Everyone likes lists! They’re the most popular things on the internet (and the laziest!) I got sick of feeling left out of all this list making so I decided to come up with my own! But, unlike all the other lists out there mine are only going to have only four (4our) items on them! Yup, I am the one, true, special snowflake on the ‘net. My other gimmick is that three of the items on the list will be good and one will be “bad”… You get to decide!
- K-9 Mail – The best muli-mail client I’ve found. K-9 l lets me check gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc. All in a clean interface and easy to use search options!
- Instapaper – With Instapaper I can read article wherever and whenever I want to! Just click a bookmarklet in a browser or on my phone and the article gets sent to Instapaper where I can read it at my leisure.
- Shortyz – Crossword puzzles from all the best newspapers (even the NYT if you have a subscription) delivered to your phone every day. For those of you who aren’t ready for the full crossword experience Shortyz offers hints for letters, words, and the entire puzzle. I find myself doing crosswords whenever I have even a few spare minutes
- Smart Tools – Looks like a good idea but I’ve never managed to actually use it or get it to work. It let’s you use the accelerometer, speakers, light, and camera in your phone to find out things like length, angle, distance, etc.
If you have any recommendations for future 4ours let me know either below in the comments or through email.
I think K-9 sounds the best for me. Instapaper looks good too, but it’s all I can do to read the local rag, The Nation, and Democracy Now. I do feel stupid missing the NYTimes all the time, AND The New Yorker. I not a crossword addict, I just let them happen to me at odd moments. Smart Tools is well above my ability level, though I think I may try out some trig (and therefore angles) to figure out my approximate property line using the plot map and corners of my house–without having to hire a surveyor.