iPhone apps S/D

Based on like a billion of my research both Scrabble and WWF are locked to US English so fuck that.

The scrabble app does have online multiplayer. And does the same Facebook integration that wwf does.

Really? I must be thick, hadn't figured that one out. I thought you could only play against people on the same wifi network?

Official Scrabble is a lot more sluggish than WWF alright. But the scrabble board is way better - I guess the designers figured out the optimum layout.

There might be different versions available in different regions, owing to Mattel owning the rights in some places and … someone else owning it elsewhere. In the UK there's no online multiplayer option - just wifi "party mode", as p-dog says.

AA - the real issue isn't US v UK English as such (Scrabble dictionaries vary between regions but generally allow both US and UK spellings). It's that the iOS versions (that I can access, at least) are censored, not allowing anything "offensive", even words with double meanings such as "fag". It's really fucking outrageous.

Weirdly, the iPad and iPhone versions seem to have slightly different dictionaries - there's a two-letter word (forget which one) that's allowed in one but not the other.

And "zoos" isn't allowed, for some reason.

Oh yeah, I've heard that you can't do actual words that mean something in the real world yet crap like e.g. 'zuyk' is accepted.

I am really really really sick of web sites that detect I'm using an iphone and give me a full-screen "CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL IPHONE APP!!! FREE!!!" banner for an app that's not available in my country. At least two aspects of that rubbish disgust me to the core.

yes. Looking at you IMDB, Rotten Tomatos, etc etc.

Moot filtatron also on sale for .99 iPhone peeps

Not moot. Moog. Stupid iPhone barghh.

It's a pretty great way to lose your mind late at night in the dark w/the headphones on.

okay i just bought that and it is amazing

The worst are sites that redirect you to an iPhone friendly site without taking you to the link you were going to

Animoog is much better than Filtatron but unfortunately Animoog is iPad only I think.

why aren't push notifications working for me on tweetbot and is that the best iphone twitter client anyway?

Touch OSC is getting a lot of use in my studio atm, need iPad now. Amaaaaazing.

This post should've gone here instead of the Netflix thread.

The iPhone app has always been streaming only. It's sort of annoying
Not to be able to manage your DVD queue from it, but far more annoying that titles that are available as streaming but added as DVDs do not show up in the streaming queue.

btw guys should i update to iOS 5?

Yes

Yes. Wifi synch is nice.

Yes.

Oh hell yes

does it take forever?

anyone noticed increased power suck post-upgrade or is it all in my head?

it didn't really take long--maybe 30 mins?

nah my battery is def wheezing away faster post upgrade

got to say I'm impressed with the iphone 4S after some scary reports

manages a full day and half's normal use

jjj: too many push notifications and whatnot maybe? I turned most of mine off after reading an article about that being a big battery drain..

My battery is slightly drainier but nothing worth panicking about.

One thing I found, and YMMV, but I turned off the notification center for Calendar (I have a bunch of calendars) after reading somewhere that this helped, and my iPhone 4 started performing much better, and wasn't as hot. I still checked the alert boxes, so I get calendar alerts, but the "Notification Center" thing is turned off. Seems like a bug.

I haven't noticed it draining faster and I pay attention close to my battery life.

My upgrade took F I V E H O U R S.

The only thing I didn't like post-upgrade was that iTunes would spring to life as soon as it was around the phone and stay on as long as the phone was on, so I turned off automatic wifi synch. My poor laptop can't handle running iTunes all the time.

Did you turn off "open iTunes when this phone is connected"

Regardless, I wouldn't run iTunes on your computer either.

I turned off something and it stopped happening. I think it was the power mains to my building.

The "elegant" banner notification solution is so disgusting that I turned them all off.

lol @ "disgusting"

You want to tap a nav button at the top of the screen but you can't because there's a freaking banner just hanging there for like five seconds.

I just timed 6.7 seconds.

Even cigarettes don't take that much off your life.

4S battery life isnt hot but it can be improved by turning off most of the background stuff, calendars/notifications esp

so after updated my 3gs with IOS5, now, every time I connect my phone to my computer, it backs up or updates something like 2k files, I have no idea what they are; I don't have itunes do smart playlists or anything, I manually manage my music, so I don't know wtf is going on. Also spends a ton of time syncing genius something or other. Also, about half my music was unplayable after I restored (I backed up the phone and it restored it from some file), totally annoying.

Back up to iCloud like a real man then.

Unless you care about photos. Fucking photo app now crashing every time I try to launch it. Known bug, you have to do some funky terminal shit to fix it. Fukk that

the new notifications when the screen is locked that let you open directly to the notifying app are the greatest thing ever IMO

^ truest

the mini-sliders

yeah those are great

mini-sliders ftw, big fan.

now if there was a way to put THESE on my lockscreen id be in heaven

http://img4.myrecipes.com/i/recipes/ck/08/06/sliders-ck-1809127-l.jpg

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/28/apple-working-with-iphone-4s-owners-to-address-battery-life-issues/

feels like it's impacting ipad too

i feel like it's impacting my personal life

I sit at a desk all day so I just leave my phone plugged in.

I've got a 3GS and upgraded the software a week or two ago. Mysteriously, Google Maps has stopped working. It loads the page, but without a map, and none of the buttons do anything. Anyone got a solution?

i just got a 4S but everytime i upgraded the iOS software on my old 3G it seemed to disable something else--maps and location services in particular slowed down to crawl; also typing would sometimes just not work.