Matt Van Stone » iPhone http://www.mattvanstone.com "Slogans are for suckers." Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:45:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Grooveshark for iPhone http://www.mattvanstone.com/2010/03/grooveshark-for-iphone/ http://www.mattvanstone.com/2010/03/grooveshark-for-iphone/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:03:15 +0000 Matt Van Stone http://www.mattvanstone.com/?p=459 Grooveshark has been developing mobile apps for their hugely popular streaming music site. The Blackberry and Android apps have been available for a while, but the iPhone app has been pending iTunes App Store approval. Shockingly, the app was rejected by Apple. Except replace ‘shockingly’ with ‘obviously’. So what do you do when it becomes obvious that Apple will never approve your app? Release it to Jailbroken iPhones through Cydia.

I have been running a stock iPhone for probably a year now. I didn’t really have much of a reason to jailbreak, but as soon as I heard the Grooveshark app was out I downloaded Pwnage Tool and freed my iPhone.

If you have a jailbroken iPhone I highly suggest you download the app and give it a try. Why you ask? Well how about access to any song in Grooveshark streaming to your iPhone over 3G whenever you want? How about access to your Grooveshark favorites and playlists (for users with accounts)?

Currently missing from the iPhone app are the Library and People features. However, something not available on the desktop app but available on the iPhone is the ability to make songs available offline. In fact, you select entire playlists and make them available offline. Grooveshark will download the song to your iPhone’s memory and allow you to play them even when your radio is off. This is especially good for an iPod Touch that might not have access to WiFi all of the time.

Combine Grooveshark with the Backgrounder app for allowing 3rd party apps to run in the background and you have a full iPod app replacement.

Good work Grooveshark, very impressive app. Has anyone else tried the Grooveshark? What are your impressions?

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This results in about 440,000 results. Now in the first page I see a bunch of results that are relating to the iPhone, but are not necessarily meant to be viewed on an iPhone. However, there are a handful that do work. Here are a few things I came across:

Wi-Fi Finder
Yahoo Pipes
Travelocity Mobile
Food Network Recipe Search
GelaSkins

And then I found this iPhone Toolbox list from Mashable.

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