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What’s the best app for playing different types of video files on my iPad?
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Apr 12, 2019 19:58
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Xabi posted:What’s the best app for playing different types of video files on my iPad?
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Apr 12, 2019 20:03
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Weedle posted:Is there a good local music player that does not hook into the iTunes library, but allows for copying music onto the phone via iTunes file sharing? Vox does this and plays all formats too
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Apr 12, 2019 21:08
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Xabi posted:What’s the best app for playing different types of video files on my iPad? Infuse (paid app) is great if you use Plex, otherwise VLC probably handles whatever for free.
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Apr 13, 2019 01:59
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astral posted:Infuse (paid app) is great if you use Plex, otherwise VLC probably handles whatever for free. Infuse is also great if you don't happen to use Plex.
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Apr 13, 2019 07:34
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https://softorino.com/waltr/ WALTR works really well for me. It supports wireleslly copying files to ios, adds them into the actual native Videos application and transcodes any files that ios doesn't support. I've also used Infuse in the past which works really well if you need to decode 5.1 audio or whatever.
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Apr 15, 2019 14:32
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What’s a good and simple drawing app, especially for having kids use it too?
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Apr 20, 2019 01:01
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hadji murad posted:What’s a good and simple drawing app, especially for having kids use it too? I enjoy Tayasui Sketches quite a bit. It’s been forever since I’ve tried anything else, so I’ll be curious to see any other suggestions. It’s quite a capable app but should be pretty kid-friendly too.
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Apr 20, 2019 19:03
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Okay I switched from an Android phone to an iPhone XR. I have an old database, created in Memento Databse on Android that was synchronized with Google Sheets on my Google Drive. Of course there is no version of Memento for iOs. Is there a decent iOs database app that I can import my old data into and keep adding to it? I just don't want to start from scratch and lose all my old data or break it up into different databases. If I could syncrhonize the data between the phone and the cloud that would be great but it's not a deal breaker, I'm fine with just backing up and storing intermittently. The database is not super complicated. Memento has its own backup files on the device. The data exists online on Google Sheets and can be either worked with that way, downloaded as .csv or .tsv data or as an Excel spreadsheet and presumably could be imported into a different database program that way. Zwabu fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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Apr 24, 2019 17:07
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Reeder 4 is out and I’m honestly not sure it’s worth upgrading from 3. It looks just about the same, feels a bit more “blocky,” and it’s missing a bit of features. I’m probably going to request a refund because it’s just not worth it. One of the version’s big features is a font that does this 
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Apr 25, 2019 22:17
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I switched to Newsify recently and probably won’t go back. e: does it automatically pull the full article text yet? Lazyhound fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Apr 25, 2019 |
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Apr 25, 2019 23:09
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Did everyone remember to cancel their subscription of news+ after the free month? Because it is pretty lame imo. Keeping the app around for now only because the google version keeps showing me stories in languages I don’t read no matter how many times I tell it not to.
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Apr 25, 2019 23:11
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Anyone have a VNC client recommendation? I used to use iTeleport but they just hosed it all up.
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Apr 26, 2019 03:24
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pzy posted:Anyone have a VNC client recommendation? I used to use iTeleport but they just hosed it all up. I’ve only used it for RDP, but I really like Jump Desktop. It is not free though.
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Apr 26, 2019 03:27
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priznat posted:Did everyone remember to cancel their subscription of news+ after the free month? I can’t see it being successful. Most of the magazines aren’t even formatted well for smaller screens.
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Apr 26, 2019 03:33
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SeANMcBAY posted:I can’t see it being successful. Most of the magazines aren’t even formatted well for smaller screens. Yeah - and even the ones that were would usually just have the article title with no subheading telling you what it actually was about. It was really poorly done overall. Woo a couple covers in motion and everyone is supposed to go nuts for it I guess. The thing that sucks now though is the news app has the news+ stuff interleaved with the regular articles which is especially annoying.
