iPhone apps S/D

go to the page. make sure only the part of the page you want on the icon is displayed on yr screen. press + . press add to home screen.

Some pages make an icon for you eg google but most you do the way i described above

ahhh.

nytimes app is mad slow. maybe i should just page that up.

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Is Terminal a jailbreak thing?

jeez netnewswire is AWFUL.

jeez netnewswire is AWFUL.

Give the guy a break, he's busy cranking out updates on a daily basis. From his blog: http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=3505

I’ve been working like crazy on updates to NetNewsWire for iPhone — but, unfortunately, updates aren’t being pushed to the App Store yet. I don’t know why, though I imagine it’s just that things are crazy in the early days.

I don’t know when updates will go out — wish I did.

In the meantime, here’s what I’ve been doing, and here’s the plan:

1. I’ve been fixing bugs and performance issues, and implementing some of the more obvious features. (Not done yet, but getting there.)

Some of the obvious features include things like email-link, choose-clippings-folder, send-to-Twitterrific, mark-as-unread, and remove-feed-from-iPhone-location.

The plan is to finish this up — make stable and fleshed-out the app as it exists right now.

2. Then I’ll revisit the user interface. A number of people have asked for something like a Combined View, where you see excerpts of news items. A reasonable request, absolutely. But the plan is to shore things up in #1 first, then move on to this, once there’s a stable base with a more complete set of features.

Again, I have no idea when any updates will actually appear. But I have indeed been working as quickly as I can — I’ve been pretending to myself that you’re actually getting the updates. ;) (Though not completely satisfying, the pretense fools me enough to keep me going.)

PS Here are my change notes since last Friday:

(version history continues at link)

The app store is still only showing v1.0 for NNW, but it's up to 1.0.4 now.

terminal is jailbreak only, sorry

Not that I have an iPhone, but I do love NetNewsWire on the desktop. That said, the Newsgator service is terrible, randomly decides it can read feeds and can't due to "malformed" code that reads perfectly fine in every other newsreader, on- and off-line. If you have to use Newsgator Online to sync your feeds just like with the desktop version... eh.

i just find the fact that you can't collapse your feed folders makes it pretty much unusable. also super jerky and slow.

i got truphone and it seems to work pretty well... it's a voip app, 6c a minute in n america. do you think skype is coming though?

still, the ability to make cheap long distance calls & not use up my minutes is pretty incredible. only works over wifi natch but i make pretty much all my LDCs from home anyway.

http://cultofmac.com/to-prevent-upskirts-japanese-iphone-3g-always-alerts-when-taking-photos/2356

is anyone else finding the gps kinda inaccurate? mine tends to be off by like 3 blocks.

Mine is scary-accurate. Remember, GPS doesn't work well indoors, so if you are indoors, it may just give you the location of the nearest cell tower.

ahhh

fuck me, they *need* to be releasing that netnewswire upgrade ASAP. it's just crashed on me so hard it reset the bloody phone.

and, heh, opening it again takes it right back to, umm, the bit where it crashed. so it hangs all over again.

hoping syncing sorts it out ...

oh for fuck's sake. it doesn't. that is lame, lame, lame-ass fuckwittery.

that sucks a yard of dick. had to remove NNW/resync/set it up again. not the end of the world, no, but a pain.

problem seems to be with feeds that have a shitload of unread stories in them. just FYI, like.

I like the Wordpress app so far.

i've heard from many sources that either iphone developer terms prohibit "turn by turn" guidance or that something or other about the iphone makes this impractical.

is this be true? if so, what does it mean?

i think the gps isn't accurate enough or somethin

Yeh, it's in the terms -- you can't make any app that provides "live" route guidance.

I like the Wordpress app so far.

Oh yes? Do tell...

so ... why?

is it because they're afraid people will be driving and trying to use iphone route guidance?

do they have an exclusive deal with audi to make iphone dashboard units?

Pandora is like my new favorite thing btw

Dan speaks much truth.

fuck me, they *need* to be releasing that netnewswire upgrade ASAP. it's just crashed on me so hard it reset the bloody phone.

NNW is up to v1.0.7 now, but Apple still hasn't released the updates. Apparently, Apple has a single review queue for everything and updating the update sends you to the back of the line again. Anyway, if you've got NNW questions check out the NNW iPhone forum - it's been pretty helpful.

Last word from NNW developer Brent:

"I'm working on getting the 1.0.2 release out of the queue so I can upload 1.0.7 instead. I don't know if it will happen. They're sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooow."

Hey Slutsky, how accurate do you find the GPS?

didn't we just talk about this in real life this afternoon?

wait, so if the gps doesnt do turn by turn, how is different from the first gen google maps app?

ok dumb question but how do i comment/see more info on photos in exposure?

all i get is a "done" button when i'm looking at a pic!

hit the blue right arrow in the list to see the details.

thanks.

the photos near you thing is kind of nuts. at least three of the pics that came up were of friends of mine.

OK, I need a syncing to-do app. Do I break down and buy OmniFocus? If I do that, does that make me some GTD-spewing fule?

On the other hand... Hallefreakinlujah!

Native VNC client! http://www.mochasoft.dk/iphone_vnc.htm

NNW is up to v1.0.7 now, but Apple still hasn't released the updates

no, i know: not blaming NNW dude(s) at all. is all apple's fault. as usual :)

wait, so if the gps doesnt do turn by turn, how is different from the first gen google maps app?

er, yeh: WTF? also: what about all those "tomtom have an app ready to go!" rumours before the 3G launch?

a reason to jailbreak that 3G
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/07/22/iphone-3g-tethering-possible-with-jailbreak-and-proxy-app

Things is a really nice to-do app, best I've tried. Doesn't sync yet, but it's promised imminently and is free upgrade

Am I just abnormally lazy? I can never see the point in to-do applications or GTD generally. I never have anything really going on beyond what's imminent. I think it's just because I am a schlub. Besides, my inbox is my to-do list. And that's free.

How much have folx spent on iPhone apps to date? I haven't plumped down cash for anything yet.

0 so far. But honestly, unless something is really really really good I don't see the point.

ON IPHONE.

£30, astoundingly.

and I can't be fucked with GTD, because it feels more like maintaining lists than doing stuff, but as a list of lists Things is v. nice

is it true things doesnt give you advance reminders?

i hope adium makes an iphone app so you can get aim, gtalk and msn all under one roof.

It puts them into a "today" list, and you can set them to appear in advance of their due date, but it has no way to alert you when it's closed, no.

I can never see the point in to-do applications or GTD generally. I never have anything really going on beyond what's imminent. I think it's just because I am a schlub.

It's just that I took on a new consulting job this week that's got several different elements to it that I need to track. Don't need a full time-sheet/Gantt/etc. app, but something like a synching OmniOutliner would be grebt.

Apparently, fring is coming to the App Store. That allows MSN, GTalk, AIM, Skype, etc all in a oner.

I bought Mobile Flickr, which is really nice.