Here and There

I want an app that speaks Google Maps directions, much the same way most in-car GPS devices speak to you. Well, maybe not in so annoying a manner.

It could just read each list item on a set of directions, and move to the next item once you reach that point.

I would be willing to pay for this app, perhaps as much as $20. I haven’t bought a single app yet, mostly cuz I don’t care that much, but also because I don’t have a lot of room in my budget for them.

This dream app, however, I would spring for.

Here and There turned 3 at the beginning of July. It must hate me now, having forgot its birthday and all. Seems it’s not the first time I’ve forgotten. The cure next year, and every year hence? Google Calendar.

The last year has by far been Here and There’s busiest. To date, there are 1,557 posts, and only 1,119 spam comments! Go spam filters! You’ve served me well. 538 legit comments have made it through, after all.

Traffic spiked during the Democratic Presidential Primaries. I still can’t find a source of absolutely spot-on stats-collecting, but it’s safe to say that May 2008 was the blog’s busiest month. I miss Hillary Clinton. Okay, not really.

This year, I’ve blogged from my iPod Touch, and, more recently, from my new iPhone. I’ve really begun using MarsEdit in earnest, as its developer, Daniel Jalkut, has done a superb job keeping it the best blog client out there. Also, WordPress has stepped things up remarkably, with its latest iteration, version 2.6.

Anyway, sorry little Here and There. I promise never to forget another birthday. Plus, look at it this way: This kind of fuck-up can only build character.

As Scott mentioned in comment on my last post, WordPress released their mobile iPhone app today. Using it to write this post. How meta.

I think I’ve added a photo from my phone’s library. No positioning available. Not much by way of settings, but the preview function works well, albeit sans photo.

Overall, i’m happy with this.

Mars Edit/WordPress — Both rumored to be in the works. I’ll test them both and go from there.

Picasa Image Uploader — I can’t find any proof that anyone’s working on this. Know otherwise? Tell us!

Yelp App to Write Reviews — Yelp’s current app (free) is nice, but I want the ability to write reviews easily from the iPhone.

And last, but certainly not least …

Scrabulous

Weak.

I downloaded and test drove this free app, and it seemed to work well enough … until it came to logging out. I couldn’t find a way to do that.

I went back to my desktop client, logged in, and was prompted to send a reply of “1″ to the AOL admin in order to log out of my mobile client.

Someone tell me I’m missing something, please.

A friend alerted me to the problem of iPhone not sending out email from the native Mail app. We both use Gmail POP as our client, and I was unable to find a fix.

This morning, he alerted me to the fact that if you re-enter your password in the SMTP set-up (Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > POP Account > SMTP), the app will then send your email no problem.

It worked.

Thx: Jon Snyder

I hadn’t used Pandora much before today, as I mostly rely on a fairly extensive iTunes library that I’m content with.

But faced with possible eventual limitations of an 8 GB iPhone, Pandora makes so much sense.

I’ve only added a few stations (Led Zeppelin, The Cure) to get things started. Not sure if there’s a limit to how many stations you can have.

The point is: I can access the music I like from almost anywhere, freeing up storage space for more apps and photos.