iPhone apps S/D

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.

does anybody else hang on the unlock screen for a few seconds after sliding

it's embarrassing because sometimes the music I'm listening to has cover art featuring a big bottom bird and the big bottom just stays on the screen for 5 seconds while I tug my collar and pretend to be focused intently on my sleeve

maybe I'll just replace all the cover art in my itunes with pictures of churche

Here's a tricky one for you: how can I transfer music to my iPhone without using iTunes? The issue is that the computer I'm using now to sync my phone is only temporary and in order to put anything on it music-wise it wants me to delete EVERYTHING (apps and all) and resync, which will just take like 5 hours and fuck up all my folders (which it just did when I upgraded to iOS 5), and then I'll have to do it all over again when I get my original computer set back up again in a month or so.

Anyway, I know that you can upload music to Dropbox and use BoxyTunes as a front-end, but it only allows you to make one playlist of all the music you want and only lists track titles, and I wanted to throw like 10 or 15 albums on my device which would be a mess. Are there any apps that'll let you transfer music to them via iTunes File Sharing in the Apps tab? Or any other cloud-based thingies that'll work nicely playing music?

I just tried box.net app but, like the Dropbox app, it only plays one song at a time.

I'm thinking maybe ZumoDrive which apparently has a decent media player built into its iOS app? Anyone have any experience with this or other media-friendly cloud services (except mSpot which I read transcodes everything you upload to 48kbps :-/ )

Spotify lets you sync music, though I've never tried it.

I need premium, apparently :(

I hate having to use itunes to synch music - I dont *buy* music from itunes so stuff them. So now I must be the only person in the world with an iphone that has no music on it at all, haha. :/

Air Sharing would do what you want, it's basically a "use your phone as a flash drive" app but it has a media player built in. Just save your separate albums in separate folders (it lets you copy them onto there OTA too, which is handy).

Air Sharing looks rad but I don't have $7 to spend on just playing music :(

dayo's itunes feat. big bottom bird

Is anyone here using LevelUp? I just signed up and it seems really great so far and has a 100x better model than Groupon. It's an app that's linked to a credit/debit card that you then use to pay for things at places that accept it (there are tons in Philly). Off the bat you get credit (like, little gift certificates) to tons of places and none of them require minimum purchases. Then once you spend x amount of $ at a given place, you get more credit towards it (e.g. $15 after you spend $150). I'm usually wary of shit like this but it seems pretty great so far.

Oh also apparently if you sign up with this code they gave me (33724) we both get addtl $5 credit good anywhere. So like you basically get a free meal just for signing up

i have used it once. not that many places around here are taking it. also they send me like three promo emails a day and i can't figure out how to opt out of that. but it's a decent idea.

I am rly excited abt it because not only do I have this incentive to try all these new places, but I've got all these discounts and will get more if I keep going back. This seems like one of those situations where everybody (me, local establishments, LevellUp) wins

U have sold me on this app, Steve. Downloading now.

Going to rep here for Oh! Edo Towns as a great timesink of a game

xp FYI Gianfranco's on 11th an like Locust gives you $5 and btwn that + sign-up bonus with that code you can get a totally nsa free lunch from one of the best 'zzerias in the the city.

upgraded my 3G to a 4S over the holidays... what apps have I been missing out on?

Animoog is on sale for 99c!

It says $9.99 on the website

for the iPad version... iPhone is 99c.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/animoog-for-iphone/id490169960?mt=8

Oh cool.

Garageband for iPhone is maybe better than the iPad version.

Can anyone recommend a good app for personal time management/task prioritisation please? On-board Calendar doesn't really cut it.

omnifocus

Trello is amazing if you just want something lightweight and clever. Omnifocus if you want to program your life

Things

I've used just about every task management app there is (probably not true). Even though I've fully reverted to using Reminders, I used 2Do for the longest time. It basically had everything I needed but didn't integrate with iOS as smoothly as the native apple app.

Caek - how much planning and tweaking did you put into getting OmniFocus up and running?

I'm a bit daunted by the very first article I've seen about using it.

Basically, I want something that'll make a task list with priorities and reminders and then allow me to shove those into an hour-by-hour calendar for the months ahead. If I can sync that to Google Calendars, that would be a Brucey.

i used of on os x for years before i got an iphone, so none. it's really designed for gtd though, and if you're not using that i'm not sure how much you'd get out of it compared to a list.

I've decided to try it as its come down so much in price.

I use GTD off and on. The thing I like about it is that it can help you get a grip of your areas of work through forcing you to think what the next step is to make progress. I've found it helpful in re-motivating me to get things moving again in areas that seem bogged down for any reason.

What I don't like about GTD is the obsessive approach where every facet of life becomes a 'task' or 'action' - even things that are supposed to be enjoyable. Viewed this way life can feel a drag. Especially if you develop the feeling you should be productive at all times, with even your 'down time' supposed to refresh you.

The other thing I am wary of with GTD is life becoming too structured, especially in my non-work life. It's really easy to get tied into a routine. Some of my most enjoyable moments have been unplanned and accidental.

GTD was great for me back when I was managing people. I still use elements of it (my work email is do/delegate/done) but full-blown GTD would just get in the way now.

iOS Things and Omnifocus/plot/giraffe/spackle are massively overpriced imo.

(Posted on gif thread too, but anyway...)

This looks cool.

Please help me find an that will allow me to determine the distance between various points that I plot a map. Like this http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/, but on iPhone.

Google Maps app doesn't work this way, unless I'm missing something (won't allow you to drop more than one pin at a time) and searching for pedometers on the app store results in too many matches.

I used to use cyclemeter

It looks like Cyclemeter works through GPS, which is not what I am looking for. I'm looking for something where I can plot points on a map and have the app calculate the distance.

I use Measure Map Lite for this; it's free, and it seems to do the job pretty well