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What's a good android RDP app? I want to use my PC from my couch through my Revue.
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What's Android PDF support like? Is there native support for viewing files? And are there any PDF apps out there that will bookmark the last page I read so I can reopen a document at a later date to resume reading from where I left off?
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Jul 16, 2012 19:13
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Manky posted:Gods what I wouldn't give for Gmail controls in the notifications. My college insists on sending out endless emails and there's probably one out of twenty I don't want to delete on sight.
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Jul 17, 2012 23:19
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Syrinxx posted:What's the goon preferred RSS reading app for 7" and 10" tablets?
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Jul 18, 2012 00:15
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What are some good split keyboards? Typing horizontally on the Nexus 7 isn't the most pleasant experience with all the reaching I have to do.
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Jul 18, 2012 00:38
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Having come over from iOS-ville, I'm used to individual app icons being able to have badges displaying a number corresponding with things like unread messages, podcasts downloaded, etc... Does this convention exist in Android? I ask because there doesn't seem to be a way to get the standard Gmail icon on the home screen to display an unread message count. I even had to add an entirely separate icon-sized widget to the home screen to get an unread newsfeed count for Google Reader. I just want to tailor my expectations for a new OS.
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Jul 18, 2012 05:02
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gmq posted:It depends on the launcher. Go Launcher EX has "GO Launcher EX Notification", ADW has ADWNotifier, Nova Launcher has TeslaUnread, etc.
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Jul 18, 2012 05:33
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Got any recommendations for a scratch pad app for sketching or writing notes? I just picked up a Jot Classic from Adonit and I can't wait to take it out for a spin.
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Jul 22, 2012 07:39
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Are there any browser apps that will let me open all bookmarks in a folder at once? I have a folder in particular with some sites I check every other day and it's a drag having to long-press > "open in new tab" each of them individually in Chrome. Is there a way to enable this functionality in Chrome?
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Aug 27, 2012 20:19
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I picked up OfficeSuite Pro 6+ and Tasks. I've heard OfficeSuite bombards you with upsell ads for "Office-Compatible Font Packs" but I haven't seen anything thus far so who knows.
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Sep 26, 2012 18:46
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Taffer posted:So is it impossible to listen to youtube videos with the screen locked? I like to listen to lectures and speeches and other similar things on youtube and would like to do it on my phone while I'm walking around doing things. I did a bunch of googling but all I got were a bunch of dodgy apps that didn't work at all.
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Sep 27, 2012 16:31
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I've got two app questions: 1. What's the best way to access my Nexus 7's internal storage wirelessly? It would be nice to be able to sync content to it from my PC while it's charging in the other room. 2. Can I interact with and see my tablet from my PC as though I were remoting into it?
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Oct 2, 2012 21:05
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A friend of mine showed me Notability for iOS and I can't get over how awesome it is. Is there a good equivalent for Android? I haven't been able to find anything on the Play store, most stylus-centric note-taking apps I found on the Play store lack the ability to define a palm rest or the ability to zoom in to write on individual lines on a document.
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Oct 16, 2012 22:30
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How does DeskSMS work? I'm thinking of abandoning Google Voice because of its lack of MMS but I don't want to give up the ability to send texts from my desktop. Its Play page isn't very descriptive - do the app redirect all SMS and MMS to its service, which then forwards it along to me? That's the only way I can think of it working and I hesitate to give them carte blanche access to my messages.
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Oct 31, 2012 18:10
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Both versions of SwiftKey 3 (phone and tablet) are half off today. Since SwiftKey Flow is going to be an update to 3 then now might be a good time to pick it up if you haven't already. On that note, is it worth it to pick up both versions, or is the phone version just fine for tablets? I've got an N7 that I've been using the tablet version of Flow on so I have no idea how limiting the phone version might be on the larger screen. I'll be migrating to an Android phone in a couple of months and I'd just as soon pick up one app and install it on both devices. That being said, if the tablet version of SwiftKey 3 is much more suited for tablets, then I'll just drop the couple extra bucks to get it.
