Posts tagged iPhone

The other morning, I woke up early from an uncomfortable hotel bed and decided to catalog the previous night’s food exploits in one of my favorite apps–Foodspotting.  (If you don’t know, Foodspotting is a cool social-networking type of app for logging and sharing cool foods from cool places with friends, strangers, and really anyone who loves to eat.)

Because my location was a bit remote (Watertown, SD), the restaurant at which I ate was not in the database.  No matter, I thought, I’ll simply add it.

Now if you know me, you’ll know that things like adding address and phone number information is something of a religious practice for me.  I’ve spent dozens of minutes in FourSquare and Foodspotting making sure that my locations are properly tagged, categorized, and addressed.  So when adding Dempsey’s (the joint in Watertown) to Foodspotting, I had to open Safari.  The problem?  The Foodspotting app was still “old school,” meaning it had not yet been optimized for iOS4, so I spent several frustrating minutes switching to Safari, copying this bit of address or menu item, and then reloading Foodspotting to enter and save the information.  Ugh.

Once finished with this ordeal, I launched a new email, intent on expressing my desire More >