No tricks, but something I believe you're going to like

Yelp, especially if you travel. Closest gas station, closest Mexican food joint, closest hospital, airport, car rental, whatever you need. You can even search for specific menu items. I'd have never known where to get okonomiyaki otherwise. Everything rated and categorized by price, with pics of the establishment and it's wares usually available. I have found several awesome restaurants through Yelp, and I use it non stop when on a leisure trip where "The gas station closest to the offramp" isn't where I plan on having dinner. I've also had an occasion or two where I visited someplace without using Yelp, regretted it, and upon looking them up saw that I would have been warned had I checked the app first.

One thing though, looking up cheap motels on Yelp has scared me from staying in any cheap motel anywhere ever. I'm never looking up a cheap motel again. Not a single one of them has reviews that are any less than horrifying.

When I get a smartphone, it will be Android.

Welcome to the club! I recommend an app called Comics Reader. Easy to use and a great way to read classics on the go! Excuse the poor picture quality, the glare of the phone made it come out blurry I think:

I keep a cell phone on me largely for emergencies, and with two small children, emergencies happen. I tried for years to stick to the simplest, most basic phone, but over the past few years, all the major companies have stopped supporting the older generation networks that the older phones work on, so I've seen the reliability of service decrease immensely. It got to the point where my 3G phone got reception less than 50% of the time and was entirely unreliable. Plus, smartphones have gotten cheaper. So I finally upgraded. Phone is a lot more reliable, though you can tell the actual "phone" aspect of the phone was an afterthought.





That's one door I just don't want to open. Reading comics is a sacred experience to me, to be taken up only when a comfortable, quiet spot is available and hot tea or iced water (depending upon the weather) is near. I don't want to be tempted to start reading comics at traffic lights


Incidentally, let's pause a moment to appreciate the weirdness of looking at our monitors displaying an image of a photograph of a cell phone screen displaying a scanned image of a mass-produced comic book displaying a reproduced image of an original art page.