I really wanted to like Evernote, but the iPhone version is *really* shit, Allen! you can't edit notes, the notes appear in tiny tiny type that you can't increase, and when trying to name a note the field is half-hidden under the subject bar. On top of which, syncing breaks all the time.
Basically, this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruber/2669703018/
― stet, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh wait. I haven't been uploading using either of these apps. Just looking at my photos.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah mobile flickr is good for looking. im using the free app 'air me' to upload to flickr now.
i also bought 'fitness' which is kind of great. i got it to calculate calories and take into account time on the treadmill but it also calculates carbs, sugar, saturated fat and salt. on an average day ive found im below my calorie limit but through the roof (like 130% of daily allowance)with sugar and salt.
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently, fring is coming to the App Store. That allows MSN, GTalk, AIM, Skype, etc all in a oner.
-- webinar, Wednesday, July 23, 2008 4:00 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
i tried to get fring but it gave me truphone instead?
want skype!
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:44 (fifteen years ago) link
amazon needs an app. that would be dangerous.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah adding a Text Note via the application is messed up but Snapshot Note works nearly flawlessly and that’s what I primarily take notes with (e.g. cocktail napkin drawings, etc.) but the real use, at least for me, is searching through existing notes and that works like a charm.
Also, I know you probably already know this but you can use Evernote through e-mail which is handy either in the typical fashion or with Jott.
― Allen, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Merlin Mann had the idea of a simple application that if you have one button enabled as well as an Amazon prime account all you had to do was scan a barcode and wait for whatever you bought to arrive. From a conceptual point I think that’s a great idea ... from a practical standpoint, not so much.
― Allen, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
What happened to this one? Hope it gets released sometime soon!
http://kooaba.net/wordpress/?p=75
― webinar, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
And this one:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/09/i-saw-the-future-of-social-networking-the-other-day/
― webinar, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
i haven't been loving Things on the desktop too much, actually - tagging is great, but it seems to be a bit useless for big projects with lots of subprojects, and for GTD-style only seeing next actions. so maybe i need to go back to omnifocus, which would annoy me, as i decided against buying it when i could have got it for less than $40 on beta. could still get it for $50 educational, but it seems like a lot.
― toby, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess my to-do lists typically have 200 things in, maybe more, so nothing simpler seems much good either.
― toby, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't ever bothered with things on the desktop. I suppose I might use it when syncing starts, but the iphone app is straightforward enough to do what I need anyway. I don't have 200-entry lists, right enough.
― stet, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Can someone tell me which Flickr apps do geotagging and if I have to actually take the photos in the app?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
the camera app now geotags them if you give it location permission, so I think any of them will do. The next version of Exposure definitely does.
― stet, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
for some reason, the maps gps thing thinks i'm in denver
― n/a, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I really wanted to like Evernote, but the iPhone version is *really* shit, Allen! you can't edit notes, the notes appear in tiny tiny type that you can't increase, and when trying to name a note the field is half-hidden under the subject bar.
The latest Evernote update fixed the tiny type problem, but you STILL can't edit notes. FAIL.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link
How do I make the camera app ask for permission? Wish there was a "always grant" feature fwiw.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
oh ok, it seems like it always works, but Flickr Uploadr on my computer lost the tags
http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2006/11/flickr_uploadr_.html
GRRRR
So I have them in iPhoto and they have geotags. I dragged them into uploadr which has been NEVER set to resize and it somehow lost the geo, contradicting the above. Any ideas?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I've emailed one from the phone straight to flickr to see if the tags make it through that way.
― stet, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
No, it doesn't. Wtf?
― stet, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I fear that Flickr is too "Yahoo" now to sort this out proper quickly.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
ok I guess I need to run software update
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
can anyone tell the diff between iDB datamaster and the lite version? This app looks like it kicks things and omnifocus' asses
― sunny successor, Thursday, 24 July 2008 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Because nobody could be arsed answering my question, I'll do it:
The AIM app doesn't do chat. It also crashes within three seconds, rendering it 100% useless.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 24 July 2008 02:36 (fifteen years ago) link
we need whitepages iphone app. yellowpages app thing really sucks at looking up phone #s, as does google.