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Dec 21, 2012 16:32
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Athenry posted:The Tablet version gives you a split keyboard in landscape on tablets. That's the only difference I've found. Edit: What the hell, swipe doesn't work in the tablet edition either! SwiftKey 3 Tablet Edition won't swipe in Trillian or Drive, but SwiftKey Flow Tablet Edition will...This makes no sense SwiftKey 
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Dec 21, 2012 18:47
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Nerdrock posted:Swiftkey Flow is swiping. Swiftkey 3 is typing. Simple. IAmKale fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Dec 21, 2012 |
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Dec 21, 2012 19:06
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:Predictive typing.  Oh well, I guess I'll just buy both apps now in anticipation of the upcoming Flow update.
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Dec 21, 2012 19:10
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LastInLine posted:Flow is the worst swiping keyboard. I know it's just the first beta but it's just so obvious the developers have no idea how Swype users use Swype. Why would you need a way to correct words after the fact? Why would you need a way to differentiate between "to" and "too"? Why would you want multiple suggestions for swiped words?
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Dec 22, 2012 01:50
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spog posted:I don't have GV. Which is a shame, as it sounds cool, thanks.
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Jan 2, 2013 21:06
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I know the Facebook app is kinda lovely, but has anyone else had it hard-lock their device? My Nexus 7 has hard-locked two or three times after pulling up the app, and I have to hold down the power button to get the tablet to restart itself. What's weird is that there's never a pattern to it - more often than not I can start up and use the app just fine.
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Jan 18, 2013 21:17
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Are there any scientific calculator apps for Android that are similar to iOS' Symbolic Calculator? Symbolic's killer feature is how it converts a single-line math equation into a properly formatted equation, like so: In that third example, you'd type √68/2*√5, and when you hit enter it'll popup all neatly formatted with an answer. You can also tap on any of the answers to get numerical answers, as well as copy them for reuse in another equation. It also has a bunch of built-in math functions that you can call from the equation bar by typing it in, like entering log(4,2) to find log base2 of 4). Most scientific calculator apps seem to emulate the one-line interface of physical calculators; this is one of the few I've found on any platform that takes some liberties with that otherwise limited design. I'm hoping there's something similar on Android.
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Jan 31, 2013 19:26
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nigga crab pollock posted:Can you import playlists from winamp into google play music? or vice versa?
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Mar 19, 2013 18:28
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I finally got around to activating Carbon...but what the hell was the point of installing something on Windows to enable it? Carbon had been sitting on my tablet for the longest time because I was too lazy to go through with connecting it to my PC, and then I finally get around to connecting it and running the Carbon Windows application and am told afterwards that I no longer need to hook up my tablet to my PC to backup. So what the hell, Carbon? All I was interested in doing in the first place was backing up to Dropbox, why did I need to "activate" the app while tethered to a computer?
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Apr 9, 2013 17:10
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LastInLine posted:To expand on what Maker of Shoes said, all that the Carbon app does is provide a shell for the ADB backup command. You don't even need the app to do what it does if you want to do everything via command line/terminal in ADB on your PC. That's the crux though, you can't run certain ADB commands locally without running being rooted and so you must run the backup command from a computer running the ADB shell. The fact that all of this is abstracted to the user is the point of having an app and the limitations you're seeing are due to real and well-addressed security protocols not bad coding on Koush's part.
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Apr 10, 2013 14:35
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Speaking of Samsung Galaxy devices, is there an app that will let me modify their bottom three hardware keys? I think Samsung makes some nice smartphone and tablet hardware (that S-pen  ), but I haven't been able to get over the fact that they insist on including that drat, archaic menu button. Just about everyone else has gone with the now-standard "Back/Home/Window" buttons, Samsung - why do you have to be the special snowflake? Anyway, is it possible to take something like Samsung Galaxy S4 and reassign the bottom buttons to match the "Back/Home/Window" UX design?
