iPhone apps S/D

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.

I love my iPad and its supposedly shitty screen.

Oh no, if I hold it four inches from my screen I can make out a pixel. How will I read on this thing??

From my EYES rather.

apps guys, apps.

like, i'm begining to wonder about you cult of apple guys... you never really use many apps?

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I have lots of apps but they are mostly iPad specific.

I use loads of apps.

Spotify is such an amazing thing since multitasking arrived.
Tube Exits makes every journey less stressful
Encyclopedia, the offline dump of Wikipedia, is a wonder (and great on tube journeys)
Tune In Radio is beautifully done
Drop7 keeps me entertained whenever I have a few seconds to spare

For the iPad, Amazon Windowshopper, Wikihood and Flipboard are all presenting information in ways that exploit the fluidity of the interface.

Others I use a lot: Shazam, Reeder, Kindle, Instapaper, Osfoora, Chambers dictionary, London A-Z, Dragon Dictation, Appbox, Flixster, Cineworld, Train Times, Tube Deluxe, Camera Bag, Find iPhone, Air Video, Remote, Shapewriter, CineXPlayer (have they fixed VLC yet?), Birds UK

What's wrong w/ VLC? Matroska?

After one of the updates, divx files would freeze every 10 mins or so.

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=83793

(this is the iPad version, btw)

Ah, according to that thread, iOS 4.2.1 has fixed the problem.

What's the difference between Encyclopedia and Wikipanion?

I probably use Hipstamatic and Toy Camera more than I use any other apps, except maybe Yelp which is about six million times better in app form than the web version.

the only way that could be true is if the yelp app removes all of the reviews

the only way that could be true is if the yelp app removes all of the reviews

it sorta does? like they're not right there being annoying. I use it to see what's close/good, and get the phone number or w/e.

And you can call the restaurant directly from the screen, map the location and get immediate directions. And yeah the annoying reviews are much less obtrusive. Only thing that would make it better is if you could link directly to reserve with OpenTable app.

Yelp is a really cheap and effective way of viewing a message that says 'this service is not available in your country'.

so is spotify

Wikipanion is just an interface to WIkipedia.

Encyclopedia lets you download a dump of the core of Wikipedia itself, taking about 2GB. So you can browse a version (a few months old, updatable every so often) when you're offline. It's a bit messy sometimes, and you can only search by the start of the entry name itself, but for many purposes, it's quite adequate.

But the main thing is just boggling at having all that information stored on your phone.

$12 for free content + $1.19 for an updated dump of information? Rip imo.

(AU$)

Maybe. I don't know how to judge with these things – iPhone apps are so cheap that a relative rip-off doesn't really mean much to me. Five pounds is the price of a pint and a half in the pub. For that I can hold the ENTIRE CORPUS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE* IN MY POCKET.

*may not actually be true

I mean, people used to text some stupid number to get answers to a single question for a pound.

Fair point.

2gb for an offline wiki - how much does hd space does the iphone have? and how many gb is online wiki?

is shazam still 50p per song ID or does the iphone app do it for free? quite surprised no one has done a free ad-funded version of shazam, maybe the whole concept of using a phone to ID a song copyrighted to shamazbods.

all this is making the iphone sound v tempting. i hate apple's OS and 'charge for EVERYTHING' policy though, what are the strongest rivals with as many equivalent apps? could i read an e-book on a blackberry for instance?

Nothing rivals the app store, and you don't have to pay for everything. Loads of stuff is free. Maybe I misunderstood you.

android is the strongest rival and it suxx

Tube Exits makes every journey less stressful

o_O at myself that i have thought for ages that this should be an app (i used to have the map), have never actually checked.

there's no per-song charge for shazam

I thought you only get a certain number of free ones.

Yeah it's five per month, I think?

Yes, but Sound Hound is p much the same thing and also has 5 free a month. Get them both and you'll get ten!

I bought soundhound. I think it works better overall.

I think soundhound is unlimited free now.

iPad screen is fine for most things, but still strikes me as low-res for books, where I'm not comparing to iPhone but to print.

It has got a load better since they added Georgia though, which is made for relatively low-res screens, instead of the fragile rubbish version of Palatino they had before.

book

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/book_26x.jpg

kindle

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/kindle_26x.jpg

ipad

http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ipad_26x.jpg

Those diagrams tell the story pretty accurately. You can see the pixels on an e-ink screen but it's all so fuzzy and approximate that it doesn't actually matter. E-ink is far and away the best for reading.

they're not diagrams btw http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2722