Firmware updates and thoughts on paid Jailbreak apps

3.1.3 Firmware is latest in the game of tennis between Apple and Jailbreakers- but the losers in the game could be those of us who have paid for jailbreak apps that we’d lose forever if Apple succeeds in eliminating Jailbreaking.

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Episode for this week coming shortly

I just wanted to make a quick note that there will be an episode this week, it just got delayed a bit due to my vacation last week. We’ve tried a few things differently as well to hopefully correct a few issues people have pointed out to us, so hopefully it’ll turn out well! So keep an eye out for the new episode, and thanks for listening!

On the road again…. with the updated Navigon MobileNavigator App

This past week was my annual trek down to Atlanta for a few days vacation visiting my family there followed by Anime Weekend Atlanta. The last time I’d made the drive to Atlanta, I was testing out the then initial-release version of Navigon’s MobileNavigator software. Shortly before it was time to make the trip again, Navigon released a fairly significant update, version 1.2.0, so I got the test it out again on this drive. Read more »

Bob’s Campground Panorama

I promised in this week’s Appcast episode that I’d link to the panoramic image that I made using pictures taken with my iPhone and combined into a panorama using AutoStitch ($1.99)- so here it is! I tried putting it into the post itself, but WordPress doesn’t seem to like it- so here’s the link to the picture.

There and Back Again: Bob’s Field Testing with Navigon MobileNavigator North America

This week’s core topic was my thoughts on the Navigon MobileNavigator North America turn-by-turn GPS program for the iPhone, by far the most expensive app we’ve taken a look at and probably the largest in size as well. My discussion with Kevin about it on the podcast didn’t really allow covering all of my thoughs on the app, so I’m putting up this blog post to get the reset of those thoughts out to anyone who might be considering picking up this app and wants as much info as they can get on it.

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404 Problems? Resolved (maybe)

After a week of racking my brain as to why the site suddenly went crazy with 404 errors on just the front page alone, I came across this handy board posting that, for some reason, I didn’t catch until today. If you are having a 404 error appear on the front page of your Wordpress site, then you might want to check if you have the Redirection plugin (I did try this when I was experimenting with an easy way to get to Appcast NOW!) because that was the culprit that brought down the site. Not saying it’s a bad plugin, but that’s what did it for us. Check out more on this 404 phenomenon at the Wordpress Support page.

Thankfully, after numerous technical problems, recording issues, and just plain busy social lives, we’ll be back on track starting in May.

A Call To Arms (OK, to Notes…)

As our loyal listeners likely already know, we are planning on focusing on Notes replacements apps (aka Text Editors/Notepads) for the next episode. However, as we kind of expected- there are WAY too many of them to look at all of them (or afford, for that matter O_O ).

So, we’d like your input- what Notes replacement app(s) do YOU use? Why do you use it, and what do and don’t you like about it? Have you tried other ones that you ended up dropping?

You can either email us your thoughts at admin@the-appcast.com or reply to this post. Thanks for your help!

To the Lander!

The full version of Retro Lite (Retro – Cave Flyer) which I posted about last week is now on sale for just $.99- quite a steal for what looks like should be a rather fun game.