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Jul 22, 2013 14:42
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One of the higher-ups at work is wanting to hand out 50-60 of the new Nexus 7's to our various vendors. It's going to fall upon me and my coworker to get them preloaded with a couple of documents and maybe a custom wallpaper before they're gifted out.  I've been seeing what's possible with the stock functionality in 4.3 and discovered that Android has a Document Viewer app that can handle displaying Powerpoints and the like. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to bring the app up without opening the Powerpoint file from within a third-party file browser app like ES File Explorer. Some Google searching tells me that Document Viewer is available via the Downloads app, but I haven't figured out how to drag-and-drop files into /SD 0/Downloads/ and have the Downloads app recognize their existence. Sideloading additional apps won't be a problem if we need to, and in fact that'll be the only way for us to get additional apps onto the device because we're skipping the Google account setup process. What are our best options for configuring all of these devices? Ideally we'd be able to drop a couple of Powerpoints and PDF's onto the device and then put shortcuts to them on the home screen so the user can view the documents in as few taps as possible.
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Jul 31, 2013 17:57
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Is there anything that improves Android's text selection mechanism? I've always felt that iOS had a superior cursor placement system compared to Android, with a magnifying glass that appears over your finger to show you a blown up view of where your cursor will end up when you lift for finger. I find Android's blue arrow that appears under the cursor hard to tap and move accurately.
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Aug 24, 2013 02:45
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wa27 posted:Finally. This has been a feature of desktop Chrome since 1.0. Now that I have a phone that can run Chrome well, I've been using facebook.com instead of the app, but it was always annoying that it would stay open in a tab when I was done.
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Oct 4, 2013 16:58
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How do I get Google Now to control music playback via Play Music? On a few separate occasions I've tried saying "Play %ALBUM NAME%" or "Play %PLAYLIST NAME%" but all I get back are Google searches of those exact words. I want to verbally switch albums or playlists from my phone while I'm in the car but I haven't been able to get it to work. What am I doing wrong?
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Oct 25, 2013 19:29
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Is the new Photos app supposed to replace Gallery? I know it used to be called Google Photos but after a recent update out of nowhere it seems as though Google intends for us to use it over Gallery. Maybe it's because it now shows up as an alternative when viewing images.
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Nov 4, 2013 01:47
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With regards to the new Hangouts, how do I save pictures received via MMS? A friend sent me a couple yesterday and while I can tap an image to fullscreen it, there's no prompt or menu option for me to save them. A few places online said to press the Menu button while the picture was full-screened, but those were Galaxy S devices and there's obviously no way to do that on my Moto X.
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Nov 11, 2013 18:34
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:Tap the picture again when it's up and a menu softkey will appear in the top-right.
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Nov 11, 2013 19:00
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:Tapping the picture from Hangouts takes me to a black screen with just that image and Android's status bar. Tapping the picture again makes an action bar appear with a left arrow and the sender's picture on the left, and the three dots on the right. Double-tapping zooms in and I can also pinch zoom. That's on a Nexus 5. What do you get?
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Nov 11, 2013 19:27
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ten_twentyfour posted:iMessage does not send SMS texts. It goes through Apple's servers. This is precisely the cause of an issue I have due to swapping from an iPhone to a Nexus 5, where people with iPhones' messages don't get to me because Apple still reports my number as an iPhone. Lots of people are affected (pretty much anyone who swapped from an iPhone)
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Dec 9, 2013 19:56
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What's a good plaintext note syncing app? I've been using Evernote but it feels way overkill for my needs (and it's stopped syncing for no apparent reason). I prefer working in plaintext anyway so I just need something simple that'll sync to Dropbox and maybe Box or SkyDrive.
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Jan 29, 2014 16:56
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LastInLine posted:Why not Keep?
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Jan 29, 2014 19:24
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Dukket posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for a flash card app?
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Feb 6, 2014 23:19
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Microsoft finalized the SkyDrive rebrand, and now that it's OneDrive they're giving away 3GB of additional OneDrive storage if you download the updated Android app and turn on Instant Upload. On that note, if you've already done this, have you received the extra storage? I uploaded two dozen or so photos from my phone but never received it.
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Feb 19, 2014 20:35
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Thermopyle posted:I don't know if it's worth changing your current work flow, but the reason I do it is that it leaves my inbox with just emails that I currently care about. IAmKale fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Mar 27, 2014 20:27
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