Apple iPhone/iPod touch App Discussion and Recommendations

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Charred Greyface said:
Mrkgoo is half-right; I did find the Pogo Stylus not very useful for writing on the iPhone screen (mind you, all my opinions on performance are filtered through a Power Support screen protector). However, I eventually discovered the Dagi Stylus and the small versions work great--unfortunately I keep losing them ^~^. But I think the Pogo Sketch will be worth another shot with iPad's much bigger screen and I'll also order the large Dagi Stylus as well. It'd be great though if I can manage with just one stylus for both the iPhone and iPad.

The concern about the small size of the iPhone screen is a valid one but the best note taking apps have been designed to overcome that problem. My favorite two for note taking are SpeedText and Note Taker. Note Taker has a great tutorial so try the lite version if you can. Those should be great for quickly taking notes in class. For 'note creation' though you might find Tanzaku Pad another worthy purchase. While it has more useful features than my favorite two, I found it too slow for quickly taking out and jotting down notes and ideas. Beyond those three apps, there are other options worth experimenting with like WritePad (handwriting recognition), Fastfinga, Phatnotes, Finger Memo, handnotes, Sketches 2 , Draw and so on and so forth...

All those apps were designed with fingers in mind but I found them novelties, at best, without a [Dagi] stylus. It remains to be seen how the triple screen size and double resolution of the iPad will affect the usefulness of SpeedText and Note Taker's UI. I might find the no frills, 'here is your screen--write' ethos of Finger Memo or Sketches 2 much better when I don't have to worry about scrolling or how many words I can fit on a 3.5in screen. That said, if you want to jump in and start playing with the apps before iPad comes out, I'd recommend getting one of the Dagi styli I settled on.

I should also mention Evernote. Writepad is only app, that I tried, which offers handwriting recognition. Almost all the others store your notes as pictures that may be exported to the photos (although a few focus on email export, like fast finga, or even posting to twitter, like Draw). This is where Evernote proved extremely useful to my note taking setup as a feature of its iPhone app is the ability to search through pictures for words, a sort of semi OCR. So my notes were exported to the camera roll, imported into Evernote, grouped together and then synced over the cloud to their desktop app. SpeedText offers Evernote integration which is a huge plus over other competing apps. Evernote, combined with your favorite of the writing apps, should be a great tool for students.

So... er, that's it. I might do an update when I get an iPad
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Thanks for this; very helpful.
 
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I was responsible for all 3d modeling, texturing, and lighting (characters and backgrounds), and I also acted as Project Director for the mobile porting process. In other words... this was a big project for me! ;) Check it out and be sure to let me know what you think!

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Apple released iPhone/iPod Firmware 3.1.3

http://www.neowin.net/news/iphone-f...in+(Neowin.net+Main+News)&utm_content=Brizzly

issues. The issues the firmware addresses are for the iPhone 3GS battery accuracy, third-party application crashes and crashing while using the Japanese Kana keyboard.

This update for iPhone and iPod touch contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:

• Improves accuracy of reported battery level on
iPhone 3GS
• Resolves issue where third-party apps would not
launch in some instances
• Fixes bug that may cause an app to crash when
using the Japanese Kana keyboard

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone (all models)
• iPod touch (all models)

The iPhone firmware 3.1.3 comes in just under 300mb. Jailbroken iPhones and iPod touch owners should be warned not to update their device, as you may lose your ability to jailbreak or unlock in the future.
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Sorry if this has been posted before, but I just found it last night.

Moodagent

It creates playlists for you depending on your mood. You change the level of the five sliders depending on how sensual, tender, happy, aggressive or the tempo of the song, then it will create a playlist of 25 songs for you. You can also select a song and it will find other songs with the same mood. It will also continue to play once you exit the app, allowing you to multitask.

You can download a profiler for your PC and set the settings for songs it doesn't recognise. Out of my 2700 songs on my iPhone, it only didn't have settings for 229 of them, so it's pretty good.

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DOWNLOAD

I've found it works much much better than genius! Also, free for just now.
 
is there any way to get the apple remote control headphones to work with a third party app like spotify? At the moment it starts the ipod music playing. The only reason i bought the overpriced apple headphones was to be able to easily pause/resume etc.

Its fucking insane that the foreground app doesn't get inputs from the headphones. There is only one app open anyway!
 
