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The ability to watch live tv has been available for some time on the iPhone at least. Although more often than not it's probably not worth watching unless you are connected to Wi-fi. When sat in the back seat of a car in traffic last month I did manage to watch Match of the Day on BBC1 via 3G with no major streaming issues. I was quite surprised how good the streaming was.
True, but this allows iPod Touch and iPad users who don't have access to 3G to get a free DTV signal. I haven't checked yet, but I seriously doubt this service is available in my area.
Aye, but this gives you the ability to receive TV signals over the air, without using your data.
It's nothing new. The Nokia N96 has this feature built in, but as so often with Nokia it was completely useless as nobody was (as far as I'm aware they still aren't) broadcasting.
Can open, worms all over the place ....
I got an Iphone yesterday. Cost £160 cash (I know a dealer). Bet I never use most of it's stuff :rolleyes:
Never used the bluetooth in my car, never used the net on my last phone, will never bother even investigating half the icons on this Iphone.
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Here might be some good applications for you and your pack:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazell B
http://dogs.thefuntimesguide.com/200...phone_apps.php
Hazell, by stating the fact that you don't use the bluetooth function in your car I hope that is merely an admission that you just don't use your phone while driving. Personally, I'd rather use Bluetooth than have 3 points put on my license and a £60 fine. :)
I think this might soon be my favourite
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b...ile-phone.aspx
Quite convenient timing as I'm building a new PC tomorrow night and my current one is being turned into a Windows Home Server :D
Only downside is that the official app only supports the yet to be released version of WHS codenamed Vail and Microsoft have removed the great feature that is drive extender
Might give this a go though :)
http://www.whsphone.com/
I love to use the iDon'tcare app for many of our forum threads that just brake up into bickering egos . . . . .
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Of course it is. There isn't a phone call possible that's more important than driving safely. Personally I'd rather not use a phone in any way at the wheel.Quote:
Originally Posted by GridGirl
I already have an iPod Touch. But when my 8 year old Motorola flip phone finally gives up the ghost (one of us has got to die at some point), I may go with an iPhone too (from Verizon now! :bounce :) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazell B
The funny thing about the iPod Touch is that I waited and waited for Apple to make one with a camera. I had to have a camera! I needed that camera! And guess what feature I use the least? The camera. :dozey:
As for apps, the longer you have it, the more you will find apps and uses for it that you had no idea were even possible. I guess some of the long time iPhone and iPod people on here think that I'm a real goober, since I talk about things that they've probably known about for years. But to me, it's amazing stuff. I'm like the caveman who finally saw someone using fire to cook their food for the first time.
I even found a timber app the other day that should help me calculate the value of various trees that I'd like to sell. Who knew? Tell me, who_knew?! :s mokin:
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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
But did you know you needed it before you found it? Probably not.
I won't bother looking for a suitable app on mine, just carry on working stuff out in my head as always. I'm too old ........ :p :
Well yeah, I knew that I needed to find the value of various types of trees so the timber slicksters didn't cheat me too bad. It was just a question of how I could do that with an app (once I figure it out :D ) versus how I had to do it before. It all comes down to a device or an application making one more efficient. And me head... it no work so good no more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazell B
I have no idea how old you are, Hazell. But I met a farmer just before Christmas and he was schooling me on all these crazy Android apps he had. And that guy was in his 70's. So you're never too old. :up:
It's just good having all this stuff with you all the time. Maps, GPS, web browser, email plus things you might not think of like my iPhone acts as a pretty good torch!
Totally with you on that one Mark.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
When necessary, my iPhone torch guides me to my bed every night as I try to not wake up the misses.
This technology is taken for granted by my son and I still find myself amazed for example if I am in a cab driving to an address that I'm not sure about,
I type it in my GPS and suddenly I see my cab moving across the city in real time as I gaze in wonderment at my iPhones screen.
I still find all this present age technology amazing.
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43. Happy the way I am more than too old to bother learning, really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
Anyway, just sold the iphone to somebody who wanted one and couldn't afford full price. I guess he needs it more than I do and why not pass along my good fortune at getting it cheap? I can get another probably, it's not like they are rare :)
I got this new FREE app- which was named by TIME magazine as one of the top ten apps of the year.
It is called AroundMe and this is what it does:
If you are an iPhone user - and probably other phones have this too - you have incorporated in it a feature called "map". Basically it is a GPS locator and it will let you look for an address or any other location and show it to you in the map as it also references your location via GPS.
