Because I have been sharing my favorite online tools lately, I am just going to share them everyone. Easy, right? My tech gadgets that I carry around with me are:
- Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tablet
- HTC Rezound
- HTC Thunderbolt
- Nikon D40
- Nintendo 3DS XL
- Gateway LT2022u (old, but works wonderfully) that dual boots Peppermint and Windows 7.
- Pocket One of my favorite methods of queueing things for later, Pocket is awesome. I have a bunch of recipes on IFTTT.com (I will link this later) that make it easy to catch up with my reading articles that I don't always catch myself.
- IFTT - This is a tool to essentially queue things, save images, send SMS reminders, things like that. You can also browse other recipes people have made and customize them for yourself. My favorite recipes are instagram picture save to dropbox, XKCD to my email, random articles from National Geograpic and Wikipedia to my Pocket, and more.
- Slice - I order a lot, so I have an obsessive issue about tracking my packages. Introduced to me by my wonderful friend Mandy, Slice is a nifty tracker, because it imports tracking info from my email. Say Woot sends me a shipping notification... Slice imports it, with the item information and the tracking number, and auto updates on my phone for me. The downside is that if you pay for something online (like a Pandora sub), it will try and track that too. But hey, take a few seconds, delete it, and enjoy the rest of the service.
- Podbay - Podbay on my phone and tablet is how I feed my horrible podcast addiction. Mainly Welcome to Night Vale, and a few others. Clean running, simple, and not a space hog because it doesn't download them.
- Spotify - Spotify is hands down my favorite thing for music, and it has been for a couple years now. Sharing playlists, collaborating on them, and streaming or downloading for offline play makes this the gem of my app collection. I fork over for premium on this, because I have enough devices that I don't like being limited.
- Run Keeper - I have loved Run Keeper for a couple years now, and having a FitBit linked to it makes it so much better. GPS tracking on your runs/hikes/walks, saved maps with your stats, and more.
- Fitbit - After seeing my friends with their FitBits, I caved and got a pink Zip one. The integration with Run Keeper is fantastic, and it usually motivates me to get off my ass more. Usually.
- Relax M.P. - I use this almost every night. I set a timer for 3 hours, put on a combo of rain, ocean, storm, and other noises, and it puts me right to sleep. You can also use it as an alarm, but I use it solely to drift off to sleep. For an alarm, I use...
- Sleep as Android - The multiple, customisable alarms make it perfect for me. Workday alarms, random reminder alarms, and weekend reminder alarms. I don't feel like I miss much. And the alarm I use to wake up gradually gets louder. They also have captcha alarms and math alarms, if that's your thing. You can track your sleep patterns with it, but I always forget to set it, so I don't use that feature.
- Tweetcaster - Simply because I can zip key words and phrases. And because it's clean.
