Category Archives: iphone
Social networking sites – still taking over my life
A while bagged I blogged about “turning into an internet and social networking freak“ well this is still the case but also has evolved into even more social networking and internet sites.
I keep finding myself looking for more, sharing things I do, saying what I want to say and basically expanding the bubble I find myself in most nights. You would think that someone who works on computers all day long would be sick and tired of them by the time he got home, but not with me, I always find new things that I want to do, talk about, find out and basically just waste hours and hours online looking for the next ”big thing“. I know deep down that the next big thing won’t be anything to do with me, but still, I always have to keep trying.
Previous Sites:
❑ Facebook
❑ Twitter
❑ Wordpress
❑ MySpace
The above are just some of the sites that I have been on in the past and only three of them are still used, but I still leave my MySpace account active, why? I have no idea to be honest, maybe one day it may start back up? MySpace has already changed lots since I last logged in back in 2008 and I am curious to find out how its changed and if its something that I would be interested in using again, but for the time being I will pass and just continue using the sites that I am highly active on such as Facebook, Twitter and my WordPress blogs.
There has been some more sites that I have just joined and I put this down to my iPhone, the phone is no longer and phone and is taking over my life, the ability of updating twitter, Facebook and even blogging from your phone in my eyes is a fantastic idea but can get highly addictive. (I for one am addicted) I go through phases with twitter and Facebook and find myself either using one or the other, at this moment in time I feel the need to update twitter more than anything else. If you follow me @rhodzy you will be able to see that for yourselves and just see how much I do tweet.
At the moment I have protected my tweets as I am getting a little wary about all the spammers that are following me and wondering to myself what information they are gathering about me, maybe a slack tweet from me could result in identity theft and I wouldn’t have a clue! Maybe even a drunken tweet that you forget you send, who knows it could be anything. Recently I have also been having a clear up on Facebook removing friends who I know longer speak to or people I have added / added me who we ”once knew each other, added each other, but never chatted“ I don’t see the point in that anymore and come to the conclusion that its quality not quantity.
Sites Recently Joined
❑ Foursquare
❑ Flickr
❑ Run keeper
❑ Mac-Forums.com
❑ AllSportsGPS
Not sure why I have joined more sites, but I find myself looking for more and more and thinking when will it end? Soon it will be a full time job to keep up with all the sites / services that I am signed up to.
One day I will learn…..
Review: App Store: Tube Deluxe
This little application is something I could have really done with last weekend when I was down in London. It’s a must have application for anyone who is going to be using the tube system in London who doesn’t use it on a regular basis!
This little application will allow you to plan journeys, find the nearest tube entrance, get updates on stations and lines such as maintenance, planned closures , part closers and suspended lines.
You can also find out the departure times in real time and also browse the full tube system map on your iPhone.
Loading Screen
Main Menu
From here you can choose exactly what you want to do. You will see across the bottom the options that are available.
As you can see the option that is selected by default is “Status” this screen allows you to select the line you want and find out critical information such as closures, planned closures, if the service is running as normal etc.
You can choose the line you want and you should see a screen like the one below showing the exact details.
You can also browse the “Maps” section which allows you to view the whole of the tube map on your iPhone, which is of course fully scrollable showing you all the stations.
The “Plan” Option will allow you to plan your route and will tell you which line you need to be on, which stations you need to swap and shows you the other stations you will pass along the route.
Simply select the From Station where you will be presented with the full list of stations which is of course searchable so you don’t need to scroll through them all.
After selection it will revert you back to the “Plan” screen where you will now need to do the same for the destination. After this has been done simply click on Itinerary and you will be presented with this screen, for this journey we have done a short journey from Piccadilly Circus to Embankment.
If we now click on the “Departures” tab we will need to select our line and also station that we are going from, it will then display all the times that the tubes depart and when the next one is. They are really regular sometimes every couple of minutes so no need to panic if you miss the first one!
Select the line:
Select your Outgoing station: I have used Piccadilly again as an example.
You can also use the “locate” tab which will use the built in GPS to find the nearest station to you.
Now because I am no longer in London the distance for me is quite….well a distance!
Allow access for “Tube Deluxe” to use your current location
You will then be presented with a list of stations that are close to your location.
Select the one that is closest to you:
The you will be able to use the following options!
This is a must have application for anyone who hasn’t used the tube system before or anyone who doesn’t use it regular and requires assistance with the London Underground system!
Enjoy!
[rating:5/5]
I am addicted! Doodle Jump iPhone!
This is one of my reviews for an iPhone game called Doodle Jump!
You must note that this game comes with a warning “BE WARNED: Insanely Addictive!”
Yeah I know you are probably thinking the exactly the same of me, how hard or addictive can it be! You will be surprised!
The aim of the game is to get as high up as possible just by bouncing around and tilting your iPhone from left to right! Just be careful and tap the screen to shoot all the evil things that await you : )
The cool thing that I love about this game is the ability to upload your scores to not only facebook but also twitter!
Facebook update screenshot:
Twitter status update screenshot:
I was playing the game for around 30 minutes last night and after the first attempt I was hooked, it took my mrs to tell me to turn the game off! Even she had a go!
All I can say if you love the logo you are going to love the game!
Here are a few screenshots!
Loading Screen:
Main Menu:
The Green blocks are perfectly safe, but be careful I only said Green Blocks ;- )
If you want a bigger boost to get a higher score, try and get the hat!
The blue ones move but are perfectly safe!
If you want a MASSIVE BOOST! Then get the jet pack : )
You will notice the brown platform below…if you stand on it and there isn’t a different colour one below then….
this is what happens….
Oooops – I died, back to the beginning!
DONT FORGET TO UPLOAD YOUR SCORE TO FACEBOOK OR TWITTER!!
