Headlines can only be so long, so let me start things off with the major caveat. Yes, PlayOn gives you the ability to stream Hulu or Netflix on your iPhone or iPad with their fancy web app, but it’s insanely expensive and can only be achieved on your local network. Talk about promising.
Posts tagged with "iPhone"
PlayOn’s HTML5 Web App Plays Hulu, Netflix on Your iPhone/iPad
iOS 4’s Nasty Calendar Bug
I’m looking out for our calendar users this morning suffering from iOS 4 woes. For those dealing with scrambled or blank events in the list view, iTWire quickly details how the problem may be remedied:
Some solutions are showing up. Our calendar is hosted by Google and uses CalDAV to sync to the iPhone. By going into the account settings and deselecting the “Birthdays” calendars the List View is correctly refreshed. So, it would seem that one of the default calendars created by the operating system is to blame.
Neowin suggests that entries older than six months old are also to blame, so you should archive older entries if you can. Though if you’re connected to an Exchange server, there’s not much you can do to fix the issue other than submit your standard Apple feedback report.
The iPhone 4 Around the Globe [Spoiler: Don’t Buy One in Italy]
So you want to purchase an unlocked iPhone 4 in some foreign country. Sounds good, I did the same with mine - and I bought it from an Italian seller who bought it in France and sold it for 200 Euros more. Not a great story, but I needed it. Anyway, iFun put together an interesting chart showing the prices of the iPhone 4 around the world.
It turns out, Italian iPhones are the most expensive. Hong Kong ones are the cheapest. Check out the image below (click for full size). But don’t buy one in Italy.
Removr for iPhone
I don’t have many games on my iPhone and iPad, but I enjoy sitting down and play something every once in a while. I loved Canabalt, I bought Real Racing when Firemint introduced Retina Display support, I was a die-hard Orbital fan. Oh, and I download the eBoy game, too.
A few days ago I bought a new game in the App Store, Removr.
Farts VS. Zombies - Because Someone Needed To Make A Game Featuring Hitler and Chuck Norris
The guys over at Mutant Games surely know what’s wrong with the App Store. Games about farts, zombies, Chuck Norris. Hitler references, unicorn jokes, more zombie games. This is exactly what’s wrong with the App Store.
And it’s coming all together in a single iPhone game.
OpenAppMkt, An App Store for iPhone Web Apps. Kinda.
While it’s a great idea to showcase in one single place iPhone-optimized web applications, this attempt proves once again why Cocoa still reigns over web apps: it just doesn’t feel right on the iPhone. It’s constantly loading stuff, scrolling is weird, too many taps, pop ups - it’s not natural.
Notekeeper: Location-aware Notepad for iPhone
Many times in the past I’ve written about the apps and tools I use in my MacStories workflow. If you’ve been following MacStories for a while now, then you must know that I’m an avid Simplenote user. It’s simple, it syncs over the air, it’s available on the iPad and the next version will rock. I’m telling you.
But anyway, that’s the not the point. I’ve tried many note-taking applications over the years, and I’ve decided to stick with Simplenote because it just works. But not everyone needs to do what I have to do with notes (portability, plain text, multiple devices, reliable backend) so it’s very likely that you don’t really care about cloud, dashboard widget for desktop publishing and such.
I know you’re running other note apps on your iPhones and iPads - so why don’t give a try to Notekeeper?
Banned iPhone 4 Outtakes
From the creators of the banned iPhone 4 promo and antenna videos, the banned outtakes. It’s NSFW, so save this for later if you’re at the office.
I love these videos, by the way.
Want Photo Booth for iPhone? Go Download Camera Sutra. Now.
Perhaps you’ve missed an app like Photo Booth on the iPhone. And with the new front-facing camera, I understand you: wouldn’t it be awesome to give your iPhone to your friends and see them laugh as they see their faces stretched and twirled?
Good news is, there’s an app for that.