Delete an Application from the iPhone and iTunes

How do you delete an application from you iPhone?  Well most folks will say that you need to do the following:

1. Hold down you finger on the application icon for two or three seconds until the icons begin to bounce around.
2. Click on the X in the upper left corner of the icon.
3. Confirm the deletion of the application

Now the application is gone, right?  Wrong. This removes the application from the iPhone. However, the application is still just sitting in iTunes. If you connect up your iPhone and look at the Apps tab, there it is. You can choose whether to the application syncs or not, but you can't delete it. What do you do?

To actually delete applications off the iPhone and iTunes, click on the Apps icon under Library in the left control pane for iTunes. You should see something like this:

This is the list of installed applications. Just click on the icon of the application you want to delete, hit the delete key, and it will be deleted from both. Gone for good. Woot!

Discovery Channel App for iPhone

TechCrunch has a review of a new Discovery Channel App for the iPhone. It looks to be focused on Discovery Channel fan boys and girls, with links to schedules, news, and video snippets from various shows. If you want to view a full episode of a show, you still have to purchase it from the iTunes Store.

3.0.1 Broke My iPhone

Well I updated the firmware on my iPhone to 3.0.1 this morning. And much to my dismay, none of the downloaded apps work any more. All the built in applications works just fine. However, when you launch any 3rd party application it crashes. Basically, no 3rd party applications launch any more.

First I Googled the problem and found this discussion on the Apple support forums. So I have tried:

• Authorize and deauthorize the computer
• Delete and reinstall an application
• Reset the iPhone
• Delete all the applications on the iPhone
• Delete an app from iPhone and iTunes. Then download the application again and reinstall.

None of this seemed to work so I called the AT&T support number and got iPhone support. The nice support person suggested the deleting all the applications and reinstalling them option. If that doesn't work, restore the iPhone from scratch.

I am trying the install from scratch option at the moment. Tried the delete all the applications from the phone option and that didn't work. I will keep you updated on my progress finding a fix.

It is pretty ironic that after I start a web log devoted to iPhone apps, my iPhone can no longer run any apps. lol.

Update: Apple Support found a solution for me.

Sports Tap

Sports Tap is a free sports score application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The main focus of this application is, of course, showing game scores. The application does this quite well and is very comprehensive. It includes coverage of baseball, football, soccer, car racing, tennis, hockey and golf. Soccer coverage is the best for any sports application that I have seen to date. The app includes scoring for the English, Itallian, Spanish, German, French, Scottish, Dutch, Brazilian, Argentinian, Mexican, and American soccer leagues. A must have app if you are a soccer fan.

In addition to scores, the app also includes news headlines, standings and stats for the sport you have selected. The information is up to date and the stories current and relevant.

The app also includes some customzation features that allows out identify our favorite teams. This puts your teams scores at the top of the page for the selected sport. Here are some samples of what the news screens look like:



All in all, this is a great app for the sports fan. I give it a:
5 out of 5

Zombieville

Zombieville is a platformer shooter that costs you $1.99.

This is a great game that is definitely worth two dollars. You are some old guy running through levels of brain-eating zombies. With a variety of weapons from shotguns, to chainguns, to lasers you must blow your way through wave after wave. The controls are very easy to use. This game only involves tapping the screen and does not involve movement of the iPod.

I give this a 5 out of 5