Favorite "bored" app

[Scottshotz]

Just wondering what jailbreak app or web app you guys go to when your bored, and need to kill a little time.

[Lincoln]

iRovr, EIC, Solitare, and Wallpaper.

- John

[acosmichippo]

does Safari count?

[patrickj]

does Safari count?

Yeah, Google Reader / feeds would be up there for me. Also Pool, Books, Caissa ...

[Bone]

If I'm bored and on the iPhone I'm either watching wallpapers stream by on iapp a days wallpaper app or I'm on EIC.

[acosmichippo]

if nothing online, then definitely watching a video via iPod.

jailbreaking is cool and all, but don't shortchange the stuff apple gave us from the get-go.

[KeKe]

EIC or Beejive

[mad_vtak]

browse the web.

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Five Dice -- I'm a Yahtzee fan from way back...

[Scottshotz]

seems like the same things I do. See I just recently went through everything in the jailbreak app list (for my sources) and I think I have everything I want. Now I'm out of new stuff to wow me.

[patrickj]

seems like the same things I do. See I just recently went through everything in the jailbreak app list (for my sources) and I think I have everything I want. Now I'm out of new stuff to wow me.

I'm always ready for new stuff - seems like it's got a little quite the last week or two on new apps releases. Maybe a lot of the devs are working away on their App Store stuff ...

[acosmichippo]

the last week or two?

man, haven't found much in the last few months!

touchpad is really the only new thing to come to mind...

[patrickj]

the last week or two?

man, haven't found much in the last few months!

touchpad is really the only new thing to come to mind...

Touchpad is excellent. There have been quite a few that I've found either useful or entertaining if I go back a little farther than last couple weeks. Things like TimeCapsule (backup app)m SpringDial for speed dial icons on the Home screen.

Oh, and two pretty recent ones (last week or so) that I'd forgotten about:
Geopedia - generates Wikipedia hits relevant to your location
CubeWorld = pretty awesome panoramic images viewer thingie

[xcissexc]

icopter is always fun

[acosmichippo]

maybe i've just been less experimental lately...

[patrickj]

maybe i've just been less experimental lately...

How are you liking your new Mac???

[acosmichippo]

it rocks. smoothest running machine i've ever had. I really want to get a nice, big monitor for games and DVDs... maybe once my pocketbook recovers a bit.

how about yours?

[patrickj]

Same. So, so glad I got it and switched. XP runs sweet in a VM for the rare occasions I want or need it. Still lots to learn and get used to, but love the stability, speed, and tons of the sick features.

[Lincoln]

Touchpad is excellent. There have been quite a few that I've found either useful or entertaining if I go back a little farther than last couple weeks. Things like TimeCapsule (backup app)m SpringDial for speed dial icons on the Home screen.

Oh, and two pretty recent ones (last week or so) that I'd forgotten about:
Geopedia - generates Wikipedia hits relevant to your location
CubeWorld = pretty awesome panoramic images viewer thingie

TimeCapsule is great. It's saved me quite a few times where I've accidentally deleted some rather important notes.

By the way, good to hear you're enjoying the Macs. I'll be glad to help out with anything you need assistance with. (I sound like I'm working at the Apple Store again.)

- John

[itskels]

i watch videos that i d/l from MXTube, play iSolitaire or DopeWars and Office Wars...or just surf the net.

[patrickj]

TimeCapsule is great. It's saved me quite a few times where I've accidentally deleted some rather important notes.

By the way, good to hear you're enjoying the Macs. I'll be glad to help out with anything you need assistance with. (I sound like I'm working at the Apple Store again.)

- John

Yeah, I'm very impressed with TimeCapsule too - should make the whole restore and re-jailbreak process much easier as well. I like the way he keeps adding new features and updates so frequently.

New Mac = thanks - enjoying it a ton, and I think I'll probably take you up on that as I find things I need help with :smile:

[iMerlin]

I love Labyrinth, Gemlogic and Pianist for killing time. Those are also the apps I usually show off first as well.

[michael180]

does Safari count?

Yea! How about FireFox. :smile:

[Griffinaz]

Wallpaper and iSlots. Don't see how anyone got $505,613 on the slots but I am trying to get there. $504,526 more to go.

[CBRfanatic]

either wallpaper, EIC, solitaire, or this really addicting game called icave

on the mac comments, i absolutely love mine too, have had a mac since 05 and do a lot of things with it, Mainly CS3, and Final Cut Studio 2, i have the 2.66ghz 15" macbook pro for working on projects while on the go go, and a 3.0ghz 8 core monster with dual 30" monitors for busting out the heavy stuff in the dungeon (my computer room, lol)

[patrickj]

either wallpaper, EIC, solitaire, or this really addicting game called icave

on the mac comments, i absolutely love mine too, have had a mac since 05 and do a lot of things with it, Mainly CS3, and Final Cut Studio 2, i have the 2.66ghz 15" macbook pro for working on projects while on the go go, and a 3.0ghz 8 core monster with dual 30" monitors for busting out the heavy stuff in the dungeon (my computer room, lol)

Wow - I'm loving my little 13" MacBook beauty - you have some serious beasts there - good stuff. I'm guessing you use some of that horsepower in your line of work?

