So I got the PhoneSaber thing. And yeah, I like it.
Me too. I had MacSaber on my Macbook anyway, so my journey to the nerd side is now complete.
The WeatherBug app blows the iPhone's built-in Weather app out of the water. Full current weather and forecast info on one screen, up-to-date radar on another, and local weather webcams on a third. Outstanding.
― Pancakes Hackman, Sunday, 13 July 2008 14:15 (fifteen years ago) link
so do i need to take my phone into the apple store to get it upgraded to the 2.0 software?
― homosexual II, Sunday, 13 July 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh god no. You can update it through iTunes.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 July 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
pp and i are having fun with Shazam like "quick, turn on MTV...WOW! Okay let me turn on the radio...WOAH! Okay lets see if it knows what my ringtone is...OMG!"
― sunny successor, Sunday, 13 July 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
and yeah the weather thing rules.
― sunny successor, Sunday, 13 July 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
okay how come my itunes is being fucking lame and when i plug in my iphone it says NO UPDATES ARE AVAILABLE?
― homosexual II, Sunday, 13 July 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone with a loft bed is going to LOVE the iTunes remote app. I've been using it to change music while reading in bed without getting up.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 13 July 2008 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
hm. Jules' MacBook just has a remote control.
― kenan, Sunday, 13 July 2008 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Trying to Whrrl my neighborhood in Somerville and getting Medford = uh thx for that but I wanted over here...
Ha, what neighborhood in Somerville do you live?
― Allen, Sunday, 13 July 2008 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Just to reiterate what others have said. Remote is AMAZING
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 July 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
remote would let me ipod dj while taking a shit at a bar with my macbook still going
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 13 July 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
you updated to iTunes 7.7?
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 13 July 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
(nb: i'm keeping it old-skool with 1.whatever. DELAYED GRATIFICATION, yo. and nowhere near enough time to actually play with this shit. tomorrow morning i intend to get up at sparrow-fart and GEEK THE FUCK OUT.)
Winter Hill. It actually has all of the takeout/sandwich shops on Boradway in its database but no one's reviewed any of them yet.
― HI DERE, Sunday, 13 July 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
You have a mission, then.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 July 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually you could also individually review every Dunkin Donuts in the Boston area.
uh no, I am not dying to have a size 68 waist
― HI DERE, Sunday, 13 July 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm sure there's an iPhone app that will help you lose that weight.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 July 2008 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
ON IPHONE
― Autumn Almanac, Sunday, 13 July 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
on a related note I used my iPhone + Yelp to find delicious tacos`
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, 13 July 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Sunny, if you love shazam you should try midomi. You can just HUM to it and it works the song out!
Just realised that if I dig out my ipod AV cable, and plug my iphone into the telly with it, then via safari, I can do bbc iplayer without my PC. Wow.
Weatherbug is much less cool if you're outside the US, sadly.
And am I just being dense with Remote? When I open it on the phone, it gives me a passcode. But I don't know how or where to put that into itunes. Anyone?
― JimD, Monday, 14 July 2008 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh wait, just figured out remote.
― JimD, Monday, 14 July 2008 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Think I'm going to buy StarMap
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 14 July 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Just realised that if I dig out my ipod AV cable, and plug my iphone into the telly with it, then via safari, I can do bbc iplayer without my PC. Wow. This is good idea!
I just had to reinstall three apps because they started refusing to launch, saying "This application cannot be launched" or similar. It's an authentication problem, apparently. Grr.
― stet, Monday, 14 July 2008 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Funny. I'm currently in Davis, FAP soon? For iPhone app purposes of course.
― Allen, Monday, 14 July 2008 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
well: the upgrade has seemingly bricked my phone spectacularly. iTunes refused to complete the upgrade with some bizarre and pointless "this phone cannot be upgraded" error and now sits there saying "waiting for iPhone" when i try again ...
