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RichMSN Aug 31, 2010 8:05 am

Adding to my post about FlipBoard -- where's the refresh button? It appears that for a refresh I have to quit and restart the app. Odd.

ddavault Aug 31, 2010 8:17 am

I have an iPad and an iPhone. iPad has replaced my MacBook Pro when traveling, it is so nice.

Dropbox
1Password
Netflix (now with iPhone support!)
Weatherbug
Opentable
Words with friends
any Metro/Subway application, Paris & London were great to have.
Kindle Reader
Pandora
Wikihood
Vicinity

and of course Flight Tracker Pro

Trying to find a good Blog application, I'm going to give BlogPress a try.

wco81 Aug 31, 2010 8:33 am


Originally Posted by ddavault (Post 14577270)
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any Metro/Subway application, Paris & London were great to have.

Anyone find a good offline Metro app. when you're not doing data roaming?

Metr0 seems to work well offline. Any others?

yosithezet Aug 31, 2010 9:13 am


Originally Posted by RichMSN (Post 14577209)
Adding to my post about FlipBoard -- where's the refresh button? It appears that for a refresh I have to quit and restart the app. Odd.

It keeps crashing on me when I try to search for a new feed. Trying to add BoardingArea ;)

Also where can I find Rqndy's review?

adambadam Aug 31, 2010 5:54 pm


Originally Posted by wco81 (Post 14577359)
Anyone find a good offline Metro app. when you're not doing data roaming?

Metr0 seems to work well offline. Any others?

NYC Mate is a must have if you live/work in NYC. Subway, bus, MetroNorth. It has times too and detailed maps with all the entrances to subway stations.

kaszeta Sep 1, 2010 9:49 am


Originally Posted by wco81 (Post 14577359)
Anyone find a good offline Metro app. when you're not doing data roaming?

Metr0 seems to work well offline. Any others?

I've used Metro since my Palm Pilot days. Still has one of the best sets of databases out there.

chexfan Sep 1, 2010 1:34 pm

For Seattle Folks...

Seattle Freeways is a great traffic app (better than the City/State's)
KEXP Playlister- this isn't from the radio station, but it lists what the current and last few songs have been. Which you can book mark. Very helpful for me to remember what I hear!

Randy Petersen Sep 1, 2010 2:20 pm

it looks like just 9 feeds for now. I've read that they have had some challenges keeping up with bandwidth growth so I'm not sure what their next or dev feature-set might be. But as a new app, I remain totally in love with the way it works as a reading tool.

Almost daily i find interesting news that i would have totally missed with RSS feeds and other sources. Perhaps it is because it appears as a modern electronic magazine is the reason i love it so much. Not sure, but it's the only app that i use daily.

Originally Posted by RichMSN (Post 14571624)
As someone who read your review of this and downloaded it this morning (and I'm impressed by it!), I was wondering if you can have more than 9 feeds. I couldn't figure out if there was any way to add more. If not, I'll have to pick my choices carefully, I guess!


RichMSN Sep 1, 2010 4:24 pm


Originally Posted by Randy Petersen (Post 14586230)
it looks like just 9 feeds for now. I've read that they have had some challenges keeping up with bandwidth growth so I'm not sure what their next or dev feature-set might be. But as a new app, I remain totally in love with the way it works as a reading tool.

Almost daily i find interesting news that i would have totally missed with RSS feeds and other sources. Perhaps it is because it appears as a modern electronic magazine is the reason i love it so much. Not sure, but it's the only app that i use daily.

I know what you mean. I use NetNewsWire on my Mac/iPhone/iPad for RSS feeds and I find myself skimming over many of the articles.

I've tried adding pages outside their recommendations and without fail the app crashes when I do so. This crashing and the limitation of 9 feeds was mentioned in the MacLife magazine I skimmed through today.

I've been using it, though, and I like it.

kaszeta Sep 1, 2010 6:31 pm

Another app I use a lot (probably my most-used app) is Forum Runner, which provides a nice iPhone interface to vBulletin forums.

Alas, FT isn't one of the supported sites.

Cholula Sep 1, 2010 6:43 pm


Originally Posted by kaszeta (Post 14587607)
Another app I use a lot (probably my most-used app) is Forum Runner, which provides a nice iPhone interface to vBulletin forums.

Alas, FT isn't one of the supported sites.

Very ironic since the folks that own vBulletin...Internet Brands...also own FlyerTalk.

Obviously no $$ connection between the App developer and Internet Brands.

kaszeta Sep 1, 2010 7:08 pm


Originally Posted by Cholula (Post 14587679)
Very ironic since the folks that own vBulletin...Internet Brands...also own FlyerTalk.

Obviously no $$ connection between the App developer and Internet Brands.

Yeah, it definitely seems to be a third-party deal (and requires the forum to install a plugin that supports it), but especially on my iPod touch and iPhone, it's a great improvement on efficient forum browsing. Less so on the iPad, but still good enough that I prefer it.

dstan Sep 1, 2010 10:48 pm


Originally Posted by adambadam (Post 14580740)
NYC Mate is a must have if you live/work in NYC. Subway, bus, MetroNorth. It has times too and detailed maps with all the entrances to subway stations.

Great find, very slick interface, and free! Would be even better if they added NJ Transit and the PATH.

For maps alone, NYC Mate can't be beat. However, there are two things that it seems to lack (and that the paid app iTrans NYC has):

1) The ability to get directions using street addresses rather than stations
2) Estimated travel time for directions searches

Rampo Sep 2, 2010 8:34 am


Originally Posted by ddavault (Post 14577270)
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Netflix (now with iPhone support!)
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^^

adambadam Sep 2, 2010 10:12 am


Originally Posted by dstan (Post 14588759)
Great find, very slick interface, and free! Would be even better if they added NJ Transit and the PATH.

For maps alone, NYC Mate can't be beat. However, there are two things that it seems to lack (and that the paid app iTrans NYC has):

1) The ability to get directions using street addresses rather than stations
2) Estimated travel time for directions searches

I find that if you want directions even using public transit (at least NYC in this case) Google maps does as good a job as any, though then again I have not yet used iTrans.


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