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Apr 26, 2019 06:29
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pzy posted:Anyone have a VNC client recommendation? I used to use iTeleport but they just hosed it all up. Have you tried RealVNC’s VNC Viewer? (Full disclosure: I’m responsible for it) Froist fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Apr 26, 2019 |
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Apr 26, 2019 07:42
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Lazyhound posted:I switched to Newsify recently and probably won’t go back. On both 3 and 4 you have the option to have it fetch articles on app open or manual refresh (or some accounts, like Instapaper (which is now treated like a real account vs just an api you can sign into to share to) you can have it update in the background but I don't know how well it works). I'm not sure if this is what you're asking about but in Reeder 3 it always pulled articles for me when I opened the app so it's been working for a while? Something I just noticed is they removed the font 'Avenir' from Reeder 4 which was my favorite font choice, and they also took away the option to move the 'mark all as read' button around so now it's fixed to the left side. I really don't see how this was approved as a separate v4.0 because functionally it's v3.x with features taken away 
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Apr 26, 2019 07:55
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Boris Galerkin posted:I’m not sure if this is what you're asking about but in Reeder 3 it always pulled articles for me when I opened the app so it's been working for a while? Boris Galerkin posted:I really don't see how this was approved as a separate v4.0 because functionally it's v3.x with features taken away On the one hand I feel like I should buy this just to support the developer (as a developer myself). It’s an app I’ve used on phone, iPad and Mac literally every day for years. But if it’s really a step back when the current app meets my needs, that’s a hard principal to support. If it solves the full-text problem above I’m instantly sold.
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Apr 26, 2019 08:26
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Weird, I’m a long time Reeder user and searching the app store there are no Reeders at all, not 3 or 4. Did it get pulled? Browsing the Canada app store. I have 3 installed.
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Apr 26, 2019 08:30
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Froist posted:Not the OP, but I think they mean pulling the full text of articles where the RSS feed only contains a short summary. E.g. Kotaku only gives the first paragraph (sometimes not even that), and in Reeder 3 I have to click the story title to read the content. I meant I didn’t get how the dev/dev team could look at this and think “yep, this is a new version, let’s ship and charge for it.” I’m not against paying for upgrades but it’s gotta be an upgrade, you know? As for the full text problem, if I understand correctly you mean like how Ars Technica does this?  If so the answer is no. Still gotta click read more which opens the in app browser. E: just subscribed to kotaku to check since you mentioned them specifically 
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Apr 26, 2019 08:45
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Boris Galerkin posted:I meant I didn’t get how the dev/dev team could look at this and think “yep, this is a new version, let’s ship and charge for it.” I’m not against paying for upgrades but it’s gotta be an upgrade, you know? Boris Galerkin posted:As for the full text problem, if I understand correctly you mean like how Ars Technica does this? Thanks for the trip report - that's what I meant, shame to hear it's still the same.
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Apr 26, 2019 10:03
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That’s too bad, the new features said something about an internal read later service so it’s a shame it doesn’t use that to grab the full article. It’s probably worth getting since it’s the cost of a cup of coffee and it’s good to help keep good devs in business.
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Apr 26, 2019 15:36
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Unless I'm misunderstanding you can press  this button to read the whole article in-app in like a reader view. I wish there was an option to always be in that mode though
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Apr 26, 2019 22:56
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You know what you’re right. I thought that was the button to see “all items” in a list, because that’s what the “all items” button looks like. 
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Apr 27, 2019 05:53
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Any recommendations for a good app for straightening out the perspective problems with panoramic photos?
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Apr 27, 2019 10:32
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101 posted:Unless I'm misunderstanding you can press Fiery Feeds remembers this setting on a per feed basis, same for real web view on those that don’t play nice with either short text or reader mode. It’s a subscription service but a really cheap one.
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Apr 27, 2019 16:31
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Boris Galerkin posted:Reeder 4 is out and I’m honestly not sure it’s worth upgrading from 3. It looks just about the same, feels a bit more “blocky,” and it’s missing a bit of features. I’m probably going to request a refund because it’s just not worth it. One of the version’s big features is a font that does this I bought it but I've acclimated to Fiery Feeds and it just isn't the same anymore. Neurophonic posted:Fiery Feeds remembers this setting on a per feed basis, same for real web view on those that don’t play nice with either short text or reader mode. It’s a subscription service but a really cheap one. This is one of those features I really like. That and the swiping behavior and 3D Touch make parsing and switching articles really easy. As you said, it's a subscription, but one I've become comfortable with because of their improvements and tweaks. The theming and dynamic lighting shifts between them are also great for resting in bed or in the evening.
