|
ZShakespeare posted:I also migrated by existing gmail (so as to not lose conversation threads) using the osx mail.app. Could you elaborate a bit on this? My biggest problem with leaving Gmail is in not having that wonderful, searchable extension of my brain known as the Gmail database.
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 18:20
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 03:49 |
|
|
ZShakespeare posted:Otherwise if you are willing to put in the effort it's probably possible to use iCloud's rules and folders to approximate filters and tags. It's not, sadly. It doesn't give you anywhere near Gmail's granularity. Neither does Outlook.com. Neither does Yahoo. I think the only thing with similar functionality is full-blown Exchange.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 18:21
|
|
|
Xguard86 posted:I actually never use google's word event system, its made mistakes and i'd rather just explicitly enter my stuff. I guess one big thing I miss from Google is the month calendar view with the small bars for what I have pending over an entire month and the view of my next X number of appointments in order (which might be the ticker view you're talking about) Nah, it's like this. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 18:25
|
|
|
oh, no thats what I meant combined in one screen. Awesome.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 18:26
|
|
|
Lexicon posted:Could you elaborate a bit on this? My biggest problem with leaving Gmail is in not having that wonderful, searchable extension of my brain known as the Gmail database. There are a lot of guides on how to do this. Very simply: set up iCloud email and GMail in mail.app (or any other imap client for that matter, then drag all your crap from [All Mail] on the gmail account into Archive. This might take a long time, and be aware that a free iCloud account only has 5GB of storage (iirc). e: also be aware that iCloud's search isn't as powerful as GMail's. I would recommend keeping a copy of your stuff in GMail and trialing iCloud for a month. If you find yourself not jumping back to GMail to do stuff after a month or so, then you know you can get rid of it (the app, you'll likely never completely divorce yourself from your gmail address). Ezrem posted:It's not, sadly. It doesn't give you anywhere near Gmail's granularity. Neither does Outlook.com. Neither does Yahoo. I think the only thing with similar functionality is full-blown Exchange. That's why I used weasel words. If you are an email warrior then iCloud is not for you, and you will have to deal with a less than ideal experience on iOS. For my own use, my work flow is: Receive all mail into the inbox, act on the mail then trash or archive as necessary, or put it into a reference or todo folder with a reminder. Inbox zero.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 18:29
|
|
|
ZShakespeare posted:There are a lot of guides on how to do this. Very simply: set up iCloud email and GMail in mail.app (or any other imap client for that matter, then drag all your crap from [All Mail] on the gmail account into Archive. This might take a long time, and be aware that a free iCloud account only has 5GB of storage (iirc). I might totally go for this if it weren't for the lack of custom domain support in iCloud. Next time I do a painful email migration, it has to be to a domain that I control, for future portability. @icloud.com is Apple's current flavour of the month - Christ knows if that'll still be in favour in 5 years time. I realize @me.com is still supported, but who knows for how long. I suspect @mac.com addresses are long dead.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 18:52
|
|
|
keevo posted:I have issues with using Google Maps on Bluetooth in my car. The voice navigation is really quiet when there's music playing even though it lowers the volume of the music. Does Apple Maps work with Bluetooth in your vehicle? Both Google maps and Mapquest will utilize my BT connection and play through the speaker but stock maps won't at all. Mine turns off the radio completely when dictating directions or if Siri/microphone is activated on BT..
