Oh Snap!

While we’re on the subject of vacationing, how many times have you arrived at your destination only to realize that you’ve forgotten your charger, memory card or (in our case) the whole damn camera? Back to the gift shop, right? Nope. iPhone’s camera certainly won’t replace your PowerShot, but it’ll take a decent pic of Mount Rushmore--or at least as decent as the $25 Kodak single-use your hotel is selling.

 

Feel the burn

It won’t shout slogans of encouragement, but then again, it won’t cost $50 an hour, either. With a smorgasbord of apps that count your calories, plan your workout and keep your health on track, you’ll never again have to endure a guilt trip from your personal trainer or feel the shame of trying to do push-ups in front of a gym full of muscle-bound freaks.



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Tune up

It’s not that we don’t look fondly on those endless hours of music lessons and choir practice we suffered through as wee MacHeads, but we can’t help but be a little jealous of iPhone’s musical prowess. Not only can you scratch records, pound drums, bang a cowbell and blow into a flute, now you can sing like T-Pain, too. Man, where was the App Store when we were butchering "Mary Had a Little Lamb" for Mrs. Schloenberg?






Flash flood warning


From vocabulary words to the periodic table of elements, we would have had a much easier time keeping track of our flash cards if they weren’t scrawled on dozens of 3-by-5-inch pieces of card stock. And if we had an iPhone when we were seven, maybe we could have found a more creative use for index cards.

 

Day planner man, fighter of the iPlanner man

Our life was never important enough to keep track of in a tiny Trapper Keeper, but now that we all have iPhones, we finally get it. Our digital day planner has suddenly given us a whole bunch of reasons to cram our calendar, address book and journal with all sorts of crucial information.





Don’t cry for me

Few apps are cooler than Babyphone, designed to replace the pricey baby monitors all new parents are obliged to buy. Simply place your iPhone by your baby’s crib, input a secondary phone number, and iPhone will give you a ring when baby wakes up. (And if you don’t have a newborn, it works just as well to catch co-workers rattling around in your lunch bag.)




My fake plastic love

These days, you don’t need a business degree to launch a Web site and open a small business. Thanks to the iPhone, you don’t have to drop a bunch a dough on a clunky credit card reader, either. Of course, you’ll have to make the sale first, but iPhone will take care of the rest--and keep your customers’ pockets clear of all those annoying pieces of paper with your company’s name plastered all over it.