iPhone apps S/D

foursquare/gowalla?

i tried to write something like this to let friends find one another in big clubs/gigs, but the GPS is too crap indoors to make it work

Finger Physics is the first iPhone game I am actually addicted to.

Also Moodagent seems pretty good. it doesn't exactly do what it promises, but is a nice alternative to Genius and shuffle. Now make an app that boosts my itunes volume PLEASE

i still have no idea how multitasking works on the iphone. basically it just lets every open app sit in that multitasking area. i still open twitter and it hasn't been updated for days. thinking about HTC phone a lot.

btw u guys have u played eliss? it's dope

xpost, having upgraded from the 3G, the 4G is so much faster that I've forgotten about multitasking.

i was wondering about this too the other day. it seems like it's only really multitasking for things that can operate without being in the forefront, like apps that playing music. otherwise, it's just a list of things i've used recently, email, phone, games, etc. kinda useless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bcryQUuDwM

The only things that can multitask are apps that play music, apps that do location stuff, voip apps and apps that need extra time to complete something (like an upload). Everything else is just fast-switching: the app is frozen when it goes into the background and then melted when its resumed.

The switch bar doesn't show what apps are running, it shows all the apps you've recently used, in the order you've used them.

lol at those swearing bears. GBs Wifis

xpost, having upgraded from the 3G, the 4G is so much faster that I've forgotten about multitasking.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, August 6, 2010 2:23 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

4G doesnt exist yet. I busted an AT&T guy on the phone when he referred to the lastest as 'iphone 4G'. He admitted iphone 4 only works on 3G. also dodgy: sprint are advertising a 4G network when they obvs dont have one. so weird.

Generally people just mean "4th generation phone" when they say 4G in regards to the iPhone. Sprint has 4G but it's not complete coverage yet.

yeah I see what he meant but it irks me when I see how ATT have managed to get everyone calling it iphone 4G when no 4G networks have been launched. Maybe everyone is calling it 4G because the last two versions referenced the network in the name. Either way it seems dodgy and misleading at best. I coordinated the release testing for 4G and 3GPP LTE at that company with the lame blue map. (fyi: It was super stressful and sucked incredibly. DO not recommend) Anyway, there are sites where the 4G code is in place but it wont be turned on until it is officially launched (late 2010 or 2011). I cant imagine ATT being too far behind. Im 90% sure 4G is not backwards compatible with 3G or 3G with first phase LTE. I don't think 3G will get turned off when 4G gets turned on, still a 3GPP LTE phone cant drop back to 3G if it cant pick up an LTE signal so by that logic ditto for 4G, I guess? TBH im mostly pissed because i really want that phone but cant bring myself the shell out the bucks when i know the next one is going to be 80 times faster than the current 3G iphone 4.

re Sprint: i don't know how Sprint are getting away with saying they have a 4G network and 4G handsets. Their '4G' is just WiMax and doesn't come close to meeting the 4G speed and frequency standards. Its still a lot faster than 3G though - 7MB/Sec over max 20 Mhz channel download average vs 3G download average of 0.5MB/sec. 4G should have a download rate of 12 MB/sec for local wireless access and 128 MB per second for high mobility.
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I think I said all this upthread but I'm bookmarked and too lazy to check

anyway, now im triple pissed because there seems to be a crazy amount of apps that only work on iphone 4 now. so lame.

also i hope hope hope the next iphone will be a mobile hotspot.

so now we're going to have:

GPRS
Edge
3G
4G

all working at the same time?? Seems kind of wasteful and dumm

i don't know. You would think they would ditch the first two. Do they even make apps for the original iphone anymore?

oh i guess you still need to make calls

also i hope hope hope the next iphone will be a mobile hotspot.

― sunny successor, Monday, August 9, 2010 2:39 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

jailbreakin makes this a snap

tw;cd

Finally got an iPhone 4 ten days ago and not a single sign of trouble, annoyances, or really much of anything negative. It works, it runs my code, whooo!

i'm in talks with someone who has just started making apps about making one for my club but don't have any idea about prices. i only want something v basic (photos, basic info, map, link to tickets), how much shall i suggest? i'd prefer not to spend more than £100 really but is this too low for the amount of work needed to create one? is there a fee to get it up on the iphone app store too?

isnt there a little tutorial on the apple site that shows you how to make apps? if its basic you could probably do it yourself.

