Comments on: Six iOS apps you need right now

By: Old Dinosaur

Old Dinosaur — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:23:15 +0000

If this posting and the following comments is what MacDailyNews is all about and is allowed by the editor, who needs it. See ya.

By: webmasters apprentice

webmasters apprentice — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:38:54 +0000

… vulture capitalist with the multiple off-shore accounts who didn’t/doesn’t pay his full share of taxes is the Bad Guy.

Sounds like you cut & pasted that statement directly from a ‘Move-on’ dot org website. Very insightful to your understanding of economics and the tax code.
1.) if you have over 50 million dollars of net worth, you need to diversify your portfolio, which means investing overseas or in an offshore account. Nobody ever said he had ALL of his money offshore. if he had $5 million or $10 million offshore, that would hardly be worth getting your panties in a bunch about. With the rate at which our economy is starting to nosedive, hell, I’m even considering under the radar investment options for our long term savings.

2.) As long as a person is following the IRS Tax Code legally, they are in fact paying their fair share of taxes. not much more to discuss here except for the fact that over the past 50+ years, lawmakers have been inserting all of these loopholes, tax breaks and exceptions for the purpose of lowering someones tax burden… all of which is perfectly legal. if you don’t like it, blame the government.

The concept of “full share” or “fair share” of taxes is subjective at best. It’s really just subterfuge for someone who hates the wealthy because they are not. If Romney pays 15% taxes on one of his portfolio accounts which equals a net tax payment of $6 million to the IRS annually, I’m quite sure it’s a bit more than the average person who is paying a 17.5% tax rate on $45k per year to the U.S. Govt. ($7,875/year). Call me silly, but if you can’t take your eyes away from the “%” symbol, then you are a fool, easily swayed.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:15:59 +0000

“need” ???

By: Macinfo

Macinfo — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:59:52 +0000

Flixter
IMDB
eBay
Blastr or Dvice or both
Soundhound
Kayak

There are probably others if I thought about it more

By: Agent Provocateur

Agent Provocateur — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:46:38 +0000

Citrix Receiver (remote access)
TruPhone (Make your iPad a Phone and use on iPhone overseas)
Good Reader (Swiss Army Knife of iOS)
Jasmine (You Tube Client)
Kindle (Books on Mac and iOS)
Zinio (Magazines)
Wiki² (Wikipedia Client)
Flipboard (Massive Media Consolidator Tool)
Pocket (Instapaper- only better)
Zite (News aggregator)
Ultralingua Dictionary
iTunes U
NPR, BBC, Bloomberg, NHK, Ars Tech, NYT, Slate (WaPo), LA Times and Der Spiegel apps (news)

By: iBagwan

iBagwan — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:43:23 +0000

You forgot a really important one, DuckDuckGo! FREE

By: So ... he had it RIGHT! The ...

So ... he had it RIGHT! The ... — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:27:06 +0000

… vulture capitalist with the multiple off-shore accounts who didn’t/doesn’t pay his full share of taxes is the Bad Guy.
Thanks for straightening that out. In a discussion supposedly intended for TECHNICAL topics.
Of the five of you, only BLN was even close to “On Topic” … how does THAT make you feel?

By: muddygun

muddygun — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:10:02 +0000

i second that notion..but i think he meant apps u have to download. his selections sucks.

i would say
Find my iphone
Your banks app
Shazam or soundhound
Amazon ( to compare prices and to have a UPC scanner)
Pandora
Google Chrome.. in case something doesn’t work on Safari

By: MrPeabody

MrPeabody — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:11:03 +0000

No, he had it right. Voting for Ovomit. Some people aren’t leeches on society and demand others pay for their every need.

By: 3l3c7ro

3l3c7ro — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:08:19 +0000

There must be a more clever way than this to express yourself and get your point across.

By: Gruvdone

Gruvdone — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:50:18 +0000

Or voting for Romulan. There, fixed it for you.

By: David

David — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:33:48 +0000

I had the same problem finding it. I wont be found from the app store on the iphone because it is IPAD only.

By: Ubermac

Ubermac — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:33:05 +0000

Or voting for Ovomit!

By: mjdwnc

mjdwnc — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:44:25 +0000

So is Siri when using Safari.

By: MaxNY

MaxNY — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:42:00 +0000

The article says all IOS devices. Not true

By: Me

Me — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:01:37 +0000

How about the only app you need…
The App Store

By: Greg L

Greg L — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:00:38 +0000

The article is a bunch of random gibberish that would work better as a cypher key than as a way of communicating cogent thought and reasoning.

By: Vorble

Vorble — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:07:03 +0000

Strategy puzzle game Vorble that Chief Organiser of the Mind Sports Olympiad, Etan Ilfeld, said: "Vorble is a brilliant 3D strategy game that is simple to learn and provides hours of exercise for the imagination and the mind." Only on iOS

By: David

David — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:02:42 +0000

It is very very good

By: castelbuono

castelbuono — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:59:37 +0000

Fifa Soccer 2013…seriously?

I use Paper for sketching, free-hand notes etc. Perfect app for the iPad – http://www.fiftythree.com/paper

Also, like Star Walk and Starmap.

By: enzos

enzos — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:35:08 +0000

Voice on Google Search is really very good! No probs with the Aussie accent and fast results. (Siri’s not on 4th gen iPod touch so I can’t compare search quality).

By: I love Apple

I love Apple — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:31:54 +0000

Jason Parker made the most stupid list!

By: Haver

Haver — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:22:23 +0000

Mail
Maps
Camera
Calculator
Clock
Messages

By: Aldo

Aldo — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:20:02 +0000

Netflix is great Hulu too
Flipboard I use all the time
Wordbook dictionary
Tip calculator
Pandora
Shazam a must have
Clinometer can come in handy and it really impresses people

By: emanon

emanon — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:44:16 +0000

Only available for US iTunes.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:40:09 +0000

Well, you should alert the app store. They claim they have one for th ipad.

By: MacFreel

MacFreel — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:06:29 +0000

No, this is one person’s opinion. Until now my world has been fine without several of these apps. I don’t know how much longer my world will remain intact until I install all these apps. I think I’ll live dangerously and eschew his advice.

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:50:37 +0000

None of these sound interesting. That’s the nice thing about having so many apps. Each of us has our own top ten and even that probably changes over time.

By: botvinnik

botvinnik — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:46:06 +0000

Id put  Remote on there. i don’t use any he has listed other than Netflix rarely.

By: MaxNY

MaxNY — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:32:03 +0000

There is noApp named Fayve.

By: MacHeadB

MacHeadB — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:21:56 +0000

Or like taking a shit in your Kitchen.

By: The Other Steve

The Other Steve — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:06:48 +0000

This makes no sense. What did he do, draw random apps from a hat?

By: Ballmer's left nut

Ballmer's left nut — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:02:36 +0000

Why the f*** would I want a Google search app? It’s like pissing in your own pool.

By: Apple Fanboy

Apple Fanboy — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:27:01 +0000

DuckDuckGo for search
Pages
Numbers
Flipboard
iAnnotate
Tweetbot

By: GP

GP — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:26:34 +0000

This is news?

By: silverhawk1

silverhawk1 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:24:09 +0000

Duckduckgo for search.

By: Finelinebob

Finelinebob — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:21:43 +0000

Funny … I don’t feel I have to have any of them.