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iPhone Application Request Thread

DMX Control

An application that, in combination with a router/piece of hardware could control theater lighting for a reasonable cost. Similar to http://www.synthe-fx.com/products/luminair, but without the $100 app cost and meant solely for controlling "unintelligent" lights (controlled by dmx dimmers).

I imagine that it could have a host computer act as a local webserver that was hooked up to dmx by usb and then have the iPod transmit commands over wifi back to the wireless router, to the host computer, then through the host computer into dmx going to the dimmers.

It would be phenomenal for light steering. You're on top of a REALLY high scaffolding, and you find that you need a light a little bit brighter for you to work with. Instead of yelling down to someone to yell out to the operator at FOH (who is likely to turn on the wrong light, startle you, and knock you off the scaffolding), you could just whip out the iPod touch/ iPhone, and voila.

This would be a great application for it, if it worked for DMX:

http://ayefon.com/x10/index.cfm
 
mall maps

if your ever in a mall and you need to know where a certain store is, would be great to find out where you are using your iPhone. Just like how the maps
Feature cilirrently works on it now.
Also it would be great to get recommndations to where to park if you're wanting to get close to a certain store-- this feature could also double as a reminder of what entrance/department store door you used to find your car when you leave. I thought of this app request today, after experiencing black Friday, and it would have been especially useful.
 
A Needed Catagories Update

Here's on for those of you who use Categories.

-If you used categories for any reason, and had all your icons in folders on the springboard but wanted to upgrade to the newest firmware. So you use the pwnage tool, and try to restore your iphone.

-But because of the previous settings on the springboard, all your icons don't show up.

-One would think a simple reinstall of Categories would fix this issue, but it still doesn't. I've tried removing and then reinstalling all the icons into folders, and issues still arise.

-So I either remove all my icons from categories, then back-up to restore it next time there is a software update, or just create a new iphone.


-If there was a way that none of that happened, that would be nice.
 
someguy7014 said:
The exact applications you describe as Categories already exists in Cydia under that name.
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Thank you for that information. I posted that in August, check the post date... Aug 29, 2008, when at the time, there was no Categories on Cydia. A week later a developer released it, and have been using it since then. Thank you if someone did read my post, and develop that.
 
PLEASE:

A Sony Playstation 3 media center controller. Or maybe an Xbox 360 or Wii one also. But a PS3 one would probably be most beneficial due to it's strong multimedia capabilities.
 
Snood - why is this not available yet? This would easily be in the top 10 paid Apps if was $.99!

DopeWars or DrugWars - this might not get Apple's approval, but that's B.S. if they reject it because it's supposedly promoting drug use or whatever. That's an entirely different subject, though.
 
app suggestion

Howdy,
I can see someone has already suggested something similar in the "Profile" application, mine is somewhat simpler but as the premise of this thread was to see what applications people really want... I think something like this would be widely used!

Here it is:
An app that presents a screen with an on/off switch for 3G, and an on/off switch for WIFI. And probably GPS as well as other things you might see as necessary.

To ensure I can get the most out of my iPhone's battery life, I'm constantly switching off the 3G when I get to work (and the safety of its WIFI network) or other places I can get onto a WIFI network. But then when I leave I have to go back into the Settings App and switch on the 3G and switch off the WIFI.

If I could do that in one screen in an app... that'd save me plenty of "clicks"!

Please contact me if you're going to make this!

Mark
 
mb777 said:
Howdy,
I can see someone has already suggested something similar in the "Profile" application, mine is somewhat simpler but as the premise of this thread was to see what applications people really want... I think something like this would be widely used!

Here it is:
An app that presents a screen with an on/off switch for 3G, and an on/off switch for WIFI. And probably GPS as well as other things you might see as necessary.

To ensure I can get the most out of my iPhone's battery life, I'm constantly switching off the 3G when I get to work (and the safety of its WIFI network) or other places I can get onto a WIFI network. But then when I leave I have to go back into the Settings App and switch on the 3G and switch off the WIFI.