... oh, woo, it's moved back to "preparing software for restore".
tits.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 July 2008 10:03 (fifteen years ago) link
iToner = A+ already
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 14 July 2008 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link
second time also unlucky. fuck me, this is annoying. not got time to go to the apple store today, either. wonderful: that's me without a phone for at least 24 hours :(
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 July 2008 10:18 (fifteen years ago) link
third time luckier, i think. it's "restoring music and videos" as i (angrily) type. more importantly, it seems to be back on the O2 network and i'm getting texts. hurrah: i have a phone again.
yet another bout of apple-installer-related misery, then. what i ended up doing was deleting the 2.0 .ipsw file (and the previous one) from my library, reconnecting the phone in restore mode, letting it download the update *again* and install it ... touch wood, that seems to have worked.
quite why it couldn't have worked the first time is a moot point.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 July 2008 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Sunny, if you love shazam you should try midomi. You can just HUM to it and it works the song out! -- JimD, Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
Okay, I downloaded Midomi and "sang" Bring The Noize, Public Enemy style, all the way from Bass! to Terminator X and got Hannah Montana - The Other Side of Me (Remix) O_o
― sunny successor, Monday, 14 July 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
UPDATE: Nokia 6310i on Orange PAYG still working.
― Jarlrmai, Monday, 14 July 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Midomi has been incredibly sucky for me; I sang the Chichester Psalms at it and it gave me a bunch of flamenco music.
― HI DERE, Monday, 14 July 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
That sounds fantastic to me!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 July 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Pandora is like my new favorite thing btw.
― HI DERE, Monday, 14 July 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i am now at work with my shiny 2.0-enabled iPhone BUT NO TIME TO FUCK ABOUT WITH COOL APPS. CURSES.
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 July 2008 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Paying $15 for iToner is kind of redic.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 14 July 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
iMoneyBurner
iEarnTooFuckingMuch
― grimly fiendish, Monday, 14 July 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
And Last.FM for the iPhone is out http://blog.last.fm/2008/07/13/lastfm-for-iphone-and-ipod-touch
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 14 July 2008 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
ah rock
― stet, Monday, 14 July 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
installing over edge = slow
― stet, Monday, 14 July 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
on a related note I used my iPhone + Yelp to find delicious tacos
you fucking live in new york goddamn city you moron this is like saying I just used night vision goggles and a dowsing rod to find my wallet
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 July 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
last.fm wifi/3G only, according to that page at least. Still, nice to have two options for streaming personal radio stations - I've never used them before, due to mostly not working in front of a computer, but can imagine using them quite a lot now.
― toby, Monday, 14 July 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
hey, i can save photo from flickr on to my phone.
what did someone say about taking a screenshot? Home button?
― sunny successor, Monday, 14 July 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
this is really dorky (on iphone apps thread lol) but has anyone tried the crossword puzzles one, where you can download the day's puzzles from the NYT and other papers?
― n/a, Monday, 14 July 2008 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
snapshot: home button and top button together. presumably not for too long, as i think that's a hard reset.
― toby, Monday, 14 July 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
with way, way less functionality, and you have to be in line of sight of the laptop, too. no good for changing music completely, or changing speakers, or...
― toby, Monday, 14 July 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
this is all very fun but the sidekick did this app store deal years ago
― sunny successor, Monday, 14 July 2008 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
There seem to be a *lot* more apps that are US-only. Hmph.
― stet, Monday, 14 July 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, lack of background apps sucks! was just 3 mins into a 20 min track on last.fm, get a phonecall, have to restart somewhere different.
― toby, Monday, 14 July 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
on a related note I used my iPhone + Yelp to find delicious tacosyou fucking live in new york goddamn city you moron this is like saying I just used night vision goggles and a dowsing rod to find my wallet
My friend gave me incorrect directions to a taco place he didn't know the name of so I hit "restaurants near me" and found it. Carne asada and pollo verde ftw btw
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 14 July 2008 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link