iPhone 5 vs. EVO 4g

I have for the past 4 months gone on about the supremacy of Android over the iPhone. However, as an owner of the Evo 4g from Sprint, I have experienced a few difficulties, which I'm sure all of you have heard (the short battery life, the too-large screen, the uncomfortableness to hold in one hand, etc.). I am not saying that this phone is a bad phone, in fact, the Evo has repeatedly beat phones that try to match up with it in the CNET showdown. Nevertheless, after a year and a half of frustration, I learned that the iPhone is coming to Sprint next month. With this new information, I face a dilemma. I have spent the past few years of my life, telling people and writing here that there is no reason to get an iPhone, or that if one doesn't have one and has a Mac, it isn't necessary to switch. That I believe isn't so true anymore.

Don't mistake this as a sheep kind of thing, that just because it will become available on my carrier, I need an iPhone now. I am simply weighing my options with a new and revamped version of the phone that I have been bashing. (Maybe bashing isn't the right word for it). In any case, I have looked at the new iOS, (don't ask me how), and I have seen advances that I could possibly get behind. However, how does one go about switching?

The question that I have been asking myself is, what if the problems that I find with the force closing and the freezing, is me? What if the problem is me? I have gone through 11 phones in my eight years of cell phone using. And if the problem is me, will a shiny new phone fix all the problems?

The iPhone definitely has something to offer with the new iOS 5, however these are features that Android  has had for a while and if one was to look at this simply, why fix what really isn't broken?

What I'm really asking for is help.  

Back to School Mac Applications

I'm in the process of back to school shopping and I think what bothers me the most about it, is that the things that are on sale are things that you don't really need. As a college student, you don't really need a binder or a notebook because you have a laptop. While some professors tell you not to use laptops in their class, they are few and far between. So, I would like to aid you, if you have a Mac (I think I'll release a PC version of this article soon), here are a few programs that you can use if you are feeling like you need a little organization for back to school.

1. Evernote (Free!)

I know I have spoken great praises about this program before in my post about the 5 Best Mac / Android Sync Apps; however, It has been very beneficial to me when I have needed to do research for a project, or even share notes with a classmate. It is set up into Notebooks, which in turn have Notes, like a notebook would have pages. The best thing about it is the versatility of it, there are plugins for the most popular browsers and applications for both PC and Mac and various mobile devices. A new feature that has been added with the newest update is audio notes, which makes recording lectures a breeze, letting one type notes, and fill in the rest later when reviewing.

2. Circus Ponies' Notebook (29.99, special education pricing)

Though it doesn't sync with anything but the iPhone, it is still a great notebook, with features such as search and a index that keeps track of the words used and in what quantity, and other great things. With a two different ways to search, this notebook is higher preferable to paper, because of the sheer ease of the search and of the organization. Instead of running out of paper when you make sections for each class in a five subject notebook, there is limitless space, (well as much as your hard drive can handle). With features, like sticky notes and graph making, it really is as handy as a real paper notebook, without the hassle of losing it, because of the auto save feature.

3. Opus Domini (8.99, Mac App Store)

This personal planner sync with iCal and gives one a place to plan out projects and goals. There is a lite (free) version of it as well, but they are pretty much the same thing. There is a section of blank space on each day which allows you take notes, write reminders for later, or anything else you want to do. It looks like a planner, and you will feel more organized when you use it.





4. Stickies (Comes with the Mac)

The little sticky notes can take permanent residence on your desktop, as a constant reminder of whatever it is that you need to do. You can make them into different colors and different sizes. I was never a big fan of sticky notes because they could never quite stick to the places that I wanted them to. Not sticky enough. However, this is perfect. Especially because it doesn't take up much RAM, which means that you have as many notes on your desktop as you want.

Because I'm not a PC user, I want to know what, you who are, use.
Post in the comments about applications that you have found that have helped you get organized over the years. The best ones will be featured in the next post. 

Hiatus

I know that I have abandoned this blog, but I don't mean to. Things are very hectic for me and for the longest, I have wanted to finish something that I have started. Since I hope that I will keep on living, I will keep on writing. However, I have a lot of stuff of my plate. Getting ready for law school, figuring out what I really want to accomplish with my life. I think the hardest thing out of all of this is trying keep true to my creative side, which has recently been lost in the research papers and homework. So I think that for that moment, I will take a hiatus. When I have time, I will write and perhaps I will try to make it a weekly thing at least. I was really trying to do it everyday, as you can see, but I just couldn't do it.

I hope that you subscribe to my blog, so that you can read the occasional tidbit or clever rant or tangent. I hope that you don't give up on me and do read what I have written. In the meantime, I will be going to school and overwhelming myself to the greatest extent.

Pray for me, readers, or whatever it is that you do, to whomever it is you will.
And I will return the favor, like I always have and always will.

My New Found Gamer Girl Title

I started dating this guy about a year ago and at the time, I wasn't completely aware of his Gamer status or that he was even into those sort of things. I just thought that he was like most people that I knew who were his age. I knew no one his age, however, as our relationship grew, I wanted to do more things with him that interested him. So I downloaded Steam, which is a gaming platform; it caters mostly to the PC gamers, as there are only 100 games for the Mac users. All of the games offered for Mac are also available for PC, under a category called Steam Play. The only problem with the Mac games is that there aren't very many games and of those games they are either from the really big production companies or very kiddish.

Recently, there has been a huge sale on entire catalogs from production companies. Last sunday being the last day for such sales. However, I feel like I have discovered a new part of myself. I don't know if that is a particularly good thing. There is a feature of Steam called the Steam Rating and it is a rating based on how many hours a user plays every two weeks. I'm at a 8.5 out of 10.

I'm talking in the gamer lingo, which scares me. At the same time, I am at a point that I can hang out with my boyfriend without having to be in the same room as him, and this is a good thing because I'm moving away in a few weeks.

Check out Steam, especially the sales.