I shall be playing this for the next 30 minutes again, I am going to try and limit my self per day to 30 minutes…..unless I get very good!
I’m turning into an Internet / Blogging / Social Networking FREAK!
It seems to be happening to me, I am being sucked in by all the social networking sites you can imagine, not only social networking either. The three logos at the top are the three killers for me, Twittering, Facebooking and Blogging! Twitter is the most used site I use followed by a close second to my blog then coming in last is Facebook which I seem to have gone off.
I once deleted my facebook account but found myself logging back in to reactivate and then disabling it, I just couldn’t stay away from it. It’s kind of like an addiction that is really hard to give up, not sure what it is about these three platforms but it really has me under the thumb, if Twitter told me run around the streets naked I probably would.
I wake up in a morning and within 30 minutes of opening my eyes I always check these.
Not in any particular order but always within 30 minutes these are checked and then checked probably every couple of hours after that throughout the day until I go to bed and that is just a couple of the sites I check regularly.
Throughout the day I usually check on the following sites:
Now I know the above aren’t exactly social networking sites but still, you can communicate with other users from around the globe and share information so I guess it could be classed as social networking but not the same as sites such as twitter and facebook.
The after a little longer i’ll probably go back and check them over and over again, I find myself becoming obsessed and searching the internet for different sites, reading thing that don’t even interest me, writing about things that I don’t really know about, checking out forums, reading tutorials, looking for something that I want to have (a recent example of that is setting up my own short custom URL service) http://rzy.me
It’s more like an addiction and there is nothing that I can do about it!
For all you bloggers out there this icon may/may not mean the same to you as it does to me.
WordPress (which is used to power my blogs) is starting to take up more and more of my time the more I use it. I used to go through stages on how many blog posts I would write, when I find something really interesting I blog about it, If I have a rant I blog about it. Sometimes I just don’t blog at all no matter what is or what isn’t going on.
I’ve set my self a task now that I am going to write much better posts / interesting posts and at least 1 post per day if not more. I do have quite a few websites on the go at the moment and find it difficult to know where to start / which I should start with and how far I should go there always seems to be something else that needs doing / updating / fixing.
I’m not sure if blogging would come under the social networking category either but it certainly connects you to the world.
Those are just a few of the sites / applications I use and check on a regular basis throughout the day and that’s not even mentioning the other email accounts I have or logins for other sites / forums.
Before I forget also, the latest trend that seems to be out there at the moment:
Yep thats right, Google Wave, as good as it is, I also find myself checking this more and more often as I start to use the service more and more, this is even while it is in preview mode and not even gone live…meaning none of my friends are currently on, so you can only imagine how much hammer it is going to get when they finally get on and ride the wave!
I put this all down to one thing and one thing only:
The iPhone! My most valued possession, the one thing I would really feel lost without, the one thing I never leave the house with, the one thing I have a charger for in my car, my house, at work and also always carry my USB sync cable around with me at all time just incase I need to charge from my laptop / computer or even someone else’s computer.
It really is true what Apple say, there really is an app for everything! Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave, Email, reddit and digg plus much more that I use!
I often ask myself what I would do with my time if I didn’t use any of these services or even the internet!
Getting a really funny feeling about Android
My day started as normal today, getting up and getting ready for work, collecting my things and making sure I have my iPhone with me and this is when things started to feel a little different.
Not quite sure what it is or why I am thinking like this, but I think…maybe just maybe I’m looking for a change, maybe I really want to go back to Android.
I had the G1 some time ago when it first got released and I ended up selling my iPhone 2G, it didn’t last long but it did have some really good features. Now I feel the same again as I did with the G1, I want to try it, use it, know how it works and see if there is any major improvements since I had it a couple of years ago, wondering if the G2 is much better than the G1 all these questions are just making me want to sell my iPhone 3G and replace it with a G2 or something else running Android. What to do? Do I do it? Dont I do it? Will I regret it? Will it be better than the iPhone? All these questions are just tempting me and pushing me away from the iPhone making me want to take the risk and find out for myself yet again.
My iPhone 3G is not on contract and is currently unlocked to the T-Mobile network, my contact with T-Mobile is up in March next year, so really if I change now and sell my iPhone 3G and buy an Android mobile with the money, if I don’t like it, I can always upgrade my handset in March and get another iPhone, maybe the 3GS?
Me being me I know what will happen, I will make the switch, hate it, be stuck with it until next year and then get an iPhone but no matter how much people try and talk me out of doing it / or tell me how much I should do this, either way I think my mind is made up.
I’ll spend tonight looking through what applications are available for Android and read up on reviews, it must have an excellent Twitter client such as Tweetie 2 which allows you to use custom URLS and also allow you to upload photos to custom URLS also. If that is the case then I can’t see why I wont have my iPhone 3G up for sale by this weekend.
It’s not that I don’t like Apple, I love Apple, Apple is my life but I’m just getting that taste in my mouth to try something completely different and unfortunately until I go through with this, the taste will always be there.
Updated iPhone Stuff Page’s
It’s been along time and almost forgotten about but the iPhone Stuff section still gets the most set of search results. I first added these back in 2008 and since then never thought to update the source list, nor the firmware download links.
These have now been done and i’m hoping to see a steady increase of new visitors with the new sources and firmware links : ) fingers crossed! I have been meaning to update them for some time but it’s just one of those “Im gunna” and as we all know those “Im gunna Jobs” Never really seem to come around and you keep putting them to the back of your mind and before long its long forgotten about.
I created the sources last night and got together lots and lots of information together ready for me just to click the update button this morning, like this blog post, set to publish automatically : )
Check out the iPhone Stuff section if you want to view the sources for Cydia and the Firmware direct download links from Apple.