Essential iPhone Apps

squerble · 21 Dec 2013 at 12:33

I've been impressed with the FIFA app for tracking football scores, but the coverage certainly isn't as wide as the Livescore app.

That Guy · 22 Dec 2013 at 23:57

Here are some of the apps I currently use on my iPhone and iPad:

- Printer Pro
- Pixter
- Scanner Pro
- Dropbox
- Amount
- Posted
- Feedly
- Downcast
- Clear+
- Moldiv
- Over
- PDF Expert 5
- Tweetbot

iMacMart · 23 Dec 2013 at 20:07

maddness said:
... have you purchased it before?

Nope, hence my confusion

CaptainRAVE · 23 Dec 2013 at 21:00

Just noticed EA games on offer! Simcity seems decent and no in-app purchases is a bonus. Red alert is tempting too!!!

ic1male · 23 Dec 2013 at 21:02

CaptainRAVE said:
Just noticed EA games on offer! Simcity seems decent and no in-app purchases is a bonus. Red alert is tempting too!!!

You'll have to use Origin!

EDIT: WTF. This isn't the PC games section!

CaptainRAVE · 23 Dec 2013 at 21:04

I would never use such a thing

Egon · 15 Jan 2014 at 10:29

Anybody got a recommendation for a budget/expenses tracker?

Need to be able to set a starting balance, add repeating incomes and expenses etc. Give basic reports. Would prefer something for the iPad.

Yaka · 15 Jan 2014 at 19:17

http://grahamhaley.co.uk/accounts/ been using it eons and dev is quick to respond when you point out any bugs or suggest a feature

trentlad · 16 Jan 2014 at 03:59

That Guy said:
- Downcast

Any downcast users, what makes it better than the new official podcast app?

trentlad · 16 Jan 2014 at 04:06

FINALLY!!!! FIFA have an official app for us to follow the world cup.

trentlad · 16 Jan 2014 at 04:44

Happyhammer7 said:
Works well when lying in bed with my ipad/iphone. PC is on pretty much 24/7 so no worries here

You should give 'Wake On LAN' a try, there's free iphone apps to remote boot your PC from anywhere in the world with an internet connection... so you can save a bit of power by popping your PC into sleep till you need it.

All you need to do is assign a static IP to your PC, then setup your router to port forward your choice of port ... that's it! The app (I use RemoteBoot) just needs your global IP address and job done son. Windows 8 systems have issues remaining in sleep but you just disable 'wake on lan pattern match' in the network properties and you're golden.

Egon · 17 Jan 2014 at 10:18

Yaka said:
http://grahamhaley.co.uk/accounts/ been using it eons and dev is quick to respond when you point out any bugs or suggest a feature

Thanks for that, giving the trial version a go and it seems pretty good

JamesG87 · 17 Jan 2014 at 13:30

Doesn't seem to be many decent games out for the IOS recently. I think most of them these days are all Freemiums, which has totally destroyed the gaming community.

Buckster · 17 Jan 2014 at 21:32

agreed

I find the simplest games the best - Stickets has had me hooked for hours

jas72 · 20 Jan 2014 at 08:37

trentlad said:
Any downcast users, what makes it better than the new official podcast app?

lol where to start. (I didn't keep it long after it chewed through 800MB of downloads over 3G :grr)

The official app is buggy it will not sync it will say it's downloaded then re-download over 3G if it doesn't completely download with wifi it will eat your data downloading again, if you delete all the episodes it will delete the podcast folder and you'll have to search for it again. It randomly locks up 1/2 way through podcasts.

Check the apple community for full list of bugs which apple doesn't seem to care about.

Downcast has quite a few features which I'm not sure the official podcast app has, abililty to create playlists change the play order oh and the option not to download over 3G actually works

BTW just got LOTR and STARWARS lego for the phone and ipad .... great games...

iMacMart · 19 Feb 2014 at 09:49

iPhone 5 (7.0.4) HDR keeps turning itself off, is this the same for others?

trentlad · 28 Feb 2014 at 07:07

Thanks for the explanation jas, I'd succumbed to work a around for each of the issues. I found unsubscribing from my podcasts were the best method, then manually selecting four episodes to download for buffer worked perfectly. I

t's not enough of a chore to stop me from using it and paying for a different solution but I bet if I tried it I wouldn't go back.

Digit · 2 Mar 2014 at 15:54

iMacMart said:
iPhone 5 (7.0.4) HDR keeps turning itself off, is this the same for others?

On the same setup here and same issue. I did read somewhere that 7.0.6 fixed it to a certain extent but for what its worth i'm not updating just for that. I'll live with it

squerble · 2 Mar 2014 at 19:07

Digit said:
On the same setup here and same issue. I did read somewhere that 7.0.6 fixed it to a certain extent but for what its worth i'm not updating just for that. I'll live with it

You would be crazy to not update to 7.0.6 with the size of the SSL security flaw it has patched.

Digit · 2 Mar 2014 at 19:25

squerble said:
You would be crazy to not update to 7.0.6 with the size of the SSL security flaw it has patched.

I got the SSL security fix via Cydia. So no need to update