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Five iPhone apps for the truly lazy

Summary: One of the great things about the iPhone (and the iPod Touch) is that there are so many ways you can use a smartphone now. With the thousands of applications available in the Apple iTunes store, there are so many ways to make your life easier right on your phone. But some of these applications take ease to a new level of laziness. Here's five of them.

Rachel King

By for The ToyBox |

One of the great things about the iPhone (and the iPod Touch) is that there are so many ways you can use a smartphone now. With the thousands of applications available in the Apple iTunes store, there are so many ways to make your life easier right on your phone.

But some of these applications take ease to a new level of laziness. Here's five of them.

1. Blower: For those who are too lazy to clean up a bit of dust or to blow out his or her own birthday candles (Who passes up a free wish? A lazy person), there's actually an iPhone app to do this. Blower actually generates air and blows air from the speakers of your phone - because you can't actually do that by breathing in, puckering your lips and exhaling.

2. Remote: While it might being able to use your iPhone as a remote to your iTunes playlist might be useful for parties, I can definitely see a bunch of lazy people using the Remote app just because they don't feel like getting up off the couch to change the song or playlist.

3. Sound Grenade: Sometimes applications are a result of lazy creators. CrunchGear reported that this app was created within the span of an hour, and from someone who has met iPhone app developers, good applications take actual thought and work. With a touch of a button, Sound Grenade can create a mind-numbing noise to drive people away. You could also just yell at them.

4. Instrument-replicator apps: There are a ton of iPhone apps that resemble pianos, guitars, you name it. One popular one is Ocarina, which turns your iPhone into a flute, and you play it by blowing into the speaker, tilting the phone around and pressing dots around the touchscreen for notes. While these might be an asset those who actually play instruments and just want some extra practice on the road, this is no way to learn an instrument or assert that you actually know how to play one. Take some real lessons with a real instrument!

5. Pizza Hut: You can order a pizza and receive it without ever having to talk to anyone, pick up (a landline) phone or turn on your computer. It only requires a few taps of the index finger on a touchscreen and getting up to answer the door when the delivery person arrives - unless you can find someone to do that for you.

Topics: Smartphones, Hardware, iPhone, Mobility

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  • Best App

    The best app is the digital scales... just step on your iphone and it will tell your weight.
    gtatransam@...
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  • RE: Five iPhone apps for the truly lazy

    April Fool?
    pregador27@...
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    • aye

      must be-even if air could be generated by blowing out of the speakers I highly doubt that you could blow into the speakers and expect the device to recognize that. Speakers just aren't designed for that.
      Bucky24
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    • Ummmm....

      I actually have the Pizza Hut app on my phone.
      It's nothing new.
      aep528
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  • RE: Five iPhone apps for the truly lazy

    I love the idea of the blower app, i mean really who wants someone's saliva all over the cake after they've blown it out?! lol
    aclinton7
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  • I just saw the humour in the name

    a small switcheroo, and us getting an "ipad" means apple getting "paid".
    ho ho very very funny Apple.
    stevey_d
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  • RE: Five iPhone apps for the truly lazy

    Rachel, You are young. There are many other apps that can fall in this same category. Once you are old enough those same apps may actually have functionality. With age "to lazy to" may equate to "barely can".
    jjjjbbbb
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  • Ocarina

    ((( "...this is no way to learn an instrument or assert that you
    actually know how to play one. Take some real lessons with a
    real instrument!" )))

    It's sad to see someone so young with such a closed mind.

    Ocarina has every bit as much right to be called a "real"
    instrument as other, more traditional, instruments. It has its
    own beautiful sound, with dynamic breath control, and its own
    elegant fingering system. It can be set to play in any key, and
    in any of eight different (scale) modes. True, it has a fairly
    limited range -- roughly an octave and a fourth -- but so
    does the recorder, the duduk, steel drums, carillons, and
    organ pedals, to name a few.

    I also take issue with the idea that playing the Ocarina is "no
    way to learn an instrument." Baloney. It's not like you just push
    a button or two, and beautiful melodies pour out of it. Each
    note has its own unique fingering, and it's no simple task to
    become expert at playing it, particularly when you add in the
    complexities of changing the scale mode. For the uninitiated,
    Ocarina is every bit as responsive and rewarding as learning to
    play an instrument like the recorder, and no less challenging.

    If Ocarina were indeed "an app for the truly lazy," then you
    (who, I'm assuming, has no musical talent) should be able to
    just pick it up and play whatever you want on it, right? Well,
    here's a challenge for you: see how long it takes you to play a
    nursery rhyme like Three Blind Mice, perfectly. My bet is, it
    takes you a week.
    buddhistMonkey
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