iPhone apps S/D

guys I didn't mention my app shame:
- Foursquare
- Facebook Messenger
- Simple (ok, not so bad, but I use an online-only bank so I am a nerdo)

caek, some airports mysteriously don't allow you to scan a phone as a boarding pass. So I was able to do so in friggin Des Moines, Iowa, but the San Francisco airport insisted on a paper ticket

Also, it's only marginally useful in that a one-stop clearing house for passes, tickets, and coupons is only a little more helpful than going to individual apps, and you pretty much have to go to those apps and select "send to passbook" at some point anyway.

drafts, fantastical, omnifocus, ebay (so much better than the website), tripit, night sky, exoplanet

fantastical? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsmqrk7Wgsk

i fly a lot and i've never had a problem with phone boarding passes fwiw

also i fly enough and on enough different airlines simplifying the # of boarding passes and apps i have to deal with at the airport is a big thing, and having direct access to the pass on the lockscreen is very useful for me.

like it's not going to change the world, but it's an improvement.

oh yeah, I just started using Drafts, it is cool

also FIFA

Been hearing about Drafts, haven't dled or had a look yet. Been getting really into Cotton, which is outlining done cleverly.

Fantastical is the business.

I use these the most: Evernote, Mailbox (work and personal both use gmail), Instagram, Camera, 1Password, Fantastical, Tweetbot, Drafts (a little), Plex, biteSMS, Moves, Envelopes, Google Maps, Transit, TAG Taxi (awesome but limits to MTL I think), New Yorker, Instapaper, Pocket, Reeder, Instacast, Rdio, Music

fantastical iphone app is GREAT except for 3 things

1) calendar alerts still take you to calendar--i know this is not fantasticals fault and theres nothing they can do
2) no reminders support, which is annoying b/c i use the desktop fantastical for reminders
3) the icon doesnt show the date

number 3 drives me crazy. Didn't realize how much I relied on that.

wow this is free: http://appshopper.com/music/filtatron

3) the icon doesnt show the date

― max, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:08 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya that shit is custom theres no way for a third party to build an app that does that on their icon

apple is so wack

either make your apps good or let other people make good apps with full functionality

you will still get a cut of the app store profits and youre still selling the fucking phones

im sure theyre worried that the home screen will be too busy if they let everyone flood it w live infos, but they should, it could be limited to two fields or w/e like is needed for date and day of the week

what weird is they dont even use the capability for all their apps, like the weather app wouldnt it bee cool to just look at the icon and get the weather but no

there are some weather apps that use the notification badge to give you the temp which i guess is better than nothing but is really not that good

it's always 72 degrees and sunny in my phone

sorry, 73

there are some weather apps that use the notification badge to give you the temp which i guess is better than nothing but is really not that good

― lag∞n, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:28 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

ya thats sort of a nasty hack

i hate any apps that use those badges except mail and messages

who the hell needs to know how many podcasts they havent listened to or rss articles they havent read at all times

useful for app store updates and for reminding me that its my letterpress turn

also apple needs to open up the widgets space so i can get something besides stocks/weather in my notification screen

I improved my life so much by turning off badges

useful for app store updates and for reminding me that its my letterpress turn

― max, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:38 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm too

i don't understand why neither apple maps nor google maps provide a scale

it's like the most obvious thing to put on a map, next to labels of things and where the sea searts

because if you need to know the distance between any two points you can select them and it'll tell you?

I mean, not as the crow flies, but as humans will actually move through cities and roads

well also the scale would change whenever you zoom in or out even the tiniest bit? so you'd end up with weird decimal-based scale figures that probably wouldn't be very useful

it works on the google maps web site

nah you just make the line change size too

also apple needs to open up the widgets space so i can get something besides stocks/weather in my notification screen

idgi, i get notifications from all sorts of third-party apps

Widgets

3) the icon doesnt show the date

― max, Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:08 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya that shit is custom theres no way for a third party to build an app that does that on their icon

Fantastical uses the badges hack to show the date – just turn it on in settings.

hah that's clever

Did that, found was getting tense towards the end of the month with all the big numbers

otm

must! clear! badge!

I still use Instapaper for long reads while Pocket has become my default for all mostly non text stuff to check out later (eg videos, photos, flash stuff, etc). Works pretty well for me

let's talk about pdf management. at this point i haven't started doing heavy pdf reading on my ipad, but at some point soon i'll want to be able to read some books and academic articles and stuff. right now i just shoved a few of them into ibooks, but that doesn't seem like a good long term solution. is dedicated pdf app + dropbox the way to go? or is there a better way? this is going to be a mess, isn't it?

for what it's worth, i don't think someone who's just going to read a few pdfs needs some sort of system, but i anticipate using this for open access books and academic articles mostly. at least that's what i know i'll use it for now. i'm not in academia but if the people who are and who do this kind of crazy pdf management stuff can shed any light on the situation it'd be appreciated.

as far as the app portion of the system goes i guess there's pdf expert, iannotate, good reader, other stuff? i'd like the best in class app, really.

one of the reasons that spotify's cool for music is because you no longer really have to manage a music library. and although shit like this exists -- http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/browzine/47955 -- i'm still going to have to manage a pdf library for a while it seems. some philosophy books from re.press, some stuff from open humanities press, journal articles from that open access journal, dissertations and shit people post to their personal sites.

one last thing: it seems to me like something involving dropbox or something like dropbox would be ideal because you don't want to just import a bunch of pdfs into an ios app a la ibooks and then have them stuck in there. how would you go about getting all that shit out? you'd probably have to sync with itunes or email everything out, which is just shitty. the goal is to make shit portable enough that whatever app i'm using at the time is interacting with the files but not holding onto them

anyone tried http://www.triage.cc/ ?

grubes loves it

ja that's where i saw it. he loves that terrible helvetica game hundreds though, so

for pdfs use goodreader

interface is a bit of a... smorgasbord, but it does everything p darn well ime