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mrkgoo said:
The head phones or the clicker?

I have the clicker, and I use it with the Shure Se210s. They work well enough. I don't make calls all that much, so not sure if the microphone is good, I just got them for the clicking ability. No volume controls suck, but it works for everything else. A little on the 'big' side. Perfect length cord, though.
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Doh, I put up the wrong link. I have the SE110s (the cheapies, I know the bass sucks but I'm poor) and I was wondering about the clicker. Sounds great for me. I actually love how thick the shure cables are; they don't tangle and are a better build quality.

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The clicker is awesome. I am on my second one (my launch one crapped out after about a year of heavy daily use) and it works perfectly. Definitely a good product.
 
I wish I used Skype more, might be more interested in the new app.

I'll probably try it, but I'll wait for an update or two. no rush
 
I used Skype today to call a friend from Australia. A single drop, but otherwise great. I love technology. The last time I spoke to her, I used cell network, and that was laggy.
 
reggieandTFE said:
Doh, I put up the wrong link. I have the SE110s (the cheapies, I know the bass sucks but I'm poor) and I was wondering about the clicker. Sounds great for me. I actually love how thick the shure cables are; they don't tangle and are a better build quality.

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I have one if you're interested. I'll let it go for cheap.

Help!


Found a bunch of text messages between my GF and some random lames. I gave her the phone and now I confiscated it. I need an app that logs text messages so that I can view them in a document on the computer. Does something like that exist?
 
:( so my daughter just dropped my iphone and the screen is cracked all over. I am out of warranty. do i have any options besides having to buy a new iphone?? :'(
 
tinabina said:
:( so my daughter just dropped my iphone and the screen is cracked all over. I am out of warranty. do i have any options besides having to buy a new iphone?? :'(
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I think there are various screen repair services. But the lesson is don't give the phone to your daughter. Get her a toy flip-phone.
 
tinabina said:
:( so my daughter just dropped my iphone and the screen is cracked all over. I am out of warranty. do i have any options besides having to buy a new iphone?? :'(
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That sucks.

Try and get a case if you decide to get another iPhone. I don't think there is a cheap option to repair the screen (which I don't think is cheap anyways). The rumor is that newer models are coming this summer too. :(
 
3.0 beta 2 has been awesome so far. Everything feels so much faster, smoother than before (my messages load almost instantly now; used to take seconds), copy & past is great, and MMS now also work. Even web pages load faster. And to think the final release is going to be even better... really awesome.
 
krypt0nian said:
Damn I wish Dish Net was up on programming via the net.
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They already allow this, goto dishnetwork.com then click the tv everywhere button. Works great on iphone and it allows you to use your phone as a remote.
 
jowa said:
3.0 beta 2 has been awesome so far. Everything feels so much faster, smoother than before (my messages load almost instantly now; used to take seconds), copy & past is great, and MMS now also work. Even web pages load faster. And to think the final release is going to be even better... really awesome.
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I always love when any sort of update increase the speed and reliability of my computer/phone/electronic device.

This is one thing which Apple seems to have excelled at in the last few years.
 
bionic77 said:
I always love when any sort of update increase the speed and reliability of my computer/phone/electronic device.

This is one thing which Apple seems to have excelled at in the last few years.
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well, if you forget about iPhone 2.0. that was a dog.

it took Apple till 2.1 (or 2.2 depending who you ask) to get performance back up to 1.1 standards.
 
jowa said:
3.0 beta 2 has been awesome so far. Everything feels so much faster, smoother than before (my messages load almost instantly now; used to take seconds), copy & past is great, and MMS now also work. Even web pages load faster. And to think the final release is going to be even better... really awesome.
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Yeah, its much better than beta1.... though there are some serious bugs here that make Phoenix cry.
 
LCfiner said:
well, if you forget about iPhone 2.0. that was a dog.

it took Apple till 2.1 (or 2.2 depending who you ask) to get performance back up to 1.1 standards.
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it's still not at 1.4 standards. still some lag and delay.
 
The only thing I'll say about Beta-2 is that there are some issues here, and some of those issues will have you restoring your phone and losing out on some functionality from 2.2.1.
 
Okay, headsets:

My pack-in headset broke. I need to buy a new one ASAP. What should I buy? I want a stereo headset with the microphone/clicker with the best sound possible.

Caveat: I almost always struggle with in-ear buds. Are there any standard earbud upgrades? I know that's not a huge market for audiophiles, but even Sennheiser and Creative used to make standard earbuds that sounded a good deal better than Apple's.
 
Worm_Buffet said:
http://www.ifixit.com/iPhone-Parts/iPhone-3G-Front-Panel/IF137-000 ?

