your favorite little program hoonja-doonja (iphone edition)

"Find My iPhone" apparently works! http://happywaffle.livejournal.com/5890.html

hay u guyz

i might get one of these. what appz u usin

Shazam. So helpful for those 'what song IS this' questions.

i've been using shazam since 2003! although i pay a pound every time - is the shazam app free once you've paid for it (u know what i mean)?

Never had to pay anything for using it on iPhone! Maybe it's different over there?

eucalyptus: very readable ebook app, classics downloadable for free.

shazam is free ON IPHONE in uk too (well, was last time I used it)

i keep hearin that they're going to launch a model with the camera on the front, so that you can do video chat

but then the forthcoming "augmented reality" apps that depend on having the camera on the back (they display what's in front of you, only with "helpful" info overlayed on it) wouldn't work

unless they're going to go for TWO cameras!

exit strategy...for ny subway system. Enter what train you're getting on, then what train you're gonna transfer to, and it tells you which car to get in. CRUCIAL.

haha i love it

too bad they've locked the doors between trains now though.. i used to JUST make the first car of the L train before it pulled away and then work my way down the whole train as it passed under the east river so as to emerge from the last car once i got to 8th ave

or 1st ave actually.. gah i have been away too longgggg

i keep hearin that they're going to launch a model with the camera on the front, so that you can do video chat

This is a cool idea, but AT&T is already having crippling bandwidth problems, at least in the U.S., and I imagine the same might be true elsewhere with other providers, so they're probably not anxious to introduce anything that eats up additional bandwidth right now.

hmm yes that makes sense

how about an autotune app -

http://iamtpain.smule.com/

i am probably going to get the bird identifier and the starmap

although i pay a pound every time

Think it's 50p, no?

you are correct sir

are there any apps to read web pages offline?

cause i have this wondrous thing now, in my hand

byline (ty stet) can DL and save your RSS feeds. there's a setting in there to download the actual webpages incl pictures. that's the closest i've found.

Is this the place to ask about tethering? I know AT&T aren't enabling it in the US any time soon but I'm tempted to just go ahead. What are the downsides if any and what's the risk that AT&T find out?

you can't enable tethering in iphone > 3.1 OS

Tracer: you need Instapaper for that

Is it worth downgrading to 3.0 to enable tethering? I would consider it if any loss of other functionality was minimal and the risks weren't that great.

stet: got it now, use it every day, love it. I installed the Read Later bookmark on my work and home machines and it is LIKE BUTTAH

it's pretty much impossible to downgrade to 3.0 unless you have a 3g and not 3gs xp

ahhhh ok, will have to wait then - thanks dyao

Not really a hoonja-doonja question. Rather, a stupid question. If I have a US iphone, and I go to the UK, and I am in an area with free wireless, and I have roaming turned off and 3G disabled, can I still surf for free and download email using that free wireless? Surely, yes? or not? (maybe I'd still have to pay for voicemail?)

yes

fabulous, thank you and apologies for the fule question

OH DARN:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ataris-greatest-hits/id422966028?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Meanwhile, an honest request for help here -- the built-in Photos app is being ridiculous when it comes to uploading part of a longer video to YouTube (the first part went without a breeze, but trying to select and upload the second part just made it want to upload the first part again). Solutions/better program for the job?

Dropbox it to yr Mac and upload it from there.

i am probably going to get the bird identifier and the starmap

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i never did this

praise be to allah for gmaps return.

Free yo: Daily App: Simbol is your cheat sheet for universal symbols and their HTML codes

I use this so much now, it's made it to the second screen of the phone.

smh at "circle star, daring fireball" in the screenshot

I know I know. Implicit "FUCK YOU GRUBER" in all of this.

I've always been really happy with lastpass (sync seems less of a hassle, it's way cheaper than buying ios+osx+win licenses) but I feel like this might make me jump ship to 1password: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/06/30/ios-8-1-password-beta-demo/

Jumped from Wallet to 1password a couple months ago. Think the AgileBits coders are doing good work.

