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That 10 gigs free is for 2 years. Do you get charged for it after that?
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rotaryfun posted:That 10 gigs free is for 2 years. Do you get charged for it after that? In the past they usually just turn the extra storage off with a few proceeding nanny messages about clearing out space.
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Sep 20, 2013 00:21
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When did SwiftKey get this slider on the space bar for switching languages? That's pretty slick.
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Sep 20, 2013 02:30
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DrBouvenstein posted:Neat, can always use more cloud storage. It's a fake action bar created by a 3rd party library called Actionbarsherlock (and an old version at that). Icons in the overflow menu is the giveaway (with the direct attribution in "About" being the smoking gun). IIRC when an app is targeted at Honeycomb and doesn't explicitly use the native Action Bar, Android brings up the legacy menu button on phones with their reasoning being that even though Honeycomb had Holo, the phone equivalent at that point was Gingerbread meaning a phone app designed at that time expects a menu button. So that's the cause of your problem. Doesn't really feel like Google total rewrite of the original Quick Office app, this is more like a mild restructure/reskin. Seems like they intended this to have more time in the oven, and the reason they're releasing it now is that they want to catch some of the tailwind of Apple making the iWork suite free for new iOS devices on iOS 7. LastInLine posted:Is it me or does QuickOffice kind of blow? I opened a spreadsheet created from Drive just to test drive the UI and it opened it as a PDF. Maybe I'm using it wrong? I don't really have a need for it but I also don't have a reason to not have it and 10GB (although for only 2 years so kind of useless). That's not it, since this QuickOffice used to be QuickOffice for Google Apps, which had the same feature set as QuickOffice Pro. The purpose of QuickOffice is to be a native editor/viewer for Microsoft Office and PDFs, putting the squeeze on Microsoft's Office 365 which requires a subscription. The (real/percieved) weakness of Drive has always been the required import step from Office format -> Docs/Sheets/Slides, and this removes that. It's possible the end game is to replace the "Document Viewer" which is part of Gapps (at least on Nexus) with this, since its essentially a more full featured version of that but who knows. The interesting part is that the QuickOffice also has an integrated file manager for non-Cloud storage so if the plan really is to start bundling it with Nexus/Google Play devices this goes squarely against the Android team's previous philosophy (at least under Rubin) of never shipping the OS with one. What Sundar wants, Sundar gets so its not as if they have a choice. dissss posted:Quickoffice will do Word and Excel which the Drive app won't, Drive will do Google Docs which Quickoffice won't. There would've been a pretty clean division of roles between the two if QuickOffice didn't insist on being a quasi file explorer and restricted itself to only showing files it could view/edit within Drive. Must be deliberate too otherwise they would've just ripped the functionality out of the app (like the alternate cloud providers). Either way judging by the redesigned Drive page it's going to stick around: http://www.google.com/drive/apps.html
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i barely GNU her! posted:When did SwiftKey get this slider on the space bar for switching languages? That's pretty slick. Over a year ago.
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Sep 20, 2013 04:39
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Thanks for this, good stuff here.
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Sep 20, 2013 09:36
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Taffer posted:Over a year ago. Guess I would have noticed sooner if Kii wasn't so good 
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Sep 20, 2013 14:18
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Quick question about Nova Launcher: When I turn my tablet Landscape, the Dock stays where the bottom of the screen was in Portrait, so it ends up on the right side of my screen, and vertical. What setting do I need to use to make it so that it moves to the bottom of the screen and stays horizontal when I rotate?
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Sep 20, 2013 15:16
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Kheldarn posted:Quick question about Nova Launcher: When I turn my tablet Landscape, the Dock stays where the bottom of the screen was in Portrait, so it ends up on the right side of my screen, and vertical.
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Sep 20, 2013 15:17
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Wait, how I can do that on my Nexus 10? The 16:10 aspect ratio means there's really no room for a dock on bottom of the screen - I'd rather put it on left or right side of the screen.
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Sep 20, 2013 15:26
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Ihmemies posted:Wait, how I can do that on my Nexus 10? The 16:10 aspect ratio means there's really no room for a dock on bottom of the screen - I'd rather put it on left or right side of the screen. That's how it works for a portrait device (ie. Phone or Nexus 7)
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Sep 20, 2013 15:42
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Oh. Darn. OK, thanks for the answer.
