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Apps We Want!!

Lyric App

Maybe this would be more in line with just updating ITunes in general, but I recently purchased "The Slip" by Nine Inch Nails. When I play it on my Iphone and click on the album cover while a song is playing, the lyrics come up. It's awesome. This should happen with all songs, similarly to the way you can automatically update your album artwork.
 
green31 said:
Maybe this would be more in line with just updating ITunes in general, but I recently purchased "The Slip" by Nine Inch Nails. When I play it on my Iphone and click on the album cover while a song is playing, the lyrics come up. It's awesome. This should happen with all songs, similarly to the way you can automatically update your album artwork.
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It does that because the lyric information is stored in the songs file. If you store all your lyrics in the tags, they will all show lyrics.
 
With regards to TomTom, I overheard a conversation between a TomTom rep and a guy at the British Motor Show in London. The guy was asking if/when TomTom were going to launch an iPhone app, and the rep made a call, and was advised that it would be "weeks rather than months" and that he could register online for more information....

No sign on the tt website though, so I am suspicious....
 
obliterations said:
This is really getting to me. I love my iPhone 3g, but am very surprised that there are no Apps or "Mode" for the visually impaired.

My girlfriend is legally blind. She can still see enough to get around, but cell phones have always been a pain for her mostly when it comes to text messaging.

The iPhone has got a perfect screen for large print.

If the contacts list could be made with a larger font, and the Text messaging could be done horizontally with a larger keyboard and a larger print she would be the happiest girl in the world. I have noticed with e mail you can increase font size and that actually works well enough. But that is just a small part of the phone....

Seems so simple. I would pay for an app if there was one. (Larger Text Messaging.)

So why has Steve Jobs overlooked this and who can I write to?

I know we are not the only people in the world who are feeling overlooked.

TIA
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Thankyou for bringing this up! I'm legally blind and have always been frustrated with mobile phones, with the exception of the blackberry where I can enlarge the entire font library as large as I want. Obviously, with bigger fonts the screen real-estate is somewhat limited, but if its the difference between being able to actually use the device or not, I'm more than happy to sacrifice the number of words I can view at once. I would certainly think that Apple would have a technical advantage with the larger screen on their phones to be able to market them at visually impaired people - I know of a number of others who would purchase an iPhone if they could be guaranteed an ability to enlarge fonts. It can't be that hard either, it would just mean a bit more 'pinching' and 'stretching' by the user. And yes, I'd pay for it too.

this is also the sort of feature that needs to be written into the OS of the phone and not into some App. That way, any app running on the phone can be enlarged accordingly. Obviously, things like games are limited, but any IM, Email, Calendar, Address, or Web stuff would be able to use it surely.

Apple have always actively supported accessibility options on their computers and I see no reason why they can't spread their wealth of experience in this area to their portable devices category.

Although Voice apps are good, there are times when I don't want to be heard reading out loud what I'm about to type:D:D:D.....
 
An idea for a very helpful app

I think that a MSN Messenger app would be very useful because all my friends have msn and i use my ipod touch a lot when I'm on the bus (I live in Toronto where we have a big Wi-Fi connection everywhere)
 
As of right now, I have everything on my non jailbroken 3G, that I had on my JB'd Touch, EXCEPT an IRC app, and I learned in #macosx on freenode the other day that one IS coming.
 
How about a mileage recording app. I'm not talking about a miles/gallon thing, but one that keeps up with mileage you drive for business/personal use. It would need the abilty to handle multiple cars, multiple locations/stops per day, store locations for easy data entry, and be able to export the data. You could also include things like keeping up with service and the likes. A good all around automobile app.

Something like Trip Deluxe - http://www.handshigh.com/html/trip.html
Jason
 
Jason Edwards said:
How about a mileage recording app. I'm not talking about a miles/gallon thing, but one that keeps up with mileage you drive for business/personal use. It would need the abilty to handle multiple cars, multiple locations/stops per day, store locations for easy data entry, and be able to export the data. You could also include things like keeping up with service and the likes. A good all around automobile app.

Something like Trip Deluxe - http://www.handshigh.com/html/trip.html
Jason
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Thats what I need. And trip deluxed does seem to have the features I'd ask for.
 
Siriosys said:
Thankyou for bringing this up! I'm legally blind and have always been frustrated with mobile phones, with the exception of the blackberry where I can enlarge the entire font library as large as I want.
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Your right, this sort of thing should be built into the iPhone software.
Just enlarging the font would make a big difference, Maybe a large horizontal keyboard for typing with an option for black on white, or white on black keys?

Ok, so who can we write to about this? If we could get an address, and a number of people together to show that this is something that would make a big difference in the quality of life for largely overlooked part of the population, maybe that someone would listen?

WE NEED VISUALLY IMPAIRED ACCESSIBILITY FOR THE IPHONE!
...any developers listening?
 
Seriously, I know this is old... But what about the video recording? YouTube and apple could work together on this one.

Basically, you record a video, and you have a quick option for uploading to YouTube. I'd pay 15$ for this.
 
Vultren said:
Seriously, I know this is old... But what about the video recording? YouTube and apple could work together on this one.

Basically, you record a video, and you have a quick option for uploading to YouTube. I'd pay 15$ for this.
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I don't know if I'd pay that much for it seeing as video recording should be in a software update in the future. It would be nice to have, though. My 2cents
 
Wifi HotSpot Finder

Greetings Everyone:

If you travel a lot to different North American cities and would like to find free WiFi HotSpots sometimes its not that easy.

So someone should created an Iphone App that would find the closest Free Wifi HotSpots for you.

In many US and Canadian Cities many Free Wifi HotSpots work on Captive Portal Network called WiFiDog, maybe this would be a good start to create a Iphone Application.


Regards Robert
 
Video Surveillance Iphone App

Greetings:

Does anyone know if there will be a video surveillance App for the Iphone.

Most Video surveillance will work on Windows Mobile devices.
Short Video Clips are streamed to Mobile devices that run Windows Mobile.

I have not heard of a Video surveillance software working on Mac OS?

Regards Robert
 
i wish there were some useful apps, o cant have that because any app short of a game is against sdk rules, how lame.
 
RobMtl007 said:
Greetings:

Does anyone know if there will be a video surveillance App for the Iphone.

Most Video surveillance will work on Windows Mobile devices.
Short Video Clips are streamed to Mobile devices that run Windows Mobile.

I have not heard of a Video surveillance software working on Mac OS?

Regards Robert
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Robert,

Telekinesis (iPhone Remote), or something similar, will work. I've had Telekinesis working with my iPhones for roughly a year, though without the webcam functionality because I don't currently own one. It's fantastic, despite there not being much developer action lately. And from what I understand, the webcam setup is a breeze. It enables you to view your webcam remotely.

I hope this is what you were meaning. There isn't anything else I'm aware of, as far as surveillance is concerned with the iPhone.
 
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