iPhone!!!

I finally have my iPhone! After putting one on reserve only last Friday, I was surprised to see it arrived already. But there it was! An email announced it available for pick up, so off I went! Apple Store handled everything so easily and smoothly. They ported over my number, my contacts on my previous phone, and got me all set up on AT&T. After seeing my old Nokia clam shell phone (on it's last legs of battery life and usefulness), the Apple Genius guy welcomed me to the 21st century. Yeah, I'm late getting into the smart phone world, but I wanted to wait until the iPhone had gone through a few more iterations with some better features. It helped that I was still tied to my old cell phone contract until earlier this year! I've only had it for a day, but I'm loving it! It's really a gorgeous piece of design.

In order to sync my iPhone to my MacBook at home, I had to upgrade my OS. I guess I could have just sync'ed with my PC netbook, but all my music files were on my MacBook, and it just seemed to be a headache to try to figure out how to move and sync all those files (not to mention downloaded apps and podcasts) to the netbook. I really don't want to saddle the netbook with too much either. Turned out I didn't have enough room on my computer to update my OS! So I decided to move all my iTunes files to an external drive. It was something I've meant to do for a while, so it was as good a time as any. Amazingly, it cleared out 44 GB off my hard drive! Wow! I also moved my iPhotos to the external, although, I'm not convinced they're really there! Since they didn't take much room, I decided to also keep the copy on my MacBook, just in case.

I downloaded some essentials like TextFree. What a great app! It's much needed since I signed up for only 200 txts/month. I want to keep my cell phone plan costs at a minimum because it always adds up! I also enrolled in my company's discount AT&T plan. It's not a lot, but it'll shave about $5-6/month. I'll take what I can get! That, in itself, will pay for the texting plan.

Here are some other great Apps I've downloaded:
MyPDFs Mobile PDF Viewer - for all those pdfs I'll be viewing for class
Brushes - express your inner Picasso!
Memari Match - been addicted to this for years from the creator's web site! Glad to see it on iphone
NYSubView Pro - great subway map
Shift - crazy game. I can't seem to get past the 4th one!
Dropbox -  I can't live without this! Access and view PDFs and notes across several desktops. Very useful when you're using a MacBook, PC netbook, work computer, and an iphone. This links all the files you need in one place so you don't have to keep track of multiple versions of files where you work on them.
LED Light for iPhone 4 - nifty light using the iphone 4 LED flash
Pandora - love, love this music app!
Med Calc - not that I'll need this very soon, but hey, it's free!
Epocrates - another one that's free. Good for browsing different medications, interactions, etc.

Off to enjoy more iPhone goodness! :)