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I was able to put this on my 1.9.30 MIUI Rom on my Droid X just fine. It's pretty clean.
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Just a thought: anyone know if the ICS version of the Calendar app has Google Tasks integration, as with the browser client?
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Nov 17, 2011 22:47
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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spincube posted:Just a thought: anyone know if the ICS version of the Calendar app has Google Tasks integration, as with the browser client?
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Nov 17, 2011 22:51
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I released a little app to the market a couple months back. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.appwolf.dealographer&hl=en I got the idea from working retail for 4 years, specifically at a lawn and garden job where we lost thousands of dollars in plants due to them dieing before anyone managed to come along and notice we had them marked 50-90% off. We would throw out 70$ arborvitaes that sat for three weeks at $10. Same thing at a grocery store I worked at, we tried placing items as attractively as possible but we still lost hundreds of our inventory due to produce no one wanted to buy ($2.99 pomegranates marked down to a dime and they still spoiled.) My app lets people post these reduced items and they show up on a map around a users phone. For example someone can tap a icon that has been posted and see that at Lowe's there is an "non stock" item for a massive discount, then buy it. Theoretically clearing these items by connecting them to people who would want to buy them without them having to be in the right place at the right time. With the state of software patents I know it is a waste of time but I filed a provisional patent on the idea. What I was curious about though are methods of getting an app noticed? I figured the idea was good enough to take a shot with, and the app would be pretty drat handy if the idea caught on. Since it would cover any type of store, or any type of item (damaged/mark down/clearance/expiring)
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Nov 18, 2011 06:37
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Space Crabs posted:I released a little app to the market a couple months back. This looks pretty cool. Seems like trapster for deals 
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Nov 18, 2011 07:09
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Do you intend retailers or customers to update this?
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Nov 18, 2011 10:02
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I'm looking for a superapp that probably doesn't exist, so I thought the resonable thing was to ask around here. Basic description: turn my Android Tablet into a Lowjack device for my car. I want to be able to turn it on, hide it in the seat back, and have it text and email me if the car moves without first putting in a password or something. Also preferrably not kill the battery inside of thirty minutes while it's keeping watch. I'm pretty sure I can script this sort of functionality into one of the more complicated scripting programs, but there has to be something ready made for this that doesn't require rooting. Any help/hints/leads?
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Nov 18, 2011 15:56
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Cakefool posted:Do you intend retailers or customers to update this? I figured at the start no retailers would want a part of it. I tried contacting a few but I have no real position to approach them with, or even an idea of who to contact. Theoretically it would save some stores money by clearing out the deals they can't advertise outside of displays in their store. There is no place else for a grocery store to advertise that it has certain single store prices other than in-store displays or racks devoted to that. I intended on customers updating it, but realize the difficulty with the cycle I face. I need people to post to it, but I need it to have posts for people to use it past the initial download once they see the map around them is either full of stuff they may want, has anything at all, or is blank.
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Nov 18, 2011 16:27
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You need a way to overcome the Freecycle issue, ie how do people who see it on the map know there's any left? If the retailer's not updating the posts, and quickly, every listing will produce a minimum of one disappointed user.
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Nov 18, 2011 16:49
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Splizwarf posted:You need a way to overcome the Freecycle issue, ie how do people who see it on the map know there's any left? If the retailer's not updating the posts, and quickly, every listing will have a minimum of one disappointed user. The rating system cuts an item out after it receives X amount of bad ratings, and postings are given a expiration time when posted, 1-7 days. The problem with having the retailer update the listings is that the listings aren't typical store items, it's items from their "Clearance" racks that litter some stores in various places with various items that are clearance for one reason or another, its completely different from store to store. So Wal-Mart can't just post franchise wide deals because 1) That would be advertised already 2) Store A has items that Store B doesn't, etc. 3) It would require me to somehow contact them and get them to give a poo poo about my app. Nobody is really giving me the time of the day when I contact them so I don't bank on retailer involvement.
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Nov 18, 2011 16:56
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Is multi touch support in keyboards difficult to do? One of the reasons I love the Motorola keyboard so much is because it's multi touch. Swift key just included it. Why don't more keyboards support multi touch?
