iPhone apps S/D

sounds pretty good

hello my future girlfriend

does anyone have a solution to this problem:

-i'm going to a cottage for a few days
-need to do some work on my MBP when i'm there
-may need to email some files from my MBP
-no wifi, and my iphone doesnt do mobile hotspot/tethering
-can i get files off my computer and onto my phone and email them over 3g?

you can do it over USB. might need to download an app onto your MBP.

then where do i 'find' that stuff? on my phone?

An app like FileApp allows you to do this. You do the transfer in iTunes when the phone's connected. It's kind of buried in one of the iPhone tabs there (at work so can't give you step-by-step)

yeah, i can guess how to do it from itunes - but will i be able to email it from fileapp on my phone?

Yes. Just checked on my phone. There's the regular "send by email" action.

thanks!

So yeah - at home now. When you're iPhone's plugged in, you click on it in iTunes, then go to the "Apps" tab. At the bottom, there's a section called "File sharing", in which apps like FileApp show up and allow you to add files.

STILL cannot find a good app for giving me bike directions in and around Philadelphia (and outside of too I guess but that's not as important). Has anyone had any luck w/ bike direction apps?

google maps is okay, if you use the website and not the app

do they do bikes in mobile now?? last time I tried they didn't

Any way to stream audio from computer to iPhone over WiFi? So I can just play something on my laptop upstairs and listen to it on the kitchen w/ headphones?

Oh apparently Orb Live does it but I'm not paying $10 to do this. Anything besides that?

you could maybe set up dropbox to do something like that?

The only way to play more than one song at a time that I know of is through BoxyTunes, and w/ that you have to download all of the files to your phone :(

http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ios/ is what you want

(ah, it needs Airfoil for Mac, which I have but forgot is £20)

I haven't tried SqueezeCast yet, but it sounds like it would work:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/squeezecast/id344982128?mt=8

You'd have to install the (free) Squeezebox server on your laptop and tell it to use your iTunes library (if that's where your music is). The SqueezeCast app should then be able to connect to the server via WiFi and play your tunes on your iPhone.

Hey, it works

Home Sharing does this if you just want to listen to your iTunes library.

audiogalaxy?

Where do the Notes sync to when you connect your iphone to yr laptop? All the internet tells me is the mac method (I'm PC) or 'in Outlook', but I can't see them anywhere. It's definitely syncing some things automatically, as my calendar shows up in Outlook. Help :/

any recommend a good terminal app? need to ssh etc

havent tried it but Prompt is written by the panic dudes who are pretty good at designing mac stuff: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prompt/id421507115?mt=8

I think Prompt is iPad-only? iSSH pretty decent.

No, Prompt works on iPhone too. It's pretty good.

I stand corrected!

pretty annoyed with the podcasts app, it seems like downcast is the best replacement - is that the general consensus?

I use instacast. I tried downcast but didn't like it for some reason I cannot recall.

I've been using downcast for a long time and I really like it

Reposting this b/c it seems pretty dang awesome. Right now this app is only good for London, NYC, Boston, and Chicago, btw.

People with smart phones: may I recommend the HAILO cab app? It is basically a decentralized, electronic dispatch service. You sign in and add your credit card info (it lives on your phone, not in a cloud or anything), then "hail" a cab. The hail goes out over the Hailo network and a driver answers. Then you get the driver's name, cab number, and contact info, time until the cab arrives, and a map that shows you where the cab is. When you're done with your trip, you indicate how much tip and the app charges your card. Then you get an email receipt.

It's pretty amazing and convenient.

― carl agatha, Monday, November 5, 2012 8:57 AM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark

There's one in Toronto too, called Uber. Love it. You can rate the drivers and they rate you, too.

Dirac Lite doing an astounding job of making the Apple headphones sound acceptable.

really love the Gmail app - think I can finally stop using apple mail on the macbook now

I still use Sparrow! Not sure why, I am probably just acclimated to it.

Haven't used apple mail in months.

If you listen to music on your iphone/ipod/android through headphones and you care about audio quality, you should do yourself a favor and download this app. It sounds so much better than all the other music player apps I've tried, and I've tried a lot.

Accudio™ Free:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/accudio-free/id551297705?mt=8

game changer

http://agiletortoise.com/drafts

I like all these productivity apps, but apple needs to allow tighter integration with siri/icloud. Otherwise they have limited use to me. I always go back to the stock apple apps even though they are not as fully featured.

If Apple can't fix iCloud, it needs to allow apps another way to sync data in the background. This current mess is a fucking joke.

i like whoever coined the phrase "productivity theater" for all these apps

@Jeff: Orchestra has really nice voice recognition. I use it to make grocery lists, while walking around the kitchen.

https://simperium.com/
http://www.omnigroup.com/blog/entry/omni-plans-for-2013

crazy that it's even possible for companies other than apple to make money/earn karma offering this service to other devs

multiplying incompatible sync services = docpocalypse

i've already had to reject interesting storage solutions because my favorite apps offer Dropbox integration only

need an open standard

i guess that would be webdav, which seems to have already failed

tbf, I would think offering a data layer that wrappers iCloud/file sync/etc would be really useful, especially if it's cross-platform. Then you could just use that API and roll out your iPhone, Windows, etc. apps

Problem is iCloud is a) basically opaque, b) broken and c) tied to a device/account combo. There's no way to get access to multiple accounts to do what you're talking about.

Simperium is also disingenuous - nothing except iCloud can do proper background updates on iOS.

@Jeff: Orchestra has really nice voice recognition. I use it to make grocery lists, while walking around the kitchen.

I'm sure it does but really the key functionality for me is to be able to make reminders by starting Siri using my headphones while my phone is in my packet. I make my todo lists while walking to the train every morning.