MacBites Episode 0015

on 18 August 2008 in Show Notes tagged by The MacBites Crew

Mike was in London, Elaine was at home, but we still managed to get an episode recorded. In this episode Elaine talks about Cro-Mag Rally and other iPhone games whilst Mike at last uses his iPhone for more than Monkey Ball. Elaine rants again, this time about iPlayer and we have some fantastic new software to give away – for FREE.

BackBites

• Mike’s scanner – Fujitsu S510M
• The continuing saga of the AdobeTV/iPlayer Router crashing
• Elaine’s NetGear GT845PN router configuration tips
• MobileMe – more free days from Apple

ChatBites

• Twitter – Elaine and Mike battle for followers
• Mike installs Twinkle
• NWMUG
• Delicious bookmarks
• 3G USB modem
• iPhone cases
• Displaying you own number on the iPhone
• LaunchBar
• Mike gets QuickSilver to work
• The case of the missing iPlayer Play in High Quality button
• Apple’s secret iPhone app blacklist
• iPhone Backup options
• iPhone MD Crash Reporter
• iPhone apps not installing
• Elaine updates to iPhone 2.0.2

Software Review

• iPhone Apps – Part 2
• SimplifyMedia
• MightyDocs
• Splash Shopper
• Digital Clock
• Units
• File Magnet

Elaine’s Games (so much for Productivity apps!)

• MotionX Dice
• Cro-Mag Rally (£3.49)
• Tris – Tetris
• Spinner Prologue – maze game
• Muddled – Word puzzle – how many words you can make from a selection of letters (£1.19)
• Quordy – Similar to Boggle (£1.79)
• Brain Tuner – Similar to Nintendo Brain Training

More Software

• Shazam – Music identifier
• Last FM – interface to the LastFM web site
• Speakapedia

Competition

• Win a copy of Speakapedia courtesy of the nice folk at Shiny Development

Events

• North West Adobe User Group live event – 20th August – Making Suite Music
• Geekups – Leeds – August 20th and Sheffield – September 3rd