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Not available on the Australian store? Well fuck you too!
planar1280
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Epic fail. That app requires a gyroscope, why do you need a gyroscope to tell me when a flight has landed
Crazymoogle
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Johnny Cage In The Shower
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I also posted this in the Euro 2012 Thread, but may be just as effective to post here:
Any iOs users here (iPad specifically) that found a nice Euro 2012 app that allows you to make your own prediction scores before each match? Or Just a simple enter your own scores app? That would be cool.
Any iOs users here (iPad specifically) that found a nice Euro 2012 app that allows you to make your own prediction scores before each match? Or Just a simple enter your own scores app? That would be cool.
Looking for a todo list app. There are bazillions out there, so it's likely more effective to ask here instead of trying all of them.
What I need:
Yeah, basic stuff. I'm currently using Wunderlist, which is okay-ish, but the Mac app is terrible.
I'm currently trying to simplify and streamline my workflows by reducing the number of apps/services I'm using. Currently, I've got Wunderlist (sucks) for Todos, Evernote (horribly bloated) for longer notes, JustNotes (SimpleNotes) for single-line notes (and longer ones which need no formatting) and The Hit List (Mac-only) for keeping track of games/books/movies I want to buy.
A bit confusing, I really want to change this.
What I need:
- Sleek, efficient, minimalistic UI, but nevertheless powerful
- Hassle-free, quick entry of new todos
- Folders/lists, or better: tags
- Universal app
- Over the air syncing
- Reminders (no must, but would be nice)
- associated Mac app
- Retina support
Yeah, basic stuff. I'm currently using Wunderlist, which is okay-ish, but the Mac app is terrible.
I'm currently trying to simplify and streamline my workflows by reducing the number of apps/services I'm using. Currently, I've got Wunderlist (sucks) for Todos, Evernote (horribly bloated) for longer notes, JustNotes (SimpleNotes) for single-line notes (and longer ones which need no formatting) and The Hit List (Mac-only) for keeping track of games/books/movies I want to buy.
A bit confusing, I really want to change this.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
Subscribing to this thread as an iPad user. Thanks for the list, guys.
This has actually become my go to music player- haven't touched Pandora since getting Songza.
Rekwest
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Good Job Bob
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How does it work on iOS?
Syncs over dropbox with the desktop client so you can copy/paste your passwords when you need to access websites on iphone/ipad.
Also you don't need to use dropbox for syncing. The desktop app and the iOS app can sync through your wifi if both are on the same network.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
The pricing is such a scam. $60 for the desktop version + no guarantee they won't arbitrarily recharge you for major version updates (except "We've only done that once!") + $10+ for the mobile version. It's a good product, and I use it because my job paid for it for me, but their pricing is insane.
LastPass, by comparison, is free to use, and $12/year to get their premium account including mobile. It'd take 6 years for LastPass to cost more than 1Password, and that's assuming 1Password doesn't ask you to shell out more.
*shakes head*
Honestly, Mac software continues to astound me in terms of how they value their stuff. Maybe because Macs had historically low install bases of premium customers, but it's mental when some tiny widget is $3. Then you get these regular bundles of 12 pieces of software for $40-75 as if that's a good deal--and it's like, 8 of these pieces of software should be freeware, and the other 4 are $1-5 applications. Totally, utterly out of whack. I'd rather write my own software than pay the king's ransom it seems every mac developer feels like they deserve.
Treefingers
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I don't see why any software should be freeware, any developer who spends their time and money making an app deserves to get paid for it. And $40-75 for a bundle of a bunch of apps is too expensive? That seems more than reasonable to me. What would you be willing to pay for 12 apps?
I mean it depends on the bundle, but for example the MacUpdate bundle going on right now looks like a pretty great deal to me, I'd pay $50 for Parallels 7 alone.
Good Job Bob
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Jesus, I was literally just about to post that. God damn it, giga.
Anyways, can't wait.
Anyways, can't wait.
I use XBMC Commander and it's pretty good. Haven't tried any others. Hell, I got the recommendation from this thread, I think...
SnakeswithLasers
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SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
Is there a better music library / player for iPad than the basic one? I just one that can order music by year.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I wouldn't be willing to pay for 12 apps because there's never going to be a bundle with 12 apps I want. The only reason why anyone buys these mega-bundles is because they want one or two and those pieces of software cost astronomical amounts on their own.
Why should they be cheaper?
Well, for one, every other operating system I use--Windows 7, Linux, iOS, WP7, DA INTERNET--all give me cheaper options that do similar things. You know much a simple bulk renamed or file tag editor costs on Windows? $0. You know how much little utilities that dim your screen or extract stuff or tag your mail or let you keep a journal? $0. You can justify the $1-9 on the grounds that monetizing stuff at such a low price was tough before App Stores existed, so a lot of stuff that was free probably should have been sold, but you can't justify charging $49. What Apple charges for iLife or whatever is fairly reasonable.
