I have become obsessed with apps. ok obsessed may sounds wrong. but i love my apps and i find myself browsing at the appstore to find if there’s any good new apps to add?!! freak.

i have become reliant on this iphone which i feel there is pros and cons. but you have to live with the times yea? And some of the apps are really helpful in making my life more organized and goals more achieveable. and its not just about games. i only have a few games which i know i play at times. but the rest are really, more ‘life’ based. oh, and photography is the worst! in a good way. i never know i love taking pictures until all these cool photography apps came up!

If it’s any interest to anyone, you may see what are my faves:

On Photography:Camera+,PowerCam, Hipstamatic, Camera!, Leme Cam, Puddingcam,Photostudio, Pixlromatic. And these are just because of their filters!! I love filters. makes my otherwise boring pictures more interesting! but the downside is, it takes awhile to choose from all these filters i end up randomly choosing an app, take a picture and use whichever filters available. you need time to go through all these filters but i love them still. It actually makes me crave to travel so i can take pictures and use them filters!

On Life: I love the Notes and Reminders original apps. Very useful coz i dont need to bring my notebooks everywhere i go. But now I also have Wunderkit to organize my worklife and things to do. it helps me alot… because if many of you know about my work, i dont just handle the education unit, i do other things as well and there’s events i need to organize. so Wunderkit allows me to categorize my work into workspaces and it each space i can inlcude in tasks checklist and notes. makes my mind more organized la. otherwise, im like doing everything everywhere.

there’s the Organizer which i dont use as much except to organize my fridays, Money Journal organizer which makes me record my spendings and stop myself when i see the savings are decreasing. this really helps me alot in managing my financial. otherwise i always thought i have money to keep on spending without thinking. and i have diligently recorded my spendings and it gives a piechart of my expenses. so if i see a side of the piechart gets bigger by the day, i know i have to stop somewhere.

And then came Day One. when i need to write down short thoughts and feelings secret only to me. i have downloaded many other diaries app but none kinda stick with me. you know how when you choose diaries, you would really touch it and feel it calling to you and you know you are going to write in it everyday, it feels the same way when choosing a diary-like app. Day One attracted me most because its so neat and smart looking and touches of my fave turqoise colour. oh one rather cute thing about it, it reminds me to write! hehe.

and a Ritual lite app to track my habits. yes, it may sound weird but in trying to be a productive muslim, i need to know i do specific actions on a daily routine. and it’s actually like a motivator to see my checklist all ticked!

My Womanlog helps me track my menses. very useful for someone like me who have irregular menses. and… i just downloaded a workouts app which have many workout videos. im going to try and exercise haha!

On reading, people would have thought i have many apps because of my love for reading but no. i stick to goodreads at the moment, coz i am not yet much of an ebook reader. although i tried but it still gives me headaches reading from screen and mostly because, i think my eyes are tired looking at screens, it’s time to read from a real book. i cannot deny my love for real physical books still. so goodreads is just like an app version of shelfari, where i can keep up what books ive read and have reviews and recommendations on good new books coming up from the community.

Of all the Quran apps, i love Quran explorer and because i bought its full version, i am able to listen to various Qari. love the font and background as well. And Al-Qibla for in times of need for a Qibla compass. very useful.

and of course the semi essentials apps like twitter and tumblr and blogger although i still prefer to blog from a pc. oh yea, gotta love pinterest and flipboard for normal everyday updates. let’s not forget iTunes U. i can go crazy in there!! so many knowledge masya Allah!

to think ten years ago you can live without this but we have become so reliant on technology…shake my head..:))