MG Siegler

http://parislemon.com/

MG Siegler is a writer for the technology site TechCrunch. Previously, he was a writer for VentureBeat. You can usually catch him using more swear words on his personal blog, ParisLemon. He lives in San Francisco with his 4 Macs and 6 iPods.

Recently, I moved my Phone app out of the main bottom dock and into the top left spot. I realized that I rarely use the iPhone as a phone anymore, and AT&T helps quite a bit with that thanks to its awful service in San Francisco. I text much more than I actually make calls, so I added that icon to the main dock.

Obviously, I use Twitter quite a bit as I have not one, but two Twitter apps on my main screen, Tweetie 2 and Birdfeed. I use Tweetie 2 most of the time but keep Birdfeed there because it has a much nicer geolocation implementation (which Twitter will hopefully be formally launching soon).

The location-based service Foursquare is another main dock app for me as I’m hopelessly addicted to it. Anywhere I go, I must check it, earn my points, get my badges, take my mayorships, and move on.

There are two applications on my main screen that I use primarily to help me with work throughout the day: Yammer and Boxcar. Yammer is what we use at TechCrunch to talk to one another, while Boxcar is a push notification app that can send me alerts for various searches on Twitter, as well as ping me when new Gmails come in. I keep it on the main screen because I often will miss a notification and Boxcar has its own notification inbox to show you what you’ve missed.

Instapaper is a site I use religiously to bookmark everything I want to read but can’t during the day because I’m usually just writing. With the app, I can sync everything up that I missed and read it while lounging around or on the go.

The rest of the apps are pretty standard. I include Facebook in this list since it’s a no-brainer.

When I double click the main button it goes to the iPod, which is why I took that out of my main dock as well.