"must have" apps for the iphone? - Page 5

parrotheads4 · 01-02-09, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrpayroll

Yeah, it's too bad the Touch doesn't have a mic. I mean there is Shazam and all the voice recording apps that could be used. I always thought the Touch had everything the iPhone had except the phone.

Chris

My touch came with a mic on the right headphone. It is placed about 3" below the headphone.

Spicollidriver1 · 01-02-09, 07:29 PM

I didn't think mlb at bat would be worth it (when I got it had less features), but I was wrong I used it a lot, and will be buying it again

GatorDeb · 01-02-09, 08:30 PM

I am sooo waiting for the Jailbreak.

I started getting pretty much any free app I could find but now I'm just keeping the good ones

I've pretty much erased anything that uses WiFi as I've resigned myself that I'll never have it outside of the home. So I've started loading up on games, videos, and music, and am content just having it as an offline device. I do like having access to all my downloaded email and I bought a $5 offline Wikipedia browser where I can save articles like Rock band song listings. I also pay $45 a year to Evernote and I can "clip" any web page and it gets loaded up to Evernote and after I download it to the Touch at home I have my notes everywhere.

I bought pretty much every jigsaw puzzle I could find and spent about $25 on them (just the day before I had almost purchased 10 puzzles for $15 at Walmart... I am a jigsaw puzzle addict but hate losing pieces and needing a huge area to do big puzzles), and I got hundreds of puzzles for that and also the ability to use my pictures for puzzles so it's unlimited. One app even downloads a handful of photos of the days automatically so there's fresh content daily. I'll be posting reviews. So far I've spent the most time on ArtPuzzle and JigSaw Pro.

ArtPuzzle has famous paintings, about 52-53 or so. I did them all on one long shift at work and felt satisfied with the couple of bucks I spent on it. Then I realized there were four difficulty levels and I had just done the easiest one. So I still have quite a few hours left on entertainment with that one.

ArtPuzzle has square pieces all layed out and you touch the piece you want to move and then the destination and it flips them, and all you have to do is flip them into order. This gets really hard in the last couple of levels. (hard as in good hard, not frustrating hard

)

JigSaw Pro What I really like is that it has a "strip" to the side with the pieces and you drag the piece over to the puzzle area, and double click any piece in the puzzle area to send it back to the strip to unclutter it a bit. I wish once you find the correct piece that it would stay put, i.e. corner and edge pieces, as sometimes you move a piece you don't want to (but rarely and it's not a dealbreaker). This one is a lot of fun and it was only a buck. I'm just amazed at all the $1 and $2 jigsaw puzzle programs. You can't even find single puzzles for that much at Walmart. I don't know how many puzzles it comes with and the description doesn't specify it either, but this is one of the puzzles you can use your own images in, so once I'm done with the built-in ones I'll try that option.

Edit: It seems to come with 26 pictures built-in, and you can go to your photo library and "save" pictures to the built-in library. I chose a background picture and it's hard as hell

It works really well. Now I can get a bunch of puppy pics

Can I hear an "awwwww" ?

I'll be posting jigsaw puzzle reviews as I play them.

I cannot recommend Blackbeard's Assault for $2. Finished the easy and I'm stuck on hard now (and then there's expert). Even once you finish it there's still the replayability factor. It's a Zuma-like game (which will come out eventually).

I just got my earphones/microphone combo for $5.10 in the mail today, so I'll test out Truphone tomorrow.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Earphone-w-micro...713.m153.l1262

I also recommend "Pro RSS Reader" which includes full offline reading including images. Two bucks. You can import OPML files into it (if you use Google Reader, it can export all your feeds into an OPML file).

LorenzoL · 01-03-09, 07:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by parrotheads4

My touch came with a mic on the right headphone. It is placed about 3" below the headphone.

You are lucky because you probably got the new Apple Headphones with mic with your Touch. Mine didn't come with it and I have to go out and buy it separately. The Apple store is selling it for an extra $29.99 which is compatible with the iPhone and all other iPods including the 2nd G Touch. The only thing is that the reviews are terrible since is just your regular iPod headphones with mic attached but they also have an In Ear Headphone with remote and mic that's $89.99 but reviews are great. This sucks. I think I'm going to search for 3rd party headphones with mic.

