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AnimalChin posted:Mind if I ask how you get your news and how it's set up? I just use Feedly. If an interesting story comes across the widget I'll read it, otherwise I usually just flip through the app at lunch or on break, ready what I want, ignore the rest. What I don't like about Newstand so far (and didn't like about Currents) is that it doesn't have a view for all articles from all source in chronological order, and that it tries to guess at what might interest you and feed you that in a random manner.
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Is Gentle Alarm the go-to alarm clock recommendation here? I'm looking for something that'll learn my sleep cycles and adjust the wake up time accordingly.
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Nov 20, 2013 20:43
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Biggest human being Ever posted:Is Gentle Alarm the go-to alarm clock recommendation here? I'm looking for something that'll learn my sleep cycles and adjust the wake up time accordingly. I use SleepBot and it seems to do a pretty good job. Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lslk.sleepbot
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Nov 20, 2013 20:46
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Biggest human being Ever posted:Is Gentle Alarm the go-to alarm clock recommendation here? I'm looking for something that'll learn my sleep cycles and adjust the wake up time accordingly. Timely has kind of become the new favorite. It won't 'learn' anything but it does the pre-alarm thing and it's pretty.
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Nov 20, 2013 21:25
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Tunga posted:To answer my own post: Yeah there seems to be some kind of promotion going on with the Newstand launch, here's the link from play.google.com that works for me in the US at least: https://play.google.com/store/newsstand/collection/promotion_600021d_newsstand_launch
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Biggest human being Ever posted:Is Gentle Alarm the go-to alarm clock recommendation here? I'm looking for something that'll learn my sleep cycles and adjust the wake up time accordingly. I used Gentle Alarm from that point on but moved to Timely, an absolutely beautiful alarm app because Gentle Alarm's development has pretty much stopped at this point and there were some choices that were driving me insane. One I remember in particular was that the developer added a "feature" where if you're in the app the screen will not time out ever. So I'd set alarm to remind me of something at work at about ten minutes later my pocket felt like it was on fire and my battery lost 30% because the screen never went off. That's when Timely was released and I'm still in love with it.
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Nov 20, 2013 21:30
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Has anyone been able to get Plants vs. Zombies 2 running on a Kindle Fire? It installs from the Google Play store with no problem, but after the Popcap splash screen the display is just black (though the music keeps going). I've read about other people having the same issue with this and other devices (sometimes intermittently, sometimes consistently), but no solutions. Any suggestions, or is it just incompatible and the play store isn't hiding it correctly?
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Nov 20, 2013 21:36
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Seconding Timely.
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Nov 20, 2013 21:38
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Timely looks neat but how much does it cost? You have to pay to remove ads but it doesn't say how much.
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Nov 20, 2013 21:45
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I've been rocking Sleep As Android since it came out. Not sure why it's not as popular. It seems to track sleep pretty well (and it's built in). It has smart alarms for waking during light sleep, too.
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Nov 20, 2013 22:17
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Biggest human being Ever posted:Timely looks neat but how much does it cost? You have to pay to remove ads but it doesn't say how much. At the bottom of the settings page there's a button to share the app and earn credits. You can use said credits to unlock the features you want.
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Nov 20, 2013 22:27
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Biggest human being Ever posted:Timely looks neat but how much does it cost? You have to pay to remove ads but it doesn't say how much.
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Nov 20, 2013 23:25
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Normy posted:Cliffhanger works fine for me. Bummer, not compatible with my device.
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Nov 20, 2013 23:47
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Red Warrior posted:Yeah there seems to be some kind of promotion going on with the Newstand launch, here's the link from play.google.com that works for me in the US at least:
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Nov 21, 2013 01:51
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This newsstand thing looks nice enough, but it really needs the page flip style from Currents, if only as an option. Scrolling just doesn't cut it
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Nov 21, 2013 02:14
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baka kaba posted:This newsstand thing looks nice enough, but it really needs the page flip style from Currents, if only as an option. Scrolling just doesn't cut it
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Nov 21, 2013 02:32
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I wanted to get Moto X-like notifications on my Nexus 5, so I found this app, DynamicNotifications: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications It actually works pretty well, and it's not a battery hog at all.
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Nov 21, 2013 02:46
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:No way, scrolling is much better. It was annoying in Currents that sometimes you'd get an article that Google couldn't format or whatever so it was just the webpage and you had to vertical scroll it. The new way is more consistent. Scroll down to read more, slide right to skip. Read scroll scroll scroll read scroll scroll scroll read scroll scroll scroll Or readscrollreadscrollreadscrollreadscroll Versus read tap read tap I don't care about consistency through compromise really, if you got a page that had to go in a webview at least you only had to put up with it for that article. The flip system is way better for paging through articles, and if I want to read the next article I'll drat well click on it  They could at least add tap to scroll or something or swipe up and down, this is too much like micromanagement
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Nov 21, 2013 03:32
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bull3964 posted:What I want to know is if they finally added cross device last page read syncing in Magazines. I'm guessing probably not, but one can hope. Shocker of shockers, magazines now sync last read page across devices!
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Nov 21, 2013 04:04
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So BS Player is basically perfect except for one thing: I can't figure out how to figure get it to display what episode is playing from a playlist. It's not anywhere in the OSD and pressing the back button stops playback. Am I missing something simple here?