Keepass and Dropbox forever.

1password looks sooooo much nicer than lastpass but apart from doing everything a bit more prettily i've never found a compelling reason to jump.

What I'm most scared of is the dropbox integration - if I'm stranded somewhere without my phone I can use a pc in an internet cafe to check my email just by logging in to lastpass in the browser without an app or plugin. Presumably w/1passwd if I did the same and tried to get my password out of the dropbox web interface, I'd still need to install the 1password app on this imaginary pc to actually get the password. Is that right? idk maybe I'm putting too much emphasis on a fairly unlikely fringe scenario

hrm what to do what to do

lastpass is slowly improving its design and i cant really imagine it wont get touchid integration asap

Lastpass already has Touch ID in safari via an extension.

Keepass and Dropbox forever.

Not quite, I switched to 1password. Cost sucked, but I really wanted Touch ID integration. And it's generally nicer overall.

Lol didn't realize I was responding to posts from 2014.

yeah lastpass pretty much perfect for me

never got the hang of 1passwork for some reason. Would you guys recommend lastpass instead?

I think on ios it works pretty much in the same way as 1password does. It works directly within safari through the sharing menu and is very slick espesh w/touchid, but if you want to log in to a dedicated app you're probably still going to have to swap into the app and copy the password, which is a bit more cumbersome.

I like it mainly because i need to sync between osx at home, windows desktops at work and ios in between which would mean buying several licenses for 1password, but you do still have to pay $12/yr for the iphone app.

tl/dr normally I would but if 1passwd didn't fit your way of working lastpass prob won't either

caved in and got a pinboard account so i could start closing some of my truly overwhelming amount of open tabs. any suggestions as to a good pinboard ios client if any? or do i need one for that matter?

my general plan is to use pocket for #longreads and the like and pinboard for tagging and organizing various research projects. Not sure if I actually need an ios client for that purpose...

Pinner for Pinboard
https://appsto.re/us/s00qJ.i

Great share sheet integration.

yeah i use pinner

i finally got the starmap

AudioKit's L7 looper is out and on sale: https://cdm.link/2019/12/l7-loopstation-as-app/

ok this is ANDROID and i'm SORRY

recently switched from Podcast Addict to Pocket Casts, and from Evernote to Google Keep.

i hate to hand it to the big boys but both are waaay better. way.

evernote is and always was terrible

but saying google keep is better is apples to oranges

evernote is and always was terrible

the nvalt guy has a new thing in the works. it was supposed to come out last summer, so who knows when it's actually going to happen. but i'm interested. https://nvultra.com/

Is simplenote any good? After years of looking around I still haven't found a satisfying solution for myself w/ this. Does simplenote sync properly btwn mac, windows and iphone?

lol brett terpstra has been promising that for years. supposedly in beta, but fuck knows if it'll ever come out.

simplenote is fine between all of them, but i find the mac and windows clients *horrible* - iOS client is fine.

to be fair, he's been promising nvultra for 1 year, not years. it looks like another one of these awful fisher price UI 'focussed' writing tools out of the box, but i guess we'll see.

i use nvalt on mac and 1writer on iphone with dropbox sync. it's the least bad i could find.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We know it's been a while since a public update, but development has not stalled… Beta updates are coming out weekly for our private testers and we're nearing a public release!

— nvUltra (BETA) (@nvUltraApp) February 6, 2020

to be fair, he's been promising nvultra for 1 year, not years. it looks like another one of these awful fisher price UI 'focussed' writing tools out of the box, but i guess we'll see.

i use nvalt on mac and 1writer on iphone with dropbox sync. it's the least bad i could find.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 February 2020 21:18 bookmarkflaglink

it was bitwriter before - https://brettterpstra.com/2019/04/10/codename-nvultra/

but yeah, it would be good to see it released!

yeah i guess they threw bitwriter out and started again. i heard they had 6000 beta testers which is probably at least half the reason it's so delayed.

