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a shameful boehner posted:Speaking of calendars, are there any good, resizable calendar widgets that'd work well on a tablet? I've looked in the market and there doesn't really seem to be any, as they're either mostly geared towards phones or aren't resizable. I just want a nice, homescreen filling calendar on my 10" tablet that I can look at when I want to. I use Android Pro Widgets on my Touchpad and it works great. Tons of really well done themes too (Lucid being a personal favorite). It comes with a whole lot more than just a calendar widget so it might be overkill for your needs though. In other widget news, Tabr (super customizable tabbed widget from the dude who made Agenda widget) is really loving cool and currently free in the market while in beta.
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god the facebook app just gets worse and worse. I load it up, it displays all my poo poo, then I try to scroll and the screen goes back to 'loading'
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Is there an app that will let me get group text messages from iPhone people? Not sure why this isn't default in Ice Cream Sandwhich SMS app.
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Doctor Butts posted:god the facebook app just gets worse and worse. With every new version, the GPS polling at startup pisses me off more and more. Since the latest update, I'm also frequently getting partially loaded feeds. Like, it'll just be text, stripped of formatting and links and images. If I refresh it returns to normal. I'm at the point where I only use the app for push notifications and use the mobile site for everything else (including reading said notifications).
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Plume finally got the update to version 4.0* 
  FACEBOOK SUPPORTIt might not replace the Facebook app yet (or never for some people depending) but it's cool that they finally added it in. *It hasn't hit the Play Store yet, so you can only download the update through the Beta Forum: http://levelupstudio.com/betatest/index.php?topic=189.0 Skeezy fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Jun 1, 2012 |
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The other day when I was out for a run and using Endomodo, it frequently (at least two dozen times in my two mile run) would pause, and then unpause about two seconds later (complete with computerized voice lady saying 'paused' and 'resumed'.) Anyone know why it might be doing this, or experienced this? At first I thought maybe it was the "vibrations" doing it, but that wasn't it...the screen stayed locked, so that wasn't it...
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Skeezy posted:
What is this trying to say? Is it not normal to turn on airplane mode and then enable wifi? I thought that was the standard procedure someplace with bad signal and wifi available (like inside a house). 
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Splizwarf posted:What is this trying to say? Is it not normal to turn on airplane mode and then enable wifi? I thought that was the standard procedure someplace with bad signal and wifi available (like inside a house).
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:I guess it's normal for people who don't like making/taking calls. Or, you know, people who use voip apps like Skype or GrooveIP.
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Jun 1, 2012 16:28
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:I guess it's normal for people who don't like making/taking calls. By "bad signal", I meant "not enough signal to make/take calls", ie bad enough that turning the cell radio off is a good idea because otherwise it'll drain the battery lickety-split. I should have been more specific. Also, if you're using Google Voice, just route to the landline while you're there. Splizwarf fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Jun 1, 2012 |
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Jun 1, 2012 16:32
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Facebook isn't really as great on Plume as I thought it would be but I guess that's expected. I hope they can push Plume to do as much with Facebook as a third party app is allowed.
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Jun 1, 2012 16:41
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Leathal posted:I use Android Pro Widgets on my Touchpad and it works great. Tons of really well done themes too (Lucid being a personal favorite). I know I should probably just fiddle around with it, but I tried APW and didn't like it because of the ugly black bar at the top of the calendar widgets that reminded me a little too much of the Sense skins. Is there any way to customize that that I was missing? Also, Tabr looks awesome. Gonna download that as soon as I get home tonight.
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Why did he use the word "abuse", though?
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DrBouvenstein posted:The other day when I was out for a run and using Endomodo, it frequently (at least two dozen times in my two mile run) would pause, and then unpause about two seconds later (complete with computerized voice lady saying 'paused' and 'resumed'.) I stopped using Endomodo and switched back to CardioTrainer for this very reason. IIRC, it's the detect-when-you've-stopped-and-pause-your-workout feature not working correctly.
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Penguissimo posted:Why did he use the word "abuse", though?
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They'd still get them as soon as the wifi ticked on, unless he implemented it really weirdly. Data available = ads available.
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Splizwarf posted:They'd still get them as soon as the wifi ticked on, unless he implemented it really weirdly. Data available = ads available.
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a shameful boehner posted:I know I should probably just fiddle around with it, but I tried APW and didn't like it because of the ugly black bar at the top of the calendar widgets that reminded me a little too much of the Sense skins. Is there any way to customize that that I was missing?
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Doctor Butts posted:god the facebook app just gets worse and worse. I removed the app from my phone ages ago. And I can honestly say that I don't miss it.