Gatordeb - That link to the Ebay page didn't have any pictures and the earphones doesn't seem to be compatible with the 2nd G Touch (At least it doesn't state that it is).

GatorDeb · 01-03-09, 03:01 PM

So that's why I couldn't get TruPhone to work yesterday

Oh well at least they were a cheap experiment.

Tetris is THE BOMB. I didn't expect to have so much fun with it. It's on sale for $5 (regular $10) and 99% of the bad reviews are because of the high price. 10000% recommended.

Bejeweled 2 is down to $3 (first $10, then $8).

Someone posted in the Video Game forum about http://appshopper.com Great place to find bargains.

My Touch didn't come with a mic either

LorenzoL · 01-03-09, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GatorDeb

So that's why I couldn't get TruPhone to work yesterday

Oh well at least they were a cheap experiment.

Tetris is THE BOMB. I didn't expect to have so much fun with it. It's on sale for $5 (regular $10) and 99% of the bad reviews are because of the high price. 10000% recommended.

Bejeweled 2 is down to $3 (first $10, then $8).

Someone posted in the Video Game forum about http://appshopper.com Great place to find bargains.

My Touch didn't come with a mic either

I got Bejeweled 2 for $2.99 but its worth the $10. It's a great and addictive game. I'm still undecided whether to get Tetris or not.

TomOpus · 04-03-09, 06:32 PM

Sorry for the bump but I just got a 32gb Touch and I'm wondering if anyone has any new apps that are worthy of loading.

Mookysdad · 04-03-09, 07:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TomOpus

Sorry for the bump but I just got a 32gb Touch and I'm wondering if anyone has any new apps that are worthy of loading.

PocketGod and Flight Control are both good for some mindless entertainment. Also, PocketGod is supposed to get weekly updates (that schedule seems to be slowing down a bit) that add features.

LorenzoL · 04-03-09, 11:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TomOpus

Sorry for the bump but I just got a 32gb Touch and I'm wondering if anyone has any new apps that are worthy of loading.

Check the link for the thread on the Gaming Forum although the talk is geared more towards gaming as expected.

iPhone/iPod Touch App Talk

TomOpus · 04-04-09, 08:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LorenzoL

Check the link for the thread on the Gaming Forum although the talk is geared more towards gaming as expected.

iPhone/iPod Touch App Talk

Awesome, thanks!

KillerCannibal · 04-04-09, 11:33 AM

I dl'd the "Restaurants" app and it's awesome. The thing lists tons of nutritional info from dozens of eateries. For someone like me who likes ot eat healthy, this is great for knowing what's best when I'm out.

Baron Of Hell · 04-04-09, 12:12 PM

I was just looking for cases for the wii and then came across info on ipod touch. I see they now have a 32 gig version which smaller than what I would like but might be good enough if I use it different than my 60 gig mp3 player.

With that app store and now a good sized storage options the touch seems to be king of mp3 players. The problems I see are mostly minor. The real problems for me is not having a real keyboard, no fm/am, apple's unending mission to do stupid things like no cut and paste but I hear that might be fixed now?

I think I'm in for one.

Flashback · 04-09-09, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LorenzoL

I was disappointed when I found out that I needed an external mic for Shazam on my Touch. Maybe they'll include the mic on the next version of the Touch.

I just heard about these mics that you may like. I have not checked out any reviews though.

http://www.switcheasy.com/products/T...ThumbTacks.php

The Cow · 04-09-09, 01:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baron Of Hell

I was just looking for cases for the wii and then came across info on ipod touch. I see they now have a 32 gig version which smaller than what I would like but might be good enough if I use it different than my 60 gig mp3 player.

With that app store and now a good sized storage options the touch seems to be king of mp3 players. The problems I see are mostly minor. The real problems for me is not having a real keyboard, no fm/am, apple's unending mission to do stupid things like no cut and paste but I hear that might be fixed now?

I think I'm in for one.