It's great for locating addresses in the city but also if you are walking the city and you want to find a Citibank or a Starbucks, you have to go to the map app and type the word of what you want info on and it will proceed to show you all the Citibanks or Starbucks in the city and you will get to see which one is closest to your present location.
Now, with this new FREE app, once you launch it it gives you a menue that has all these options:
Banks/ATM, Bars, Coffee, Gas Station, Hospitals, Hotels, Movie theaters, Parking, Pharmacies, Pubs, Restaurants, Supermarkets, Taxis, Theater
And if I want a coffee for example, I press on Coffee and it will immediately name, in order of closeness measured by yards, all the coffee joints from my corner deli to the Starbucks that is 5 blocks away. I can extend my search by asking for a wider distance range and once I find which one interests me, I click on it and the GPS map appears with my location and the coffee shop that I want to go to.
Very cool app. No more typing names and fidgeting with your keyboard trying to type "Starbucks".
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I'm sure apps like that have been around for years? :mark:Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
It's new for me . . . I'm glad I'm catching up then.
:)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aroun...290051590?mt=8
Things like that are great if you're in a City, but if you live in the arse end of nowhere then it's less helpful. I work in a town with a population of around 15,000 and in a town that small there are very few places that show up on those maps.Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
Maps (or Google Maps really!) is a very useful tool and isn't limited in the way implied above. You don't necessarily need to know the name of where you want to find, you can e.g. type in "Restaurants" and it'll find ones nearby for you.
But there's a problem, basically google doesn't update it's mapping with businesses often enough. Quite a few times now I've found a business I want to go to on the maps and then gone there just to find it has since closed down! It's quite frustrating when you're in an unfamiliar city and you've found the restaurant you want to go to via the maps, checked it out via street view, looked at their website and even read through the online menu and decided what you would like to order, just to walk there in the freezing cold and find it's not there any more!
I'm beginning to hate Apple/itunes with a passion :dozey:
Current case in question:
One ipod touch, with music from 2 accounts (1x son, 1x daughter) on it.... itunes synchronises and copies all songs to my PC's Mediathek, so far so good (in the past it has crashed and I had to buy the music again :s ).
But: it has only left the music from one account on the device !
Any tips? What am I doing wrong?
Chances of me buying an ipad are getting slimmer and slimmer, no matter how good the apps might be :arrows: :mad:
I would hazzard a guess that the devise will only sync with one iTunes account. Apps on my iPhone stopped working when I sync-ed with a different iTunes account. I suppose the logic behind it is to stop you downloading and using things that other people have bought and paid for if you were to know thier user name and password. The plus point to this being I am sync-ed via iTunes to my partners account which is linked to his bank account. It will be a sad day when he gets his act together and changes iTunes payment to our joint account. I've not paid for a single app yet. :D
Thus far, I have not purchased the first song through iTunes. And that's mainly because I don't fully understand what I'd then be able to do with the music. I mainly download from Amazon and then I have better/complete control over the songs. But I haven't really gotten into the file handling/sharing side of my beloved iPod Touch yet. Other than making a backup of the iTunes library on a standalone drive, I haven't done or learned much. I didn't even realize that you could synch one device to two accounts.
Let me ask this (and remember I don't know how this works), why not just make one account the primary, use a PC/Mac to accept & transfer music files from the secondary account, then dump the music from the second one into a folder on the primary and do the synch (just) on that one account? I have songs and photos from my girl's iPhone on my iPod and (I think) that's how we (or she) did that. But music files may be handled differently... I dunno. :confused: I just know that my iPod has a LOT of songs and pictures that came from her device. But I don't know where she got the music (iTunes or somewhere else) - or specifically how she accomplished the file moves.
My girl, her sister, her husband and their son are some Mac and iDevice loving people. I'll try to gather enough brainpower to ask your question and ask them the next time we have a group chat. Then, we'll have to hope that I can understand the answer well enough to tell you what they said. Outside of Apple customer service, I doubt better advice could be found - if one of them doesn't know the answer, "Houston, we have a problem!"
Cheers jag I think I got there in the end... my main gripe is that Apple is meant to be PC for dummies, but I'm sure I'd have been done 5 hours ago under Windoze :rolleyes:
I think the problem was I was logged into one of the accounts on the ipod, so it only managed the songs bought under that account correctly... after I logged out and tried again it seemed to work better. Also I was pretty low on space... the apps were using aprox. double their original size :crazy: .
Just finished: went through the library to delete all the double (and triple) song entries several times, reset/restored all the apps (yes, saved data is also gone, but at least this time I knew what was coming), just finished resynching (for the umpteenth time)...
