Using Your iPhone In Your Job

[patrickj]

How much or how little do you use the iPhone as a tool in your job?

Will this change when Exchange support and some better security and Apple-approved apps come along this summer?

[IphoneTony]

Great topic

I use my iphone at work all the time... but it has nothing to do with my job..
Wait I am wrong I write my schedule down in the calender and sometimes take notes on the yellow notepad...

Most of the time I am taking pics of stuff at work, and checking travian and my fantasy baseball team

[patrickj]

Originally Posted by IphoneTony

Great topic

I use my iphone at work all the time... but it has nothing to do with my job..

Ha - same here - think we may all be guilty on that one

[psylichon]

Actually, quite a bit.

Working at a studio, I find the multimedia stuff very useful. The computers we use are on the internet, but safari cannot access the audio hardware that's actually routed to the speakers (Pro Tools HD) so if I need to look up a song as a mix reference, I'm seeqpodding on the iPhone. Clients freak out when I stream the song in question within seconds of them bringing it up. "So you want the strings to sound like this, then?" I've already carved away the 1/8" plug to the aux in jack on our monitoring system, so A/B'ing with the iPhone is easy.

Lately, I've been completely justifying my jailbreak by using Pianist to find target notes while tuning vocals (yes, we do that a lot as you may or may not know). I also use it to give guide tones to vocalists when doing harmonies. Hearing that note ring out on a piano somehow works like magic for them. And it's always there. Love it.

I also take pictures of gear for mix recalls .... showing me where the dials are. I then email them to myself, retrieve them on the computer (I don't bother with iTunesing with my phone at work), and save them to the session folder. Easier than writing down the position of all those knobs.

[psylichon]

Oh yeah, and I surf on my s*** breaks.

[IphoneTony]

Guess you are maximizing your iphone.. good job..

[psylichon]

Yeah life would pretty much suck without it.

One other big thing is it's kept me from buying a laptop. That's huge, considering how much a computer geek I've always been. I don't even want one right now.

[jjvaldez]

I use it a lot on my crap breaks at work too

[psylichon]

Yes, my breaks have gotten a lot longer since the iPhone.

[jjvaldez]

I was in the can watching a comedy special that I bought when a co worker was like ,
" are you ok in there ? "