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Apr 28, 2019 16:32
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VLC doesn’t seem to be able to do picture-in-picture (iPad Air 2) Is that right? Seems weird but I read that Apple API won’t let them implement. I see that AVPlayer does picture in picture but do you really need to upload files via usb like I’m reading? That also seems weird.
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Apr 28, 2019 23:58
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devilmonk posted:VLC doesn’t seem to be able to do picture-in-picture (iPad Air 2) Is that right? Seems weird but I read that Apple API won’t let them implement. I see that AVPlayer does picture in picture but do you really need to upload files via usb like I’m reading? That also seems weird. I think it has to do with the playback method or something. Channels won’t do PiP either, and I seem to remember a dev saying it had to do with the encoding of the video stream coming from HDHomeRun Prime and Connect devices. They would need to convert the stream on the fly (which can be done, PLEX can do PiP on the same feed), but leads to instability in playback (which again is true if the iOS PLEX client is any indication when playing a live stream from an HDHomeRun device).
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Apr 29, 2019 00:25
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I remember The MLB app doing pip last year and it’s not doing it this year 
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Apr 29, 2019 04:49
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Is there a way to play an artist’s library chronologically? I would think this button would do it, but it just shuffled all the songs.
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May 1, 2019 03:13
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savesthedayrocks posted:Is there a way to play an artist’s library chronologically? Eddy 'Queue' Cue posted:Lol who would ever want to do that, why don't they just 'me' them up individually
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May 1, 2019 03:36
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What's the preferred video playing app for iPhone/iPad? The old Infuse 4 (pro upgrade) is working fine on my iPad, it'll play whatever I throw at it and supports background playback, but unfortunately the iPhone version doesn't support X/XS screens. The new version of Infuse is £49.99 (or £0.99 a month) to enable pro features like background playback which I'm not really willing to pay for a video app. VLC has both features but doesn't let you boost the audio past the default 100% which is something I love that Infuse (and VLC on PC!) can do. Being able to set AirPod taps to rewind 30sec rather than to the start of the video would be a nice bonus but not a dealbreaker.
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May 1, 2019 11:56
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Question Mark Mound posted:What's the preferred video playing app for iPhone/iPad? I'm not sure whether WALTR would serve your needs. But it's a piece of sofwtare which you run on an PC, and it transcodes files and copies them to your device but into the correct native application (e.g. Videos). It also supports copying over WiFi. https://softorino.com/waltr/
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May 1, 2019 12:56
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Thanks for the suggestion! But I'm not sure that would work, video transcoding would take a bit too long, especially when there's other apps that can just play files natively. Plus sometimes I want to get videos from a work PC where installing software is a bit of a hassle. Forgot to mention another thing that would be handy actually, Infuse apparently has support to spit the video out to Chromecast. I only recently found out that existed and it would be a pretty useful extra feature.
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May 1, 2019 14:00
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Waltr uses some kind of black magic to transcode insanely fast. Seriously, give it a shot.
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May 1, 2019 14:22
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VLC on iOS is pretty good. You can connect via WiFi to it and drag and drop videos. I’m not sure about split screen or broadcasting.
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May 1, 2019 16:22
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Probably has been asked 100 times before, but not on the OP so: I own a bluetooth speaker (Anker Soundcore) and I use it with my iPhone (for music when around the house) and with my iPad (for better sound quality/volume when watching youtube). To swap from one device to another, I've been unpairing the speaker from device A, making device B "forget" the speaker and re-pairing it. I know it's a dumb problem, but those 30 seconds every time I want to swap device have started to be annoying. Is there any way to have the same speaker paired to BOTH devices and be able to choose (from the phone/ipad) which one I want it to be playing?
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May 1, 2019 16:59
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I gave mine away, but as I remember it the Anker Soundcore can not remember two Bluetooth connections, so no.
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May 1, 2019 18:23
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