An open list of ideas and requests for people and organisations...please build these!
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Another list of desired iphone apps, this time from Merlin Mann. Some fantastic ideas - I’d buy all three! Details (worth reading), are in the blog post
“1) Prime This
Elevator pitch: Scan barcode to instantly order an item via Amazon…
2) iParked
Elevator pitch: Location-aware parking reminder…
3) That Reminds Me
Elevator pitch: Lightweight, location-aware alarm app…”
1 year ago • 0 notesI read a lot of text on my iphone. A lot of this reading is at night, when I’m lying down. I would love a simple app that stopped the screen changing its orientation, so I could continue to read in portrait, even when I’m on my side.
A simple preference list would do, selecting from:
“Don’t tilt for the next…5m, 15m, 60m, ever”
Please build this someone!
UPDATE: Well, looks like the functionality is there, at least at an application level. Here’s one of the features from ‘BookShelf’:
“Read in portrait or landscape with the ability to “lock-in” an orientation regardless of the device’s current position.”
1 year ago • 0 notesI’m sure loads of people have thought the same - it would be great if there could be a simple, single-use app that let me override the volume controls when using particular apps (e.g. Safari, Mail) and so they scrolled the page instead.
The app would be, essentially, a preferences panel that listed all the applications on my device, and if selected for an app, would mean that it sent a scroll up/down control to the app.
1 year ago • 0 notesWhen I’m in a different country, I turn off data.
Please build a plugin for Google Maps (or an app?) , that downloads and stores the basic google map for a city, so that I can use GPS without using roaming data whilst on holiday.
Cheers!
1 year ago • 0 notesThe camera in the iphone isn’t that bad. But it drives me nuts when it automatically ‘compensates’ for light, by darkening the image (this is particularly bad when taking a photo of a building by pointing the camera into the sky).
Someone’s looked into this issue in far more depth
Please build a plugin that lets me turn off (or set) the amount of realtime light processing on the iphone’s camera.
Cheers!
1 year ago • 0 notesPlease (please!) build an open bluetooth keyboard driver for the iphone, so I can use a keyboard like Apple’s bluetooth keyboard with my iphone.
It looks like Mcally is doing this, but with their own keyboard. I’d really like to have a choice of keyboards.
Looks like quite a few people would like this too.
1 year ago • 0 notesI really liked the ebook reader for unlocked iphones.
Please build a decent ebook/text/PDF reader like this, with easy uploading of text docs.
Aha, someone has built this.
Thanks!
1 year ago • 0 notesI love Instapaper , and in particular the text-optimised versions of saved webpages, that look fantastic on my iphone.
Please build a simple iphone app that accesses my Instapaper account, and creates a local store of all the ‘read later’ sites that I have, and enable Safari to access them, while I’m offline so they’re locally readable.
Thanks.
_UPDATE:_ Blimey, there’s already an app. Fantastic.
Maybe I should look harder, or maybe I should start wishing for cures for world hunger? :-)
1 year ago • 0 notes