I am not endorsing this in anyway. Not sure if that is compatible with the 2G iPhone, if you have one of those.
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After watching someone take an iPhone 2G apart to do something similar to this, I can definitely say - you may be better off just taking it somewhere and letting them fix it. The reassembly of the iPhone is a BITCH and gives you a lot of appreciation for how much shit is crammed into that little space.
 
LCfiner said:
well, if you forget about iPhone 2.0. that was a dog.

it took Apple till 2.1 (or 2.2 depending who you ask) to get performance back up to 1.1 standards.
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Hey I didn't say they were perfect, I just said it was something they have done well.

And man AT&T suck sometimes. Me and my wife both lost the ability to send and receive text messages recently. Considering she doesn't have an iPhone I am assuming that someone at AT&T fucked something up on their end...
 
bionic77 said:
Hey I didn't say they were perfect, I just said it was something they have done well.

And man AT&T suck sometimes. Me and my wife both lost the ability to send and receive text messages recently. Considering she doesn't have an iPhone I am assuming that someone at AT&T fucked something up on their end...
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This past weekend I got a lot of delayed texts. On Monday I was consistently not able to send texts. The status bar would get 90% complete and just freeze. Then on Tuesday, apparently for a good part of the day, every text I would send actually got sent twice (or so I was told :lol). Then Tuesday night I had a text conversation, and about an hour after we finished, I received every single text that she sent me earlier again one after another in a span of 5 minutes. It was weird.
 


Thinking about buying Byline, which is a thick client RSS reader for Google Reader accounts.


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Anyone use it? I feel like I need a recommendation before spending five bucks.
 
Juice said:


Thinking about buying Byline, which is a thick client RSS reader for Google Reader accounts.


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Anyone use it? I feel like I need a recommendation before spending five bucks.[/QUOTE]


easy recommendation from me. I think it's fantastic. I used it for months and it worked amazingly well with Google Reader, syncing stars and read status with no problems. updated very quickly and had folder support for lots of feeds. I really liked it.

the only reason why I don't use it now is because netnewswire started working properly over 3G for me and the desktop app is better than google reader in a web browser...
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LCfiner said:
easy recommendation from me. I think it's fantastic. I used it for months and it worked amazingly well with Google Reader, syncing stars and read status with no problems. updated very quickly and had folder support for lots of feeds. I really liked it.

the only reason why I don't use it now is because netnewswire started working properly over 3G for me and the desktop app is better than google reader in a web browser...
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I don't know.. I think you just convinced me to go to NetNewsWire for both my Macs and my iPhone, since those are the only two devices I use to access my feeds anyway. I've been meaning to try NetNewsWire since the iPhone app came out, and free < $5. Plus the ByLine app hasn't been updated since December :/
 
Juice said:
I don't know.. I think you just convinced me to go to NetNewsWire for both my Macs and my iPhone, since those are the only two devices I use to access my feeds anyway. I've been meaning to try NetNewsWire since the iPhone app came out, and free < $5. Plus the ByLine app hasn't been updated since December :/
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you never got netnewswire?

well, for sure try that first. the desktop app and webservice is great and it's all free.

I had major speed issues with netnewswire for the iphone for the first couple months on 3G but they seem to have been worked out for a while, hence my return from google reader.
 
LCfiner said:
you never got netnewswire?

well, for sure try that first. the desktop app and webservice is great and it's all free.

I had major speed issues with netnewswire for the iphone for the first couple months on 3G but they seem to have been worked out for a while, hence my return from google reader.
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I tried the desktop app right when it came out years ago and was hugely unimpressed.

I've been playing with the Mac & iPhone versions for a little while now, glad they thought of a way to sync read/unread status of posts.

Still, though, without an easy way to add a story to my Google Reader shared item feed, I don't think I can switch. I use that feature to drive most of the content of my Storytlr blog that I use to keep up with friends/family.
 
Juice said:


Thinking about buying Byline, which is a thick client RSS reader for Google Reader accounts.


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Anyone use it? I feel like I need a recommendation before spending five bucks.
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$5 bucks for an RSS reader? Man, I need to add that one to my alpha test list. Does it sync with anything? What would make you want to pay $5 for it?
 
I've been using Byline since version 2 came out and I love it. One caveat though -- the app only supports folders at the top level. For example, say you have a folder for games and within that folder you have 1up, eurogamer and *******. Byline will show one main gaming folder that contains every item from all three feeds.
 
Byline is awesome, totally worth the $5. NetNewsWire is ok, but it needs to sync with NewsGator Online which is fucking terrible.

