Two useful cameraphone things

Over the past few months, I’ve been using my cameraphone to capture our weekly grocery lists. We have a small whiteboard on the side of the fridge, and as we think of things over the course of the week, we just write them on the whiteboard. Then, when it’s time to go to the store, I just snap a pic of the whiteboard and head to the store, where I can view it with one of the builting image viewer apps (more recently Nokia Album, which is much nicer). That basically lets us write down stuff whenever we think of it, without my having to recopy the list into Backpack, or heaven forbid, paper.

Since we’ve started a few new projects, we’ve been making quite a few runs to Lowes, Home Depot, and various other specialty stores to look at everything from fixtures to tile. Sometimes it’s convenient for me to do that during the day, so I’ve been snapping pics of various styles of tile and borders, shelving systems, etc. Then I either bluetooth them to the laptop or send them to flickr directly with ZoneTag and we look at them full size to pick out things or to narrow the field so that we can make fewer trips or make decisions more quickly when we are able to return to the store together. For example, I took pics of all the shelving system components so we could start designing some shelves for our soon-to-be-remodeled closets.