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 18:55
|
|
|
I used Fantastical for a bit, but iOS 7.1 beta greatly improves Calendar's usability. I still like Fantastical's integration of Reminders, but I'm back to using Calendar most of the time. I expect that iOS 7.1 will resolve a lot of people's complaints about Calendar's changes in iOS 7.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 18:58
|
|
|
Here's what we been waiting for. A camera app that only takes horizontal videos. Now we just have to force everyone to use it.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 19:01
|
|
|
CygnusTM posted:Here's what we been waiting for. A camera app that only takes horizontal videos. Now we just have to force everyone to use it. Yep, let me just right on giving a poo poo about the orientation of a loving phone video.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 19:41
|
|
|
CygnusTM posted:Here's what we been waiting for. A camera app that only takes horizontal videos. Now we just have to force everyone to use it. I'm for this in theory, but anyone who would think to use this would also think to rotate their phone in the first place.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 19:47
|
|
|
I bought my own email domain years ago so I have control over where it forwards. You might want to give that a shot if you want to be truly free of lock-in to specific email vendors. I use Hover to handle the forwarding. Also I really have to thank Jon Siricusa for suggesting this on one of his Hypercritical episodes.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:04
|
|
|
Lexicon posted:Could you elaborate a bit on this? My biggest problem with leaving Gmail is in not having that wonderful, searchable extension of my brain known as the Gmail database. I think you just set up an IMAP account and then wait forever while Mail.app downloads your entire archive. Then the mails will show up in Spotlight.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:28
|
|
|
Mad Wack posted:I bought my own email domain years ago so I have control over where it forwards. You might want to give that a shot if you want to be truly free of lock-in to specific email vendors. I use Hover to handle the forwarding. Also I really have to thank Jon Siricusa for suggesting this on one of his Hypercritical episodes. This is a good idea to start with - but it falls somewhat short of full vendor agnosticism because although you'll receive at @goon.com you'll still be replying from your current service's email address (@gmail, @icloud, etc) and filling the email histories of your correspondents with the latter. At which point, their autocomplete will likely end up recommending the latter eventually => you're back to vendor lock-in. That's why I *really* want iCloud to support custom domains. I'm not confident we'll ever see it though.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:31
|
|
|
Star War Sex Parrot posted:I used Fantastical for a bit, but iOS 7.1 beta greatly improves Calendar's usability. I still like Fantastical's integration of Reminders, but I'm back to using Calendar most of the time.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:34
|
|
|
Lexicon posted:This is a good idea to start with - but it falls somewhat short of full vendor agnosticism because although you'll receive at @goon.com you'll still be replying from your current service's email address (@gmail, @icloud, etc) and filling the email histories of your correspondents with the latter. At which point, their autocomplete will likely end up recommending the latter eventually => you're back to vendor lock-in. You know that setting the reply-to address makes the email appear to come from whatever address you want right?
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:41
|
|
|
I'm digging fantastical, thanks thread! Also as an aside. As a long time android user now on iOS: holy poo poo it's nice how integrated and functional these apps are compared to the android hodge podge
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:48
|
|
|
ZShakespeare posted:You know that setting the reply-to address makes the email appear to come from whatever address you want right? I actually didn't think that worked in practice for individuals, what with the various spam detection heuristics used by Google etc. Are you saying that I could be lexicon@goon.com for incoming and outgoing mail (via a combination of MX records and reply-to), hosted entirely on iCloud, and with no attendant nightmare of lost mails and such? That could be worth doing, if so.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 20:48
|
|
|
I like playing casino games for fun once in awhile (particularly blackjack) -- and of course there are roughly 3 trillion different casino apps for the iTunes store. Any reports on which one(s) are the best?
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 21:25
|
|
|
Xarthor posted:I like playing casino games for fun once in awhile (particularly blackjack) -- and of course there are roughly 3 trillion different casino apps for the iTunes store. Get GTA San Andreas and just hang out in Las Venturas all the time.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 21:35
|
|
|
Lexicon posted:I actually didn't think that worked in practice for individuals, what with the various spam detection heuristics used by Google etc. Are you saying that I could be lexicon@goon.com for incoming and outgoing mail (via a combination of MX records and reply-to), hosted entirely on iCloud, and with no attendant nightmare of lost mails and such? Yeah dude it works fine - I've been doing it for years. Also I actually do have an outgoing mail server at my domain. So it literally comes from my domain with the correct reply-to. Gmail supports this in the settings.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 21:39
|
|
|
slogsdon posted:Yep, let me just right on giving a poo poo about the orientation of a loving phone video. I give a poo poo when I see their stupid portait videos on YT.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:16
|
|
|
spongeworthy posted:Does Apple Maps work with Bluetooth in your vehicle? Both Google maps and Mapquest will utilize my BT connection and play through the speaker but stock maps won't at all. Yeah, Apple Maps works fine with Bluetooth. When I last tried it (months ago) I remember it giving me weird directions, so I decided to just use Google Maps. I'll probably try it again and see how it is.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 22:52
|
|
|
Star War Sex Parrot posted:I used Fantastical for a bit, but iOS 7.1 beta greatly improves Calendar's usability. I still like Fantastical's integration of Reminders, but I'm back to using Calendar most of the time. By reminders do you mean the app badge for the remaining events in your day? Because I also love that.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 23:44
|
|
|
keevo posted:Yeah, Apple Maps works fine with Bluetooth. When I last tried it (months ago) I remember it giving me weird directions, so I decided to just use Google Maps. I'll probably try it again and see how it is. I can't get it to work through BT for the life of me. And it often tells me North when it means South, East for West, etc.
|
|
#
?
