Yes, i have that problem too. I now have a separate icon shortcut via mobile web next to the app and when this happens just use that link to see notification correctly. The mobile web version i find is a lot better anyhow.

Good tip - thanks. Wonder if they will fix the app. It happens on the iPad too - much annoying.

WhatsApp messenger, currently saving me a fortune while my other half is in Australia. Once you've paid your 59p you can effectively text any other iPhone for free, works exactly like texting in that you get a text like message pop up on your phone and after that it takes you to the conversation with previous messages.

If only I had known about it a little sooner I would have saved about £80 on January's bill :sob:

Finally got round to using this, brilliant! Incredible picture, incredibly easy to use, cheers :p

Haven't tested, but ****** claims to allow free calling.

Have you tried Viber? Its a free app and you can call IPhone to Iphone anywhere in the world for free as long as both IPhones have downloaded the app. This only works over Wi Fi so as long as you both have a Wi Fi connection it means free calls!

Tiny Wings. It's the new crack!!

I can't get into it

Tiny wings and camera+

World of goo

I am liking photo folder

anyone know how to easily reduce the size of the pictures?
5meg takes up alot of space..............

street fighter IV app is now 59p with all proceeds going to Japan

Contract Killer

What's the best satnav to download to the iPhone?

Or is there a way of using the maps?

Using an iPhone 4.

I have just discovered Dragon - and have been VERY impressed, especially as it's a free application. It seems to work very well indeed.

Best SatNav app? Anyone?

I use TomTom Western Europe, which is excellent. It doesn't rely upon a WiFi or 3g connection (it has it's own maps - so it's a very big download) and it's not the most expensive. However, at £53 it isn't cheap. Slightly cheaper is the TomTom UK and Ireland - but that's still £50, which is why I went for the Western Europe version.

Doesn't it need 3G to track where you are?

How big is the download size?

I've got about 2.5MB free?

Does Western Europe have updates?

How good is the quality of the Western Europe one in terms of the UK?

Tom Tom but get it when they are doing discounts

The iPhone (and the iPad 3g) uses Assisted GPS. This means that it utilises both the signals from the geostationary satellites as well as information from 3g transmitters locally - which helps the iPhone to 'lock in' accurately and quickly.

However, like most car GPS systems, it works fine without 3g (or WiFi) provided the Application has its own map store. The TomTom does. So you can switch off 3g and wiFi, and it will get you to wherever you need to go, just by using GPS.

The Download size is just under 2 gigs, so you should be OK.

Yes, there are plenty of map updates. This is done without having to re-download the entire programme. Small revisions happen all the time. You can also upload corrections if you find a closed road (for example).

I can't compare to the UK Version, as I have the Western Europe one - but I believe it uses exactly the same maps (but over an extended area).



Edit: I see you said you have 2.5 MB free (not GB), so no - of course you will not have enough space. Sorry!

I meant GB, was rushing the typing ;)

Think i'll give it a go.

Got a tax rebate (after 8 letters), so will treat myself with some of it.

I use co-pilot. Costs £20 and never had a problem with it.

Paul, try Skobbler lite. It's free and works well for whenever i've used it in the past. Can't be bad for nitto.

Too Late.

Got the Tom Tom.

Worth the money.

Absolutely spot-on to Ipswich. Then to Allhallows, Kent. And then home today.

Excellent - glad to have been of help.

Apparently I've repped you for something else recently which means I'm not allowed to do so again. Crack is nowhere near as addictive as this :p

I would just like to echo this as a convert from Wunder Radio (which is over £4). Tunein works better; has a far better interface; offers more facilities such as pause and record; and I would highly recommend it for both the iPhone and iPad.

Allhallows, that's almost my home ground...what brings you down to Kents finest :p

That was nearly 2 weeks ago!

I put it on the iPad thread but gamers here might like to know that EA have big discounts on a number of their apps this weekend: http://www.macgasm.net/2011/04/22/ea...s-sale-easter/

I've been away :hi:

Sure is. All three of us in the family are driven demented by this at the moment. Trying to get the 175,000 objective.

I'd echo this. TuneIn Radio rocks especially if you are abroad and want to get UK radio (or you are here and want to get radio from abroad)

Anyone else playing words with friends? Im so addicted to it, and its just scrabble! Im currently thrashing all my mates so if anyone has it and fancies a game my username is Claz11.

