dazzybee Posted January 27, 2010 Posted January 27, 2010 If a sleep cycle is 30 minutes then you'd have to be pretty unlucky for it not to wake you up at the right time. And of course it should still wake you up! People have to get to work/school/job centre. I personally think it's a good little app. Very interesting if nothing else.
SPAMBOT4000 Posted January 27, 2010 Posted January 27, 2010 Yeah, I definitely wouldn't say it's worse than useless. As Dazz said, you'd have to be pretty unlucky and it should recognise whether you're going into a deep sleep or coming out of one at the start of the 30 minute window. Okay it might not wake you at your lightest sleep but it wakes you at the lightest you'll be in the 30 minute window. It also does say it can take a couple of nights to calibrate itself to your sleep patterns. Used this last night but I woke up slightly before the alarm went off due to parents being noisy. It was really interesting to see the graph of my nights sleep though... hang on lemme upload it..
That Guy Posted January 28, 2010 Posted January 28, 2010 Sleep Cycle doesn't quite work. You set your alarm and it'll wake you up any time up to half an hour before. Problem is, if you don't happen to be in a light sleep during that half hour window it just wakes you up anyway. A single sleep cycle is, in theory, roughly half an hour. Some times they can be longer, and under those circumstances Sleep Cycle is worse than useless. I noticed looking at reviews that I'm not alone in this, quite a few people have noticed it. Surely it can't be too difficult for them to just up the sleep window to 40 minutes or something? I used it for a few days and noticed that even after the first couple of times it would say it woke me up during deep sleep. It also only woke me up earlier than my 'latest' alarm time once out of about 4 days. I don't know if it would have been any better if I'd kept it for longer but I couldn't be bothered messing about putting it next to my pillow on my small bed, when I have an iPhone dock on my bed side table.
Charlie Posted January 29, 2010 Posted January 29, 2010 I've suddenly developed an odd habit where I always wake up 20 minutes before my alarm goes off. I suppose that's what I get for having a slightly buggy phone as my alarm (although the alarm does still work when the phone turns itself off). Haha, I ALWAYS do that too. It's unreal how many times I've woken up about 5 minutes before my alarm going off.
Wesley Posted January 30, 2010 Posted January 30, 2010 The polished version of Broken Sword (released on the Wii and DS) has been released on the app store. I'll probably buy it later tonight. I really hope they give Broken Sword 2 the same treatment.
arnold Posted January 31, 2010 Posted January 31, 2010 Shopping Cart Hero, if you haven't got it, get it, it's bloody amazing, i'm finding it a bit annoying to control at times but other than amazing game. i've found once I jailbroke my touch, i'm using it a lot mroe to play games and shit on o0 Simpsons Arcade is good too if you've not played it, kinda like the Old School simpsons arcade, cept you can only play as Homer =/
Charlie Posted February 3, 2010 Posted February 3, 2010 Download 'Touch Mouse'. The ultimate tool for lazy people! It's essentially a trackpad for your laptop on your phone. Works very well and also lets you type which is perfect for when your laptop is down somewhere and you can see someone's chatting to you on Facebook but you can't be bothered going to pick it up!
Shorty Posted February 15, 2010 Posted February 15, 2010 Plants vs Zombies app came out today. It's really awesome. Only done a few levels but it feels just like the PC game so far.
Cubechris Posted February 28, 2010 Posted February 28, 2010 Plants vs Zombies app came out today. It's really awesome. Only done a few levels but it feels just like the PC game so far. Yeah, I downloaded this just the other day, already sunk a fair amount of time into it. Very good app. (Oh and Sleep Cycle is fun, but I never use it as my only alarm)
McPhee Posted February 28, 2010 Posted February 28, 2010 PvZ is probably my favourite iPhone game to date. Pure awesome! Played the PC demo a while back but I never got around to actually buying it.
Shorty Posted March 19, 2010 Posted March 19, 2010 Gameloft games are 59p for the next 2 days. Including Earthworm Jim and Real Football 2010.
Mr_Odwin Posted April 13, 2010 Posted April 13, 2010 Opera Mini is available. It is fast, but lacks a little of the polish of Safari. In particular; zooming, moving around and the initial way that a page looks when it renders (unreadable text) are a little less than great. It really is very fast though.
