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[cjvitek]

I am a biology professor/researcher, and I use the iPhone all the time! Ranging from field work, to in the class, and in the lab, having an iPhone comes in handy in any number of ways. There really isn't a "typical day" because my routine may vary so much, but i use the iPhone in just about every facet of my job!

If I am in the field, I use the GPS capabilities both when driving to field locations (Navigon and Magellan GPS apps are great) as well as identifying the actual GPS coordinates of various field sites (and of course taking pictures of the field sites is always important as well!). Of course, having continual access to email while I am in the field for multiple days at a time means I can keep in touch with the activities going on in my lab in my absence. And I don't need to worry about bringing a notebook with me - I can record the information directly on the iPhone notebook app! I often find my best ideas for new research projects come to me when driving back and forth from the field - now, when I think of something, I just use the voice recorder to record a memo so that I don't forget it (since I am an absent minded professor, after all).

In the lab, using Convert when trying how to mix up solutions and convert units for measurements is helpful - it makes me seem much smarted to my students. And when I am feeding colony mosquitoes by sticking my arm in the cage (yes, I do that), I can try to tune out the discomfort by listening to some tunes from my phone. In addition, I can use the timer app to let me know when my feeding schedule is over (and then it is time for my students to take their turn, bwah-hah-hah-hah!).

And lastly, in the classroom, when I am giving a test, rather than sit looking bored while students are frantically trying to remember everything they know about disease transmission models, I can amuse myself with a nice game of Jewel Quest or Battleships (sound off, of course). If I decide to actually be productive while my students are taking a test, I can use the Papers app to read some new manuscripts that have come out so I can keep on top of the research in my field.

Having these handy applications available at the touch of a button (figuratively) means that I don't have to lug extra equipment. And when the day is done, I can settle down and play a game of cribbage against my wife with the peer to peer connect option, as I wind down thinking about what I need to do the next day!

Chris

[Hack-My-I]

1. I work for the Feds in the Newark, NJ/ NY Area and I am a US Customs and Border Protection Officer (thats right, we are the ones who pulled that NYC terrorist off the plane a few weeks ago).

2. I wake up to my iPhone playlist from my alarm app (it motivates me) and 1st thing i do is check emails, sms, and missed calls --if any. I check News7(NY news) and the Whitehouse app for any breaking news or any news for that matter. I check ESPN app for any games i missed. I then begin my daily morning post on FB. I open my starbucks app and create an order for my favorite daily Mocha ready to be picked up to start my day at work.

3. Now while im in my office at work, while browsing thru gov't emails, i also open my To-Do List app to check out what i have to get done for the day. This list is updated by me daily so im constantly using this app. Now depending on how my day is going... If im involved in a drug seizure which i get alot of those, i use the camera to take tons of pix of what narcotics we seized and if there was a suspect involved, i take the mugshot of them using my iPhone camera(i have pix to prove it ).Also, when i work in Nogales, Arizona on the Southwest Land Border for a Tour of Duty (Yes that place you hear about on the News), I use my VIN Hunter Pro app to scan any cars VIN before passing into Mexico to make sure they match because they could be stolen.

4. Now finally after a hard day at work, I open up NFS or Chop Chop Ninja games and relax myself before doing it all over again tomorrow

As you can see, i use my iPhone quite a bit while at work. I wouldnt be surprised if these become standard issued That would be great actually...

Most Used Apps for Work:
1. Alarm Pro w/ playlist
2. News 7 and Whitehouse App
3. ESPN and Starbucks App (I need my daily dosage of sugah lol)
4. To-Do List App
5. iPhone 3G|s| Camera (its full of mugshots and Seizures)
6. Video Games (Yes Really!)

...Take care everyone

[lexken]

1.My job, then one that pays me when I'm not carting kids to all form of activities, is an attorney in Texas.
2.I use my iphone from the time I wake up until I go to sleep at night. For the work day specifically I use my iphone in normal and not so normal ways every day. During the average workday I use the iphone to check email when away from my desk, review documents, and communicate via phone, email or text with the office and/or clients. I utilize the iphone for these purposes when in the conference room, a cowokers office, in the car, the courthouse, at depostitions and at lunch. It is my office in the palm of my hand. Recently, while in an airport, I used the phone for a four hour hearing (thanks to the Judge who allowed this); however, I do not believe I will attempt a hearng on my iphone at an AIRPORT TERMINAL in the near future. The phone worked fantastically but I had to keep it on mute for most of the time.
3.My job is exponetially easier with the quick sync of my office and personal emails and the automatic sync of my office calendar. I love having the ability to view an email while speaking withsomeone, or even playing the frequent game of Words With Friends while listening to music.
4. Top 5 apps - Words With Friends for the quick break in the stress of the day; Loose It which assists me in the Legal Fitness Competition; Facebook to let me know what all my friends (family, work associates, etc.) are doing in their real lives; Amazon Kindle to read and get away from a bit of reality; and the Chase app so I can make sure I can pay the bills. These all get me through the work day plus some. Okay back to work.

