Is There an iPhone App For That?

By CC Staff

The iPhone is awesome, hands down.  If you have it, you’re addicted and constantly using it for either an amusing application, Google maps, texting, or, you know, just a phone call.  If you don’t have one, you want one (like me!). Badly.

Even with all the apps already available, most notably the ones that make you fat, there are still things that we wish the iPhone could do for us.  Like laundry.  Or take the garbage out.  Too bad Apple hasn’t come out with some sort of external thumb feature…

But we don’t need an iThumb for some of the apps we have in mind. Things that every college student needs and aren’t currently available in the App Store. You know, like:

Text Breathalyzer – Everyone knows that texting while drunk leads to an extremely awkward morning after.  When you’re hung over, getting hit with the realization that you sent something along the lines of  “i kjus tluv u n i wan t be foreverrrrr” to your douchy ex-boyfriend (that may or may not be an exact copy of an actual text…don’t judge me) just makes things worse.  Well, worry no more with the Text Breathalyzer!  You just blow into the breathalyzer attachment and if you’re over the limit, the iPhone will lock down the text feature (or, if you choose, only let you text certain people).  Problem solved!

Happy Hour – Living in a big city I am forever plagued by the thought that there is a happy hour somewhere that I’m missing.  I hop around between a couple spots, but I wish I knew all the places who had drink specials on particular nights (Tuesdays? Anyone?).  The Happy Hour app will target your location and then list all the places within a one mile radius with the best drink specials in town.  Yes! Be thirsty no more!

Matchmaker – Ever find yourself wondering out loud, “Where are all the single men??”  Relax, your iPhone will find them for you.  Well, the Matchmaker app will find them for you, anyway.  Just fill out a short profile and your Matchmaker app tracks the GPS signals of all the single, male iPhone users in the area with similar interests to yours.  Voila!  Now all you have to do is decide which one will take you to the frat party Saturday night and which one will buy you coffee at the library.  Done deal.

Study Guide – So, you’ve got your class list for the fall.  What now?  Well, before you buy your books, you may want to check out the Study Guide app on your iPhone.  This handy-dandy application will gather all the study guides/Cliffs Notes/cheap books you need for your classes.  Saves time AND money!  No more frustrating trips to the bookstore/wasting money on books that you’ll never use/creepy, expensive tutors.  Now if only the app could secure that 4.0 for you…

Drunk Text Decoder - If you have friends who do not have the Breathalyzer app (or, gasp, a non-iPhone!), then the Drunk Text Decoder will be extremely useful.  This will unscramble the undoubtedly jumbled up text and take educated guesses at the misspelled words.  Finally, you’ll know what your bestie really meant when she sent you that collection of random words and symbols last Saturday.  Come to think of it, she wants to know what it meant, too, because she has no idea.

Guy Text Decoder - Equally as important as the Drunk Text Decoder, the Guy Text Decoder will take those mysterious messages from boyfriends-to-be and translate them into English.  Finally, you’ll know what he means when he includes that winky face after he says he’s studying in the library.  Seriously…what does he mean?!?