If I could do that in one screen in an app... that'd save me plenty of "clicks"!

Please contact me if you're going to make this!

Mark
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I believe they have such an app for jailbroken devices, but it is expressly forbidden for App Store applications to change the settings for any other applications, especially the built in ones.

I understand why Apple doesn't want to allow third party apps to do this as a security measure, but I would love this functionality myself so I hope that some day they'll put an app out that will allow me to do it.
 
baseball/softball scoring application

Wouldn't the iPhone be ideal for scoring a baseball or softball game? point to where the ball was hit, gestures for runner advancement, etc. This would be a great use for the iPhone, as laptops are cumbersome at games (if they are even permitted). I'm thinking, btw, of Little League games, not professional ones, though of course the app would have broad applicability. I've been waiting to see this since the introduction of the iPhone and been a bit disappointed not to see it... yet :)
 
lankysam said:
Wouldn't the iPhone be ideal for scoring a baseball or softball game? point to where the ball was hit, gestures for runner advancement, etc. This would be a great use for the iPhone, as laptops are cumbersome at games (if they are even permitted). I'm thinking, btw, of Little League games, not professional ones, though of course the app would have broad applicability. I've been waiting to see this since the introduction of the iPhone and been a bit disappointed not to see it... yet :)
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Working on this now. :)
 
If someone were to make a pivot stickfigure animator app, like it is on a computer, not like flipbook, it would be the best app ever!!!
 
Academic Earth

I would really really like an app that works with http://academicearth.org.

Its a great site, it lets you see lectures from big universities like Harvard, Yale, and MIT. It would be great if there was an app on my iphone to let me watch and keep track of them
 
1) Amtrak app - an app that does what the local metro apps do (maps, schedules and updates) and perhaps in this case the ticket purchasing features of the Amtrak website - this is great for people travelling

2) Couch Surfing app - an app that makes the main functions of couchsurfing.com handily useable on an iphone - when you are travelling and want to find a new host, this would be VERY helpful

3) a yelp, or yelp style app, that lets you keep a saved list of chain stores to filter out. I HATE to try to find a cafe and have 10 goddamned starbucks show up on the list along with 2 peets, and 4 coffee bean & tea leaf amongs the few local cafes that I actually want to find - I don't need yelp to tell me where starbucks/peets/coffeebean is and how it rates because I already know they are everywhere (i only need walk down any major street), they are all the same, and they all suck - the same goes for mcdonalds and all the big restaurant chains

4) a Macintosh computer application that lets you process KML files into your own separate and reuseable iPhone app
I would like to have an official bike system map in some places, but I also don't think any developers will spend their time making this - so it would be cool to have a google map transposing app that would let me get around that, no?
 
hey all, i'm new here, joined just for this thread :)

Since the iPhone can't run apps in the background (therefore making it unfeasible to make one that shows Caller ID with Name Display -like you see on landline Caller ID), it would be cool to make an app that you could use www.tirs.us to look up the number, showing the name, city and carrier of the person who called. An app like this, WhoCalled, doesn't give cell phone caller's names because it uses whitepages.com instead of tirs.us .
 
lopsidedelf said:
I would love to see an iphone app that lets you use the iphone headphones to listen to a beat and then use the mic on the headphones to rap over the beats and record the rap over the beat. Good idea or am i alone on this one?
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They have that!!! It's in the App Store. Studio App is the name.
 
I want a weather app that has current temp, condition, humidity, heat index/windchill, wind speed direction and gusts, detailed forecast, 10 day forecast etc... and radar that uses Googlemaps with options ala Wundermap from Weather Underground, and once 3.0 comes around will push watches/warnings. I wouldn't mind paying a few bucks if it meant no ads.
 
App for Irie FM

I would pay good money for an iphone app for IrieFM.net. Streaming live internet radio. Any ideas??

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