AeroScap Posted April 13, 2010 Posted April 13, 2010 Downloaded it today! Its lightning fast! and regarding the zoom issue, the only way I can read some websites is if it has 100% zoom anyways so not having a choice for 45% isnt really a problem for me! plus the tabs features is nowhere near as clunky or laggy as safari.. it's replaced it as a default browser!
Charlie Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 Football Manager 2010 was released on the AppStore a few days ago. Being a huge fan I paid the £6 (or £7?) and have been playing it quite a bit in the morning when I wake up or on the train. It's very basic and limited in what you can do. You can't give individual players instructions. In fact the only tactics options you get are how offensive you play (Offensive, balanced, defensive), what sort of passes (Long, short, mixed) and formation really. But being FM, it's still fun and addictive. Feels like CM99/00 all over again, you can get the 2D pitch if you want but I just go for the text for a more classic feel.
Happenstance Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 Oddly enough I was just coming into this thread to see what FM2010 was like on the ipod/phone so thanks. Im planning on getting an iPod Touch soonish so I was wondering what are the must have aps/games that you guys would recommend?
Charlie Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 Oddly enough I was just coming into this thread to see what FM2010 was like on the ipod/phone so thanks. Im planning on getting an iPod Touch soonish so I was wondering what are the must have aps/games that you guys would recommend? Facebook Thetrainline TimeTuner (radio/alarm clock, wake up to iPod music or radio etc, sleep timer) FM is pretty good, it can be a bit fiddly when choosing your squad but for what it is, and the price you pay, you can't really complain. I know I'll knock up a lot of playtime on it. You can't listen to music whilst playing it though; presumably to save on processing power.
Happenstance Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 Another thing I wanted to ask. I use my current iPod more for podcasts than music or videos. Now I was originally planning on getting the 32gb but it would be nice to be able to save some money and get the 8gb, I worry though that it might not be big enough. Any thoughts?
Emasher Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 I'm not at all impressed with Opera Mini. It works at a very similar speed to Safari, and in general safari works much "smoother". No way I'm using it as my primary browser.
Will Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 Another thing I wanted to ask. I use my current iPod more for podcasts than music or videos. Now I was originally planning on getting the 32gb but it would be nice to be able to save some money and get the 8gb, I worry though that it might not be big enough. Any thoughts? I've never even come close to filling the 8gb on my iPhone, I do tend to manage my music and podcasts quite a bit though. My personal favourite apps are: Tweetie Facebook foursquare Stocks Flight Control Epicurious IMDB Angry Birds Orange Wednesdays
MadDog Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 Doodle Jump is awesome, Rock Band is also. Sky Sports Score Centre is great for checking scores, and football news. Flight Control mentioned above is also worth a buy.
Nintendohnut Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 JELLYCAR! Facebook freaked out on me recently and wouldn't stop sending push notifications even though I turned them off, so I deleted it. Other than that there are several cool free apps out there, I have many games, and a few things I need in day to day life, such as the dictionary.com app, and the shakespeare app (which is incredible if you're studying shakespeare, as it's totally free and has all of his plays in!)
AeroScap Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 Tweetie Opera Mini Canabalt - try the web version! so addicitive WhatsApp - blackberry messenging (share audio, video, gps, photos) but for anyone who has the 59p app, search contacts automatically aswell Sleepcycle -monitor your sleep cycle - wakes you when you are most awake Guardian - news
SPAMBOT4000 Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 TweetieOpera Mini Canabalt - try the web version! so addicitive WhatsApp - blackberry messenging (share audio, video, gps, photos) but for anyone who has the 59p app, search contacts automatically aswell Sleepcycle -monitor your sleep cycle - wakes you when you are most awake Guardian - news Thanks for the WhatsApp suggestion. I've been using Ping! mainly as it's free but this WhatsApp thing is soooo much better. I only really used Ping! with my girlfriend anyway so I've gifted her a copy of WhatsApp and it's awesome, no more lost messages. So ta!
Shorty Posted April 17, 2010 Posted April 17, 2010 WhatsApp is great, especially if you can convince as many of your iPhone owning contacts as possible to buy it
McPhee Posted April 17, 2010 Posted April 17, 2010 Plants vs Zombies Scrabble To be honest I've not really found iPhone games to be very good. There's a lot of fuss over stuff like Angry Birds and Doodle Jump but personally I don't really get them, I got bored of both after about half an hour. My most used app is probably Reeder. It's an RSS reader that syncs to Google Reader. Cracking app, best of the RSS ones that I've tried!
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