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Someone needs to write an iPhone application to interface with the Public Library. The Columbus library electronic resources are awesome and an iPhone app would be so nice. Basically you enter your State and library card number to access the resources. Here are a list of resources at the Columbus Library site.What's makes this idea cool is that the library has sections for children and teens as well as resources for many interests which makes an application of this nature interesting to many people. For instance, if you needed to look up something in a past Dispatch article, wanted to browse car repair manuals, get help with homework, or view art at the Columbus museum of art it's all there. A feature to search for or check if the library has a physical copy of a book, dvd, or cd you wish to check out would be nice too. I am not a Mac developer, but I am thinking maybe I should give it a go to get some of my ideas created. I am seriously bored and uninterested in more social networking applications. Just how many do we need? Another one would be the iGlass, or iPhone magnifying glass, a magnifier that uses the iPhones camera and lets the user magnify at different levels. Come on, you all remember those magnifiers laying around grandma's book shelf, get on the ball! Tags: iphone
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"Richard Stallman, one of the fathers of the software freedom movement, has declared that cloud computing is stupid in calling for users to reject web applications." I agree! I like some of it and it is cool, but do you really want several companies controlling your data, watching your movements, and how do many accounts benefit anyone? My thought is users are becoming smarter, have cheap powerful home systems with 24/7 connections, and want to be mobile where their data can be accessed from anywhere. This made me think considering I am tired of managing several accounts. After reading a story about a guy getting his account locked so he couldn't gain access to his personal data I really started to think, how about managing my own data on my own server that uses web applications that are similar to the crap offered by third parties online. Orb also helped me in this vision, considering it was giving me access to my home computer where I could watch streaming video off my home machine on my iPhone. It made me think, why not stream from a web server of my own to the Safari web browser? My idea was born... While a lot of developers try to solve this problem with mostly manual backups or web apps that consolidate many accounts and services I am thinking about developing a self contained web server application with web application support, like the widgets we use trough Yahoo widgets or OS X desktop widgets, but served from your home pc to you and your family. Basically you install a application, you need to know nothing about server technology, because it is a standalone self contained and pre-configured SSL web server with PHP support. During setup it forwards through your router, if need be, and monitors you external IP address, the one you use to contact your web applications. The program notifies you if your DHCP address changes. Again, you need to know nothing... This server application contains a web server with SSL, an administration panel, and access to a small part of the hard drive for application storage, and a user page, which is basically a menu of your web applications. To install a web application you simply develop a standard web application using the standard tools, ajax, css, html/php or find one developed by someone else that you need. For instance, say I developed a web based word processor and photo editor. You download them and install them via admin panel. In the user panel you will now have access to these applications and can save what you do in them to the drive space you set aside for you web apps. When you are home you have access to this portion of the drive as nothing more than a folder, like C:/MyStorage and these web applications can be used on your home system as well. As far as the development goes there would be some standards and a small javascript in place so the web applications will work on many browsers including those found on iPhone, Android, Opera mobile browsers, etc... The advantage? You control all of your data on the go and at home. No fear of losing access. No tracking or commercials. One account to log into so security is better. The ability to save and manage data remotely on your hard drive. Open and tried and true web development means many useful programs and many developers. Programs are accessible from anywhere there's a web browser including mobile devices. Tags: iphone, mobile, servers, web, web applications, web development, widgets
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1. Native Copy/Paste functionality with clipboard application for management. 2. Flash support! I assume you're keeping it off for strategic reasons, but why bother unless you're planning on getting into the web multimedia delivery and creation tool business. 3. An FM Radio receiver and tuner software. Mixed with streaming internet radio and podcasts this negates most arguments for satellite radio. 4. Streaming audio/video from Apple TV or iTunes library, including over Edge, like Orb does. 5. Better content management - like contacts, bookmarks, calendar, and app settings. You are really limited in what you can do with these things. Would be nice to have an app on the iPhone that helped in managing these items rather than flipping a switch in iTunes that syncs everything to specific software on your computer. I personally do not like having a third party web service for syncing my personal and private data between my phone and computer. I certainly like it less that they charge me to sync my personal and private data between my devices! 