Meebo by a mile; keeps you online after app has quit.
― stet, Sunday, 27 March 2011 21:14 (fifteen years ago)
i guess i should clarify that i'm l@@king for an ipad im app
― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Sunday, 27 March 2011 23:06 (fifteen years ago)
hey y'all:
i lost my iphone 3gs this weekend, and i think the fucker is gone gone gone. my contract with ATT ends at the end of this coming June.
do I:
--bite the bullet, get an iphone4, and lock myself in with ATT for another 2 years--get a cheapie ATT burner, downgrade my plan, spend the spring/summer w/o iphoniness, and assess my options then
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:52 (fifteen years ago)
the latter for sure
― max, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:53 (fifteen years ago)
apparently iphone5 isn't coming out until fall or 2012
i'd jump to verizon if a) coverage was an issue (i've never really had issues with dropped calls, and i always get reception in the city)b) and if i thought i could sneakily use unlimited data + jailbroken tethering to replace my home internet connection (anyone doing this, btw? my buddy is, on a 2gb plan, and while torrenting/netflix/WoW/etc is out, web browsing and email is totally fine)
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:56 (fifteen years ago)
the latter for sure― max, Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
― max, Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
this ~seems~ right, obv, but talk me into it. on the one hand i relish returning to a pre-smartphone existence, on the other hand, my iphone is hella useful
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 17:57 (fifteen years ago)
i'm currently using g-voice for text messaging, and skype for calls out. i'd love to set up some swagged out G-Voice thing, but am loathe to do the whole "HEY GUYS MY NUMBER CHANGED" thing.
also: ATT tells me I can keep my unlimited data plan, which makes keeping them and dropping Comcast reallllllllly tempting
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:03 (fifteen years ago)
on my ipad ive accidently sent ILX new answers and various other pages to instapaper cuz my bookmarklet sits right above the Site New Answers and right under the back button
to get around this i made a new bookmark which takes up the first spot on my bookmarks bar that goes to the location "javascript:history.go(-1)" so now my fat fingers wont accidentally send more garbage to my instapaper
― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 20:51 (fifteen years ago)
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 18:56 Is that right?
I'd be very surprised if it was as so far it's been June every year for the new iPhone launch.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 07:43 (fifteen years ago)
Gruber types are saying that's changing this year. Especially now that nobody cares about new iPods, they think they'll use the september launch for the phones now.
― stet, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 07:50 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah just done some reading and they announced that WWDC will focus on the "future of IOS" this year so people seem to be assuming it'll be a software event rather than a hardware one. Although it does seem that everyone has jumped on that one little comment and concluded the iPhone 5 will be delayed.
I'd be quite happy with a delay tbh as I'm tied in to my iPhone 4 until June next year.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 08:20 (fifteen years ago)
locked in to my 3g (not s) till oct this year, so a sept release would be nice. still unsure whether to replace my defunct ipod or not - if 5 has decent storage then might be worth holding off.
― and the hint of parp (ledge), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 08:23 (fifteen years ago)
Did anyone get the Kraftwerk app?http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=423962784&mt=8&u1=web&affId=1860684#
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 7 April 2011 09:47 (fifteen years ago)
$12 and all negative reviews. Hmm.
― You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 April 2011 10:47 (fifteen years ago)
I just paid 14 bucks for this new Atari app. It's amazing for nostalgic reasons but the controllers are a pain in the ass like all iphone virtual joysticks so I'll probably never really use it.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 7 April 2011 13:00 (fifteen years ago)
Chaos Rings does the joystick well. Basically anywhere on the left side of the screen you can put your finger and start the joystick from that point.
― Jeff, Thursday, 7 April 2011 13:27 (fifteen years ago)
What's up w this new SkyView app and is it as good as Star Walk?
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 April 2011 14:19 (fifteen years ago)
Got my first situationist thing...
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 7 April 2011 15:22 (fifteen years ago)
aaaand?
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 7 April 2011 15:37 (fifteen years ago)
I'm in clinic!
― FUN FUN FUN FUN (gbx), Thursday, 7 April 2011 17:28 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.redmondpie.com/enable-hd-video-recording-on-iphone-3gs-jailbreak/
Yes you read that right! As the title suggests, you can now enable HD video recording on your jailbroken iPhone 3GS, running iOS 4.x. ARM Cortex processor on iPhone 3GS is apparently capable of handling 720p video encoding, it is just that Apple has imposed some limitation in the software which Mike has successfully managed to bypass to allow video recording at 1080×800 @ 30fps at up to 20Mbps. The default settings for video recording on iPhone 3GS are: 640×480 @ 3Mbps.
idgi, why do apple limit the software?
― The Geirogeirgegege (nakhchivan), Friday, 8 April 2011 10:20 (fifteen years ago)
¯\(°_°)/¯
d00dz - is there an app that will automatically put me into airplane mode after, say, 30 seconds of failing to find a signal?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 April 2011 10:24 (fifteen years ago)
Apple's answer is always "protecting user experience" ie this is just about possible but unless it works perfectly we won't let it out.
Real answer is obviously "make you want new stuff".
