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My brother got an iPhone 5C yesterday and he's going to give me his old phone for Christmas. The last time I used an Apple product was in 1994, though, and I've never used a smartphone of any sort.

So what kind of cool stuff can I do with the phone when he gives it to me? I know talk/text is out, and non-wifi data is out, but I'm sure there's loads of other cool stuff?

If you have/had an iPhone 4, what did you like using it for?

EDIT: I'm not connecting it to phone service because I already have a dumbphone that works fine and is super cheap, and also my carrier apparently no longer supports the iPhone 4.

It seems like if I set my phone down to take a nap, or I don't notice that it died for a few hours, people get super upset. I feel like I'm expected to have my phone on my person and fully charged at all times.

I'm not even in charge of anything important. My last job was as a freaking fry cook, and now I'm doing landscaping. But it seems I always have to be just a call or a text away unless someone I know gets panicky or needs something.

It's so draining. Please tell me I'm not the only one who would go back to a landline.

The drive is a 2TB HP SimpleSave that I acquired in late 2011. I've been using it as my primary media storage and as a backup location for important files.

Today, I was trying to put a new album in my music folder and it refused to copy it from my laptop to the external drive. The alert window said it was because of an I/O error. I've tried it with other files, and checked the cable connection, but the drive refuses to write new data or allow old data to be copied from it. My computer recognizes the hard drive just fine, it's just that the drive won't cooperate.

I've got all of the extremely important stuff backed up, but I'd still hate to lose 1.75 TB of data. Is there a way to salvage th

It seems every year, my parents let something new slip. Sometimes it's horrifying, sometimes it's cute, sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's just confirmation that yep, I'm slowly but surely turning into them. And more often than not, they say "Wait, we didn't tell you that already? Oh well, you're 24 now, you're old enough to know."

Tell me your stories!

I don't have much of a sense of smell, and what I do have is sort of wonky. Not so wonky that it seriously interferes with my life, but enough that I don't really trust myself to know if I smell good or not.

To this point in my life, I've pretty much chosen the cheapest deodorant, the cheapest shampoo, and the cheapest laundry detergent. They don't really smell like any consistent thing, and I don't notice them. I also don't wear any cologne or anything.

I used to get teased a lot for smelling bad as a kid, because I had little idea of how to groom myself, and then starting in my teenage years I would have episodes of severe depression and really not care to groom. So I'm really sensitive

I've always been a pretty quiet person. This partially due to shyness, and partially because I choose not to speak unless I feel I have something worth contributing. However, this has often meant that I've been chided for being too quiet.

In the last several years, I've made more of an effort to speak more, and in so doing share potentially interesting/useful things with the people to whom I am close. Unfortunately, it seems like I get smacked down about half the time. I'm frequently told that I don't know what I'm talking about, asked to prove my self or my actions step-by-step (even if it's just directions to the local library or changing a tire). I know everyone is fallible, but this hap

I believe that she spent some time singing into a tape recorder, and that at some point she visited her father in the hospital.

I read it around 2003, but it's possible that it was published before then.

You can't enter rosebud;!;!;! or turndowntheheat. The world behaves exactly as it always does. But you have the day off, no responsibilities, and a small amount of cash that you can spend completely guilt-free. What would you do?

It's so satisfying to finally find out what that song is called, and who made it. Let's hear which song(s) you've found, and see if it doesn't solve someone else's query along the way.

I'm an adult, just turned 24, and recently graduated college. I don't have any intention of returning to the classroom. I'm currently unemployed but hopefully that won't last much longer.

I'm seeing a psychologist and a psychiatrist for treatment/management of mental illness, and both of them are pushing me to get tested to see where I am on the autism spectrum. They're both pretty sure that I've got Asperger's, and I've had several other people (family members, friends, teachers) who don't know each other suggest that I'm somewhere on the spectrum too.

It doesn't seem unlikely, really, I just don't see the point of getting tested and confirmed. I'm not in school anymore, so it's not like

I'm so tired and sore. I'm so sick of having every thought and memory hurt, every person I'm close to fade away, every dream not pan out, every task seem like such a monumental undertaking.

I've been depressed since November now, and I've been dealing with at least one moderate-to-severe cycle of depression a year for the last decade. I've seen several therapists and several psychologists, and tried several kinds of psychiatric medication. It's not really helping.

The psychiatrist told me the last time I saw her that I will probably have to deal with depression for the rest of my life. But this is no kind of life worth living. I'm going to turn 24 in a few weeks, and I still rely on my mo

I'm 23 years old, been dealing with a variety of mental health issues since my early teen years. I'll explain more, if necessary.

Anyway, things aren't very good right now, and it's possible that I'll need psychiatric hospitalization within the next few weeks or so. It's not something I'm necessarily opposed to, I just want to know what I should expect. I've never been hospitalized before (with the exception of stitches for a non-psych accident I had as a kid).

What long-term effects would hospitalization have on me? I assume that I won't ever be allowed to own a gun, but it would be a bad idea to have one anyway. I also figure that my health insurance would go up, but I have never counted

I'm 23 years old. I've had issues with self harm since I was 11, depression since 14, anxiety since 15. I've long been called paranoid, but started noticing serious paranoia in the last six months or so. I've been in a bad mental state since about November.

It doesn't help that I've just graduated, thus losing a job and moving away from most of my friends and my ex. It doesn't help that I'm living with my parents and have been unable to house or feed myself, much less find a job or a place of my own. It doesn't help that my ex and I broke up about a week and a half ago. But none of these are the reason I'm depressed or suicidal.

I've never seriously attempted suicide, but feeling suicidal

I'm 23 years old, 5' 11.5", and a primarily estrogen-based life form. I've always been overweight or obese, and felt awful about it.

My highest weight was about 265 lbs a few years ago. When I started keeping track of my portions and making small efforts to exercise early last month, I weighed 243. And now I weigh 231 lbs! It's not a huge loss, but it's a lot more than I thought I could do.

Especially considering my history of mental health issues and the fact that I'm newly single, I've been feeling pretty low recently. But it's a real boost to my confidence to know that making smart changes -- even if they're pretty small -- and keeping with them means that I can make real, measurable p