iPhone apps S/D

it costs me 8 cents a minute to call Australia from my cellphone.

i am shutting up now

What is the name of the company that provides service to iPhones in your land?

*.*

(by that I mean we never copped network exclusivity here)

lolstralia

There's a new Kairosoft game out, FYI. Same folks who did GameDev Story. I like their games since you can run these little 16-bit pixel-art isometric worlds an b/c they're addicting as all hell

Synthcam is an intriguing free photography app.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/synthcam/id412992079?mt=8

Uses the video camera to create creative blur/fake bokeh as well as providing a way to take low-noise photos in low light.

I'm still getting the hang of it but already have some interesting results.

If you are amused by things like Chick tracts, get:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/how-babies-are-made/id430704822?mt=8

this must have been asked before but is there a good google apps client for phone yet?

i've just got an app that shortcuts to the web apps \(o_o)/

yeah right now i just have it saved as a web app but I'm not crazy about how it runs in safari

is there a better browser yet? chrome for iPhone?

I like icab mobile.

I mean the google app works fine but yeah, it's mostly links to web apps

The CNN app is so mindnumbingly awful.

Would anyone be able to recommend a decent "news" app? NYT is alright.

AP's isn't the worst thing in the world but I feel like someone must have done better.

The Guardian? The BBC? Reuters?

NYT w/ subscription is what i use. you can split it with a friend for $17/month (each).

Reuters looks very nice. Will give it a whirl, thx.

The photo section is sweet

Would anyone be able to recommend a decent "news" app? NYT is alright.

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McClatchy! Great and free.

I read the Guardian app the most tho

what the hell is happening with Calvetica - the developpers keep updating it beyond recognition and now explain that if I want sth that does what that app used to do (ie simple minimal calendar), I could buy their new "Tempus" app...!

yeah it's terrible. Agenda is better

http://www.phonestory.org/

James that is awesome

How on earth did they get that on the app store? I saw what looked like a similar site, advertising the "conflict free" iPhone, but it was just designed to look like the apple site.

double whoa @ phone story

can you imagine the uproar if that app had been blocked?

I bet it will be blocked shortly.

nuh-uh

yeah lukas is right. apple has much more to lose by blocking it.

the argument that "we can't control the third world, it is a net positive to support some sort of economic development there, even if local actors are twisting it toward negative ends" is how the first world sleeps at night and i'm sure that the vast majority apple consumers would be sympathetic to apple saying that too.

and...it's been banned.

haha damn - too late!

wow. well, can't say i think it's a wise move.

i think if tech sites gave a shit about global exploitation in the supply chain they would have written about it before now

ok so me and apple both made mistakes today

lol. I think this will blow up in Apple's face. It's true that most people don't give a shit about the ins and outs of 3rd world manufacturing, but this puts a fresh twist on that story. in fact I think more people probably care about the closed nature of the appstore ecosystem, which is also involved here.

Have no explanation for them destroying Calvetica. Tempus really is the best of the lot, though -- even better than Agenda and has a good iPad version.

Will check out Tempus.

I don't think this will blow up in Apple's face. People aren't going to be like "hey man, how dare they censor this game that calls out their faults". Everyone's gonna be like "of course they'd kill that" and go on with there day.

Is their "conflict-free iPhone" page still up? Apple could stop that easily too considering it's mimicry of their trademarks.

So, box.net is giving 50GB cloud storage for 50 days for iOS users. Their usual free amount is 5GB. I signed up.

http://box.net/

What can I use this for?

It's cloud storage. I think you know how you might use cloud storage. You only get 5GB free w/ iCloud.

I don't really use much storage. I have Dropbox and that works so well with multiple computers/platforms and devices. and I only get 2 gigs with it.

I don't like having to keep files on my work computer if I want to access them from there. I like the cloud.

I meant to mention, the new push notifications in iOS 5 are fucking boss

dropbox keeps your files on the cloud as well as synchronized on whatever computers you have it installed on. I have a paid account with 50+ megs. I'm sharing folders with my record label partners and the mastering people we're working with, sending files back and forth. It's totally fantastic. I'm also using it to sync 1password and notational velocity, and have been fighting to figure out a way to get it to sync my Font Explorer library between two computers.

And the app is great.

You don't have to download anything. Guy finishes mastering a record. Saves it to or moves it to the dropbox. It's upload to the internet over night while downloading to my computer at the same time. I wake up and it's there on my hard drive. But it's also in the cloud.

My girlfriend has two computers, a desktop and a netbook. She writes fiction so her only concern is tiny word documents. She doesn't even bother moving them around, her documents folder is essentially dropbox. Save a story and it's immediately on both her computers and backed up to the internet. Plus prior versions. And dropbox knows if you're on the same network so it transfers files over WIFI instead of online if the computers are in the same place.

whoa didn't know this:

And dropbox knows if you're on the same network so it transfers files over WIFI instead of online if the computers are in the same place.

do you know any of the technical details? e.g. which protocol are they using?