Thing 9 - Taking & Editing Photos

I'm not really the photographer type.  I take the occasional photo on my phone while traveling, but really that's about it, and I haven't ventured by the standard camera and photo apps that came installed on my iPhone when I got it.  The apps in the Thing 9 were all pretty new to me, and I decided to try the Photo Editor by Aviary app.

I like how simple the app is, and the wide variety of features available.  Editing photos are easy, and it was interesting to scroll through the various effects, frames, etc.  While I don't see this app necessarily increasing the number of photographs I take, I do appreciate some of the things that will enable me to do with the ones I do.  In particular, adding text or captions to images is always something I wondered about.  I think that is an ability that might come in handy when I use my phone to take snapshots of equipment at my job for purposes of training or troubleshooting.  Personally, the app should make sharing my photographs an easier and even more fun experience.

Thing 8 - Social Media Management Tools

For this thing, I decided to try out the TweetCaster app.  While I've been on Twitter for quite some time, I've only ever used the official Twitter app.  Trying a different Twitter client was something I wanted to do for awhile.

One of the big draws of TweetCaster for me is the ability to post simultaneously to Twitter and Facebook.  I'm a pretty infrequent poster, but I like the idea of killing two birds with one stone when I do want to post something.  I also like the app's ability to filter things in my timeline, so I can just posts with pics, video, links, etc.

As for the appearance of the app, I like it slightly better than the Twitter app, but I don't like the advertising banners that show on the bottom.  Someone with clumsy fingers like myself tend to hit those by accident too often.

I do use Twitter to follow a number or library-related people, organizations, and vendors, so if I decide to keep TweetCaster as my Twitter client, then obviously this app will play a big role in my professional networking and development.