The WebMD app on my iPad has given me what seems like a reasonable diagnosis and treatment plan. We shall see what the human doctor comes up with. I suppose I can bring a gold-paint pen with me and put the rating stars on his forehead by hand.
Posts Tagged ‘ipad’
iPad vs M.D.
Friday, September 30th, 2011Now THAT is cool
Friday, August 12th, 2011One of the “identify this song” apps, soundhound, added a new feature to the latest release that displays the lyrics to songs it identifies…IN TIME to the song, a sort of personal karaoke machine. As someone with a long standing history of loudly singing the completely wrong lyrics, or worse, completely inappropriate but accurate lyrics without realizing the actual words, I look forward to integrating this into my daily life.
pre iOS 4 ipad change
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010Somewhen since I last paid attention to it, they made a change to the iPad OS, so that I can have more apps installed than are visible on the ~9 pages they give you. It is a little disconcerting during downloads/updates, since you can’t see any indication of progress, only the spinning network activity indicator lets you know things are happening, somewhere, deep where you can’t see. But once the spinner stops, assuming you remember the name of the app, you can search your iPad for it, and launch it from the search results page.
Now I just need an app to remind me what the name of that app I just downloaded is. I think I’ll call it “Dave’s not here, man!” =p
Steve Jobs hates you
Monday, October 25th, 2010Doesn’t seem to be much other reason for him to deliberately remove the screen-orientation lock button’s functionality. There’d better be a way to lock the screen orientation in software still, or I won’t be upgrading.
iTunes store search broken on iPad/iPhone/iTouch
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010There’s something seriously messed up with searching the iTunes app store from an iDevice. I’ve found at least two consistent examples of applications that are searchable and downloadable via iTunes-on-a-desktop, but are not even visible in search results from an iDevice like the pad, touch, or phone.
It’s an odd error condition, my guess would be it’s caused by having a separate search index for the mobile devices. What is particularly annoying about the error is that auto suggest will start to fill in the name of the apps correctly, but then gives you no results. Following a direct link to the app from safari just gives you an error once the device switches from browser to store mode. Another great job of QA there apple.
UPDATE: Darshan the useless, why does Apple pay you? Then again, at least you could get email, even if you couldn’t understand basic english enough to do your job (or maybe you understood just fine, and have taken an American attitude towards your job); nike’s app support page just sticks you in a never ending loop if you try to submit feedback to them.
UPDATE2: If you want to send feedback to Nike, ignore the big orange button that says “feedback”. Look for the smaller link that says “contact us”…that one isn’t broken.
UPDATE3: “resolved”
It turns out the problem is the lack of synchronization on iOS 4.x availability. In their infinite wisdom, apple decided to have search pretend an app doesn’t exist, if your device isn’t running the required OS version. Seems like the smarter, more user friendly UI design would be to return the items marked unavailable with a reason why, but I guess someone wanted to make sure the call center in India had enough pointless work to do.
iPad 3G is dead =(
Monday, August 23rd, 2010When I foursquared in this morning, it was all working fine, but by the time I got to Nickerson Street Saloon for lunch, it was dead of the worst sort. PC doesn’t recognize any sort of device being plugged in. sigh.
UPDATE: I would swear I had done all the possible combinations of the two buttons available to me, for the standard 10 seconds. Then again, he said it was 15 seconds of holding down both home and power. So far, looks OK again. All things crash.
open iPad, insert video
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010Someone came up with a decent xvid/divx player for the iPad, and it’s even free. CineXPlayer seems to totally rock, in my limited testing so far. It lets you load movies via the iTunes file sharing system, doesn’t require pre-conversion, supports seeking forward without losing audio sync, resumes from where you left off. Once I get home, I’ll have to thrown some more unusual avi’s at it, see what it makes of them.
Full Pad
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010I haven’t managed to fill up the RAM, but it turns out there are only 9 screens for apps, and I filled all those up. I started going thru and wiping out ran-once-will-run-again-never-apps, but there are just so many I go “I can see wanting to show this off to someone someday…”.
If only they’d released IOS4 for the iPads already, I could folder-ize the apps into games, trip-toys, music, whatever…I’m sure there’s a limitation there I’d manage to run into eventually =p.
Farm Story for iPad
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010I am mildly addicted to the game Farm Story for iDevices. I presume it is ideologically related to the facebook farming game, but I never could get into facebook games enough to know how similar they are or are not.
They offer up the game for free, and don’t have any ads in game. You can play fast growing plants or slow growing ones, so if you only want to touch it once a day, you can play it that way. Where they make their money is on ‘crystal’ sales. There are certain items you can only buy with crystals, and expanding the size of your farm is much easier with them. Without them, you need lots and lots of ‘neighbors’. This morning, it occurred to me that really, everyone wants more neighbors, and so anyone posting to someone’s wall asking for a neighbor will accept a friend invite from pretty much anyone. So now, whenever I stop at a farm to water, I check the wall, and if there are any people leaving their ID, I’m sending an invite. The response has been very fruitful.