― JimD, Friday, 8 April 2011 11:23 (fifteen years ago)
Maybe their engineers just aren't very good.
― You Say Various Things (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 April 2011 12:33 (fifteen years ago)
Any recommendations for a planner that works really well with Google calendar? I was looking at CalenGoo, Pocket Informant, and SauSukeCalenars - Google Calendar Client, and others.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Thursday, 14 April 2011 18:53 (fifteen years ago)
If you turn on GMail's Exchange ActiveSync support, you can use the native app. Or calvetica, which I really like.
Also loving tweetbot, except the icon.
― stet, Thursday, 14 April 2011 20:05 (fifteen years ago)
I have calvetica. My problem is that I use the calendar to see both my events and my girlfriends, but since I only have read-only acess to her calender, unless I'm doing something wrong, her events don't sync to iCal or Calvetica. I could try seeing it I'd be able to read them if I gained write privileges, but I prefer to not have that so that we don't start accidently writing to each other's calendar. Am I missing something?
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 April 2011 20:23 (fifteen years ago)
If you turn on GMail's Exchange ActiveSync support, you can use the native app.
Did that. The native app is garbage, especially as a way of using Google calendar. I'll take a look at calvetica. Thinking of Pocket Calendar, too, now.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Thursday, 14 April 2011 20:55 (fifteen years ago)
Dan: I haven't tested this, but I think you should be able to add the feed of yr girlfriends calendar to your iCal and then it'll sync to the phone w/MobileMe.
Both iCal and Calendar on phone are ptty shit. ICal woeful at adding new events.
― stet, Thursday, 14 April 2011 22:07 (fifteen years ago)
I chose CalenGoo - dumb name, but I love it. Calvetica was good (read about it and tried out the free version) but limited. I love that CalenGoo is both simple to use, yet chock full of functions that I use, even more than Google Calendar itself. E.g., duplicating a calendar event, which is something I've frequently wanted. I love that it lets you get under the hood quite a bit - Being able to customize the defaults is really nice, for example.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Friday, 15 April 2011 19:00 (fifteen years ago)
I just use mobile me.
― Jeff, Friday, 15 April 2011 19:07 (fifteen years ago)
I meant to ask you what you use. I'm surprised you don't have something more exotic and powerful.
― a giant and leaky bag of mayhem (Jesse), Friday, 15 April 2011 19:12 (fifteen years ago)
Nah, I just pay. It's not the best calendaring app, but everything updates nicely and works great.
― Jeff, Friday, 15 April 2011 20:08 (fifteen years ago)
Holy crap, Microsoft's new Photosynth app is a wowing thing. And it's free.
― Alba, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:01 (fifteen years ago)
what does it do?
― Mordy, Monday, 18 April 2011 23:37 (fifteen years ago)
Stitches photos together to make panoramas. Cheers for the tip-off Alba, it really is fantastic.
― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Monday, 18 April 2011 23:41 (fifteen years ago)
You just sort of wave the phone around and it stitches on the fly. Quite incredible.
O that's amazing
― stet, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 01:24 (fifteen years ago)
A mate just pointed out that you need silverlight installed to view them after the fact (i.e. you can't from the phone). He reckons 360 Panorama is much nicer.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:43 (fifteen years ago)
d00dz - is there an app that will automatically put me into airplane mode after, say, 30 seconds of failing to find a signal?― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, April 8, 2011 6:24 AM (1 week ago)
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, April 8, 2011 6:24 AM (1 week ago)
― under the pollcano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:46 (fifteen years ago)
― groovypanda, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 2:43 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
Yes you can, you just click the icon of two overlapping rectangles on the bottom left corner.
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 20:00 (fifteen years ago)
My 3GS puts them as a picture on my roll automatically.
― I said Omorotic, not homo-erotic (aldo), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 20:05 (fifteen years ago)
That too
― ToeJam & Lewis (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 20:06 (fifteen years ago)
^this
― under the pollcano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 05:46 (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
+1, also an app that blocks that fucking "DISMISS" msg if you've manually selected a network
― iSnack2.0Grrl (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 20:45 (fifteen years ago)
AA you know there's a setting where it'll only connect to known wifi networks, and never ask you about connecting
― lukas, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 22:16 (fifteen years ago)
(aa) Sorry, should have been clear: it's not wi-fi, it's 3G.
http://www.cambridgemobileapps.com/
All 90% off until the royal wossnames get married for some reason.
― snythpop revolution (Schlafsack), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 22:20 (fifteen years ago)
Nice:
Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go – and saves every detail of it to a secret file on the device which is then copied to the owner's computer when the two are synchronised.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:11 (fifteen years ago)
useful feature for drunks looking to piece together the previous night out, imo.
― joe, Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:15 (fifteen years ago)
if it was telling apple where the phone had been 4eva this might be half a story, instead its just grist to the mill for the guardian comment retard squad
― Romford Spring (DG), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:18 (fifteen years ago)
Very handy for FBI xxpost
― calling planet smurf (sunny successor), Wednesday, 20 April 2011 15:28 (fifteen years ago)