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Sep 20, 2013 15:46
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What's THE browser on devices with (Snapdragon S3 and) only 1GB of RAM? I'm using Firefox (not Beta) and I like it because it has the AdBlock Plus extension, but it's just so slow between doing things like starting up, closing tabs and even bringing up search suggestions (on 3G or WiFi) I'm rooted so I'm thinking AOSP or Chrome with an adblocking proxy could work well
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Sep 20, 2013 21:53
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Dice Dice Baby posted:What's THE browser on devices with (Snapdragon S3 and) only 1GB of RAM? I use an adblock hosts file works good for me. (It came from an app that installed it but the app doesn't work anymore so I pulled it out of one of my old backups.) I'm using boring stock CM10 browser in desktop mode it's never done anything slow that I've ever seen.
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Sep 20, 2013 22:06
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Stock AOSP is all I used on my GNex because with that 1GB of RAM anything else just chugged or never stayed in memory.
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Sep 20, 2013 22:34
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Yeah I did CM10.1 on my Evo 3D and the difference in speed from that stock Sense is night and day. Primarily, the launcher doesn't "cold start" every time you hit the home button. For browser, the stock Browser performs fine.
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Sep 20, 2013 23:09
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I prefer the CM Browser with AdAway.
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Sep 20, 2013 23:23
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Awesome, IMDB pushed an update through today that broke the app for many people, including me. drat thing won't even start.
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Sep 21, 2013 00:16
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...! posted:Awesome, IMDB pushed an update through today that broke the app for many people, including me. drat thing won't even start. You have a browser yeah? What's even the need for a native imdb app? I really don't get this and not meaning to be snarky at all for true, just wanting to understand the reasoning for apps for every site. You have an imdb app on your PC? One time wife and I wanted to know what used/craigslist prices were for some patio furniture some friends had, she went to market to search for a cl app she could then search from, I went to browser. I asked, she didn't have an answer that made sense to me. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Sep 21, 2013 |
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Sep 21, 2013 03:02
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CLApp is fantastic, and going to the browser version takes several hundred more years to fiddle with.
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Sep 21, 2013 03:04
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Splizwarf posted:CLApp is fantastic, and going to the browser version takes several hundred more years to fiddle with. How? You click your cl app, I click browser. You type gfe incall to search I type <my city > + craigslist then gfe incall to search on cl. You've saved a few keystrokes/taps for sure, but how often are people looking at cl or imdb on phones that they really need a way to save those few seconds typing? I like looking at websites just like they appear on a pc. I do like awful app and tapatalk for forums since forums are about a million times more interactive than imdb or cl and the mobile optimized experience is appreciated but still dont get it. Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Sep 21, 2013 |
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Sep 21, 2013 03:29
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Vin BioEthanol posted:How? You click your cl app, I click browser. You type gfe incall to search I type <my city > + craigslist then gfe incall to search on cl. You've saved a few keystrokes/taps but how often are people looking at cl or imdb on phones that they really need a way to save those few seconds typing? Short answer: people have become conditioned to seek single-use apps for everything. Sometimes, not always but sometimes, the layout designed for a computer monitor reflows funny, has elements that don't scale right, or otherwise looks like rear end on a phone. Some sites have menus that rely on a pointer hover rather than a click. Sites like these sometimes have an app that fixes these problems. However, you are correct in that many of the apps are kind of redundant, especially when a well-designed phone-friendly site exists.
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Sep 21, 2013 03:37
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The trouble is way too many sites think that because they provide an app they don't need to provide a usable mobile version of the site. That said m.imdb.com seems perfectly fine to me - not sure what the app really adds (it seems to be webviews anyway)
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I agree with you on the bitterly complaining about a website app breaking and implying that it's ruined your day and now you can't do anything, but ClApp really is amazing. Other than features like nearest location using GPS, ad saving, favourite searches, etc, the native interface is way snappier than a webpage is. If you use craigslist a lot, it makes it a lot easier to deal with.
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HTML5 and current browsers are just not ready to replace native UIs and APIs. For some apps that doesn't matter, for some it does.
