Garland Coulson, The E-Business Tutor

Many people justify their iPhone purchase by saying it will be used for serious stuff like keeping in touch, accessing email, and getting stock quotes.  Stuff to help their business, career or finance.

But the iPhone is much more useful than that!  Try setting up an iPhone for your favorite hobby and you will be very pleasantly surprised.

Here are some of the fun things I use it for.

1. iPhone Hiking on the beach

I love walking on the ocean beach near where I live. At low tide, I can find tidal pools with star fish, anemones and other sea creatures. My iPhone makes it a snap to find out when the low tides are with the Day Tides application and the weather app tells me how to dress for my hike.

2. iPhone Cooking

Like to cook? the iPhone Big Oven app has 160,000 recipes you can search along with ratings from other users.

3. iPhone For eBooks

I am a diehard science fiction and fantasy reader. Stanza has 1,000s of great free ebooks you can download to the iPhone along with the ability to buy current books. And when I am browsing offline book stores, I keep a copy of my book library list on my iPhone in pdf format so I can find books I am missing from my collection.

4. iPhone Astronomy

I recently got bitten by the stargazing bug. The iPhone has a wealth of helpful aps and resources for astronomy, including:

Clear Sky Chart – tells me what the seeing will be like tonight hour by hour.

Moon Atlas – lets me zoom and and know the names of lunar craters and other features.

Star Map Pro – A planetarium for my iPhone that helps me learn the night sky and find out what I can see tonight.

Astronomy Cast – Podcasts about astronomy I can liste to anywhere.

I was very pleasantly surprised that the iPhone made my hobbies and recreation much richer – not just my business life!

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