iPhone apps S/D

欢迎!

EA is having an awesome game sale today:

http://toucharcade.com/2010/12/16/the-great-electronic-arts-99%c2%a2-sale-of-2010/

Cheers for the tip-off. Mirror's Edge ON IPHONE is still full price here for some reason.

I STILL have no RSS reader :/ anything good and free both or is it p much just Reeder or bust!

― what day is it today? (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, December 17, 2010 2:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Stevie, I use Google Reader on Safari. It works just fine (and looks like about the same thing as Reeder) and it's free.

Just buy Reeder.

Everyone should just buy more apps.

What is better about Reeder?

first and foremost, not subject to random Safari refreshes, which is infuriating when moving between apps. That's worth $2.99 along for me. Twitter, instapaper, and delicious (rip) integration (among others).

I have never encountered random Safari refreshes, and I pray to Christ that I never do.

I never got what Instapaper was good for.

Instapaper is a catch all place for articles you don't have time to read. It's especially handy, as it rips the text out of a page without all the crap around it. It also opens links and saves the text for you. So say if you see a tweet or something with an interesting title and a link, you merely click 'read later' and there's the full text for you without fiddling around opening pages etc.

instapaper and reeder are the only really essential apps i have on iphone & ipad

The refresher for me would happen if I read something on mobile reader, therefore marked as read. Then I would double click to move over to Twitter for example, then needed to go back to that entry in reader. So I double click and go back and Safari refreshes. Since it has already been marked as read, I have to dig around till I can find it again. Rage inducing.

refreshing

Safari also craps out when you lose the connection/signal. Reeder buffers everything.

Someone pls suggest games and/or white-noise/ambient apps I can bring with me on my holiday travels.

AMBIANCE

White Noise
Pzizz

Game? Drop7.

Peggle and Drop7 are the types where it pretty much never stops being fun. Also the Buddha Machine app is nice for noise

Hate Peggle. Hate. Completely and utterly useless for colour-deficient people like me.

Ha ha

Xp it has a colorblind mode you know

It does?

It does?

Yes you can tick it in the in-game options menu. Try it and lemme know if it is all that much better

Oooh, ta v much. Redownloading now.

THIS IS FANTASTIC

Goodbye to your productivity

The refresher for me would happen if I read something on mobile reader, therefore marked as read. Then I would double click to move over to Twitter for example, then needed to go back to that entry in reader. So I double click and go back and Safari refreshes. Since it has already been marked as read, I have to dig around till I can find it again. Rage inducing.

― Jeff, Saturday, December 18, 2010 1:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Google Reader's page on Safari has never refreshed without my making it do so, even when I leave Safari to switch apps or not use the phone. I've been trying different things to make it refresh of its own volition but it's not doing it.

Apps I use a lot:

Zing Touch
Facebook
iGmail
Buster (CTA bus tracker)
Hispstamatic and Instagram
Picup (or ImgurFree, one is better, but I can't remember which)
100 Pushups
Netflix

I plan to use VLC as well. Groupon should come in handy so that I don't have to mess with paper to redeem them.

I play with Grindr and Scruff, but only for window shopping. The conversational skills for that sort of thing elude me.

Regularly use:

AP
NYT
Washpost
Huff Post
BBC
Solitaire
Angry Birds
Facebook
Zing
Amazon.com
SI

Apps I find occasionally useful:
Wikipedia
Google
Kotoba (Japanese dictionary)
RedLaser
AllRecipe
Epicurious
This American Life
NPR player

instapaper and reeder are the only really essential apps i have on iphone & ipad

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, December 18, 2010 2:15 PM

Someone pls suggest games and/or white-noise/ambient apps I can bring with me on my holiday travels.

― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Saturday, December 18, 2010 4:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

simplynoise is the best for white noise--99 cents for three kinds of white noise, oscillation volume controls. currently saving our life in an apt w/ tragic bar noise sitch.

The fucking calendar could use a lot of improvement. Especially in terms of how it syncs with Google's calendar, but also setting alerts is annoying - I forget the specifics, but there was a problem with alerts disappearing unless I fiddled with it a lot. Also, the longest advance alert is 2 days?! That's for shit.

oh man, every other game is like 99cents right now. Loading up on RPGs.

TIPS PLZ

Been using Calvetica as replacement for the default calendar. Still on the fence

what is reeder? also, does anyone use their iphone to read lengthy articles or do you end up with eye burnout?

The longest things I read these days are on the iPhone.

the average ilx post isn't very long

Reeder is much better than google reader or net news wire. I'm currently reading a novel using the Kindle app, for a book that wasn't on iBooks, which I've never used. I'm not getting any eye burnout, but I'm not reading much more then 10 minutes on the train to and from work, or a bit before bed.

OMG dudes. The Daniel Johnston game!!!

I'm not getting any eye burnout, but I'm not reading much more then 10 minutes on the train to and from work, or a bit before bed.

I regularly read books on my Palm Zire for 8-10 hours at a time at work, about 50,000-60,000 words a day, and didn't notice any eye strain. I haven't done any more than 3-4 hours at a time reading on my Touch, though.

Okay, how can i rotate an iphone vid 90 degrees without paying $30 for QT pro? Anybody with QT pro like to do a quick rotation for me? I'll be your best friend!

I think, with a decent screen (which the iPad has), this eyestrain thing might be a bit of a myth. I've certainly read intensively on mine withh no problems.

Never mind, I think I got it.

Thanks for the QT help!

Here's the vid I needed it for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnFzJbdVUj0

eyestrain a serious problem for me (can barely watch a DVD in one sitting) so i'm not sure i could ever do any serious reading on the iPad

I read entire books on my iPhone 4 with Stanza, it were bloody fantastic. Quite surprising, actually. In fact, that's what sold me on ebooks.

Not sure I could do it on the current iPads though, what with their rubbish low-res screen. The iPhone 4's advantage over the iPad is its insanely sharp image.

agreed

Calling the iPad screen low-res makes no sense to me. Just because it's not a bloody retina display. People get so spoiled! When it came out everyone was like "oh, gorgeous screen". Yes, I have an iPhone 4 as well.