1st gen had a 32gb version. Touch keyboard is easy. Cut/paste is in the next OS update (June or so)

Caliking · 04-09-09, 02:48 PM

1. Sportacular
2. Facebook
3. Mint.com
4. Directv
5. Remote
6. Shazam
7. Bible
8. WikiTap
9. Units
10. Now Playing
11. Yelp
12. GoodGuide
13. Amazon
14. Ebay
15. craigsphone
16. TowerSmash -- for the kids
17. MonkeyBall -- was for me, now the kids like it
18. Topple -- for the kids
19. Sol Free
20. Hold Em
21. Tap Defense
22. Lux DLX

Those are what I use...would love a Baseball Sim game or something like that.

al_bundy · 04-13-09, 08:36 AM

for all you people that live in NY, NJ or Connecticut there is an app that links to all the traffic cameras so you can check how bad traffic is

Baron Of Hell · 04-13-09, 09:14 AM

How do I search for all free apps?

Trevor · 04-13-09, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baron Of Hell

How do I search for all free apps?

Hope you have a lot of time, there are like 20,000 of them.

Edit to add recent news/link found in google: here

Baron Of Hell · 04-13-09, 09:38 AM

i got it. There is a check bock under power search. So to search for free games all you have to do is check the box and search for games. Doesn't look like I can search by type or sort buy downloads or rating. Pretty poor search engine. Lots of good stuff though.

Baron Of Hell · 04-23-09, 12:20 PM

Do they send out receipts after you buy stuff? I bought a couple of apps but haven't received a receipt on any of them.

mrpayroll · 04-23-09, 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baron Of Hell

Do they send out receipts after you buy stuff? I bought a couple of apps but haven't received a receipt on any of them.

Yes they do, about once a week. And that happens even if you only download free apps. Maybe it's in your junk e-mail folder?

Chris

Draven · 04-23-09, 02:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Baron Of Hell

Do they send out receipts after you buy stuff? I bought a couple of apps but haven't received a receipt on any of them.

Yes, you'll get a receipt to the address your Apple ID is tied to. Sometimes it takes a few days.

stingermck · 04-24-09, 09:04 AM

Baby Shake?

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/2...henremovesit_1

dog352 · 04-26-09, 05:55 PM

[quote=jfoobar;9152886]iBoobs:

That is hilarious!

parrotheads4 · 05-24-09, 10:35 AM

I tried VNC Mocha Lite (free) last night. Incredible that it works. The only problem is now I want it to work better.

I launched ie8 on my computer via my iPod Touch, and my computer responded perfectly. But when I clicked (tapped) favorites my computer responded but my iPod Touch did not display my computers response. I tried hitting refresh, but that didn't work. I had to log off, and re-connect to get the Touch's screen to display properly.
-but hey, it's free.

01-02-09, 07:29 PM	#102
Spicollidriver1 DVD Talk Limited Edition Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: MN Posts: 5,924	I didn't think mlb at bat would be worth it (when I got it had less features), but I was wrong I used it a lot, and will be buying it again __________________ "Foley Is GoOd" 360voice

