iPhone apps S/D

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?

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.

ooh ah.

god i'm dumb eh???

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

another noob question: is it possible to save passwords in mobile safari so I don't have to keep logging in?

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.

Twinkle is really nice: sort of a twitter for people geographically near you.

er, this'll be the twinkle you just showed me that crashed repeatedly? yeh, i was dead impressed.

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.

Yeh, I just had to create an account first. It works now.

aye, well, yeh. same for iGrimly :/

GTD-free Todo list apps reviewed: http://www.macworld.com/article/134652/2008/07/basictodoapps.html

can i just ask once again: what do you all do to look up business phone numbers without calling 411? without googling?

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.

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.

I mean, being able to make Ned's ringtone a snippet of Melvins' "Pick It N Flick It" is some apex of human achievement.

looks like a bunch of apps just got updated.

things looks pretty good, but i'm not going to pay $50 for something that may or may not someday sync to my desktop.

$50! It's £5 here.

I am revolting against the iPhone by getting a treo 650 complete with dookie antenna to use as my smartphone during the RNC. Where are my liveblogging apps at?

lol

can you use google's "my maps" feature on iphone?

stet: it's $5 or $10 for the phone app but $40 for the desktop. i want something that syncs, so i need to get both.

haven't installed it yet, but stereo + resume will get me back to pandora from last.fm for a bit, i suspect:

http://blog.pandora.com/pandora/archives/2008/07/upgrade_pandora.html

Palringo is a good multiplatform aim client.
AirMe is garbage and Shozu is way better and supports tons more sites (facebook etc)

is shozu good?

everyone seems mad at their EULA.

Link to discus?

it was just in the reviews on the store itself.

thx for the palringo tip!

Palringo is definitely nice. Single-app clients are just completely pointless and anachronistic and rubbish now.

ya... esp as you can't run them in the bg. even chat apps are pretty limited in their usefulness... txting is still way better.

anyone else find nytimes is still redonkulously slow? it just loads and loads and loads and loads.

Does palringo send yr account data via its own servers? suspicious about having to make an account w/them.

Have given up on NYTimes. That syncing is awful bullshit. It's trying to pull all the pictures as well, which r dum

Does palringo send yr account data via its own servers? suspicious about having to make an account w/them.

Eh, I worry more about using aim & non-ssl websites on open wifi networks

New NetNewsWire update FINALLY available

and it's lovely.

Anyone know how I can find out if my parents buy an iphone in Japan, if that'll work in Belgium? Yes, I'm a complete moron/noob, but I still want a (cheap) iphone. :-(

and it's lovely.
hmm. *Still* no way to mark as unread, and now can't re-read an article -- as soon as it's read, it vanishes.

also it's very stuttery and crashy and can you even collapse folders yet?

just saying.

anyone found a good site for app announcements/reviews yet?

I think you're posting on it.

Man, does Remote kick ass or what? Between that and the VNC client, I actually have a useable way to run a media center from my iPhone.

anyone else getting the eeeeeeendless backup whenever you sync?

Yeah. You can disable it if you don't want your stuff backed up.

i'm getting rid of some unused apps and seeing if it has an effect.

damn it always seems to stall out at the 3/4 mark. wtf

Man it's a hoot making this work on Ubuntu.

Making what work on Ubuntu? Yer iphone?

iPod touch to be exact. Spent the last couple nights working on it, a real comedy of errors. "Oh ok, fixed that. What's this? OK got it. What?" Every step met roadblocks for some reason. Finally it turned out the FirewireGUID was wrong for some reason; I fixed that and everything started syncing perfectly.

Still no album art though.

i saw a guy with an ubuntu license plate yesterday

man you Linux newbies are a hoot