Guys I dont know if this has been mentioned before but Air Video (app) combined with Air Video Server (app that rus on PC or MAC) has changed my life in using my iPhone and iPad.
I was able to stream a video from my home server via 3G to my iPhone, and it done it well ..O happy days :p

That sounds like a winning combo - no need to arse about copying vids to VLC or CineX?

The server app is free, and the Full iPhone/iPad app is £1.79. Very easy to setup and use .... Also seems to be able to handle all movie file types :p

Can Whatsapp be used internationally?

I suspect it may have been mentioned before, but Appshopper.com is a brilliant site to visit if you want to keep up to date with free or discounted iPad and IPhone Applications.

There is an RSS feed you can subscribe to, which delivers news of all App price reductions. Sometimes some very good Apps are discounted (or made available for free) for a temporary period and this is a good way of discovering these.

Yep

Excellent - what a great free way to live chat to those abroad. What's the catch?

You can't chat for free with whatsapp, just text.

If you want to talk for free internationally you need viber

There is none. Fantastic app.

Not an app as such, but FaceTime is just unbelievable as well for this.

Photospeak full version - Absolutely brilliant :p

Take a photo and then watch the photo come to life. When you take a picture of the subject, do so with their mouths shut.

8tracks Radio (8tracks.com)

Free app.
1000's of homemade playlists. All genres (and more!). Easy to search for stuff you might like using the browse function by genre or artist.

Wanking iPhone. I just posted a long recommendation for 'Image to Text' an OCR app and my phone appeared to post the same message four times. So I deleted one of them and they all vanished. WTF.

Wanking iPhone. I just posted a long recommendation for 'Image to Text' an OCR app and my phone appeared to post the same message four times. So I deleted one of them and they all vanished. WTF.

Look it's bastard well published that one twice, but I dare not delete either of them as it will probably delete both.

:D PMSL

Repped :)

That sounds a great app ;)

This was your OCR post

"Image to Text. Superb OCR software which so far has returned 100% accurate results from newspaper, magazine and other printed media. You get the results via email as the computing is not done on your phone. A few years ago we were paying thousands of pounds on hardware and software to do this and the app is free. Brilliant."

Bloody Hell Marki HTF did you do that?

Please excuse me but I'm off to update the "Have you ever seen a ghost" thread.

Being subscribed to the thread I received an email notifying me of a new post and it contained the text from your message.

Nowhere near supernatural I'm afraid!

Cheers, enjoying this one a lot :p

Anyway to turn off whatsapp? Seems to drain my battery

Not exactly sure what you mean by turn it off? but you could certainly go into its settings, make sure vibrate is off and then go into the general iphone setting and turn push notifications off.

'The Heist' is looking like a bargain at 59p but it gets stupidly difficult!

I've Been playing this all day' great game.

really enjoying that.

I Fighter is a great game for free. (its worth 59p too!)

Mind Snacks language apps are very good for beginners.

If you subscribe to the http://appshopper.com/feed/?mode=fea...e&platform=ios RSS feed you get a continually updated list of apps that become free for a short time.

Army of Darkness for a REALLY addicitve game. Defending a castle scenario. On level 43 no idea how many it has, give it a go.

Is anyone else using 'Find my iPhone'? I do appreciate the privacy concerns, but it really is a most remarkable application. I have been watching my Son's progress round his School's playing fields today on Google maps.

Quite incredible.

I use it for when I cannot remember where I have put my iPad in the flat.

That is all.

Indeed. As well as being able to track the iPhone on Google maps, you can request a mislaid iPhone/iPad to blast an ear-piercing sound to you from wherever it is hiding.

I wish my car keys had a similar function.

Great shout, what a simple but addictive game. Only started playing it from yesterday and already on Lvl21 .... and that's just on the train journeys to and from work :p

Ha ha its great it starts off a little easy but it gets tougher, if you like that get plants vs zombies, similar sort of thing. train and tube for me today so AOD is coming out to play:lux:

All E.A. Games (including such gems as Scrabble, Risk and Monopoly) appear to have been reduced to 59p today. I have all three on the iPad and they are well worth buying (especially at that price).