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 24 July 2008 02:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Man syncing is buggy as fuck now. Apps bought on iPhone won't upload to Mac, and iTunes spews shitloads of errors into console while trying to sync. Sometimes I get messages that "Apps X, Y and Z have not been installed", sometimes not. Lots of complaints on Apple support about it, too.
― stet, Thursday, 24 July 2008 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Not to mention the 3g is shit.
I expect one hell of a system update in August.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 24 July 2008 03:36 (fifteen years ago) link
which flickr apps can upload
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 24 July 2008 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link
The next version of Exposure can, not the one on the store.
Oh for FUCK'S sake: if you install an update over the air, it trashes all the app's data. Bye, saved games.
This is going to make updating Things a nightmare, actually. Fucking Apple.
― stet, Thursday, 24 July 2008 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link
jon try "air me"
― sunny successor, Thursday, 24 July 2008 04:47 (fifteen years ago) link
how do you all look up phone numbers?
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 24 July 2008 05:05 (fifteen years ago) link
google mobile for looking up phone numbers.
Re flickr and geotags: for some reason you need to set an option in your flickr account which tells it to take notice of geotags, otherwise it strips them out. Pretty stupid really. Can't post a link to the page that fixes it because I can't copy and paste (ON IPHONE) but it's googleable.
― JimD, Thursday, 24 July 2008 08:15 (fifteen years ago) link
wonder why google mobile isnt in canada yet...
― s1ocki, Thursday, 24 July 2008 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
also i think the maps app would be a lot more useful it had a "find me" button. as such you either have to enter an address or use "directions" to situate yourself with the gps. what if i just want to see a map of where i am?
― s1ocki, Thursday, 24 July 2008 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
It does have an option to show where you are. Press the cross-hatched circle in the bottom left and it will find your location.
― treefell, Thursday, 24 July 2008 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
ooh ah.
god i'm dumb eh???
― s1ocki, Thursday, 24 July 2008 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Both iPhoto (version 7.1.3 and earlier) and emailing your photos from the iPhone will damage the geographic information (the EXIF-GPS).
See the following Geotagging Flickr threads for more info
iPhone 3G geotagging iPhoto Geotagging Problems
― rakerman, Thursday, 24 July 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
another noob question: is it possible to save passwords in mobile safari so I don't have to keep logging in?
― s1ocki, Thursday, 24 July 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
ok top tip that should have been obvious in retrospect: if you install apps on the phone directly, when you connect to iTunes again right-click on it and choose "transfer purchases". Otherwise it don't back em up.
― stet, Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Twinkle is really nice: sort of a twitter for people geographically near you.
― stet, Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
er, this'll be the twinkle you just showed me that crashed repeatedly? yeh, i was dead impressed.
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean, that's a bit like saying iGrimly is an amazing application that makes you a millionaire and puts you in a heightened orgasmic state. it *would* if i could be arsed to make it work. same goes for the dudes who make twinkle, from what i can see.
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeh, I just had to create an account first. It works now.
― stet, Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
aye, well, yeh. same for iGrimly :/
― grimly fiendish, Thursday, 24 July 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
GTD-free Todo list apps reviewed: http://www.macworld.com/article/134652/2008/07/basictodoapps.html
― caek, Friday, 25 July 2008 02:24 (fifteen years ago) link
can i just ask once again: what do you all do to look up business phone numbers without calling 411? without googling?
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 25 July 2008 02:25 (fifteen years ago) link
so. i got iTunes remote working, thanks to a reply on the apple discussion boards.
how did i do it? i turned on "iTunes music sharing" in the firewall prefs. this is despite the fact that I DON'T HAVE THE SOFTWARE FIREWALL RUNNING.
and, er, the fact that music sharing works perfectly between my two macs.
this seems counter-intuitive in the extreme.
― grimly fiendish, Friday, 25 July 2008 05:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Aside from screen flakiness on the Voice Mail screen, no problems with the iPhone 3G syncing on Windows XP or anything thus far. I got this thing on Monday, and I'm really really happy with it.
― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 25 July 2008 05:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, being able to make Ned's ringtone a snippet of Melvins' "Pick It N Flick It" is some apex of human achievement.
― Mackro Mackro, Friday, 25 July 2008 05:42 (fifteen years ago) link