It's abuse of a captive audience. Knowing that Apple purchasers were a diehard niche for the longest time, the ecosystem has built up encouraging developers to downright fleece buyers who aren't going to abandon a superior operating system just to save a few bucks on software. It's charging the people are willing to pay twice as much to make up for those who aren't willing to pay.
The Mac App Store has made it a little bit better, but it's still bad. Yikes. Even the applications I love, I hate for costing so much--I buy the Bruji apps, and I have to pay $15-20 an application (all their applications do basically the same thing) and then they charge for major version upgrades on top of that? *blows mind*
If Apple didn't make a vastly better desktop operating system than Microsoft, I'd switch in a second. The OSX third-party software environment is just abysmal.
Good Job Bob
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Requires iOS 5.1
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Why not just require iOS 5? I doubt their's anything specific to iOS 5.1 the app needs to run well.
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Why not just require iOS 5? I doubt their's anything specific to iOS 5.1 the app needs to run well.
My icon actually wouldn't update. Reboot fixed it.I don't like the new icon.
edit: actually, I just updated and have a blank white icon. Do you have the same thing, gigs?
I don't like the update. I don't like the brighter color theme. Did the Subscriptions table header float over the content in the previous versions too? Also, as I'm just using my single GR account, I mislike the additional layer in the UI (the Accounts list). And it's annoying that when I tap my account, always the full subscription list is displayed instead of the Unread list. But this may be a bug.
Just my first impressions, haven't tested the other features yet.
edit: I may be wrong, but has the font size been increased slightly?
edit2: I think the distance a feed has to be pulled horizontally to mark it as read or star it has been increased.
Just my first impressions, haven't tested the other features yet.
edit: I may be wrong, but has the font size been increased slightly?
edit2: I think the distance a feed has to be pulled horizontally to mark it as read or star it has been increased.
Interesting discussion above regarding Camera+, I find myself doing the very same thing - no matter what camera apps I buy, I always end up going back to the default app, just because it's so convenient.
Honestly, I'm not sure many of the extras in the camera apps are worth it anyway, I'm yet to find a real killer feature in any of them, though the 'Clarity' filter in Camera+ is pretty damn awesome.
Honestly, I'm not sure many of the extras in the camera apps are worth it anyway, I'm yet to find a real killer feature in any of them, though the 'Clarity' filter in Camera+ is pretty damn awesome.
Tried for a very little while Reeder 3.0.
The only couple of things I find mildly annoying are:
- When reading an article, the margins seem to be wider.
- In order to make room for more vertical space, the back button/toolbar now moves and hides when you start scrolling down through an article. I don't like the swipe right gesture that can be used to go back.
However, the two finger swipe to mark as read all the above/below items is awesome!
The only couple of things I find mildly annoying are:
- When reading an article, the margins seem to be wider.
- In order to make room for more vertical space, the back button/toolbar now moves and hides when you start scrolling down through an article. I don't like the swipe right gesture that can be used to go back.
However, the two finger swipe to mark as read all the above/below items is awesome!
I don't see anything that would make me want to switch back from Flipboard.
Flipboard is far better looking in my opinion and I love the way feeds are split up by theme. The Cover Stories segment is also pretty awesome for a quick catch up. The fact that it uses twitter also means that you're constantly up to date with the very latest.
Flipboard is far better looking in my opinion and I love the way feeds are split up by theme. The Cover Stories segment is also pretty awesome for a quick catch up. The fact that it uses twitter also means that you're constantly up to date with the very latest.
Flipboard? Where you have to go through each item one by one and you can't mark all as read? Yeah, people who use Reeder are the likely the types who want a pure RSS reader. Flipboard has its uses, but they're not very comparable.
Dreams-Visions
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I wouldn't say all that. I stopped using Reeder too. It aggregates the same specific websites as well as compilations of multiple sites, and has fully replaced Reeder for me.
But that's for how I use RSS.
Good Job Bob
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Flipboard's fun but in no way in hell is it replacing Reeder.
Right, you're not the type of user Reeder is for. When I can have a hundred different new items at the end of the day, Reeder is the quickest way to get through all of them. Whether it's having a list of all my new news (where I can pick and choose which to read), or drilling down into a specific folder or feed, or using readability to fetch the entire article--it's things like that which make it different from Flipboard's model.
dream
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On iPhone?
It's a different experience in that you don't mark things as read.
It's like a magazine that's always up to date.
Why do you say that?
iPhone as well as iPad. It's a better experience on the iPad but both are great.
Treefingers
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I can finally add and remove feeds from the app, this update is awesome for that alone.
I'm not too fond of Reeder 3.0 either. The Readability option is all at the top and goes away when scrolling down. It seems to be slower at updating the icon with new stories as well. I didn't like that to go back a page I had to scroll all the way up, until I found out I can just swipe left, nice.
But I still very much like it, favorite app.
But I still very much like it, favorite app.
brotkasten
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Flipboard is great for reading longer articles and stuff I didn't subscribe, but it's in no way better than Reeder for my Google Reader habits.
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