CRD90 said:
Sorry if this has been posted before, but I just found it last night.

Moodagent

It creates playlists for you depending on your mood. You change the level of the five sliders depending on how sensual, tender, happy, aggressive or the tempo of the song, then it will create a playlist of 25 songs for you. You can also select a song and it will find other songs with the same mood. It will also continue to play once you exit the app, allowing you to multitask.

You can download a profiler for your PC and set the settings for songs it doesn't recognise. Out of my 2700 songs on my iPhone, it only didn't have settings for 229 of them, so it's pretty good.

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I've found it works much much better than genius! Also, free for just now.
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Thanks for the recommendation. Definitely worth grabbing while its free.
 
Anyone with the espn radio can you check if it works for you. If so can you check the washington dc stream. I use it to listen to tony kornheiser show but today it has locked up and wont load the app
 
Does anyone have a good site for app recommendations? I downloaded Chorus, but none of my friends are using it yet, which kind of makes it useless. Does anyone here use Chorus?


Buckethead said:
Scam-artists those people are. Classics is a great app though.
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What's the deal with Classics? Why are people so pissed with the developers? What was the price of the app before it was free?
 
kitchenmotors said:
What's the deal with Classics? Why are people so pissed with the developers? What was the price of the app before it was free?
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Because its asking you to pay for public domain literature.

Apparently coding an app, designing beautiful graphics and keeping it constantly updated with more books isn't worth any money...
 
Bah. Just updated beejive to 3.2 and I get a license.key.error.invalid.

Can't log in. Googling aroud it looks like an error relating to invalidate pirated copies. :(

See, pirated apps are affecting mY use of them now.
 
Just got a 32gb 3g ipod touch in the mail with 3.1.3 firmware installed from the factory.

There's no way to jailbreak these at the moment, right?

edit: oops, wrong thread D:
 
Any recommendations for a good gmail app? I like the Apple mail app just fine, but I wan't one that has alert notifications.
 
Al Jazeera is/was currently free. It's like CNN but with an arabic viewpoint, sort of.
Streaming live from their TV-channel.
You can get the app either with their English or arabic broadcast.

Quality of the live-stream is excellent

Same developer also has BBC World Live app, but that still costs money.
 
Any recommendations for useful study apps? I'm going back to college to finish up this spring and summer and am looking for anything that might be useful. Paid or free it doesn't matter, I just want the best products. I found "gFlash+ Flashcards & Tests" and that looks ok but any advice would be appreciated.
 
I have been having a great time with Flipnote Studio on my brother's DSi.

Surely there's a just as nice animation app for the iPhone?
 
i´m looking for a app which limits the mobile data traffic and disables it when a set quota is reached.
basically a iphone port of spb wireless monitor.
can anyone help me out?

i cant find anything like this .. neither in the cydia nor the in the appstore :(
 
Situation:
- Jailbroken iPhone running 3.0.1, hasn't been synced to a computer in around 6 months.
- Currently syncs to a computer I no longer have access to, but could probably use for a few minutes if it was necessary.
- Want to start syncing phone with a new computer.
- Both computers are authorized on the iTunes account.

Is there any way I can rectify this without formatting the iPhone? I want to preserve my Jailbreak (Apps I use: MakeItMine, Poof, SSHD, iLocalis, Mobile Safari Adblock)
 
So right now what's the best of the best in terms of apps? Are there any apps that really extend the battery life?
 
d58e7 said:
So right now what's the best of the best in terms of apps? Are there any apps that really extend the battery life?
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An app that extends the battery life? Really? The only app that I think would be able to do that is one that switched the device off.
 
Are there any good twitter apps with push notifications? I see echofon does it, but the reviews make it seem like that app in general is really buggy.
 
d58e7 said:
Anything good for general gaming news feeds?
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I would say set up a Google Reader account with the feeds you want, and then just hook into it using Reeder or NetNewsWire or Byline.

d58e7 said:
Are there any good twitter apps with push notifications? I see echofon does it, but the reviews make it seem like that app in general is really buggy.
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I don't think any developer would want to take on the load of scanning most/all of their users' Twitter timelines for mentions/DMs/whatever and then push out notifications. Drinking from the Twitter firehose is unlikely to scale well.

I suppose there's a possibility now that Tweetie has been bought out by Twitter, it might happen there - we'll see soon enough, I suppose.
 