[psylichon]

either wallpaper, EIC, solitaire, or this really addicting game called icave

on the mac comments, i absolutely love mine too, have had a mac since 05 and do a lot of things with it, Mainly CS3, and Final Cut Studio 2, i have the 2.66ghz 15" macbook pro for working on projects while on the go go, and a 3.0ghz 8 core monster with dual 30" monitors for busting out the heavy stuff in the dungeon (my computer room, lol)

My god, what are you churning out there??? Pixar crap? :tounge:

[CBRfanatic]

Wow - I'm loving my little 13" MacBook beauty - you have some serious beasts there - good stuff. I'm guessing you use some of that horsepower in your line of work?

yes, i do graphic design on the side, so sometime plug-ins for photoshop, or maya 3D, or final cut studio require some serious horsepower.
And i do some gaming too, oh and quad boot with Leopard, XP, Vista, and Ubuntu:2cool:

the macbook are nice, i purchased my mother one. they get a lot done, i would only suggest something like what i have unless a) you have ubber excess cash or b) will make some money back on your investment

[CBRfanatic]

My god, what are you churning out there??? Pixar crap? :tounge:

tehehe, i wish, id make more money. The dual monitors are mainly for photoshop and final cut.
for final cut it allows me to use one whole monitor as a viewing station, and the other monitor as the editing screen, this way i can see changes in real time
and for photoshop, the same idea, lets me have the uncompressed image in full view and then editing in another all zoomed in and whatnot to see the changes in real time, or if im doing work with many windows i can stay organized.

after reading your post for a second time i could not stop laughing.....again, lol.

[psylichon]

tehehe, i wish, id make more money. The dual monitors are mainly for photoshop and final cut.
for final cut it allows me to use one whole monitor as a viewing station, and the other monitor as the editing screen, this way i can see changes in real time
and for photoshop, the same idea, lets me have the uncompressed image in full view and then editing in another all zoomed in and whatnot to see the changes in real time, or if im doing work with many windows i can stay organized.

I'm jealous. I work at a studio... I've got 4 cores at home, but we're stuck in powermac G5 land at the studio due to our audio hardware and software. We could trade in, but we're trying to hold out until it's worth it to us. With Pro-Tools HD, most processing is realtime with DSP cards. But there are more and more offline processes that I would just prefer to soar through. It's getting slow though.

Props to your horsepower, sir.

[CBRfanatic]

I'm jealous. I work at a studio... I've got 4 cores at home, but we're stuck in powermac G5 land at the studio due to our audio hardware and software. We could trade in, but we're trying to hold out until it's worth it to us. With Pro-Tools HD, most processing is realtime with DSP cards. But there are more and more offline processes that I would just prefer to soar through. It's getting slow though.

Props to your horsepower, sir.
Thanks
yea, i feel for you, i held out until CS3 came along, since photoshop CS2 ran faster on the PPC architecture then it did on intels using rosetta emulator. i had to save for some time and make some smart moves with my investments before i was able to give apple a small fortune. But i blow through processing and compressing so much faster now, and even faster on my mac network, ill hook up my older g4 laptop and my macbook pro all to a ethernet hub, run qmaster and divvy out the processor task to all computers at once from the mac pro tower. hope your studio makes the switch soon.
Sorry for the TJ OP:tounge:

[psylichon]

hope your studio makes the switch soon.


Yeah me too. I hate small talk, and I can only drink so much coffee and smoke so many cigarettes whilst rendering. I can't afford any more habits, so it's new hardware time.


Sorry for the TJ OP:tounge:

And yes, sorry for the horrible OT. Geeks FTW, though.

[CBRfanatic]

Yeah me too. I hate small talk, and I can only drink so much coffee and smoke so many cigarettes whilst rendering. I can't afford any more habits, so it's new hardware time.



And yes, sorry for the horrible OT. Geeks FTW, though.

tehehe
with this much power i usually browse the web or watch a quick video while rendering. dosnt hog the whole system like it used to.

[acosmichippo]

yeah, i'm sure you can spare a core or three for that.

:)

[psylichon]

tehehe
with this much power i usually browse the web or watch a quick video while rendering. dosnt hog the whole system like it used to.

That's fine when you're alone... I'm talking about stretching the reprise of a song because the drummer was excited... while the client is present. All I can think to say during that lull is "you're spending a lot of money right now cause that guy sucks"

[CBRfanatic]

That's fine when you're alone... I'm talking about stretching the reprise of a song because the drummer was excited... while the client is present. All I can think to say during that lull is "you're spending a lot of money right now cause that guy sucks"

thats why i like working mostly alone, lol. If im editing pics, the client sends them, if im editing or correcting video, the client send them, if im making anything for anyone, the client sends them, i send the proofs, then the final product, they send the rest of my moolaa, lol

[psylichon]

thats why i like working mostly alone, lol. If im editing pics, the client sends them, if im editing or correcting video, the client send them, if im making anything for anyone, the client sends them, i send the proofs, then the final product, they send the rest of my moolaa, lol

Brilliant. Nice system. About the only thing I get to do alone these days is mastering and sometimes mixing.

And dear lord are we OT! I have some repenting to do

What I do when bored:

Built in:
Ipod
Camera

Web:
EIC
iRovr
Digg
Reddit
Slashdot
NYTimes

Jailbreak:
Labyrinth
Real Artist
iPhysics
Pool
NES
Tap Tap Revolution
Any instrument... pianist, guitarist, pocketguitar, drummer

[CBRfanatic]

What I do when bored:

Built in:
Ipod
Camera
stocks (oooo yeaaa, lol, not real time but gives me an estimate on my moneys)

Web:
EIC
Digg
NYTimes
google reader

Jailbreak:
Labyrinth
Snes4iphone
icave
solitaire
AIM
iPhysics
Pool
NES
ereader
Any instrument... pianist, guitarist, pocketguitar, drummer[/QUOTE]