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Nov 21, 2013 05:44
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BoyBlunder posted:I wanted to get Moto X-like notifications on my Nexus 5, so I found this app, DynamicNotifications: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greatbytes.activenotifications Tricky part is making it disable the dynamic notifications lockscreen when it enables the passworded one. It works somewhat correctly now at least, but sometimes it still enables both of them.
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Nov 21, 2013 11:17
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I'm after a simple SMS client that displays conversations like a chat log, something like Nov 21, 2013 13:56 - Wife: can you pick up some pasta for dinner? 13:56 - Wife: oh and some peaches too 13:56 - Wife: and some apples 13:56 - Wife: and maybe some tomatoes too 13:58 - Me: yep, no worries Everything I've seen seems to be SPEECH BUBBLE FRENZY!
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Nov 21, 2013 13:37
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psylent posted:I'm after a simple SMS client that displays conversations like a chat log, something like I use 8SMS, it's the stock android app with some basic enhancements.
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Nov 21, 2013 14:09
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psylent posted:I'm after a simple SMS client that displays conversations like a chat log, something like I've been happy with Hello https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hellotext.hello Tabbed conversations too. Otherwise, it's pretty barebones. Edit: oh, and group chat works fine for me in hello. Which wasn't the case otherwise. I'm on 4.1. pistolshit fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Nov 21, 2013 |
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Nov 21, 2013 14:22
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pistolshit posted:I've been happy with Hello https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hellotext.hello This is quite nice, thanks.
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Nov 21, 2013 14:48
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Wow. HBO Go has been updated to 4.4 compatibility AND it brings Chromcast support. http://www.droid-life.com/2013/11/21/hbo-go-on-android-now-supports-chromecast-thanks-to-latest-update/
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pistolshit posted:I've been happy with Hello https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hellotext.hello Does this have popup notifications?
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I don't know. I've never tried to use popup notifications. There is nothing native to the app for them though. The notifications seem to work the same as typical Messages notifications, so if you're use a 3rd party popup notification it might work.
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Nov 21, 2013 17:06
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bull3964 posted:Wow. Can HBO Go be subscribed to independently, or is it only in conjunction with an actual HBO sub?
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Nov 21, 2013 17:11
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AlexDeGruven posted:Can HBO Go be subscribed to independently, or is it only in conjunction with an actual HBO sub? Comcast is testing a plan with hbo go and Internet service but largely you need the TV
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Nov 21, 2013 17:15
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Can Google Now read your texts to you? If so, how?
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blakout posted:Comcast is testing a plan with hbo go and Internet service but largely you need the TV I'm not in a Comcast area (thankfully), but good to know. I already don't have HBO, but it would have been an interesting addition for my Chromecast if I could get it ala carte.
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Can Google Now read your texts to you? If so, how? Don't think so.
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There is no generalized Google services topic, but I think you guys will be able to answer this just as well: I've got a google account associated with an email address at a domain I own, and I also have a google account which is entirely seperate and is largely just there for gmail. Obviously things would be a bit cleaner around here if I could merge them, but a cursory search indicates there isn't a way to do that. Also: It would be convenient if I could set the MX records for an email address at the domain I own to go directly into a Gmail interface instead of using POP. I know this was a thing that you could do with Google Apps, but I don't have google apps. Is there a way to achieve the same thing with a personal google account? Eikre fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Nov 21, 2013 |
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bull3964 posted:Wow.
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Eikre posted:There is no generalized Google services topic, but I think you guys will be able to answer this just as well: If you delete the gmail account the address is gone forever so don't do that. You should have gotten google apps when it was free! There is a workaround using App Engine but I don't know if it still works: http://www.techwalls.com/register-free-google-apps-standard-account-single-user/
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Eikre posted:There is no generalized Google services topic, but I think you guys will be able to answer this just as well: It's a royal pain but only one time. In your GMail account go under settings -> account. You need to setup both "Check mail from other accounts" and "Send mail as". The check mail from other accounts will pull your mail into GMail at regular intervals (15-60 minutes). The "send mail as" will let you send mail as your other domain from GMail. If you don't do this the receiver will see something like "me@gmail.com sending on behalf of me@mydomain.com". You also need to make sure the "When replying to a message" is checked a "Reply from the same adress the message was sent to". All of this assumes you have this setup: me@domain.com and me@gmail.com and you want to keep them separate but check the mail in GMail's interface. One sticking point is if you check your GMail account from a non-GMail app like iMail. It won't know about the "send mail as" and you'll get the on behalf messages or it will send as your GMail account. The GMail apps on Android and iOS do know how to do this.
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Yeah, pretty sure that's POP/IMAP and SMTP, like I said. Not what I want, but thank you. The App Engine thing looks good, I'm going to try that. I'm kind of tempted now to just drop my Gmail address forever, just for the sake of cleanliness. Anybody that I really care about who had that address would know where to find me, anyway.
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Eikre posted:Yeah, pretty sure that's POP/IMAP and SMTP, like I said. Not what I want, but thank you. e: vvv Good to know. I remember it being the bad a while ago but like I said I never followed closely. ClassActionFursuit fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Nov 21, 2013 |
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LastInLine posted:Just an FYI, a ton of Android features come out that regularly exclude Google Apps accounts. I don't keep track since I don't have one but I do know that it's a source of frustration for those users. This used to be the case but I've been using Google Apps exclusively for 6 years and haven't run into any limitations for the last couple years. Not saying you won't run into any issues but pretty much every single feature people use daily will work with google apps.
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