I'm still amused by the step counter being called a 'Pedometer'. That just sounds wrong.
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Whats wrong with the term "pedometer" its actually the correct name for a step counter....
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[quote author=Gardevoir Master link=topic=1827.msg18508#msg18508 date=1180320566]
Well, "Pedo" is a slang term for "Pedophile," (the proper spelling is probably Paedophile) which is an adult that wants to have sex with children. The inference might be a "Pedometer" keeps track of how many children you've had sex with.
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I know these posts are ancient, but I'm a boring old fart
and just wanted to say that they're completely different meanings and pronunciations
. Pedometer is from the words "pedo" and "meter", meaning a "foot" or step counter; and the American spelling pedophile is from the words "paedo" and "philos", meaning lover of children. In British English it's spelled as paedophile, making the distinction clearer. Pedometer is pronounced PED-OM-EATER, whereas pedophile is pronounced PEED-OH-FILE.
Anyway, moving quickly on... My most used app is by far the Berry Checker, because I'm a compulsive berry farmer. I
hate spending money on healing items when you can get the same effect for free, so grow as many berries as possible. It's very useful to be able to see when berries are ready for farming. I only wish it showed you
all the stages of the berry growth so you knew whether you needed to go back and water them already, though :-\.
I also use the Dowsing Machine when exploring a new area, although it drives me mad - I hate when it does the circular flashy thing, because sometimes it means there's a hidden object off the edge of its grid and you need to keep walking, sometimes it means there's a hidden object nearby but on a different level, and
sometimes (e.g. with the Suite Key at Valor Lakeside resort) it just means it's being difficult about the exact location of the hidden object and wants you to try every single square. Grrr!
The Daycare Checker and Step Counter are of course awesome for breeding purposes - I hadn't realised it would show the presence of eggs until I saw the egg on the screen. Bonus!
The Friendship Checker is useful if you have a Pokemon that evolves by happiness. Though it seems to take
forever for the happiness to go from two hearts to two BIG hearts :-[.
Most of the other apps are pretty pointless. The Team Checker is okay, if I'm too lazy to look at the summary thing or haven't battled for a while. I've used the Digital Watch when I've been playing on the train as it's quicker to look on the DS I already have out than hunting through my bag to find my phone. But it's not
amazingly helpful because my DS is a
terrible timekeeper, and can end up 10 minutes slow after a week's real time. Apparently, the Marking Map will be useful when I get to the part of the game where I'm hunting those moving legendaries. But the other apps are no use for me, and get in my way.
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I also did use the kecleon function to turn the pokétch blue, my god I hate the natural colouring. I really wish they hadn't made it black and white, this is a world where you can contain a whale in a small ball that shrinks in size, yet they can't make a digital watch in colour? Sheesh.
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Heh, yeah. I wish there was some way to delete apps from the Poketch that you don't want or use. I'm bored rigid with cycling through all the ones I consider pointless. The Obtained Pokemon, Analog(ue) Clock, Link Searcher, Calculator, Drawing Pad and Kitchen Timer are things I will never, ever need to use, and just get in the way when I'm hitting the button ten hundred times to get from Berry Checker back to Dowsing Machine. (Why on earth can't you cycle backwards as well as forwards?!).