Akinator is a good app. It's asks you to think of a character/someone famous. It then asks you a few simple questions to work it out! So far it has got obvious ones (Queen Elizabeth, Angelina Jolie) and obscure ones (Kayla The Eagle, Neil Danns).

I'm yet to catch it out

If I saw you on the street....

Ahem, anyway; if I download something to my iPhone and then sync my phone, will the app get sent to iTunes to be available for syncing to my iPad? Or should I download it to iTunes and then sync each?

Yes as long as you're using the same apple id on both devices.

Fantastic app. It guessed Darren ambrose, Spock, Harrison ford, and chewbacca, but I caught him out with Dean Moxey. However now I've added him to their database so he'll know now. Lol.

The new Sonic racing game is great.

Radio Soulwax app is amazing.

50. The last level is MAD hard too! Amazing game!

All EA games on sale for £0.59 at the moment :)

helped myself to 3 IPad games yesterday :p

Have an I Pod touch, 4th Gen...........Shall I download skype? My lady partner has an Android Samsung Galaxy.
Plan is when she is in Mexico and I am in Spain to talk to via Skype?

Does this work?

Also, with my Blackberry, I have BBM, can she download this or can she text me on Whatsapp etc?

All help great appreciated...........

Yep that will work. I have skype on my iphone, my son on his touch and my mate has an android phone all works really well.

I have whatsapp but don't really use it so I cant help there.

First Touch Soccer is a great little game (if although unofficial). For those of you already with it, here are the files you need to import Palace's real kits, but the shorts and socks are incorrect on the away kit.

Crystal Palace 2011-12: | Home - Away


More downloads/kits/badges etc HERE

ESPN Goals

Match highlights and the goals from all Premier League games just after 5pm (Saturdays anyway - not sure what the deal is with Sunday/Monday games).

Best to avoid if you're in and want to watch MOTD, but great if you're out for the night and want to see the goals quickly.

The above is free, I should add.

Not on the twitter site but Football Banter app gives you all of the league players updates, you can of course choose to follow teams so get to see all of the palace players tweets together.

Helsing's Fire is a fab little game. There's a lite version if you want to try before you buy

Just pimping a friend's first game for iPhone. Please give Call Connect a try.

Just downloading myself now, but looks like a lot of fun and word of mouth so far has been positive.

It's very good fun actually. Doesn't take long before things start to get fast and frantic though :D

I am loving Outdoors GB. You have to buy the OS maps on top, but as someone who does a lot of walking it has been brilliant.

If anyone is in to iPad golf, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 for iPad 1.0.2 is now free "for a limited period". Worth a download, I think.

This is the RSS feed that shows all apps which become free: http://appshopper.com/feed/?mode=fea...e&platform=ios

Any one used office to go or pages/numbers/keynote on an ipad or iphone? I want to be able to read and edit word docs, excel spread sheets ( V simple stuff) import powerpoint presentations and then display using a vga cable. Trouble with these apps is if you buy them you are stuck. If they are crap/dont work, you've just thrown money away.

Surely the purchase of apps is covered by the distance selling regulations which give you seven days to change your mind?

Apple might ignore them in their T&C's but I very much doubt a court would.

There is an exemption in the DSR's in relation to video and audio recordings and downloads and computer software.

Although Taiwan does indeed allow for people to get their money back

Go Taiwan! Lack of a trial period really does suck. When I could be arsed to jailbreak, that was one of the good points. Try something out, then buy it from the app store if it was worth it.

Im fully aware of the exemption you are referring to but I don't see how can it apply to downloaded apps?

(d)for the supply of audio or video recordings or computer software if they are unsealed by the consumer;

Since when have apps been sealed? ;)

Unsealed = used.

HTH.

Not entirely relevant to the thread but here goes.

My iphone 4 screen has cracked and I am about to get Orange to send me a new phone. To make sure I don't lose any photo's/apps etc when I get my new phone, what do i need to do?
Do i just need to plug my current phone into my laptop and let it update/sync or this there anything else i should do?

It doesn't really help at all though. Can you point me towards any source where unsealed is defined as used as I cannot find one.

Ta.

No, but I found this from a research report prepared for the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: