iPhone apps S/D

Replying with 'wah wah diagrams who cares' would make me a giant hypocrite, so yes.

If you get Shazam Encore (£3.49) then you get unlimited tagging.

hd space does the iphone have? and how many gb is online wiki?

Well, it's flash memory, not hd, but either 16GB or 32GB. You can also still get the old 3GS as an 8GB model.

Online wiki? Dunno. The Encyclopedia app version loses all photos and graphics, as you might expect. However, it also loses information in tables, which I've most often noticed as a problem when discographies of bands are presented in that way.

btw (aa here) this is the same site's look at the Kindle 3 if anyone cares: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2750

I must say I do most of my intensive reading indoors and in the evening, in a room lit only by a bedside lamp. Given that those are the conditions under which iPad has been found to outperform e-ink readers for readability, that perhaps explains my bafflement at the notion that it's hard to read on an iPad.

Yeah but books are not backlit so I don't consider that to be a disadvantage.

It's not so much that it's hard to read for me, it's just that I'm a snob and it bugs me all the time with its jaggies. I'm the same on Windows: its font smoothing annoys me so much I always install Safari.

Books are the worst. The shadows of the binding bother me. And not being able to change the font size.

And you have to turn to the index in the back to do a search on the text.

+ BeeJive is on sale at 50% off!
- Still cannot be convinced that $4.99 is a bargain for an IM client.

In the age of Twitter, it's not.

Twice as much on the iPad! Bloody hell.

Get meebo, it's great.

Oh I use that now and it's great except that it doesn't do group chat, and it also has this annoying habit of generating a new chat session with someone when I already have one open.

NOSEDIAL

lol

8mm app is very cool. Cheezy test vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW4nYFunxjA

I think I'm going to spring for Cyclemeter (this is pretty much *the* de facto bike app w/r/t route tracing and stuff, right?)

Does anyone have recommendations for portable chargers? I want to get something that'll give my phone a bit of emergency juice with a pair of AA's (NOT a rechargeable battery pack), but all the stuff I've found on Amazon seems really sketchy.

I've been using cyclemeter and it's totally accurate for routes, but a bit iffy for altitude.

for some reason cyclemeter and strava (using gpx data from cyclemeter) give me really different stopped/moving times. but yeah i like cyclemeter.

I ride with a cycling computer on as well and the trip times are always longer on cyclemeter than on the computer (albeit only by a couple of minutes per hour) because cyclemeter seems to take longer to notice when you've stopped moving at lights / junctions.

I tried a couple apps and gave up on them all, the iphone data is all sketchy at best (nb: i have at&t as service provider, not sure if that's what's driving the variances between the iphone and my garmin gps data).

The GPS chip in the iPhone isn't as good as those in a full on GPS. I've read it's not as sensitive and suffers from a small antenna so you pick up fewer satellites and get lower resolution, this is all to save power. You can get a sleeve from magellan which dramatically improves on the GPS performance but I think you have to use their app.

That said, I think the start stop on the garmin will default to the speed/cadence sensor if you have one.

(also nb: i know there is a difference between topo and true gps)

Two people on the bus this morning asked me if I had had any trouble with my alarm clock, but I hadn't. Don't know why. One said his failed yesterday, the other said hers didn't go off today. Or was late. I forget.

Yeah it was a "thing", see http://consumerist.com/2011/01/iphone-alarm-bug-makes-couple-miss-fertility-treatment.html

huh... mine didn't go off today either.

Words w/ Friends? Anyone?

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved),

Always up for a game -- username Bob.Dobbs

What's the best Craigslist app? Craigspro+?

http://www.ipadgameforcats.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXglUFL9A0A

Oh my word.

Something really annoying on iPad though: I want to share that embedded video but Safari for iPad gives you no way of getting to the YouTube page to get e URL.

Or typing properly,..

Searching app store for Find My Iphone, typed in 'find my' and the second entry to pop up was 'find sex offenders for free!'. Well that's a must have.

i have to use an iphone 4 to set this up? I HATE APPLE.

The clock on my IPod Touch often ends up five minutes behind the actual time. Why is this happening, and how do I fix it?

shit that happens to my girl's phone, too.

oh internet i love you. every tech problem anyone's had,someone had it before
don't know if this is right but it sounds plausible:

To try to solve this issue, follow these steps:
1. Disconnect your iPod from the computer.
2. Ensure the time and date on the computer is correct.
3. In iTunes, go to Edit > Preferences > Devices.
4. Under Device Backups, select your device in the list.
5. Click Remove Backup.
6. Close iTunes.
7. Reopen iTunes. Reconnect the iPod Touch or iPhone.

A new backup should be created and should solve the issue.

that happens on my MBP sometimes??

WiFi Photo Transfer! It gives you a URL which links to your Camera Roll, from which you can wirelessly transfer photos and videos to your computer. And the link doesn't work on others' computers, somehow.

Situationist. I just dled this and set it up. Am a bit scared now.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/hug-me-for-5-seconds-exactly/72203/

Hey guys, how about a really nice and free remote-access app?

Only one I've used is TeamViewer. Seemed to do the job OK, and is free.

Yeah, we use Team Viewer at work and it does the job pretty well.

another vote for teamviewer....

Cool, I was going for either TeamViewer or that mocha VNC thig but I'll give TV a shot

ITeleport is the best. Not free though.

The paid version of TeamViewer is $99, which shocked me until I realized that the free one is identical but intended only for personal use.

KEY RING

Whoa, key ring sounds waaaay unsecure, esp if one is unwise enough to use their lock screen passcode as their KeyRing passcode. Also it's incredibly easy to figure out someone's passcode by watching them type it, much more than a keyboard.

key ring is for your grocery/cvs/petco cards, replaces the ones on your keyring.

now that is something I could use