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Is there anything available on Android which comes close to Apple's AirPlay? It's the one feature of the Mac/iPhone ecosystem which I'm jealous of, having seen it working at a friend's place. For those not in the know, this is AirPlay. Where an iPhone comes into it is that there's a remote control iPhone app which allows you to control the AirPlay system from your phone, and it's pretty slick. I don't mind if it means you need dedicated hardware as that's exactly what AirPlay requires. I've tried DLNA and it doesn't really come close to what AirPlay does (and you're also restricted to only playing music stored on your phone).
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rolleyes posted:Is there anything available on Android which comes close to Apple's AirPlay? It's the one feature of the Mac/iPhone ecosystem which I'm jealous of, having seen it working at a friend's place. For those not in the know, this is AirPlay. Where an iPhone comes into it is that there's a remote control iPhone app which allows you to control the AirPlay system from your phone, and it's pretty slick. So you are not restricted to only playing music stored on your phone. The restriction is that the CP is not built into Android so you can't just redirect whatever media you are playing to another device. You need an app for that. In my case I use BubbleUPnP on my phone to tell my QNAP NAS running whatever DLNA compatible server(Serviio, Mediatomb, Twonky etc) to stream a playlist, I've built in BubbleUPnP to my DLNA enabled Denon stereo. BubbleUPnP also contains a local DLNA Server, so you can stream media stored on your phone to a DLNA Renderer of your choice. Another app worth checking out, that does almost the same thing, is Skifta. A bit more polished UI, an easier way to stream from outside your own LAN but more closed off too. I use both, but prefer BubbleUPnP. While the guys doing Skifta are nice and very helpful, I find that the single author of BubbleUPnP is quicker to fix bugs and push out changes.
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Having read the app descriptions I'm still not entirely clear on whether they do what I'm looking for. For example, could I hook my laptop up my stereo and then use one of those apps to make the laptop play music (music which is stored on the laptop)? How about if you throw an external media library into the mix (so using the phone to control the laptop, which then plays music from the external library)? Assume that the laptop and external media library support DLNA for the purposes of this.
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Yes, the idea is that the device that is sending the music, has a DLNA server. The device playing, has a DLNA Renderer/Player, and if you don't use the Player to browse for music to play, you can use a Control Point to tell the Server that it should play a particular piece of music on a certain Renderer/Player. Windows Media Player is also DLNA compatible and can work both as a player, playing music from your NAS/Home Server(provided it runs DLNA compatible software), but can also act as a server, letting you stream music from your laptop to your phone. If you just use your phone as a remote control, you could stream music from your Home Server to your laptop. Just remember that this normally only works when all DLNA devices are on the same local network. If you by external media library mean something like Google Music or Spotify, it's a whole different thing.
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Yeah by external I just meant a NAS with a DLNA compatible media library on it. Having tried both of those, they work but only to a point which seems to be something common to DLNA gear whenever I've tried it. It seems to take ages to get a library listing, whether I use the NAS library or the WMP library on my laptop (they both have the same 20gb or so of music, one backs up the other). There seems to be around a 5 second gap between tracks as well, which is a little annoying at best and hopeless when listing to an album which requires gapless playback. I encountered much of this when I previously experimented with DLNA just streaming from my phone rather than a seperate media library; DLNA is nice in theory but, certainly with my hardware/network, it's just not quite there yet.
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rolleyes posted:Yeah by external I just meant a NAS with a DLNA compatible media library on it. Having tried both of those, they work but only to a point which seems to be something common to DLNA gear whenever I've tried it. It seems to take ages to get a library listing, whether I use the NAS library or the WMP library on my laptop (they both have the same 20gb or so of music, one backs up the other). There seems to be around a 5 second gap between tracks as well, which is a little annoying at best and hopeless when listing to an album which requires gapless playback. This has been my (admittedly, limited) experience with DLNA, as well. Especially the library listing. I find XBMC+the XBMC remote app to be super snappy and awesome, though. It would be great if it had a method of displaying media that was already on the phone, but alas, it doesn't.