At least I haven't lost any music this time - it's all on in the Library and in about 10 backups of backups of backups. Buying the likes of Michael Jackson and Miley Cyrus is bad enough :p
Gridgirl... I have 2 accounts (we use one for German pre-paid cards / German store and one for Spanish cards / Spanish store), on 1 device. Why that should be a problem (also why you need a separate account for each store) only Apple knows, or maybe I'm just being a donkey :)
Ah! Yet another reason for me to get that MacBook Pro! :bounce:Quote:
Originally Posted by donKey jote
P.S. Glad it worked out. I was glad to ask for you. But Lil Miss Thing takes (too much) joy in having to explain things to me - so I was kinda dreading asking her anything about how to handle file moves. :dozey:
google navigator. Can't say no to a free sat-nav on your phone and is pretty good at what it does though it does use a lot of power.
i have a large bunch of apps that i really like.
All these are for Android but perhaps they (or some of them) also are available for other
smartphone OS. Some of them are also app versions of regular websites. All of them are free versions and most of them requires internet acess to functionally properly.
Imdb: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.imdb.mobile
Wikpedia: https://market.android.com/details?i....pedia.android
Australian open (useful during the AO tennis torunament) https://market.android.com/details?i...Australianopen
ATP/WTA (tennis) https://market.android.com/details?id=atpwta.live
ESPN Score center (i use it to keep me updated on nhl, but the other major N.AM team sport leagues are also available)) https://market.android.com/details?i...n.score_center
Best life quotes https://market.android.com/details?i...ing.lifequotes
youtube: https://market.android.com/details?i...ndroid.youtube
unit converter: https://market.android.com/details?i...ndroid.wt.unit
urban dictionary: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.citc.ud
Auto mobile magazine news: https://market.android.com/details?i...oid.automobile
Way to ignore the fact that Donkey Jote just pointed out that Mac software isn't as good as it's "PC for dummies" image would want you to believe :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
Not at all. DonKey Jote is perfectly entitled to his opinion. But I'm as comfortable with the Mac OS X as I am with Windows. And with a MacBook Pro, I can use OS X when I want to and Windows when I want to. My girl has a MacBook Pro, and that's how I've come to re-familiarize myself with the Mac OS (after being away from it for almost 20 years). Her family has a whole collection of Macs and iDevices... and I know at least their iMacs and MacBook Pros have versions of Windows loaded as secondary OS's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
It's simply a fact that Apple makes computers that have about the highest consumer and customer service ratings in the industry right now. To me, a computer is just a tool. So I'm choosing to go with the highest rated, most versatile tool/machine that I can get. I'm not interested in tweaking, tuning or cracking the top on it to jazz it up. So when the new models get announced, I'll place my order: MacBook Pro (probably 15"). And here's the kicker, depending on when I order, I could sell 8-10 shares of the AAPL stock that I bought less than two years ago and pay for the computer from the profits. :D
Life is good Jag.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior
:D
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BBC Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12403466
The new Nokia boss admits that Nokia is in trouble and that ""The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their experience,"".
Lets hope they can get themselves sorted and provide good products.
Edit: Full article and memo here: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/08/n...honest-burnin/
Well the rumour is that they're going to go Win Pho 7 or less possibly, Android.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
If they do that they'll be back on track.
Jag, congratulations for making some money on Apple shares, you still ignore the fact that Donkey Jote found working with Mac stuff to be MORE DIFFICULT than with windows.
The interesting point here is that they are now talking not about devices, but Ecosystems, such as those Google and Apple have created, and whether Nokia should attempt to grow its own - a point it has singularly failed at in the past. Or hitch its wagon to another - most notably Windows Mobile 7 as the CEO is an ex-Microsoft man.
Now I personally think that if Nokia and Microsoft were to join forces, they would be a powerful force in the mobile market.
Yep, it seems strange for a company such as Nokia to be buying in operating systems from elsewhere, but as the CEO said, they are standing on a 'burning platform' so need to do something radical.. But if Nokia just become a hardware manufacturer for WM7 phones, what's to stop the likes of HTC just undercutting them?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tiger.gens
SEGA Megadrive emulator. Many, many wasted hours... :D
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Originally Posted by Daniel
Well, what do you expect,
he's a DonKey!
:p
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as I said, maybe I'm just a bit of a donkey when it comes to Apple software :s ailor:Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_3_166.gif
:up: :laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
Piece dammit ! (sic) ;)
In my experience so far, iPhone = excellent. iTunes = sucks beyond beleif!
I refuse to install iTunes on any PC in the house. If you were writing a book on how NOT to design software you'd have whole chapters on that buggy bloated POS.