Going rate is £250/day. v basic (photos, basic info, map, link to tickets)
This isn't nec. basic: photos can be a 'mare to manage, especially if you're pulling them off the net. Maps aren't too hard. But how would this be shown? And would it all just be fixed in place when you launched the app, or would it load the details off the net?

Seems like an HTML5-based app/mobile-optimized website would make more sense for your club.

thanks guys, i'll look into this in more detail, sounds like i might be better going for a mobile-optimized website rather than a specific app

do we have an ipad app thread - if not can someone here recommend a reader app? I'm currently toggling btw Byline and Reeder but neither are entirely satisfying.

Reeder's about the best there is

i've been getting really frustrated with instapaper - it's supposed to pick up RSS feeds when you point it at a blog URL but it doesn't work most of the time. maybe i'm doing something wrong. it sucks cause in every other respect it's phenomenal.

yes - im really in love with instapaper for ipad - which got me wondering whether there was a reader out there which could d/l in cache truncated rss feeds in text-only format, instead of simply launching the browser to read the entire thing (a bit like what instapaper does)

well instapaper DOES download truncated RSS feeds, sometimes. but other times it doesn't work. v v frustrating.

i have fallen completely in love with soundgrid. tone matrix jamz!

Is there any way to simultaneously sync to iphone from two separate itunes libraries. I want to split my capacity - a playlist each from my laptop library and desktop library. At all possible?

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1202

iPod shuffle and iPhone are intended for use with a single computer. You cannot load music from multiple computers or iTunes libraries onto iPod shuffle and iPhone like you can with other devices.

??

THis appears to say two different things, but I'll try it

man, why did I have to find out about Soundgrid a day after deciding to switch to the Droid 2?

I think this is incredible. http://www.appolicious.com/finance/articles/2259-chase-iphone-app-launches-support-for-mobile-deposits

I haven't used it yet (lost my fuad;flkj iPhone and waiting for the replacement) but the idea of it is very impressive. The ATMs with check readers were cool, but this is completely next-level. I receive only about 8-10 checks a year (expense reimbursements from work), but they always sit in my wallet for weeks until I finally get to a branch. This will be nice.

I deposited my first check this way the other day. I don't know when I'll get the chance to use it again. But it was neat.

Wow, I am (unfortunately) still a Chase customer AND I got a check today!! I will try this now!

woah, this is crazy. i just deposited a dozen checks at chase today. if i had read this first, i would've tried it instead.

USAA has had mobile deposits for 6 months or so now. It really is remarkable. Every time I deposit a check ON IPHONE, I think, "Man I am like living in the fucking Jetsons here and am completely jaded about it."

Yeah next week I'll totally be all FUCK CHASE my breakfast is 2 minutes late what is this shit????

what do you do with the check after the mobile deposit

bring it to the bank

do you really? i was hoping you could just destroy it or whatever.

You keep it until deposit has cleared.

Ok I did this but it was a little bit of hassle. I say that, but I mean, it's not like I even got off the sofa haha

Would clearly work best with a flat, printed check lit by a 2500k bulb

Yeah, I just toss my checks in the shredder once the deposit posts.

not an app question, but since this is the main ON IPHONE thred:

before I left .au I got my network provider people to unlock my phone (3G) - they said okey dokey, just restore it and you should be sweet
I backed it up and restored it from the backup
then I put a UK sim with credit on it into the phone and left my regular sim at home

now I am in teh londons and I have no service, and I can't even get wireless in free wireless places.

questions:
1) if I backup my phone on someone else's computer*, then restore TO FACTORY SETTINGS, and THEN restore from backup, should it work with the UK sim and have all my contacts and texts and photos and music back?
2) if this DOESN'T work, is it safe or foolish to pay a wee bloke in a tiny shop in Chinatown a tenner to unlock it? will they lose any of my data? will they steal my identity and blackmail me to pay them to delete my incriminating photos of ilxors licking their own elbows?

*I would have tried this already but the laptop I am using only has 3gb space on it