Jan 15, 2014 23:59
|
|
|
Lexicon posted:I actually didn't think that worked in practice for individuals, what with the various spam detection heuristics used by Google etc. Are you saying that I could be lexicon@goon.com for incoming and outgoing mail (via a combination of MX records and reply-to), hosted entirely on iCloud, and with no attendant nightmare of lost mails and such? I've done it before using a combination of forwarding and sending through my own smtp server and setting my reply-to address. As far as I can tell these are indistinguishable to anyone who isn't looking through the headers to see the source ip address. Something you might want to play with. I don't think it was ever meant for this though, and I don't do it currently. I feel that having a local copy of my emails through mail.app is enough control over my email for me. If I ever decide to go back to google, it's a quick enough process to change the forwarding etc. ZShakespeare fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Jan 16, 2014 |
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 00:50
|
|
|
Mad Wack posted:Yeah dude it works fine - I've been doing it for years. Also I actually do have an outgoing mail server at my domain. So it literally comes from my domain with the correct reply-to. Gmail supports this in the settings. He's talking about iCloud, not Gmail.
|
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 01:15
|
|
|
caboodle posted:I give a poo poo when I see their stupid portait videos on YT. I'm also a small child in an adult's body, agreed.
|
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 07:13
|
|
|
Can you configure the gmail app to open in Safari?
|
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 10:58
|
|
|
ICHIBAHN posted:Can you configure the gmail app to open in Safari?
|
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 15:29
|
|
|
is there a built in function or app to allow me schedule ringer off/vibrate on during certain hours/days? I know there is do not disturb but I want it to still vibrate, not be completely silent. Also, has anyone used any of the sleep tracker applications? I am really curious but I: 1) don't want to waste money/time on a gimmick. 2) I am kinda paranoid about keeping the phone directly under my brain every night. I don't think its dangerous but I'd hate to end up like those people that licked glow in the dark paint for 20 years.
|
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 17:47
|
|
|
Xguard86 posted:is there a built in function or app to allow me schedule ringer off/vibrate on during certain hours/days? I know there is do not disturb but I want it to still vibrate, not be completely silent. Pretty sure Sleep Cycle is free (EDIT: Not free, I'm just dumb), tracks body movements, and can be on the edge of your bed instead of next to/under your brain. Also claims to be smart about waking you up at the end of REM cycles. Regarding your scheduling question: in short, no, not without jailbreaking unfortunately Thirst Mutilator fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jan 16, 2014 |
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 17:54
|
|
|
Thirst Mutilator posted:Pretty sure Sleep Cycle is free, tracks body movements, and can be on the edge of your bed instead of next to/under your brain. Also claims to be smart about waking you up at the end of REM cycles. But it's not.  It's pretty much the goon standard for alarm clock apps and it is pretty great as an alarm clock, but it's nowhere near as awesome as the app description claims. You set a wake up time, set how long a window ahead of that you are willing to tolerate, and it does the exact same wake up sequence every morning. That said, as a data logger it's pretty good. The graphs are fun to study and you'll start to notice patterns after a few weeks. Not sure what that information is good for other than satisfying your inner nerd. The latest version added the ability to measure your heart rate when you wake up which is kind of fidgety to get an actual reading but once you do it seems fairly accurate.
|
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 18:02
|
|
|
xzzy posted:But it's not. Whoops 
|
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 19:19
|
|
|
I'm not sure that's entirely true. Give it a wide enough time and it seems to do its job, at least according to the graphs. Back when I used it regularly I gave it a 1 hour window and it definitely wasn't the same wake up time every day. 30 minutes might just be too small for it to vary much.
|
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 19:30
|
|
|
I've been (sort of) using mealboard to plan grocery shopping and it's pretty cool. Is there some similar app without the food focus, something I could use to track household purchases? Like how many lightbulbs I need and which kind, what batteries we regularly use, etc. I use notes for this sort of thing now but it feels like someone ought to have a better method.
|
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 21:12
|
|
|
DarkJC posted:I'm not sure that's entirely true. Give it a wide enough time and it seems to do its job, at least according to the graphs. Back when I used it regularly I gave it a 1 hour window and it definitely wasn't the same wake up time every day. 30 minutes might just be too small for it to vary much. Interesting, I'll have to give it a try. The app gives 30 minutes as recommended so I just never changed it off the default.
|
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 21:27
|
|
|
I will add the caveat that it's been probably 6 or 7 months since I used it regularly, so before iOS 7 days. Not sure if they've made any significant changes to their algorithm since. It's more inconvenient for me to have it plugged in while on the mattress now so I fell out of the routine.
|
|
#
?
Jan 16, 2014 22:22
|
|
|
I've been using it a ton lately, and it seems to work pretty well, the times do seem to vary according to when I'm rolling around. The wake up sounds are nice too. Edit: I also love that snooze is just "pick up and drop the phone" wyoak fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jan 17, 2014 |
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2014 00:03
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 03:49 |
|
|
Hmm well I'll give it a try. Does it matter I have a temperpedic mattress? Will it still feel me rolling around?
|
|
#
?
Jan 17, 2014 00:26
|
|