My Home Screen Apps

The Weather Channel App for iPad – best local forecast, radar map, and storm tracking

This guy is on my home screen because I consult it every morning when figuring out which coat to wear. Fascinating.

(Note – this is NOT the iPad version, but it’s all that came up)

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Google 411

Another case where the app doesn’t show up in the Appolicious type-ahead…probably because there are so many that start with Google. Anyway, this is supposed to be the Google search app. Critical to my everyday experience.

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Foursquare – Find Places to Eat, Drink, and Visit

Yup, it’s dorky. But yes, I also check in everywhere. Hence, homescreen.

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Reeder

My hands-down favorite RSS reader. He lives on my home screen so that I can quickly and easily amuse myself with feeds while waiting in line at the supermarket.

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Twitter

I loves me some Twitter. And I stick with the official app, since I’ve loved it since it was Tweetie.

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Facebook

If you say you don’t have Facebook on your home screen, you’re lying.

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Flashlight

It gets dark in our house. Like, really dark. Since turning on the lights in the middle of the night would make my wife punch me in the throat, I need an easy to get to app to shine a light.

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iMExchange 2

I live in Outlook at work. And since the iPhone can’t natively sync with Outlook tasks, I use this app to keep track of everything I’m totally behind on completing.

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