6. Better camera, higher mega pixels to keep inline with other Smartphone mfgs. 7. A video recorder with upload, like to YouTube, ability. 8. External storage, like a micro flash slot, so applications like Mobile Finder can make use of them for moving data around between devices. As of now I always need a network to move data from the phone to my computer. Don't worry, people will always by bigger hard drives regardless of external storage Apple... 9. Talking turn by turn directions for your GPS and voice command recognition. 10. The ability to run iPhone applications on the OS X desktop through iTunes. I already predicted this will happen at some point, along with a release of OS X for standard hardware. These 10 little things would make the jailbreak less important and would make your device very hard to beat in the market place! Tags: apple, iphone, mac, os x
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I have an original iPhone 2G 8gb. Been jailbreaking it since the day I got it and I have never had any real problems with the phone. So when Apple's 2.0 update came out I updated and waited for the jailbreak. I did this for 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 updates as well. Since moving to the Apple 2+ firmware versions my battery life has gone to shit and the phone burns hot as hell when doing everyday tasks. I asked about this on the iPhone dev team's blog, but people are too busy answering stupid questions from people that should not be hacking their phones. So I have been waiting to see if the internet starts getting questions relating to my problem and lo and behold they are now starting to appear. First, the iPhone with firmware does not run background processes. This was a decision made by Apple and is the reason you cannot listen to the legit Last.FM feeds while doing other things on your phone so this latest advice telling people to hold down the Home button for five seconds to totally close the application is bullshit. Second, people that have jailbroke their phone are being told to install Services and to shut down SSH. SSH is not installed by default when you jailbreak your phone/touch 2.0... so if you haven't installed it you are likely not to have it. I do not have SSH installed, nor do I have any application requiring a running background process or service and I have this problem. As a matter of fact, I only have Winterboard and a theme and theme elements installed, all from Cydia, and I had this problem before installing any third party apps. I also see some people stating they have this problem and state they have never jailbroke their phone. I cannot verify this as I am not willing to restore at this point so i will take the word of these people that it may not be the jailbreak causing this issue; although, my wife's phone has been burning hot ever since we jailbroke it on firmware 2.0.2. This makes the problem very random because I have had the problem since 2.0.0 and she has not. A typical day using mainly network aware apps on Edge used maybe 1/4 to 1/2 the battery in an eight hour period on firmware 1.1.4, jailbroke of course. Even live streaming audio and video via Orb didn't heat the phone to excess and eat the battery life this fast. Now I am lucky to get eight hours of typical usage with 20% battery remaining. So wtf is it? Is it the firmware from Apple or is it the latest jailbreak? I am leaning towards Apple and their network related services... So my typical day, WiFi off using Edge, I run: NetNewsWire - Read my RSS feeds (10 to 20 minutes, three times a day.) PocketExpress - Read the news (5 tp 10 minutes, twice a day.) Check Twitter using Twinkle (occasionally throughout the day. 5 minutes tops each.) Check Updates Cydia (5 minutes or less) Check updates AppStore (5 minutes or less) Read email - Push is off (occasionally throughout the day.) Send a acticle or two to my wife. (occasionally throughout the day.) Read breaks, lunch using Stanza (This seems to have no impact on battery or heating up) Check Weather with WeatherBug (Sometimes) Listen to podcasts and music. (A few hours total) Watch a couple video casts. (Couple times a week) Install crap from the AppStore (Sometimes, really kills the battery) Of course the occasional phone call. Sometimes the phone locks up after talking for awhile and won't hang up. Requires a hard reboot. So anyone else having this problem, jailbroke or not, send me your thoughts, experiences, and insights. Tags: battery life, firmware 2.0, iphone, jailbreak, touch
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This really annoys me and is making me rethink my phone choice! Here is a letter sent to a developer from Apple axing his iPhone application. What utter BS! SOURCE"Hello Developer, We've reviewed your application Pull My Finger. We have determined that this application is of limited utility to the broad iPhone and iPod touch user community, and will not be published to the App Store. It may be very appropriate to share with friends and family, and we recommend you review the Ad Hoc method on the Distribution tab of the iPhone Developer Portal for details on distributing this application among a small group of people of your choosing. Regards, Victor Wang Worldwide Developer Relations Apple, Inc." W.T.F? Why not let the users decide what they are willing to buy or use? This app was in the store so it passed the harsh guidlines to make it into the store, which is a feat of it's own. The thing that annoys me most about this is the fact that the number one selling iPhone application is Koi Pond. So some fake fish swimming around isn't of limited utility? It does absolutely nothing and is totally useless! At least Pull My Finger attempted to be funny, which gives it more usefulness than a show off our graphics waste of space! Tags: iphone
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