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Author:  Fogmeister [ Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:23 pm ]
Post subject:  iPhone app wishlist
Is there ever a moment when you wish "there was an app for that".

What's the one app that you wished existed but can never find?
Author:  timark_uk [ Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: iPhone app wishlist
Fogmeister wrote:
What's the one app that you wished existed but can never find?
A properly featured Flickr app.

Mark
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: iPhone app wishlist
Something that can block phone calls from numbers that are not in my address book.
Author:  EddArmitage [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:30 pm ]
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timark_uk wrote:
Fogmeister wrote:
What's the one app that you wished existed but can never find?
A properly featured Flickr app.

Apologies for the fact I stopped looking into that. I have designs, but Yahoo! haven't released a full enough API to do what I want.
Author:  tombolt [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:33 pm ]
Post subject:  iPhone app wishlist
Redtube.
Author:  james016 [ Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:39 am ]
Post subject:  Re: iPhone app wishlist
Amnesia10 wrote:
Something that can block phone calls from numbers that are not in my address book.


There is an app called iBlackList that will do that but it is Jailbreak only. I had the free version for a while to send Withheld numbers straight to VoiceMail.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Sep 03, 2010 3:14 pm ]
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james016 wrote:
Amnesia10 wrote:
Something that can block phone calls from numbers that are not in my address book.


There is an app called iBlackList that will do that but it is Jailbreak only. I had the free version for a while to send Withheld numbers straight to VoiceMail.

Any reason as to why Apple won't allow that app on their App store?
Author:  jonbwfc [ Fri Sep 03, 2010 3:32 pm ]
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Amnesia10 wrote:
Any reason as to why Apple won't allow that app on their App store?

I suspect fiddling with the phone frameworks is against the terms of the standard developer agreement, for obvious reasons. Although to be fair we don't know if it's even been submitted to the app store. The coders could just have assumed it would get refused and never bothered...

Jon
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:26 pm ]
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I have had a look on the net and US companies have to do it through their phone provider. Yet it comes as a feature on my Sony Ericsson as standard. I cannot see how this should be a network issue. The call will come through with id tags and the phone works out what to do itself. If the number is not in my address book it basically puts the call through to voicemail. I never check voicemail so it is effectively blocked. It will also stop the phone ringing and vibrating.
Author:  petermillard [ Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: iPhone app wishlist
Not a new App - but I wish in Calendar when you add an event, you could also add details of someone in your Contacts. Almost every new event of mine involves someone I already know, and it drives me nuts having to re-enter their details every time. Unless, of course, I'm missing something terribly basic :oops:

Pete
Author:  Nick [ Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:01 pm ]
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Every now and again I totally love my iPhone - I went to the premiership double header yesterday at twickneham and met a mate there - I parked in a residential street about a mile from the stadium but didn't have a road name or postcode.

My mate who I was meeting also had an iPhone so I sent him my location as an SMS and Google maps guided him in brilliantly.

If it wasn't for the phones we would have had a right struggle on our hands trying to find each other!

So perhaps a "where the f*ck is my mate" app could be good - in situations such as this and on nights out etc when drunks tend to lose the pack lol
Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Sep 06, 2010 9:11 am ]
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Nick wrote:
So perhaps a "where the f*ck is my mate" app could be good - in situations such as this and on nights out etc when drunks tend to lose the pack lol

I've thought about this too, it's always been my 'first serious iphone app' idea. Basically a bit like a positionally aware social media app. You have your friends listed on it and at any point you can fire the app up and ask it for your friend's location. They get a pop up saying something like 'Friend X wants to know where you are - is that OK'? If they say yes, you get a pinpoint showing their location and the option to navigate towards them and it asks if you are on foot, in in a car etc. if you pick that option, they then get another pop up saying something like 'Friend X is going to join you. They'll be with you in roughly X minutes'. The two phones keep talking to each other so if they move your route gets changed and when you meet up the phones figure the fact out out via bluetooth and break the link.

It unfortunately has some privacy issues to resolve and I'm not 100% sure all the functionality is absolutely possible - for example turn by turn navigation is quite expensive to implement - but the idea of it is perfect for a mobile app.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Sep 06, 2010 10:12 am ]
Post subject:  Re: iPhone app wishlist
Nick wrote:
Every now and again I totally love my iPhone - I went to the premiership double header yesterday at twickneham and met a mate there - I parked in a residential street about a mile from the stadium but didn't have a road name or postcode.

My mate who I was meeting also had an iPhone so I sent him my location as an SMS and Google maps guided him in brilliantly.

If it wasn't for the phones we would have had a right struggle on our hands trying to find each other!

So perhaps a "where the f*ck is my mate" app could be good - in situations such as this and on nights out etc when drunks tend to lose the pack lol

There is an app for that already. Grindr ;)
Author:  james016 [ Mon Sep 06, 2010 12:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: iPhone app wishlist
petermillard wrote:
Not a new App - but I wish in Calendar when you add an event, you could also add details of someone in your Contacts. Almost every new event of mine involves someone I already know, and it drives me nuts having to re-enter their details every time. Unless, of course, I'm missing something terribly basic :oops:

Pete


This. Also linking the location to Google Maps would be really useful.
Author:  jonbwfc [ Mon Sep 06, 2010 3:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: iPhone app wishlist
james016 wrote:
petermillard wrote:
Not a new App - but I wish in Calendar when you add an event, you could also add details of someone in your Contacts. Almost every new event of mine involves someone I already know, and it drives me nuts having to re-enter their details every time. Unless, of course, I'm missing something terribly basic :oops:

Pete


This. Also linking the location to Google Maps would be really useful.

Hmm.. You can do this in iCal on the Mac - in so far as you can add contacts to an event and add a URL for the google maps location. On an iphone that would open the maps app when you clicked the URL or the contact when you clicked on their name but there doesn't appear to be a way to start the process on the phone. Also, if you put that kind of information into an event, it stops being editable on the phone. That's a bit shoddy really.
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