01-02-09, 08:30 PM	#103
GatorDeb DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: The "Real" Vice City Posts: 12,573	I am sooo waiting for the Jailbreak. I started getting pretty much any free app I could find but now I'm just keeping the good ones I've pretty much erased anything that uses WiFi as I've resigned myself that I'll never have it outside of the home. So I've started loading up on games, videos, and music, and am content just having it as an offline device. I do like having access to all my downloaded email and I bought a $5 offline Wikipedia browser where I can save articles like Rock band song listings. I also pay $45 a year to Evernote and I can "clip" any web page and it gets loaded up to Evernote and after I download it to the Touch at home I have my notes everywhere. I bought pretty much every jigsaw puzzle I could find and spent about $25 on them (just the day before I had almost purchased 10 puzzles for $15 at Walmart... I am a jigsaw puzzle addict but hate losing pieces and needing a huge area to do big puzzles), and I got hundreds of puzzles for that and also the ability to use my pictures for puzzles so it's unlimited. One app even downloads a handful of photos of the days automatically so there's fresh content daily. I'll be posting reviews. So far I've spent the most time on ArtPuzzle and JigSaw Pro. ArtPuzzle has famous paintings, about 52-53 or so. I did them all on one long shift at work and felt satisfied with the couple of bucks I spent on it. Then I realized there were four difficulty levels and I had just done the easiest one. So I still have quite a few hours left on entertainment with that one. ArtPuzzle has square pieces all layed out and you touch the piece you want to move and then the destination and it flips them, and all you have to do is flip them into order. This gets really hard in the last couple of levels. (hard as in good hard, not frustrating hard ) JigSaw Pro What I really like is that it has a "strip" to the side with the pieces and you drag the piece over to the puzzle area, and double click any piece in the puzzle area to send it back to the strip to unclutter it a bit. I wish once you find the correct piece that it would stay put, i.e. corner and edge pieces, as sometimes you move a piece you don't want to (but rarely and it's not a dealbreaker). This one is a lot of fun and it was only a buck. I'm just amazed at all the $1 and $2 jigsaw puzzle programs. You can't even find single puzzles for that much at Walmart. I don't know how many puzzles it comes with and the description doesn't specify it either, but this is one of the puzzles you can use your own images in, so once I'm done with the built-in ones I'll try that option. Edit: It seems to come with 26 pictures built-in, and you can go to your photo library and "save" pictures to the built-in library. I chose a background picture and it's hard as hell It works really well. Now I can get a bunch of puppy pics Can I hear an "awwwww" ? I'll be posting jigsaw puzzle reviews as I play them. I cannot recommend Blackbeard's Assault for $2. Finished the easy and I'm stuck on hard now (and then there's expert). Even once you finish it there's still the replayability factor. It's a Zuma-like game (which will come out eventually). I just got my earphones/microphone combo for $5.10 in the mail today, so I'll test out Truphone tomorrow. http://cgi.ebay.com/Earphone-w-micro...713.m153.l1262 I also recommend "Pro RSS Reader" which includes full offline reading including images. Two bucks. You can import OPML files into it (if you use Google Reader, it can export all your feeds into an OPML file). __________________ XBOX Live Gamertag: GatorDeb07 (zero seven) My XBOX 360 blogs about me "Polo por u, polo por u" - Peggy speaking Spanish from KOTH (Chicken for you, chicken for you) Last edited by GatorDeb; 01-02-09 at 10:16 PM.

01-03-09, 03:01 PM	#105
GatorDeb DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: The "Real" Vice City Posts: 12,573	So that's why I couldn't get TruPhone to work yesterday Oh well at least they were a cheap experiment. Tetris is THE BOMB. I didn't expect to have so much fun with it. It's on sale for $5 (regular $10) and 99% of the bad reviews are because of the high price. 10000% recommended. Bejeweled 2 is down to $3 (first $10, then $8). Someone posted in the Video Game forum about http://appshopper.com Great place to find bargains. My Touch didn't come with a mic either __________________ XBOX Live Gamertag: GatorDeb07 (zero seven) My XBOX 360 blogs about me "Polo por u, polo por u" - Peggy speaking Spanish from KOTH (Chicken for you, chicken for you) Last edited by GatorDeb; 01-03-09 at 03:04 PM.

04-03-09, 06:32 PM	#107
TomOpus DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: FUN Diego, CA Posts: 17,847	Re: "must have" apps for the iphone? Sorry for the bump but I just got a 32gb Touch and I'm wondering if anyone has any new apps that are worthy of loading. __________________ "Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts!" My So-Called DVD Life (Profiler),A Fistful of Discs (DVDAf) My Countdown Counting down to: San Diego Comic-Con 2010 240 days 3 hours 3 minutes

04-04-09, 11:33 AM	#111
KillerCannibal DVD Talk Hall of Fame Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Orange County, CA Posts: 7,528	Re: "must have" apps for the iphone? I dl'd the "Restaurants" app and it's awesome. The thing lists tons of nutritional info from dozens of eateries. For someone like me who likes ot eat healthy, this is great for knowing what's best when I'm out. __________________ Top 10 most-wanted BD titles:Blue Velvet/Once Upon A Time in the West/Jaws/Boogie Nights/Prince of Darkness/Videodrome/Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla ('74)/Beyond the Valley of the Dolls/Phantasm/Death Wish October Horror Movie Challenge 2009

04-04-09, 12:12 PM	#112
Baron Of Hell DVD Talk Platinum Edition Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Seattle and sometimes hell Posts: 3,252	Re: "must have" apps for the iphone? I was just looking for cases for the wii and then came across info on ipod touch. I see they now have a 32 gig version which smaller than what I would like but might be good enough if I use it different than my 60 gig mp3 player. With that app store and now a good sized storage options the touch seems to be king of mp3 players. The problems I see are mostly minor. The real problems for me is not having a real keyboard, no fm/am, apple's unending mission to do stupid things like no cut and paste but I hear that might be fixed now? I think I'm in for one. __________________ "Truth has become unacceptable and dissent unpatriotic" PS3 Tag: Baron-Of-Hell Steam: Baron_Of_Hell SSBB: 4425-3985-1734 TWITTER: BaronOfHell

04-09-09, 02:48 PM	#115
Caliking DVD Talk Special Edition Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Bay Area Posts: 1,062	Re: "must have" apps for the iphone? 1. Sportacular 2. Facebook 3. Mint.com 4. Directv 5. Remote 6. Shazam 7. Bible 8. WikiTap 9. Units 10. Now Playing 11. Yelp 12. GoodGuide 13. Amazon 14. Ebay 15. craigsphone 16. TowerSmash -- for the kids 17. MonkeyBall -- was for me, now the kids like it 18. Topple -- for the kids 19. Sol Free 20. Hold Em 21. Tap Defense 22. Lux DLX Those are what I use...would love a Baseball Sim game or something like that. __________________ "I saved Latin. What did you ever do?"

04-13-09, 08:36 AM	#116
al_bundy DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Transfatfreeville Posts: 22,235	Re: "must have" apps for the iphone? for all you people that live in NY, NJ or Connecticut there is an app that links to all the traffic cameras so you can check how bad traffic is

04-13-09, 09:14 AM	#117
Baron Of Hell DVD Talk Platinum Edition Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Seattle and sometimes hell Posts: 3,252	Re: "must have" apps for the iphone? How do I search for all free apps? __________________ "Truth has become unacceptable and dissent unpatriotic" PS3 Tag: Baron-Of-Hell Steam: Baron_Of_Hell SSBB: 4425-3985-1734 TWITTER: BaronOfHell

04-13-09, 09:38 AM	#119
Baron Of Hell DVD Talk Platinum Edition Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Seattle and sometimes hell Posts: 3,252	Re: "must have" apps for the iphone? i got it. There is a check bock under power search. So to search for free games all you have to do is check the box and search for games. Doesn't look like I can search by type or sort buy downloads or rating. Pretty poor search engine. Lots of good stuff though. __________________ "Truth has become unacceptable and dissent unpatriotic" PS3 Tag: Baron-Of-Hell Steam: Baron_Of_Hell SSBB: 4425-3985-1734 TWITTER: BaronOfHell

04-23-09, 12:20 PM	#120
Baron Of Hell DVD Talk Platinum Edition Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Seattle and sometimes hell Posts: 3,252	Re: "must have" apps for the iphone? Do they send out receipts after you buy stuff? I bought a couple of apps but haven't received a receipt on any of them. __________________ "Truth has become unacceptable and dissent unpatriotic" PS3 Tag: Baron-Of-Hell Steam: Baron_Of_Hell SSBB: 4425-3985-1734 TWITTER: BaronOfHell

04-24-09, 09:04 AM	#123
stingermck DVD Talk Ultimate Edition Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Wilmington, NC Posts: 4,944	Re: "must have" apps for the iphone? Baby Shake? http://tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/2...henremovesit_1 __________________ "We wouldn't have to "regress" so much if it wasn't for that weird period in comics history when EVERYTHING in comics had to be awful and bleak. Characters died, became killers, were crippled and had lots of pouches and belts on their costumes, and we, this generation of creators, represent the undoing of that." - Ethan Van Sciver

04-26-09, 05:55 PM	#124
dog352 Needs to contact an admin about multiple accounts Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 5	Re: "must have" apps for the iphone? [quote=jfoobar;9152886]iBoobs: That is hilarious!

05-24-09, 10:35 AM	#125
parrotheads4 DVD Talk Special Edition Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: NY Posts: 1,404	Re: "must have" apps for the iphone? I tried VNC Mocha Lite (free) last night. Incredible that it works. The only problem is now I want it to work better. I launched ie8 on my computer via my iPod Touch, and my computer responded perfectly. But when I clicked (tapped) favorites my computer responded but my iPod Touch did not display my computers response. I tried hitting refresh, but that didn't work. I had to log off, and re-connect to get the Touch's screen to display properly. -but hey, it's free.