Apps To Greatly Enhance Your Smartphone
If you’ve ever asked your Siri what the meaning of life is and received an ambiguous answer, the reason could be that Siri feels lonely, cut off from the vast panoply of incredible apps that could be sharing the workload. Why should Siri have to do everything? From music to data storage to place-based messaging here is a list of apps that can greatly improve the utility of your smartphone:
Spotify—Spotify is the free music database we always dreamed of, and now you can have it on the go. If you’re okay with a little of advertising here or there, you can essentially have every song ever made for free. A mobile database of millions of songs that are accessible any time of day. Not a bad deal.
Dropbox—Dropbox is a free cloud service for storing and sharing data. This is an easy way to bring all of your documents, photos, and videos into one place and make them accessible online or offline to work colleagues, friends, or clients. It is also an invaluable tool for collaborative projects, file synchronization, and data backup.
Pandora or Last.fm—These two music streaming apps are both very popular and essentially offer the same service, utilizing different algorithms. They both allow users to create playlists based on recommendations and pre-stated musical tastes. Your best bet here is to download both for your smartphone and see which one works better on your particular device.
Foursquare—A place-based messaging service that revolves around the idea of checking in at a location and receiving points for doing so. Foursquare is a social network but it’s importance to you could be much more based on its advantageous financial opportunities, as many local businesses offer discounts and promotions based on Foursquare use.
LinkedIn—Get rid of your business cards and resumes, the future of employment networking is LinkedIn. Having it as an app makes your phone a mobile career finding device. You no longer need to carry around a rolodex of your business connections. Keep your resources, business and job leads consolidated in one place while also networking with other professionals in your line of work.
So the lesson here is that if you use Siri for your iPhone, you shouldn’t have to ask her questions about music, file storage, local deals, or business connections. There are a wide variety of apps that will help you with these sectors of your life. The apps listed above represent excellent tools for business organization, personal recreation or both.