do you simply like to watch you health like the stock market? This app allows you to enter in all your relevant medical history for endless (although not completely secure probably but what is have you seen some of the secretaries at your doctor's office) access on the web.


www.mydamnchannel.com/Big_Fat_Brain/You_Suck_at_Photoshop/YouSuckatPhotoshop1_398.aspx

For some of us, the ability to open an adobe program immediately leads people to believe we know what the fuck we are doing when it comes to graphic design. Minor problem for me since I really have no idea. Simple tasks can take me hours and by the end of it I want to slingshot my computer out the window and go back to the days when paint by numbers could be framed and placed in your living room as art. If you are like me, or if you simply have a sense of humor you need to watch this because it if f'ing hilarious. This man is so angry it makes me smile, particularly the second one where he goes on this rant about this stupid cat his wife adopted that pees shit on his carpet. Truly genius. Oh yeah, and he does a good job of explaining things in photoshop too.

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