Essential iPhone Apps

V_R · 25 Oct 2010 at 22:21

Mint_Sauce said:
I use Saisuke, it syncs with multiple Google calendars and once set up how you like it, it's perfect.

Just what i was looking for! Thanks!

Marky · 25 Oct 2010 at 22:41

Steedie said:
I've spent 8 hours today playing GameDev

Holy....!!

It's way too addictive

You must have gotten past year 20 by now

To be honest - I made it to year 20 but started again because I want to make a console this time around

Fr0dders · 25 Oct 2010 at 23:30

Ever said:
It's not free like VLC, but OPlayer has played everything i've thrown at it so far - wmv/mkv/avi/mpg, maybe worth a look for some of you if you're having no joy with VLC.

how do you get the files onto the iphone ?

Steedie · 26 Oct 2010 at 10:25

Marky said:
You must have gotten past year 20 by now

To be honest - I made it to year 20 but started again because I want to make a console this time around

I'm on year 35 now :eek:

I take it i'm not missing out on anything like office upgrades and the like if you carry on past year 20? Currently on the 8 staff office

Ever · 26 Oct 2010 at 12:09

MrLOL said:
how do you get the files onto the iphone ?

4 different methods:

1) Use iTunes to transfer via USB
2) Using your PC’s web browser to upload/download files to/from your iPhone/iPod via WiFi
3) Use built in Samba client to download from Samba server
4) Use built in FTP client to download from FTP server

I've used the WiFi transfer and FTP so far, and both worked fine

Embed · 26 Oct 2010 at 13:40

Ever said:
4 different methods:

1) Use iTunes to transfer via USB
2) Using your PC’s web browser to upload/download files to/from your iPhone/iPod via WiFi
3) Use built in Samba client to download from Samba server
4) Use built in FTP client to download from FTP server

I've used the WiFi transfer and FTP so far, and both worked fine

do you have to be jb'd to do this?

Ever · 26 Oct 2010 at 13:46

Embed said:
do you have to be jb'd to do this?

Nope

uchuff · 26 Oct 2010 at 15:14

VLC played a couple of xvid files I tried no problem.

Another way of getting videos onto VLC is via Dropbox, just "star" the video in the Dropbox app so that your phone downloads it locally, once downloaded tap the file then "forward" it and VLC will be one of the apps you can send it to (might also work for the player others are talking about above).

Embed · 26 Oct 2010 at 16:49

Ever said:
Nope

Never knew you could do that, lol. How do I go about uploading and downloading via wifi on a windows machine?

Cheers!

cu3ed · 26 Oct 2010 at 17:42

I'm finding reckless racing alotta fun, so simple but looks gorgeous!

Ever · 26 Oct 2010 at 18:03

Embed said:
Never knew you could do that, lol. How do I go about uploading and downloading via wifi on a windows machine?

Cheers!

Open the app on your iPhone and go to the 'More' tab at the bottom. Select 'WiFi Transfer' and you'll get a screen that shows you the address you need to connect to.

Fire up the browser on your PC and enter the address shown on the phone, you'll then get a simple web interface that will allow you to upload a file from your computer, or download any of the files you currently have on your phone.

Diggsy · 27 Oct 2010 at 13:04

Another HUGE vote for Trainyard - simply awesome.

Oh and Plants vs Zombies has finally went on sale - 59p

Yas786 · 27 Oct 2010 at 13:54

Diggsy said:
Oh and Plants vs Zombies has finally went on sale - 59p

Awesome was waiting for it to go on sale...seeing as i completed cut the rope and more or less finished with trainyard express.

Ever · 27 Oct 2010 at 15:33

Diggsy said:
Oh and Plants vs Zombies has finally went on sale - 59p

Thanks for the heads up

cu3ed · 27 Oct 2010 at 16:15

Well damn you all for ruining my life...Game Dev is probobly the smartest gameing app ive found so far, so thanks..and damn you.

Anyone any good tips for it...not doing too good in it!

MikeHunt79 · 27 Oct 2010 at 16:56

uchuff said:
VLC played a couple of xvid files I tried no problem.

Another way of getting videos onto VLC is via Dropbox, just "star" the video in the Dropbox app so that your phone downloads it locally, once downloaded tap the file then "forward" it and VLC will be one of the apps you can send it to (might also work for the player others are talking about above).

Good stuff, I have quite a bit of free space on my dropbox so I'll try throwing a few Xvids up and there and see what happens...

One more thing, do you know if is there a maximum filesize?

Could I put a 1gb file on there for example?

uchuff · 27 Oct 2010 at 17:11

Should be fine, there's a 300MB limit on files uploaded to Dropbox via the web interface, not aware of any other limits until you hit the limit of your account.

MikeHunt79 · 27 Oct 2010 at 17:32

uchuff said:
Should be fine, there's a 300MB limit on files uploaded to Dropbox via the web interface, not aware of any other limits until you hit the limit of your account.

Well I have the desktop client and I've managed to upload 500Mb+ files to Dropbox before now, but I was thinking that maybe the iPhone/iPod may struggle with larger files once they are downloaded?

I guess I need to try it for myself really, I have plenty of films that are around 700Mb so I'll try one of them once I've got one uploaded....

visibleman · 29 Oct 2010 at 13:53

Apologies if this is in the wrong thread, but does anyone know of a similar app to Android's Locale (allows you to set settings based on certain situations like location, area-code etc) for the iPhone?

K1LLSW1TCH · 1 Nov 2010 at 10:02

Anybody get an update to the Last.fm app yesterday night? The previous version was very unstable and would skip and then return back to the home screen after only 3 or 4 songs, hopefully this rectifies those problems.