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Nov 18, 2011 17:19
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If the sale reflects trying to clear out items rather than a timed discount on guaranteed-in-stock items, a timer is meh. It might be useful if the retailer put it up because they might have a hard "toss everything if it doesn't sell by Friday" date. To clarify my earlier point, though, if the average user goes out of their way to run down a deal that isn't there, and it happens more than once in a good while, they're probably not going to keep using the app. v  vI think your best traction will be found by contacting store managers personally, because the utility is obvious but the higher-ups don't have much invested in making sure the tail end of perishable stock sells; however, that will be extraordinarily time consuming even if you just focus on a single city. I know it hurts to see it happen, but spoilage is built into business plans. The only people with skin in the game on this are the bargain-hunters. I think that something that eats tweets and shits deal notifications is probably the way to go, but I would suggest a 1-strike expiration for deals. The next user to go past can always re-establish the deal, after all. ... I put up this fat wall of text and only at the bottom did I realize that you're basically trying to make Foursquare. Go use that.
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Nov 18, 2011 17:27
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Splizwarf posted:If the sale reflects trying to clear out items rather than a timed discount on guaranteed-in-stock items, a timer is meh. It might be useful if the retailer put it up because they might have a hard "toss everything if it doesn't sell by Friday" date. I wasn't focusing on helping retailers clear their perishable stock, the idea is for any item, from the 75% off furniture or display items that stores need to just get rid of. The hardware retailer I worked at would sell $100+ grills for next to nothing because they became non-stock items, and they would sit on the shelf with a little non-stock tag for weeks until someone came along and saw it who wanted it. I heard probably every day that a customer wished they had known about ____ deal at each retail store I worked at. At the grocery store I had a stack of numbers and names of people that wanted to be contacted the next time we had plums 90% off, or pomegranates 90% off. They would have bought the item had they been by at the right time. I think its distinct enough from foursquare at least.
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Nov 18, 2011 18:23
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Cheekio posted:I'm looking for a superapp that probably doesn't exist, so I thought the resonable thing was to ask around here. Basic description: turn my Android Tablet into a Lowjack device for my car. I want to be able to turn it on, hide it in the seat back, and have it text and email me if the car moves without first putting in a password or something. Also preferrably not kill the battery inside of thirty minutes while it's keeping watch.
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Nov 18, 2011 18:38
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falz posted:This certainly sounds like it would need some sort of additional device integrated in to your car to make this work. I would think that the best chance of having an app to control such a device would be to look at manufacturers of whoever make these types of things. Or just buy a crappy GM with OnStar or something. If doesn't need an additional device, just an external power supply. You'll be polling sensors nearly constantly with a wake lock & the screen off, churning through a normal battery in a couple of hours.
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Nov 18, 2011 18:49
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Space Crabs posted:I wasn't focusing on helping retailers clear their perishable stock, the idea is for any item, from the 75% off furniture or display items that stores need to just get rid of. The hardware retailer I worked at would sell $100+ grills for next to nothing because they became non-stock items, and they would sit on the shelf with a little non-stock tag for weeks until someone came along and saw it who wanted it. This kind of thing is exactly what Foursquare is good for, specifically a Flash Special.
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Nov 18, 2011 18:53
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Splizwarf posted:This kind of thing is exactly what Foursquare is good for, specifically a Flash Special. Flash specials are still the group based social networking deals. "Have 3 friends enter this venue for 25% off a gift card" and all that. That is not "A mile away there is a television for 5$ for some reason" My app isn't a coupon aggregate and foursquare doesn't cover the same ground. It covers similar ground, and its attractive if you need $1 off at arbys or a free bar of soap at bath and body works. The point is that the items are not being advertised out of store. Retailers can't advertise them because the deals are different from store to store.
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Nov 18, 2011 19:03
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Cakefool posted:If doesn't need an additional device, just an external power supply. You'll be polling sensors nearly constantly with a wake lock & the screen off, churning through a normal battery in a couple of hours. So a USB vehicle diagnostics device to interface with his car + appropriate USB drivers on Android to talk to it + an app. The first google hit for "Android vehicle diagnostics" brings up a website that seems to sell products that interface with cars and has an android app. That + some type of automation tool such as Tasker?
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Nov 18, 2011 19:05
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What does a lowjack device usually cost, anyway? Android tablets don't exactly come cheap. They're nothing I would leave in my car overnight on the off chance that they could maybe help me get my car back after it gets stolen, at any rate.
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Nov 18, 2011 19:09
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No need to interface with the car electronics, just keep checking position via gps or accelerometer. This doesn't need an expensive usb adapter, just a hidden power supply.
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Nov 18, 2011 19:10
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Space Crabs posted:Flash specials are still the group based social networking deals. "Have 3 friends enter this venue for 25% off a gift card" and all that. That is not "A mile away there is a television for 5$ for some reason" You're describing a Group Special. A Flash Special can be as simple as "There's 30 TVs for $5 at this location for this long, first come first serve" with no other requirements. Dollar-off coupons at Arby's are the tip of a pretty big iceburg.
