{"id":965,"date":"2019-04-30T14:11:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T21:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2019-04-30T14:11:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T21:11:50","slug":"apping-for-better-or-worse-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/30\/apping-for-better-or-worse-mfrwauthor\/","title":{"rendered":"APPing: For Better or Worse? #MFRWauthor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"515\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/reluctantly-apped-mfrwauthor\/depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_apps\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS.jpg?fit=393%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"393,499\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS.jpg?fit=393%2C499&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-515 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS.jpg?resize=153%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Apps, apps, and more apps\" width=\"153\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS.jpg?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_13629581_s-2015_APPS.jpg?w=393&amp;ssl=1 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 85vw, 153px\" \/>Are you married to your APPs? If so, you might be wasting a good bit of time. I wouldn\u2019t say I\u2019m tied to my APPs\u2014and I don\u2019t have very many of them\u2014but I do have an on-again-off-again love affair with a few of them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solitaire: This is my all time favorite time-wasting APP. I play Solitaire when I\u2019m bored, when I\u2019m watching\/listening to my Investigate Discovery shows, when I\u2019m doing the same to the news, or when hubby says he\u2019ll be on the computer for a few minutes and I don\u2019t want to pick up the Kindle. It\u2019s a good all-around APP!<\/li>\n<li>News APP: I check my favorite news APP at least twice a day.<\/li>\n<li>Weather APP: I keep up with my weather, my mom\u2019s, my in-laws\u2019, and West Yellowstone. Why West Yellowstone? Just because.<\/li>\n<li>Text: When needed.<\/li>\n<li>Google Maps: If I\u2019m watching something and a town is mentioned, I must know where that town is.<\/li>\n<li>Google: I use this stupid APP&nbsp;<em>all the time<\/em>! Can\u2019t tell you all the silly thing I look up. If an actress looks familiar, I have to know where else I\u2019ve seen her. If someone mentions a constitutional amendment, I have to know what that amendment says. What did we do before Google? We spent more time at the library and less time looking up a thousand times a day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are pretty much the only APPs I use. I wish I could delete the extra ones Apple puts on the phones that I will never use but I push them to the back screens. I would say that most of the APPS I listed above are time <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"516\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/reluctantly-apped-mfrwauthor\/woman-gaming-cards-on-phone-in-the-park\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_89395090_s-2015_Solitaire.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 60D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;lifestyle concept: young woman with solitaire app on phone at the park. All screen graphics are made up. 3D generated.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1312238233&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0166666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;woman gaming cards on phone in the park&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"woman gaming cards on phone in the park\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_89395090_s-2015_Solitaire.jpg?fit=500%2C333&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-516 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_89395090_s-2015_Solitaire.jpg?resize=194%2C129&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The ubiquitous Solitaire\" width=\"194\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_89395090_s-2015_Solitaire.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Depositphotos_89395090_s-2015_Solitaire.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 85vw, 194px\" \/>wasters. I got along for the vast majority of my life without having weather, Google, Solitaire, etc. at my fingertips and led a very happy life. I think I could have gone the rest of my life without them. But since I <em>do<\/em> have them\u2026 Pardon me while I go play a game of Solitaire.<\/p>\n<p>Read the next blog in the blog hop by going <a href=\"http:\/\/mfrw52week.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nomadauthors.com\/deesknight\/\">Dee<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2q7ovi4\">Only a Good Man Will Do<\/a>: Seriously ambitious man seeks woman to encourage his goals, support his (hopeful) position as Headmaster of Westover Academy, and be purer than Caesar&#8217;s wife. Good luck with that!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2q7Jp0S\">Naval Maneuvers<\/a>: When a woman requires an earth-shattering crush of pleasure to carry her away, she can&#8217;t do better than to call on the US Navy. Sorry, Marines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you married to your APPs? If so, you might be wasting a good bit of time. I wouldn\u2019t say I\u2019m tied to my APPs\u2014and I don\u2019t have very many of them\u2014but I do have an on-again-off-again love affair with a few of them. Solitaire: This is my all time favorite time-wasting APP. I play &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/30\/apping-for-better-or-worse-mfrwauthor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;APPing: For Better or Worse? #MFRWauthor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,3,1],"tags":[558,8,249,250,253,560,247,248,559],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-information","category-general","category-uncategorized","tag-apps","tag-dee-s-knight","tag-google-app","tag-google-maps","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-apps","tag-solitaire","tag-weather-app","tag-west-yellowstone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-fz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}