[JimmySlo]

I'm resubmitting my story without the company name...

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I am a clown in a travelling circus currently touring North America.

Before, during (in the dressing room), and after the show, I have my head buried in my iPhone 3GS. Reading blogs, checking the news, and especially checking a Twitter search for the name of my show. I like to get a feel for what the audience buzz is before the show, as it could help with my pre-show improvisation in the Big Top. At intermission, audience members fire up their phones and tweet about how the show is going thus far and what they think. I'm right there, in real time getting feedback. Same thing after the show. I'm also checking for discount ticket deals (before the company tells us) so I can blitz that info out, surreptitiously helping get butts in seats.

Using my iPhone to check the Twitterverse before the show has come in very handy, and it adds a surreal, hyper-modern, meta-theatrical element to my performance. And sometimes, a certain someone, may be singled out in a very unique way.

Every once in a while, more often than I'd like I run across a tweet like this:

Off to the lame circus with my family despite a particular dislike of clowns.

Now right off the bat, he's just knocking the circus, eluding that he's probably just gonna have a bad time no matter what. But add to that, he mentions the clown thing. Anyone who knows me knows I don't take too kindly to clown haters. But I thought I'd let it go. Then, less than an hour later, he pushes further:

"Coulrophobia is abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns." Bugger off! If there's anything that's abnormal or exaggerated, it's a clown.

Okay, so the guy is starting to have an annoyingly good time with his clown-bashing venom, and does so by popping onto Wikipedia for some zinger fodder. I'm trying to keep my cool. A follower of his pipes in, somewhat ignorantly:

Last I checked, there aren't really clowns at that circus...

To which our first guy says:

My ass there are no clowns!. It's like the friggin' Blaire Witch Project with grease paint.

And with that, I held my tongue no longer. During the show I wrote to him, knowing full well he'd read it at intermission:

"Blair Witch Project with grease paint" Great line! Hope we didn't totally ruin your night. See you in your nightmares!

Intermission rolls around. This pops up:

RT "Hope we didn't totally ruin your night. See you in your nightmares!" From the clown. In the show. On stage!

And then three minutes later:

Totally p0wn3d — or should that be c70wn3d by a clown from somewhere in the tent about 2 minutes into intermission.

And then five minutes after that, directly to me:

Well played. Truly well played, my funny friend. How on earth did you even see my tweet? I'm not sure if I'm reassured or freaked.

Then my fellow clown in the show chimed in to both of us:

Why don't you two just get a room? Geez.

To which I respond to both of them:

Well I DO know where he's sitting. Hint: Look behind you!

Quoth the guy:

aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

And then even his wife got in on the action:

This is [his] wife and I SO want to tell you where we're sitting.

Despite my encouragement, she didn't. At the end of the show, our guy gives his final thoughts:

I had a great time, guys, and should be able to sleep with the lights off in a few weeks.

Mission accomplished? Have I won this guy over? By playing into his bullcrap fear or hatred of clowns, have I turned him around?

I'm mostly tickled by the idea of using Twitter on my iPhone as another performance layer. Meta-cyber-theatricality. Taking audience reactions, or or just their thoughts, from the web and using them in the performance. At one point in the show when I'm screaming with fear, I screamed this guy's Twitter handle, followed by "I'm...so...scared!!" ala Blair Witch Project.

The evil clowns just got evil-er.

That's just one example of keeping "real time" on the audience I'm about to "entertain" thanks to my iPhone.

The apps I'm using most at work are:
1) TwitBird Pro
2) Foursquare
3) NetNewsWire
4) iPod (listening to podcasts for an hour while putting on makeup)
5) UkeChords (no clown is complete without his ukulele)

Thanks for reading!

[bsugarman]

I work in an MS Exchange/Office environment. I use MS OneNote to manage all of my notes, todo's, etc. However, I can't take my laptop everywhere (wish I had an iPad). So, I found a great little app called MobileNoter which allows me to read my OneNote notes and take new
notes. I should also note thy my company is a Blackberry shop. I dislike my BB so much that I forward all of my calls to my iPhone. I'd rather use my own minutes than talk on that brick!

[canamera]

Originally Posted by Jellotime91

1. Graphic / Web Designer

2. I use the email app more than anything to regrettably communicate with people who have no idea what they are talking about..

3. Mail to talk to clients, Phone to have them waste my minutes, Safari for looking at the ridiculous websites they want their product to look like, PS Mobile for quick proofing (rarely, but it's come in handy), LogMeIn Ignition to access files on the go.

You don't really seem to like your job!!!!