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You can also co-opt the Airplay ecosystem to a large degree with an android phone. Once you've installed an Airport Express somewhere connected to your speaker system, start iTunes on your desktop/laptop. In iTunes, you'll see the Airport Express as a speaker option. Then get the https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hyperfine.hftunes.release&hl=en Remote for iTunes app and connect it to iTunes. From the app, go the volume settings and you can choose to play through the AE in addition to (or instead of) the PC on which iTunes is installed. To really upgrade the system, XBMC or a program called shairport will create additional AE-equivalent players on any PC you install them, so you can have PCs connected to speakers throughout your house all playing the same music. Possibly using a Raspberry Pi? Never tried it, but could work in principle. Now, so far this depends on your music being on an external device accessed by iTunes. If you want to stream music from your phone directly, you'll have to figure something else out - for music, you could have everything downloaded to the offline source via Google Music or synced through a Dropbox folder monitored by iTunes, or if you're playing a youtube video, the XBMC app already integrates an option to "Send to XBMC" as an app to use to "open" youtube videos.
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Is there a way to disable syncing of a specific account under certain conditions, using Locale/Tasker/whatever? I see Tasker supports 'autosync', but I can't tell if that's for all accounts or per-account without buying it.
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Odette posted:I removed the app from my phone ages ago. I installed it on my new Droid Bionic, but I recently uninstalled it. It seems as though the Bionic has it built in to its functionality, unless that's just the mobile version of Facebook I'm looking at. The external FB app had the aforementioned slow loading issues and a noticeably less-streamlined layout.
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Here's something I just got which is much simpler than DLNA if you are just interested in getting music from your phone to speakers in your house: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/speakers-audio/home-pc-speakers/devices/wireless-speaker-adapter
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Are there any good irc clients that can sync with a pc? I've been using trillian but the app doesn't support it 
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Jensen posted:Here's something I just got which is much simpler than DLNA if you are just interested in getting music from your phone to speakers in your house: Interesting, but I'm more looking at the phone as a remote for a larger external media library. The airtunes emulation links + itunes remote posted above are an interesting option. I don't currently have itunes installed but I'm half tempted to set it up in a VM to see how it turns out. Edit: Particularly this one Edit2: vvv If there was a version of this for poached eggs I'd be all over it. rolleyes fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jun 3, 2012 |
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I don't remember who it was who recommended Egg Timer, but this app is amazing. If you like eggs, you NEED THIS. I just made the most incredible egg salad thanks to this.
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Swiftkey 3 released an update the other day. It's a huge improvement for me as it fixes the one complaint I had about this version (the swipe to delete feature)swiftkey posted:This new Beta has It's kind of odd that they switched the placement of punctuation like the question mark and exclamation point, but the new swipe to select feature works great. Just select the period and do a quick swipe left or right for whichever one you want. download here
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rolleyes posted:The airtunes emulation links + itunes remote posted above are an interesting option. I don't currently have itunes installed but I'm half tempted to set it up in a VM to see how it turns out. That's the program I use, very simple and straightforward. Why a VM, and why only halfway tempted? iTunes is a memory hog for sure, but it's hardly malware, and shaireport has practically no footprint at all. I leave both running on my HTPC 24/7 with no ill effects.
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berzerker posted:That's the program I use, very simple and straightforward. Why a VM, and why only halfway tempted? iTunes is a memory hog for sure, but it's hardly malware, and shaireport has practically no footprint at all. I leave both running on my HTPC 24/7 with no ill effects. A VM because last time I had any experience with iTunes it installed Bonjour which pretty much ruined my network, until some googling (on another network which actually had internet connectivity) suggested that Bonjour was the cause of those issues and I could find it and kill it. And halfway tempted because setting up a VM is a bit of a hassle. rolleyes fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jun 3, 2012 |
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rolleyes posted:Is there anything available on Android which comes close to Apple's AirPlay? It's the one feature of the Mac/iPhone ecosystem which I'm jealous of, having seen it working at a friend's place. For those not in the know, this is AirPlay. Where an iPhone comes into it is that there's a remote control iPhone app which allows you to control the AirPlay system from your phone, and it's pretty slick. IIRC there were murmurs of a "streaming living room entertainment box" from Google passing through the FCC, so best bet would be to wait for Google I/O on June 27th. Apparently Google TV is still a thing too since they're holding sessions on it, so since it gets released in the UK in summer thats a thing to watch out for too.
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Hell froze over: Instapaper for Android Marco Arment interview here: http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/4/3061780/marco-arment-talks-instapaper-for-android
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I'm looking for an app that that acts like a little notebook in which I can write down/type/sketch something quickly and then later return to it to flip though the pages. Anything like that for ICS? It would be nice if it allows a mixture of typing and drawing on pages.
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KinkyJohn posted:I'm looking for an app that that acts like a little notebook in which I can write down/type/sketch something quickly and then later return to it to flip though the pages. Evernote and Skitch.
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Vagrancy posted:Hell froze over: Instapaper for Android Is there any reason to use this over Pocket?
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