Boring iphone question: is there a way to capture whatever audio is playing on your iphone, with a recording app? I don't mean phone conversations, but recording sound from an app. Like how you used to use 'recorder' on your old pc 20 years ago to capture what was playing over the soundboard? I don't have access to an external recording device so can't use headphones/line-out, but am looking for an app to record whatever sound an app is playing on my phone. Anyone?

There are some hacks. You can screen record some things and convert the saved file.

I think you're right! I just came across something like that. Screen record w/ audio, then use QT to export as audio only. I think that might do the trick.

AudioShare will do the conversion on your device if that’s something you’d want.

https://memos.org/

Holy smokes caek, I bit it and bought it, it's amazing! Never knew I needed that, but I did.

yeah, this is really really good

Seems like something apple should buy

so i never use shortcuts but i feel like this is some serious doonja voodoo

like applescript for your phone

does anyone use any on the reg?

I don't use Siri so the only ones I find very useful are ones I can put on the share sheet. I use one that Uploads to Imgur, which is great for posting images here. Another for creating a QR code, one that starts playing a podcast when my phone connects to a particular Bluetooth device, and another that mounts a network drive when my home network is connected.

ooh the imgur one sounds useful.

what do you mean by “when my home network is connected”? you mean when your phone is on the same wifi as your home devices you mount a drive??

Yes. Though, I looked at it and realized that’s one I started to make myself and never finished it.

i have a shortcut to turn off bluetooth when i am not using it so it doesnt drain my battery
feels like wizardry to me, its v good

Upload for Imgur works nicely with zing touch

https://i.imgur.com/xBeAkqG.jpg

how do i get that? i have the imgur app on my phone. i’ve looked in the shortcuts gallery but can’t find anything. maybe this us where i admit that i don’t really understand how shortcuts work.

You don’t have to have the imgur app

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/9d7e63371b5646e29acb7c029738a49c

ah thanks for that. how would i have found that otherwise? i googled, searched in the shortcuts gallery.. nothin

using nvultra (new version of nvalt) on macos, and had always used simplenote on the phone - text entry comes up quickly and easily and integrated with simplenote, but nvultra just runs off your folder structure and syncs via dropbox or whatever.

so i’ve been looking for a phone and ipad markdown notes app that’s as easy to use as sn. bear, ulysses and iawriter all have a slightly painful folder structure for quick note taking. 1Writer is *probably* the best and easiest, but it’s still fiddly.

any recommendations?

what's wrong with SN?

it doesn't sync with nvultra and also separately i was having a problem with the navalt target folder. HOEWVER i have now sorted out that problem, renamed the folder so it's one that i use for all notes now. using nvultra as a macOS editor, and nvalt as a bridging sync with simplenote. so i'm good again.

i mean i just made things difficult for myself basically. no fault of any of the apps.

Just posted a vague and messy question tangentially related to this:

Second Brain: Note taking, productivity, Notion, Airtable, Obsidian, Mondays, Asana etc

getting into widgets and enjoying https://apps.apple.com/us/app/here-nyc-subway-arrivals/id6446206683?platform=iphone and https://apps.apple.com/au/app/weather-up-live-widgets/id1196015787.

also this is a good take on "i can't resist playing with my phone, please stop me" https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flight-simulator/id1146329517

Temple of the Mask 2 - it's sort of like Pac-Man but you're moving through a level gobbling dots insteads of being chased by ghosts. Nice time waster game and it's on Apple Arcade so it isn't designed just to make you die and buy loot boxes.

Apple Arcade is great for parents. no adds, no IAP.

I am enjoying "scheduled notification summary", i.e. get one big batch of notifications a couple of times a day. Not really a summary at all, and Different to apple intelligence summaries, which seem to be useless. But good.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph6534c01bc/ios