is there an app for that?
I have an iPhone. To say that I love it is an understatement. It is so much more than a phone. It is practically a living creature in my life. I bought it, I gave it Apps, it treats me well. I hope it doesn’t get any diseases that need time away from Mommy.
Last month I downloaded a learning game for Seven. The Zoo Friends Matching Game or something like that. It was free. I imagined Sev wouldn’t have a clue what to do with it, as it’s pretty much a digital version of that cardboard Memory Game. But honestly, I showed him ONCE how to make a match, and he was off and running.
Dumbest thing I ever did, folks. That child at age 2 can flip through my iPhone faster than you can say Facebook. He can solve the 20 card Match Game in one minute flat. He can call my father or anyone else in my contact list on his own, and does so when I am not looking. He sends bizarre text messages to strangers. He loves the iPod feature. In his 2 year old world, here are the best loved Apps:
- Match Game (aka Match Game)
- Giraffe Game (aka Preschool Playground) His favorite of the “games” on this App? The picture taking setting “Photo Safari”. Different backgrounds, like a dessert, a waterfall, a room, the beach. You shuffle through items to add the the locale and then you can snap a picture of it, which is then placed in your actual Photo Library. His favorite thing to add to a picture? Shrubs. He LOVES the word shrubbery. (Get your mind out of the gutter.) And now? I have umpteen photos of his wild ass safari adventures, with couches on the seashore, coffee, zebras, flamingos and, umm, shrubbery.
- Scream Game (aka The Impossible Quiz) He just likes to get wrong answers and hear the screaming.
- Recipe Game (aka All Recipes) – He never loses, everyone’s a winner here.
- Cheese Game (aka the Digital Camera) – Hence…Cheese!
- Bucket Game (aka Paper Football) – Basically you just keep tossing a paper football into a trashcan. Mind numbing.
- Deer game (Some kind of Deer Hunting game. He’s a good shot.)
- Music Game (aka the iPod) He has his favorites out of my 400 songs, and knows how to find them on his own. Absolute faves? Galway Girl by Steve Earle, Cheater Cheater by Joey & Rory, All the Single Ladies by Beyonce, and anything at all by P!nk. Nothing like hearing your toddler sing about a “white trash ho.” Fantastic.
Now, those are HIS favorite Apps. Me? I love being able to get my mail, anywhere, anytime. I also like the Facebook updates and my Tweetdeck. Heck, I am even IN an iPhone App – Strawberries. I have a recipe in there for Devils Food layer cake. But as of yet, I don’t think they have developed the Apps I need.
Kiting App – (aka The App that shuffles money from one checking account to another until you can get to one of the banks to deposit some actual cash in it so that the electric company doesn’t turn off your lights.)
Coupon-Less App (aka the App that allows you to scan in the barcode from your Sunday Circular coupons and saves them there until you go to the store, then the cashier just downloads all of them from your phone)
The SweetJesusHelpMe App (aka the App that senses your frustration with a gabbing weirdo who WillNotShutUp and is creeping you out and you KNOW you could get away from if ONLY someone would just call. Maybe it could read your heart rate or something, and ring a little more loudly than usual.)
The Delivery App (aka The App that calls Food Lion to let them know you are out of milk, or sugar, or Toaster Strudel, and they send someone right up with it, your credit card being on file. And you get to stay in your pajamas.)
The Clapp (aka the App that can read from one touch whether or not it is safe to go to bed with that hottie at the bar. Gonorrhea? The HIV? Herpes? Find out before you put out. ) No, this is NOT an App I need, but wow, what a concept for all you single folk out there.
So…if YOU could develop an App, what would YOU want? Who knows, maybe Apple is reading…