I'm thinking about selling my iPod Touch and getting the new iPhone when it comes out. Is it easy to transfer all of my programs to the iPhone, or are they locked to my iPod?
 
MDSLKTR said:
What's the best app for reading mangas/comics?
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I'm a fan of Comic Zeal for the iPhone.

You have to use a desktop program to compress the cbr/cbi/cbz, but it's worth it because you don't need the full size on that small of a screen. Sometimes it compresses the text a bit too much for my liking, but it works well 90% of the time.
 
quadriplegicjon said:
I'm thinking about selling my iPod Touch and getting the new iPhone when it comes out. Is it easy to transfer all of my programs to the iPhone, or are they locked to my iPod?
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If you keep a backup via iTunes, it's easy peasy. When I bought an iPhone, the first time I plugged it in, it asked if I wanted to restore from my iPod backup, if I remember correctly, and it just synced everything over.
 
GAF, I need some absolute must-have applications (not games), as I am preparing for the iPhone 4G.


I already got the following:
Backgrounds
ContactsTap
DropBox
EyeTV
Facebook
Foursquare
Google Earth
Google Mobile
Justin.tv
LiveScore
Money XE Converter
Nike Football+
Opera Mini
Radio 100FM
Real Radios Denmark
Remote
Shazam
Skype
Speedtest.net
Take Me To My Car
Taptu Touch
Wikipanion
IM+
Marvel Comics
Amazon Kindle
IMDb Movies
Evernote

And various other programs. I got enough radio applications and no need for Twitter. What more is left?

I have these on my wishlist:
Air Video
PrintCentral
Money Journal
MyMadrid
AppBox Pro
RSS Reader
Photo Transfer App
All In One Camera
Net TV
Convert
iCollect Movies
PS3 iTrophies
Phone Aid
Nightstand Weather Clock
Navigon
iStudiez Pro
Translator
QuickOffice Mobile Suite
TV Guide Plus
Air Mouse

Anything important I missed?
 
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Propellerhead put out Rebirth for the iPhone! $6.99

Demo/advertisement
“ReBirth is back…In your iPhone! Propellerhead Software’s legendary Techno Micro Composer has been reincarnated. This time around, ReBirth takes the form of a seriously block rocking iPhone music app. Released in 1997 and discontinued in 2005, Propellerhead ReBirth was the first music software to reproduce the sound and behavior of those three classic Roland devices that defined the sound of early Techno and Acid House: the TB-303 Bassline Synth and the TR-808 and TR-909 Rhythm Composers.” – rebirthapp.com
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It's just as fully featured as it looks. :D Two TB-303s alongside a TR-808 and a TR-909.
 
So what happened to "iStudiez Pro" ?

It's not in the App Store, neither on the danish nor the american one.

Anything on this?
Can't find anything on the removal on the official blog.
 
Wanted to give everyone a heads-up that I've got a game in development, and I'm SUPER excited about it!

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And a quick description:

Wispin is a fast-paced arcade title featuring unique "color-based" gameplay. Use the innovative "Touch Color Wheel" to change the color of Wispin's aura on the fly and gain special immunities and offensive abilities! But beware, your choice of color contains weaknesses as well! Quick thinking will be needed to triumph over a quirky cast of enemy characters, each sporting unique attributes of their own...

Check back very soon for more information and media (including a gameplay trailer!) http://www.grumpyfacestudios.com
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It's Indie in every sense of the word, so I could really use some GAFfer support when it comes to building up a pre-marketing hype! If you have a moment visit my studio page at:

http://www.grumpyfacestudios.com

My humble thanks!
 
MrCheez said:
Wanted to give everyone a heads-up that I've got a game in development, and I'm SUPER excited about it!

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[img]http://www.grumpyfacestudios.com/design/Wispin_Screenshot2.jpg[/mg]

And a quick description:




It's Indie in every sense of the word, so I could really use some GAFfer support when it comes to building up a pre-marketing hype! If you have a moment and you're interested, visit my studio page at:

[url]http://www.grumpyfacestudios.com[/url]

and after you visit, please fan us on facebook, follow us on twitter, and subscribe to our RSS feed to follow updates! Also be sure to bookmark our blog! Thanks and MUCH LOVE GAF <3[/QUOTE]
Really dig the visual style of it.
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What happened to Now Playing? It's like it's been erased off the web... or iTunes at least. Are there any good replacements?
 
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