As I mentioned yesterday, I got a iPhone over the weekend. Have you noticed how many commercials for the iPhone are running? They are for things called "apps". A lot of the apps you see advertised are actually free, but there are hundreds of them that you can buy, just like music from itunes.
These apps are pretty freaking cool. One of the apps I downloaded today was one of the recently advertised ones. It's called Urban Spoon. The phone can already find where you are on a map, so it uses that ability to also find restaraunts in your area of various cuisine types and price points and then randomly recommends one. If you like the price point, but not the cuisine, you can shake the phone and it does a little slot machine-type change of the area and cuisine and comes up with something new. You can lock the area, but "shake" the other two variables and come up with a different restaraunt. Pretty cool.
Another app, Shazam, will identify a song simply by holding the phone near the source of the music. In your car and hear a song and want it on your phone? Simply hit the app, hold the phone and it will identify the song and allow you to order it from iTunes and download it to your phone. Pretty awesome.
A third app, called Say Who?, will pull people out of your contact simply by saying their name into the phone speaker.
Yet another app lets you get onto Facebook quickly. Good stuff!!!!
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I begrudgingly admit those are cool, useful features.
I can see Ricardo and I waylaying you, grabbing your iPhone and using Urban Spoon to capture the restaurant selection process :)
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