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Sep 21, 2013 17:14
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Thermopyle posted:HTML5 and current browsers are just not ready to replace native UIs and APIs. For some apps that doesn't matter, for some it does. According to Facebook's incompetent mobile dev team, sure.
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Sep 21, 2013 18:22
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Is there an app that will monitor uptime of a website and trigger an alert if it goes down? It would have to be connected to an external service somehow so that it doesn't trigger when my phone loses its internet connection. Alternatively, is there a way of making emails from a particular address or with a particular subject ('your website is down!') set off an alarm? e: pingdom seems to do the trick. fuf fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Sep 21, 2013 |
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fuf posted:Is there an app that will monitor uptime of a website and trigger an alert if it goes down? It would have to be connected to an external service somehow so that it doesn't trigger when my phone loses its internet connection. Not an android app but couldn't you do something like this? http://www.webmasterworld.com/php/3482164.htm
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jalopybrown posted:Not an android app but couldn't you do something like this? http://www.webmasterworld.com/php/3482164.htm Thanks, but I only have one server and I'd need a second one to run this script to check the first one.
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Just picked up a Nexus 7 (my first adventure in Android since the early, god awful days). Is there a good video player that supports SMB shares over WiFi? So far all the VLC versions I am finding require content to be local or streamed over HTTP.
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Lifespan posted:Just picked up a Nexus 7 (my first adventure in Android since the early, god awful days). Is there a good video player that supports SMB shares over WiFi? So far all the VLC versions I am finding require content to be local or streamed over HTTP.
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fuf posted:Is there an app that will monitor uptime of a website and trigger an alert if it goes down? It would have to be connected to an external service somehow so that it doesn't trigger when my phone loses its internet connection. You could also have gmail apply a label to your alert mail (you'd have to set up the filter in the browser though) and then have the gmail app sync and notify for that label e- Dice Player lets you add smb shares to its browser apparently, haven't tested it though. It's a good player in general, I use it when I want the overlaid video window thing going on. aaaand now I've tested it and it works fine baka kaba fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Sep 21, 2013 |
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Vin BioEthanol posted:You have a browser yeah? What's even the need for a native imdb app? I really don't get this and not meaning to be snarky at all for true, just wanting to understand the reasoning for apps for every site. You have an imdb app on your PC? Spoken like someone who's never used the app. The app is a whole hell of a lot better than the mobile site, that's for sure. When it works, that is. 
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...! posted:Spoken like someone who's never used the app. The app is a whole hell of a lot better than the mobile site, that's for sure. When it works, that is. What in the gently caress is a mobile site? 
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Is there an app to help with figuring out each person's share of a restaurant bill? Like, I could input the cost of a person's order, and then orders that were shared across the table, and then the service charge percentage, and it'd give me how much each person should pay?
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gradenko_2000 posted:Is there an app to help with figuring out each person's share of a restaurant bill? Like, I could input the cost of a person's order, and then orders that were shared across the table, and then the service charge percentage, and it'd give me how much each person should pay? Only about 5000 of them: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=bill+split&c=apps This one doesn't look like complete poo poo: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.billpin.android Simpler: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.collinguarino.tipcalculator Decius fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Sep 22, 2013 |
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Sep 22, 2013 15:06
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gradenko_2000 posted:Is there an app to help with figuring out each person's share of a restaurant bill? Like, I could input the cost of a person's order, and then orders that were shared across the table, and then the service charge percentage, and it'd give me how much each person should pay? I just take items i ordered x 1.07 (or 06 or 07 or whatever your local tax is) and then, x that by 1.20 (or whatever you want to tip). this needs an app?
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Has anyone else been having playback issues with Google Play Music? I have an AT&T Galaxy S4, rooted, with everything up to date (issue happened before updating to 4.3), and on WiFi or cellular data, every now and then I get short skips in the music. Any idea what could be the cause?
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Sep 22, 2013 17:25
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:If you use a file browser like Estrong's you can find files over the network and it can open them to your application of choice. That works. Is there an app considered to be the best media player?
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Lifespan posted:That works. Is there an app considered to be the best media player? MX Player is the usual suggestion.
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