This post is not about magic but is kind of related to my magic work. If you are like me, then you may spend a lot of time away from home and your computer. Keeping connected to the social world as well as keeping up with work while out an be difficult. To solve this in  the past year I have been using my iPhone to take advantage of dead time to keep up with my work, and fun while I am not around. I am a fan of using dead time  to be productive. So here is a list of the iPhone apps I use in no particular order to keep productive and connected.

Facebook  App
To keep connected to my magic and non magic social world I use the Facebook app. With it I can keep in contact with my friends when not at home as well as share my own experiences. Good thing about this app is that it is free. Can be downloaded at the app store here.

Twitbird Pro
I love Twitter. I don’t use twitter just to send messages and read about friends, but I use it to find local information as well as I read news and other updates. It is also a way to send out information on stuff I see and find. I have my Twitter connected to Fabebook, Friendfeed, as my website. So I use it as a way to connect to all these services. I have used many Twitter apps but I love Twitbird Pro. It allows me to make lists of my followers to I can easy check what one group of people in my interest sphere is doing. It also as a bunch of other great features you would think would only be on a desktop Twitter program. Twitbird Pro is here.

WordPress
I love this WordPress app. I can update my website blogs and pages from it. You can also post pictures to your posts from it. It allows you to connect to more than one WordPress site. So this is perfect for me to update this English blog as well as my Japanese version. I use it when I’m in a hotel at night to update or while traveling by trains. This great app can be found here.

Documents
This program allows you to edit, create and read, word and excel files plus others. It also connects to Google Docs so you can download and upload files you create or need to edit on the iPhone. This is a great way to keep up with work during dead time when you have free time in places like waiting for trains, planes etc. This app is here.

There are many more apps that I use along with some of the magic apps I use. I will introduce some other apps I use in a future blog posting. If you have some great app recommendations please let me know in the comments!
Aaron