iPhone apps S/D

safari 2.0 basically supports it, apart from a vital bit they really need to release.

Yeh, I've given up on NYT app, especially since AP mobile news caches everything perfectly for subway reading. Got that Bloomberg app too, and it's really impressive -- first of the news apps I saw that wouldn't be nearly as good as a webapp

facebook app, on a phone with a fully featured web browser? what am i missing?

It integrates with the camera. w00t

stet, what is notifications? on iPhone tho, you know?

-- cutty, Friday, 11 July 2008 10:04 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

this is what I thought you were gettign at yesterday dude:

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0806wdt546x/event/index.html

skip forward to about 54:00.

-- caek, Thursday, 10 July 2008 16:33 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Scratch is even more disappointing than I thought it would be!

Am kind of in love with Whrrl and iPint. BofA, Google and Facebook are exactly what I expected (which is good).

guys, is anyone getting upside down photos in Flickr when uploaded from iphone?

Ooh, I'd missed BoA. Could be useful. Still disappointed with NYT. Presumably some of these GTD/todo ones are good, but I'll wait to see reviews.

btw Dan I now understand why you thought the cell-phone location psuedo-GPS was lame - in Chicago it was generally within a block, but in Cambridge it can't do better than getting the right city!

haha yes, v.v. frustrating

Trying to Whrrl my neighborhood in Somerville and getting Medford = uh thx for that but I wanted over here...

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/iphonefaq.html

15-20 mins to sync - that would explain it, I guess. Could be good for offline browsing, though, but only if synced via wifi, I think.

http://gizmodo.com/5024187/apple-and-att-stores-having-difficulty-activating-iphones-update-its-the-ipocalypse

okay that URL = awesome

so glad I a) did not get a new iPhone, and b) downloaded iTunes and the firmware upgrade last night

yeah, too right. would be more than a little annoying to have a bricked phone.

(actually i did go home in the middle of activating yesterday and was temporarily bricked, but sorted as soon as i got back online. could well take a lot longer for people today.)

Oh it IS annoying.

Oh yes. It is. Especially when I've got to go and get a train in about an hour, and will then be offline until Monday.

Last time I try to do new-apple-product-on-day-one, this.

This is why I never try to do ANY new techie product on day one; working in software has made me JADED.

Oh, something weird just happened. Plugged in again, and even though the apple store is still failing on me, the phone started up this time.

Still can't see itunes, so can't sync anything. But it seems to be working happily apart from that.

oh shit, it's working!!

SSSSSHHHHHHH

Ok, maps being able to pinpoint my location to within about 50 yards is very impressive.

only problem is that my .mac account hasn't really turned into a .me account yet, so i'm a little sketched-out about trusting the push synchronization. we'll see how it goes ... but i can see my calendars on the phone right now which is pretty dope.

Is this worth unjailbreaking for?

I've been looking at the same headlines on this shitty NYT app since yesterday morning. 15 minutes to update? FFS, the thing goes to sleep twice in that time. How much data is it downloading? What a crock of shit.

Can't get into me.com at all.

Appstore is, Casuistry, haven't seen any apps like this for installer.app

nyt mobile site is actually pretty good, if you've never used it, fwiw. 15 mins is a total joke though.

what's the consensus on the worth of mobileme? folks who have - why'd you buy it?

i think you need it for "push synchronization"?

i'm not at all a technical guy, so i just wanted to be able to have sync'd email, calendars, contacts and notes between phone, home computer and work computer. since they're all macs i figured it was the easiest way to go.

i've had .mac forever for the syncing between computers. now that it syncs to the phone wirelessly w/ push, even better. i still use my gmail as my main contact, though.

Just now it's pointless. Can't get in at all in Safari, can just about with Firefox. I wonder if my email-only account is causing problems.

I'm thinking about buying it just for the sync calendars. An exchange set up would be cheaper, but you know, yeuch.

do you all remember in RAW when eddie murphy was walking around going "we got mcdonald's" in an eight-year-old voice? i'm sorta doing that right now w/ the iphone.

i'm doing the dance at 3:00

Got everything working in the end and now posting (or trying to, damn login timeouts) from the train. Monkey Ball extra tricky on tilty Virgin Pendolinos!

Does the AIM app do chats?

ON IPHONE?

ON IPHONE

why doesn't iphone have ichats?

because ichats sucks. where is white iphone pic?

can a mod put "hoonja doonja" in the topic?

killer apps but lots of bugs. some apps crash and just go straight to the home screen like AIM) and some crash the phone, causing immediate reboot. lack of the wall in the facebook app is actually KILLER WIN because i can now actually, like, keep track of my friends instead of all this Poking and shit. I would've liked that Google app if it had a Reader & gTalk but, and while it links you to webapps that are pretty damn serviceable, it's doesn't have quite the functionality of a proper app. super monkey ball is helllllllla fun and hard as well. i tried buying that crazy synthesizer but am having problems downloading it. might be the coolest thing on there though...

So I got the PhoneSaber thing. And yeah, I like it.

White iphone looks silly because it's white on the back and black on the front. This is why I've gone for a black in 16gB (raincheck).

ON IPHONE

but i can see my calendars on the phone right now which is pretty dope.

I have this on my itouch. greatest thing evah.

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.

so do i need to take my phone into the apple store to get it upgraded to the 2.0 software?

Oh god no. You can update it through iTunes.

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!"

and yeah the weather thing rules.

okay how come my itunes is being fucking lame and when i plug in my iphone it says NO UPDATES ARE AVAILABLE?

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.