Wishlist - iPhone friendly iBoats forums

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I find browsing the iBoats forums incredibly tedious on my iPhone. Yes, it renders fine & yes, I can zoom and read stuff just fine, but it's annoying. I wish there was either some kind of fancy iPhone app specifically for iBoats forums or a mobile browser theme that would make it really easy to browse & comment on the forums.
 
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Re: Wishlist - iPhone friendly iBoats forums

Now I KNOW I am from some other planet. :(
 
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Re: Wishlist - iPhone friendly iBoats forums

Why do you say that JB? You know what an Iphone is . . . right? :D
I know what the poster is saying. It's quite tedious trying to read or respond on a Blackberry too.

For those of us who wish to surf iboats with their PDA's iboats should have a mobile friendly version, so our time is not taken up with all their ads slowing everything down!

Just my opinion.
 
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Bummer, they both require iBoats to change the forums to work. JB (or any other moderator)... there's a couple options for you to investigate :) PRETTY PLEASE!?!? :D
 
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this all would be nice! i use a blackberry and iboats is one of the only forums i cant really surf from my phone. I think there are enough smartphone users here to make it worth it...


COME ON JB!
 
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I agree with an app for iphones. I have trouble even if I enlarge the screen navigating the site from mine.
 
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Took 3 months to get the profile link to work properly with IE. Not holding my breath for this one.
 
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Just check out JB's picture on his ad for his newsletter . . . You just know this guy is still using one of those phones at home the ones you have to crank on the side to make a call :D

PDA . . . dadgumit, not in this lifetime by cracky :)
 
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I would agree that iboats needs to be able to send and receive smoke signals. :)
 
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Re: Wishlist - iPhone friendly iBoats forums

Expidia said:
Just check out JB's picture on his ad for his newsletter . . . You just know this guy is still using one of those phones at home the ones you have to crank on the side to make a call :D

PDA . . . dadgumit, not in this lifetime by cracky :)
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:eek::D:p:D
 
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Smartphone compatible would be great.

And i've been using that Tapatalk app on my iphone for a good while. It is compatible with the Vbulletin forum format. I don't think it would take too much work.
A friend that owns a smartphone site has submitted our forum to tapatalk, and it works great.
 
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It'd definitely be nice to browse without all the ads and extra stuff you don't really need on a PDA, like rank, # of posts, etc. Mainly a super slimmed down version of the current forum layout. You could do nearly all of it via CSS, but I'm guessing someone, somewhere has made a vB theme for PDAs.

Then again, we still can't embed youtube videos here, and that is only a one line config change... so I wouldn't be holding your breathe.
 
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bruceb58 said:
Ever do any MS updates or are you solely running Linux?
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Actually I do run Linux quite a bit. I use a Macbook for work, but run Linux at home. I'm a systems administrator for a company that uses Mac & Linux exclusively. We're also a web service provider so we're all too familiar with the horrors of IE & we are very happy to report that a large percentage of our site's visitors use Firefox quite happily :)

So ya, I don't like IE for a good reason & no, I don't use IE except in a virtual machine for the silly networking companies that can't be bothered to get out of the last decade :)

BTW, I hope my original IE comment was taken lightly, I wasn't trying to be a jerk about it (though I do hate IE).
 
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I use Chrome most the time myself...Firefox always seemed slow for me..Chrome always flies...
 
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Jordeez98 said:
I use Chrome most the time myself...Firefox always seemed slow for me..Chrome always flies...
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I haven't gotten into Chrome, but it is very fast indeed. I've been using Safari on my Macbook pretty successfully, but it can be a memory hog (not usually an issue with 8GB of RAM :)).
 
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superbenk said:
I haven't gotten into Chrome, but it is very fast indeed. I've been using Safari on my Macbook pretty successfully, but it can be a memory hog (not usually an issue with 8GB of RAM :)).
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I only use safari on my iphone ;) That the closest i've gotten to anything Apple relater (not that i wouldn't love to have a Mac) Tried Safari on my PC and hated..

Just downloaded Unbutu recently (last linux distro i used was Mandrake years ago....Hoping i'll be able to install that along side crap Vista...(play with Chromium OS but having issues with wifi)



ok /offtopic

so sorry :D
 
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