iPhone apps S/D

hardcore mode otm. tried the rest, now i only play the best

thanks for the drop7 recommendation. love it.

(ON IPHONE)

You guys hit GrooveMaker yet? Even the free version is fucking choice.

dropbox and evernote apps are making a lot of sense to me now

so what's the consensus best to-do app right now? I see that Things gets some love upthread, any other contenders?

Long time Remember the Milk user. You have to be a subscriber to the website though, which I think is 10 a year. Worth it, for me.

Things sorta rules my world

so what's the consensus best to-do app right now? I see that Things gets some love upthread, any other contenders?

I switched from RTM to Google Tasks. I prefer the latter.

Still rep for OmniFocus.

I have joined your ranks. Google maps thinks I live about 20 mins' walk from where I actually am. Any map app recommendations?

I pulled the trigger on Things; let's see if I'm mature enough to handle it or is it gonna be $10 down the pipe

xp do you live in a city? GPS isn't as accurate in urban settings cause the signals bounce around off the skyscrapers

Anyone have any leads on an alarm clock that doesn't have a gigantic snooze button? I need something that will make me, I don't know, do a few math questions before I can turn the alarm off. I am a repeated hit-snooze offendor.

^^^^snoozed for 4 hours last week (I work late evenings, don't you judge me)

Twice this week I snoozed for an hour straight, and my alarm goes off at the latest possible time that I *must* get up to get to work on time! :P Searches for 'alarm' and 'wake up' in app store brought a bunch of alarm apps that brag about their "whole-screen snooze button." That's not what I need!

xp dyao, yes, I live in DC - no skyscrapers to speak of but probably enough buildings to bounce off unhelpfully.

things, probably like most productivity apps, makes most sense if you just give in to it its constraints and what its forcing you to do. i like it cause its good for day to day, short term stuff.

netnewswire (if you're into RSS)

Hmm: I see the update for this has finally appeared. I gave up on it some time ago in favour of Byline, and it's going to have to be all kinds of awesome to make me go back. I could put up with its occasional crash-happiness and sluggishness 18 months ago when I didn't really have any alternative, but Byline -- which isn't perfect by any means -- totally eclipses it.

However. I'll give the update a go and see how I get on.

big JG likes it: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/24/nnw-iphone

how about you just don't hit the snooze button and wake the fuck up

shit, I never thought of that. thanks cutty!

oops there isn't an app for that

Think that JG love is more about him being pals with Brent S (NNW maker) than it actually being any cop. Guy made NNW, everybody loved him, he was bought out by Newsgator and I guess he descended into corporate lunacy, because all his software got crappy and he stopped updating. Guessing JG is trying to give him a break.

Latest reviews of NNW on the store are awful, too. Sticking w/byline.

Is the storm still going on about paying another $3 for the new version of Tweetie? Cheap-ass celebrities.

otm xp

speaking of Things wrt the Tweetie debacle: Things is worth more the $10 to me

NNW works wayyy better than it used to i'll tell ya that much

and if you look upthread you'll find i was a real disser of it

I bought Things and it's very lightweight and cool (though you do get the feeling "I paid $10 for 700kb?!")

but now I am crippling under the pressure of actually having to make a to-do list. is there an app for that?

i do get that! it'd be nice to be able to upload related files or to have THE SWEETEST TRANSITIONS ever or something.

Hahah, woah, the new NNW is shocking. Just tried it there and within about two minutes it had done that annoying thing where the page I was reading gets "stuck" and it won't display the feeds list again until I quit and restart. It might be a tiny bit better than the previous one, but it feels half-finished and cobbled-together -- and some of the reviews on the iTunes store are frighteningly damning. (Some, in fairness, are written by idiots, but hey.)

yeah the new NNW kinda blows.

I've used Things for about six months and am really happy I blew the money.

jeez thanks for the drop7 recs. just needed all my time soaking up :-(

just to iterate: new NNW is a P.O.S. i get pissed every time i use it.

Byline is still one of my most used applications.

hey, look, it's a buck off. let's take a look-see.

I'm trying out Grocery Gadget. I've wanted a grocery list application for awhile now, but it had to have specific functionality. Grocery Gadget has a web based component that syncs up with the iPhone application. So I can have all my lists on there, and so can my wife. We organize them by store, so if either of us happen to be going there, we can just pick up what is on that list. And since it is all synced automatically, we don't have to worry about picking up duplicate items.

really likin instapaper

also, ultralingua makes the best language dictionary hoonja doonja i've ever seen - it'll even conjugate

Am trying out Reeder as a replacement for Byline. It has a really nice UI, and keeps an archive of items you've read.

Slightly weird use of tab bar: it's actually a filter at the bottom. Had me confused, get it now.

and keeps an archive of items you've read

A feature that couldn't interest me less, I have to admit. How else does it compare, though? I really, really like Byline -- I can't believe I put up with NNW for so long, but the whole moving-to-Google-reader thing seemed an unnecessary hassle till my hand was forced -- but, y'know, I've no fucking loyalty at all these days.

is there an app that makes the phone functionality any less shit?!

i mean like saving numbers etc is such a fucking joke, you can't just click "save" when someone texts you and you don't have their number.

lol i know whose text you're referring to

what's hard about "add to contacts" btw dude

you can't do it in a text tho can you? like "use number"...you can't even add people who've called you, or am I being thick? you have to actually write the number down or some shit!

Just press "Add to contacts" then "create new contact"

garda, you are missing something. all this functionality is there.

when some calls you and you want to add their number, in the recents tab of the phone app, click the arrow on the right, then add to contacts -> existing contact or new contact.

ah okay I see that now...lol how do I shot iphone

now to reiterate: byline is better than NNW by virtue of it actually working consistently.

How else does it compare, though?
It's a fair bit faster at downloading and syncing, the UI is a bit better once you wrap your head around it, er, it's pretty. It's a bit like Twitterific vs Tweetie -- they do the same shit, the only real difference is feeling.