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Dragon Dictate, its free and it works unbelievably well and you can use it to text people instead of using the keyboard.
 
Even more amazingly using touchbb I can dictate this message onto the boards. Interestingly this is making entering text harder and easier at the same time but I'm not sure after editing the text the amount of time you spend editing whether just typing it would be quicker.
 
^ found as Dragon Dictation :cool: copy & past Ta for that.

I like Type n Talk. I type i.e someone name, And the name is played out load.

Dictionary.com Really the best it got a Voice button (speck your Word looking to spell) it played out load word to like TnT and has description.

Down side for me don't have wifi all the time to recover word it has to go to databases.

Is that better cuntchops
KE :cool:
 
*ahem*

Recommended/desireable iPhone Apps thread? I get a shiny new iPhone4 today (YAY!), hopefully still slick with the blood of Chinese kiddies, but I suspect those killjoys at Apple don't allow that and instead it will just be shiny.

Anyway, recc apps thread?
 
Apple are aggressively pursuing their profit margins (feeling the heat from Android?) with this latest move which is sure to have the anti Apple brigade frothing at the mouth with outrage:

Apple clarified on Tuesday that it was still allowing customers to read e-books they bought elsewhere within apps. (The New York Times reported earlier that Apple had told developers that content purchased outside of the App Store would no longer be viewable in apps.) For example, a Sony app could still access books the customer bought earlier from Sony’s store.

But Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading division, said on Monday that Apple had told his company that from now on, all in-app purchases would have to go through Apple.

“It’s the opposite of what we wanted to bring to the market,” Mr. Haber said. “We always wanted to bring the content to as many devices as possible, not one device to one store.”

Apps like the Kindle app from Amazon.com and the one that Sony submitted open up a browser window when a user wants to buy something. This allows the app makers to argue that technically the purchase is happening on the Web, not within the app.

Apple is now saying the app makers must allow those purchases to happen within the app, not in a separate browser window, with Apple getting its standard 30 percent cut of the transaction. At the moment this applies only to e-book purchases.
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I wouldnt go that far, this move sucks and has pissed me off but it sounds like you will still be able to view content purchased elsewhere, its just that actually purchasing such content on the ipad and then viewing it will become nowhere near as seamless as it is now.
 
The NYT article is just based on Sony's press release, and it is not the case that they're banning browser-purchased content. What seems to have happened is that Apple are invoking a clause which says that if you offer content via an app that's paid for outside of the app, you also have to offer that same content from within the app using an app store payment.

“We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase.”
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http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20110201/apple-on-sony-reader-we-have-not-changed-our-guidelines/
 
well yeah

I said it when the "charity donations" and "newspaper subscriptions" stuff was going around, and it's the same issue this time - the big hole in the App Store model is when you have people distributing free apps with functionality that can be unlocked via payments elsewhere that doesn't go through Apple. Then, all the App Store is is a medium for distributing other people's paid content and doesn't make a bean. Obviously they want to avoid that.

Still, based on sales it doesn't make a vast amount of money relative to Apple's profits. The benefit of it for Apple is mostly promotional for the iP[od|hone|ad], it makes the devices much more attractive. They may well not go through with enforcing every clause in their vast Ts&Cs if it means they lose big popular apps like Kindle.
 
It was removed following a complaint from one of the coders who wrote VLC that the appstore agreement violated the original terms of distribution of VLC.
 
No, once you've bought an app, it's yours. I have several 'discontinued' apps on my touch and it's fine.
 
It was removed because of a Nokia employee insisting that it broke the GPL (which it did, in the same way that any app on the AppStore has to by implementing DRM for security signing purposes).

It's available via Cydia on jailbroken iOS devices, and hasn't been deleted for those who have already downloaded from the AppStore.
 
someone here might know this

what kind of percentage is ios3 vs ios4 i'm doing an article on html5 video and would like to get some figures on video support (ios3 has a bug in it meaning the video tag isn't properly implemented)
 
I rarely sync my ipad, but that's because it doesn't charge if you leave it hooked to the computer like the phone does (also there's not really space on my desk).

You can generally assume that people are using the latest iOS, and if they aren't, you can say "use the latest iOS".
 
FridgeMagnet said:
I rarely sync my ipad, but that's because it doesn't charge if you leave it hooked to the computer like the phone does (also there's not really space on my desk).
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It should charge, albeit not as quickly as with the supplied power adaptor. Perhaps certain USB ports dont have the juice to charge it.
 
kyser_soze said:
Mr Fridgey/Crispy, since VLC has been removed from the Appstore, do you have a recc for another meejah player?
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Ive just started using plex, that will stream from your comp, or will play most video formats from the phone memory.....

Plex

My main issue now is that i have to rename my files to the plex format, so it can download all the details for them
 
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