[mike_1705]

Just Mail, and Navigation sometimes

[TuffGrrl]

Tell us a bit about yourself!
My online name is TuffGrrl and I’m a fashion student, and a fashion blogger

Tell us a bit about a typical day in your life!
I usually start my day around 6.30 am, waking up to the “Bell Tower” alarm on my 32 gig white iPhone 3Gs and do my usual morning rituals (bath and the like! it’s a girl thing =P) Then over breakfast I check the morning news using the “Kompas” and “Jakarta Globe” app, a TuffGrrl needs her news you know (and yes, I think I accidentally told you guys where I live... oops!)

I decided to go green today and take the bus to campus, so I quickly opened up the TransJakarta app for the bus routes and schedules. On the bus, I read through my emails using the mail app while listening to some Kate Walsh or Ingrid Michaelson on the iPod app.

On campus, I still have about 30 minutes til the class starts so I decided to update my Twitter and drool over Miu Miu’s deerskin leather tote on the Net-a-Porter app. After class, I sneaked into the photography studio with a couple of my girls and ate our lunch there afterwards we drowned ourselves with fashion frenzy using the Net-a-Porter and Style.com app and took cool pictures with the Hipstamatic app.

I LOVE MONDAYS! Our class ended around 1pm so my girls and I decided to grab some dessert at this new cafe, problem is... we don’t know where it’s at! Good thing I have buUuk on my iPhone (psst..we even got discount coupons from buUuk!.. and of course the maps app <3

After I got home and connected to the home wifi(which is just OH-SO fast! LOL), I logged on Skype and saw my boyfriend online. We talked for hours, I almost forgot to update my blog! around 7.30pm I surfed the web on Safari, looking for inspirations from Susie Bubble’s blog, Tavi’s blog, and Michelle Koesnadi’s Glisters and Blisters blog

Around 10pm I re-setted my alarm on my iPhone and went to bed, eagerly waiting to wake up tomorrow morning

XOXO,

TuffGrrl

What are your top 5 Apps?

1. iPod
2. Net-a-Porter
3. Hipstamatic
4. Style.com
5. Skype

[Thudstaff]

I'm faculty at a two-year college where I teach in and manage the mechanical maintenance program. I also provide technical training services to companies in my area.

My phone is an integral part of my day. During the school year (I'm off now for the most part!), I tend to work very long days; it's not uncommon for me to work several 15 hour days as I teach day and night classes. My phone is my conduit to my students. Though my school won't pay for or even subsidize my phone, it is my preferred method to communicate with them and is worth the personal cost. I require my students to contact me if they can not make it to class. Texting is the primary means for doing this but calling me works fine also as well as sending email. Furthermore I encourage students to call/text/email me outside of class if they have questions regarding assignments which they readily do. I have some training materials (video) on my phone as well. It is my backup when something goes wrong in the classroom or when I'm on site with a client. The AV cable is a must-have for me in situations like this. While pricey, the few times I've needed to use it easily justified the cost.

I use the camera on my phone quite a bit to take pictures of lab work students are doing as well as interesting thing I see when working at a client's facility. Instead of emailing the pictures, I copy/paste into an email and send it thus preserving the higher resolution picture for use in my classroom. It's a small thing for sure, but having the larger image to work with is helpful in visually getting my point across.

My must-have apps are nothing special in the grand scheme of things. The include the Calendar (there is no way I could do my job well without the ability to manage my time commitments), Messaging (a critical link to my students), Email (I've provided academic counseling while on vacation via my email client), Docs To Go (did I mention I'm a full-time doctoral student?) and Safari (having the web at my fingertips is phenomenal). Most of the other apps I have are games, because sometimes you just need a release!

[trooperoutlaw]

I am in law enforcement and I use my iPhone everyday for work.

I use the iPhone's email app for my agency's email. It works great and helps me stay up to date on my agency email when accessing a computer isn't possible.

Evernote is great for courtroom testimony. I use it to quickly access case notes I have saved, as well as accessing case law I have saved into my Evernote. It is also great for taking a snapshot of a subpoena or business card and having it searchable after you sync. Other than email and calendar, Evernote is my most used app.

Spanish for Police app is amazing and has proven to be beneficial to me in my job. When talking to a spanish speaking people, it is almost impossible to communicate without this app. (for me at least).

I use iPhone's calendar app for all my scheduling. I think it is perfect for my uses. It does everything I want it to as well as keeping in sync with my Macbook Pro. I mostly use it to keep track of my appointments and court dates.

iOwn is a great inventory app that is helpful. I use it to keep up with items and serial #'s of both personal and agency owned equipment. Unfortunately, it has been pulled from the app store due to some type of trademark infringement from what I can tell.

Errands is a great app for keeping up with certain tasks that need to be done. I use it to keep track of certain citations I want to keep track of and see the disposition after adjudication. I like it because it puts the little number icon on the app so it is easy to see how may tasks that are left to complete.

My top 5 would be eMail, Calendar, Evernote, Spanish for Police, and Errands.

The iPhone is a very useful tool in law enforcement. However, not many of my fellow officers use them (at least in my area). A lot of the officers are carrying more rugged type phones.