Google Reader is amazing, and Byline is by far the best Google Reader sync application. I much prefer it to using Google's Reader web-app through Safari on the iphone.

The offline archiving reading mode is awesome too for reading on the plane, or more-quickly going to the source material when browsing on wi-fi.

For those unfamiliar with it - it optionally caches the linked page, not just the RSS feed.


Also, the developer is releasing an updated version soon that he says should significantly increase the app's speed, but it's not really that slow as it is - downloads over 3G pretty quickly.
 
Phoenix said:
$5 bucks for an RSS reader? Man, I need to add that one to my alpha test list. Does it sync with anything? What would make you want to pay $5 for it?
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it syncs great with google reader and supports folders (tags), starring and offline reading. you'd be surprised how hard it is to find that in the app store.

for a heavy google reader user, yeah, it's totally worth 5 bucks as it's nicer to use than the google webapp.

dLMN8R said:
Byline is awesome, totally worth the $5. NetNewsWire is ok, but it needs to sync with NewsGator Online which is fucking terrible.
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just curious. what sucks about newsgator?

do you mean the webpage for reading feeds or the syncing service in general?
 
I found something I never noticed today which is pretty cool. Someone called me twice, and I didn't recognize the number so I hit the blue arrow and under the number it said the city and state the number is from. I never noticed that before.
 
ThePeacemaker02 said:
I found something I never noticed today which is pretty cool. Someone called me twice, and I didn't recognize the number so I hit the blue arrow and under the number it said the city and state the number is from. I never noticed that before.
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You using 3.0?
 
ThePeacemaker02 said:
I found something I never noticed today which is pretty cool. Someone called me twice, and I didn't recognize the number so I hit the blue arrow and under the number it said the city and state the number is from. I never noticed that before.
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That's been there since the 1.x firmwares, actually. Nice little hidden feature.
 
Phoenix said:
$5 bucks for an RSS reader? Man, I need to add that one to my alpha test list. Does it sync with anything? What would make you want to pay $5 for it?
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AFAIK, it's the only worthwhile app that syncs with Google Reader. (I believe part of the reason for this is that so far there have only been unofficial APIs and they've been slow to keep up with Google's changes.)

Other than the fact that Google Reader is all I want to use, it supports foldering, starring, sharing (w/ notes). I share probably thirty stories a day, so I really need that feature.

The web interface is pretty first class, but when I have a crummy signal it's unusable.

Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
NetNewsWire's sync is buggy. I can't use it.
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That answers that question. I'm not going to re-read stuff from one device to the next.
 
Byline is fantastic. If you use Google Reader, and there is ever a case where you would want to read RSS items away from a reliable network connection, it's mandatory.

(Also, I'm obviously very late/absent from this thread, but the combination of Byline's offline reading for RSS and Instapaper's offline reading for text-based webpages is freakin' awesome. I think the full price for Instapaper is worth it to support the developer and also for the tilt scrolling option.)
 
-jinx- said:
Byline is fantastic. If you use Google Reader, and there is ever a case where you would want to read RSS items away from a reliable network connection, it's mandatory.

(Also, I'm obviously very late/absent from this thread, but the combination of Byline's offline reading for RSS and Instapaper's offline reading for text-based webpages is freakin' awesome. I think the full price for Instapaper is worth it to support the developer and also for the tilt scrolling option.)
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Thanks Jinx. I'll buy Byline in a couple days, unless Phoenix gives me a call and asks to work on another Google Reader client with me :)
 
Jtwo said:
TUAW is running a pretty hot rumor about video editing capabilities in 3.0/next iPhone.
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Nice. Looks legit. If you're going to add a video camera that can upload straight to YouTube (all but confirmed at this point that they're working on it), then you need to provide users a way to edit from the phone.

All of that to say that we already knew they were working on video recording for the next phone. The obvious problem with taking that and drawing the conclusion they're actually going to release it is that they might decide to not announce it for another year or two until it's polished.
 
Bought Byline and I HATE IT.

It syncs, stars, notes, opens items just fine, but it gets the fundamentals of reading RSS all wrong

* No "mark all as read" anywhere
* Every content receptacle only loads 25 items at a time? WTF? At any given time, my Google Reader will have between 1,200 and 15,000 unread items. 25 new items per folder is a COMPLETE JOKE.
* Folders just appear/disappear, requiring me to quit the app and reopen it frequently.
* no UIScrollView to read posts and summaries, instead I'm just forced to arrow through every single post screen-by-screen, or else they'll never get marked as read.

I'll give it a chance tomorrow to see how it does over EDGE, but this will probably be the first app for which I request a refund.
 
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