10 on the 10th

I’ve had a iPhone for about a month now and here are a list of ten of my favourite apps.

 

1. Momento (Diary/Journal)

It’s a great app for writing down little memories you want to keep, you can attach pictures, and the feed from your Facebook and Twitter accounts (you can delete the posts you don’t saved).  It’s making Project Life journaling really easy as it helps remind you what you did that day.

 

2. Facebook

 

I just have the basic Facebook app it’s great for checking updates adding messages and generally what you want to do on Facebook on the go.

 

3. Goodreads

Links to my Goodreads account, so when I’m out and about with my Kindle if I forget the reading order of a series of books I can go right there and get it and read lots of reviews.

 

4. Amazon Mobile

I love being able to price check whether it is cheaper to buy things on Amazon or in the store I am in.  I also love that I managed to order my brother-in-laws birthday present while I was stood in the pizza queue at Asda.

 

5. thetrainline

It’s a great app to either buy train tickets, or just to check the time of the next train to your destination. You can set your home station and then just select what time is the next train home.

 

6. Free App Magic

Everyday it gives you three apps that are usually paid for for free. You can choose whether you download them or not.

 

7. TV Guide.co.uk

Since I only buy a tv guide at Christmas, it’s great to be able to check what time the program I want to watch is on and you can set reminders to tell you something is on.

 

8. Paint Sparkles Draw

 

My three year old niece loves this app, she always want draw on my phone and it’s great to keep her entertained while we’re shopping.

 

9. Magic Piano

I’ve completed most of the levels – I’ve gotten to the one where you have to play at thousand different songs to 3stars level, it does give you a free song every couple of days so i don’t have to buy them.

 

10. Magic Guitar.

I’m loving this too, I’m still working through this and you get free songs on this one two.

 

There are my top ten favourite apps right now.

 

What are yours?

 

Shanna xx

Project Life–Week 1

Here is my completed layout for week one of project life 2012.  I used the Becky Higgins Cobalt Version from www.jessicasprague.com  and a piece of wordart from one of the Life 365 kits from www.weedsandwildflowerdesigns.com 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ve already set up the page for new week. I’ve placed all the journaling spots and date stickers, all I have to do is drop in the pictures and journaling and it only took 9 and 1/2 minutes (yes I timed it).  1 week down 51 to go.  

Shanna.

Evernote

I’m home sick today, I managed to catch the cold/flu bug that’s been going around which in itself is enough it triggered an attack of my hiatal hernia so every time I sit up it feels like someone is squeezing my stomach and every time  I cough it gets worse.  So I’m lying here in my bed playing on my computer.  I’ve been working through my ancestors on ancestry.co.uk, I’m back to the 11th Century.  As I’ve been Googling to do some further research I keep coming up with pages I want to book mark so I can refer back to them.  As you can imagine my bookmark list was getting rather long, Googling I to see if I could find something to help I came up with Evernote.

 

I first heard of Evernote as one of I think Izzy’s product picks on the Paperclipping Round Table or  The Digi Show  but didn’t really pay attention to it. But since it’s free application (for the basic package) I downloaded it onto my computer and my iPhone.

 

I’ve been playing and clipping snippets of webpages for a few hours now and it’s great to have the bit of information I want stored in a specific notebook and it has a link to the page I got it from so if I want to go back for more information I can.

 

So far it seems to be working well.

 

Shanna.

Fortune cookie wisdom

And my fortune cookie says

Be Active

In the spirit of my One Little Word Be, I thought I would begin with BE ACTIVE.

 

I ordered and received Zumba 2 for the Wii from Amazon.  I received it December 31st.

I started using it January 1st. One medium intensity short class (30minutes) a day.  It’s exhausting but I think it will be good for my stamina so I can eventually get back to Biggest Loser Challenge Wii game.  I have the original Wii Zumba but I like this one a lot better.

Also yesterday my sister and I took my niece and their dog for a walk around our local lake.  We got caught in a hail storm but luckily we had brought umbrella’s and the ducks didn’t mind.

It’s only been three days but I think this one little word thing is going to work.

Shanna.

Books I read in December

In December I completed my read 200 books challenge, I actually read about 215.  I’m going to take up the challenge in 2012 and have set a goal of about 300 for the year.

Magic on the Line by Devon Monk (7th in the Allie Beckstrom series)

 

Guardians of Eternity series by Alexandra Ivy

 

The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks

 

Lords of the Underworld Series by Gena Showalter

 

Illuminated by Erica Orloff

 

Warped by Maurissa Guibord

 

Chicagoland Vampires by Chloe Neill

 

I also re-read the Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews

 

30 books

Shanna xx