Thanks Caroline I brought my iPod over to the laptop so I can add some non-games that I use. Utilities Apzilla 2 has all sorts of different utilities, most of them are worthwhile. Some you might never use. Even though Apzilla has it I also have MyLite (a flashlight) and a Free Level program. (a level for hanging pictures straight)and Free Space, a program that tells you how much room is left on your iPod and battery info. Capacity is another program that does this. Free Wi-Fi tells you when you travel where there is free wi-fi you can log into. 5-0 Radio Pro is a fun Police and Fire scanner so you can listen for any calls that come out in your city or even places in your country. My hearing isn't the best and sometimes the talking isn't too clear for me but it is fun listening to the information. It can run in the background. Shopwise is a program that tells you certain deals. I have World Atlas and Google Earth. Book Crawler is a program that lets you keep track of all of your books. iPlant is a gardening book that is quite good. For notes I use Awesome Notes. MyStuff2 is a neat inventory program I haven't used yet. I use IOwn and Iconic Notes, but I don't think either of those are available now. Someday I will transfer everything over. Ian's Laces as Caroline mentioned is fun but there also is a program called Tie a Scarf for women' scarves. Holiday List is also a great Christmas gift planner. AppSniper and AppShopper are two programs I use occasionally. They tell you the new programs that are out. A lot of programs are free for a short time before they start to charge and these programs as well as others will let you know this. I have a lot of medical programs and photography programs as well but this thread is getting long.

Thanks dan. For whatever reason, dave's comment about the free version wasn't showing to me when I posted. I see it now. I do remember the first time, quite a while before 'mobile' phones were smaller than a bread box, I stood outside and planned a garden. I think it was late winter, and I was trying to see how far into the lawn to begin digging. I had never gardened before, and all I knew was what I learned from those old PBS shows like the original Victory Garden. "As much sun as possible." As that first season passed, I remember learning that not only did the sun get 'higher' in the sky, but as June 21 approached, each day would gain about 3 mins. from the sun rising slightly more to the east, and setting slightly more to the west. It wasn't too tough to use my imagination to know where the sun would be, but it can be tricky until you learn the surroundings of a new place. I'm a bit 'sensitive' this week on these issues. At the supermarket I was reminded of the reliance on 'gadgets'. When I was young, one of my first actual 'jobs' was at a small full-service gas station. Remember those? I was at the pumps taking money and giving change from my pocket. Everything had to be counted back, and the cash register was only used for the guys fixing cars, to empty your pockets, and at the end of the night to inventory and tally. Since that time, I've slowly watched as people stopped 'counting back' change. It wasn't long before numbers weren't punched into cash registers at all, and fast food joints first put the names of the products into pre-coded buttons (so much for special orders that don't trip up all but the management,) now they just have an image. That 'first-job training' doesn't even require reading anymore, let alone math. Supermarkets are even worse... they just scan. Well twice this week even the supermarket managers were stumped when someone mis-programmed the prices into the scanners. The cashier was completely ignorant because they had no clue how to figure the price on a piece of paper. They kept scanning the item over and over expecting a different result, and each time they were dumbfounded, and at a complete loss at what to do when the register was so confident of the set price lol. The manager came over and told me that I shouldn't complain, 'look, at this price you're saving $5 and change, and at the price the flier is saying, you would only be saving $3 and change.' They really could not mentally grasp that the reason the computer was saying that I was saving $5 was because they wanted me to pay $5 instead of the $3 dollars advertised on the buy one get one offer. All they knew was that the register told them to collect 2 more dollars from me on that item. I lost all the little faith I had that humans could handle advancing technology. If we don't 'have to' do the math, before long, we 'can't' do the math. So the day that our grandchildren haven't played outside long enough to know that the summer days are longer than winter, and can't use their minds to imagine where a shadow might fall without a piece of technology... perhaps that's the day that the human mind will never recover - for many that day has come and passed lol. Doubt me? Then anyone under 50 break out your slide rule and show us how to figure trigonometric calculations without a calculator. Sure, it wasn't easy without study to do those calculations, but we live in a world that can't charge you less for a sandwich minus an item because there's no button on the register with that picture. Is it better or worse? Who knows, I suppose this is a gardening forum, not philosophy lol. Sorry to go on and on, it's just that I enjoy forums like this one precisely because all the old knowledge is fast disappearing. It's being replaced by generalizations and complete ignorance. We all know the joke... ask a child 'where does food come from?' Far too many answer... 'from the supermarket.' Here there are so many who appreciate and hold fast to sharing that 'passed-down' generational knowledge. I better stop now or I'll miss my departed grandmother. What was I talking about? Oh yeah... apping the track of the sun. Yeah... cool gadget lol.

We own a variety of rental properties from commercial, single family and multifamily. My husband has become very good at screening potential tenants. You request a few years of tax returns to assure they can afford your property. The newest way of collecting rent is through an ACH transfer. Chase does this, but not Citibank. No more waiting for checks or collecting cash. You transfer the money out yourself when it is due. My Dh always texts the tenants first to get the okay, but this shouldn't be necessary, it's just that some people throughout the years do having issues. These are all long term tenants so my DH works with them. We wouldn't pay for a service. With only one property, I think you can handle it yourself.

Have you though about contacting your local County Agricultural agent? I now there are systems available to give precise measurement of a field as the big farmers use it for plowing, planting and harvesting. My guess is that you are looking for more precision and accuracy than is needed for the job you are trying to do. Yes when you plant a tree, you are talking of about a 2' circle. However the tree at maturity will require a circle about 30 feet in diameter, and a bush depending on what it is, 4' to 10'. Because of this you only need cover your yard with grid with 10' squares and locate each tree and bush with in that grid. If you plant a Maple and a rose bush in the same grid, it will be easy to tell the rose bush from the maple. You could increase the accuracy of the location, by designating the southwest quarter of grid box 10. This would be similar to the Township/Section system surveyors uses to designate property. If you are not familiar with the method of surveying, there are many documents describing the system, as it was codified in the 1780's, and all property in US deeds today are still described by the same system.