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Nov 18, 2011 19:11
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Splizwarf posted:You're describing a Group Special. A Flash Special can be as simple as "There's 30 TVs for $5 at this location for this long, first come first serve" with no other requirements. Dollar-off coupons at Arby's are the tip of a pretty big iceburg. Okay Foursquare FAQ posted:What is a Flash Special? You aren't getting that my app isn't a Daily Deal app. It would have no information other than what stores already have, its just a simple location program to connect people to the items near them. There is no retailer posting a flash special, there are no limits on unlocking, location, friends, nothing like that. You simply can find out that your local Lowe's is selling its fruit trees for $5, regular $30, which comes entirely from that OSLG Specialist deciding to make their fruit trees $5. The deals already exist, they exist right now, they are made completely outside of any kind of retailer agreement coupon aggregate, they are also not listed anywhere else.
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Nov 18, 2011 19:34
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I think your app would be awesome & I'd want it to notify me of keywords within a set distance, but yes getting someone to input the data to begin with will be the sticking point.
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Nov 18, 2011 19:45
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Cakefool posted:I think your app would be awesome & I'd want it to notify me of keywords within a set distance, but yes getting someone to input the data to begin with will be the sticking point. Consider me stuck. I had originally tossed around the idea of incentive programs or people paid per post, but that would incorporate people abusing the system and I wanted to see if the app would catch based on its own merit first.
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Nov 18, 2011 19:57
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Space Crabs posted:Consider me stuck. I had originally tossed around the idea of incentive programs or people paid per post, but that would incorporate people abusing the system and I wanted to see if the app would catch based on its own merit first. I think this is an interesting idea. In fact, I know that there is a garage start up here in Seattle working on something very similar. I don't know the details, but as far as I know, they aren't putting anything out there yet, so nice work.
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MalleusDei posted:I think this is an interesting idea. In fact, I know that there is a garage start up here in Seattle working on something very similar. I don't know the details, but as far as I know, they aren't putting anything out there yet, so nice work. I had the idea last year, I did file for a provisional patent but I hear that is essentially worthless so my focus was to be first to market, and I still haven't seen anything quite the same. I tried contacting a few websites that give coverage to "Start-ups" but never got a single email back. I tried a few local flyers and things but to get it caught on I'd need more exposure than I can get I think.
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Any idea what browser I should use to be able to view The Daily Show videos? I use Opera except for Facebook, where I use my default browser since opera doesn't display it correctly. But neither will play the Daily Show videos that appear on my wall, either from the Facebook site or when navigating from the Daily Show site itself. It kinda tries to load up the ad video before the content, but it doesn't play. Do I need a different browser for every site or am I just looking in the wrong places? I'm on a sprint evo 3d The Ferret King fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Nov 18, 2011 |
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Nov 18, 2011 22:27
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I think I read someone here saying something once about a method an mp3 player app could use to play audio with the screen off where it basically wakes up the OS every once in a while to refill some media buffer and a hw decoder plays the music with the OS being able to mostly sleep? Is that true? What's it called? I have a suggestion for the subsonic player and would like to suggest this along with my original if it's possible. Phone is completely awake (screen off) the whole time subsonic is playing. (I've never used anything else so I don't know that this isn't normal, I just thought I remembered someone posting about something like that)
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Nov 18, 2011 22:38
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The Ferret King posted:Any idea what browser I should use to be able to view The Daily Show videos? I use Opera except for Facebook, where I use my default browser since opera doesn't display it correctly. But neither will play the Daily Show videos that appear on my wall, either from the Facebook site or when navigating from the Daily Show site itself. It kinda tries to load up the ad video before the content, but it doesn't play. Do I need a different browser for every site or am I just looking in the wrong places? Give Boat browser, Dolphin HD and Maxthon a try, all free in the market. Boat doesn't reflow text like Opera does but has been the best browser for flash content in my experience.
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Nov 18, 2011 23:10
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I installed the SwiftKey update, but now I can't change keyboards. I have SwiftKey and Touch Pal installed and couldn't clear defaults for either keyboard.
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Nov 18, 2011 23:43
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That happened to me. Make sure you go to settings / language and keyboard and check the box for SwiftKey. I saw complaints in the comments and then noticed they said to do this in the description.
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Urfdser posted:That happened to me. Make sure you go to settings / language and keyboard and check the box for SwiftKey. I saw complaints in the comments and then noticed they said to do this in the description. That was one of the things I tried; SwiftKey is the only one checked. Edit: Not sure if the new update fixed it or if it was just trying something new, but when I went back into the settings, I noticed it said to long press on a text field and choose "input method." Doing that, then selecting SwiftKey, made it work fine. Strange. hooah fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Nov 19, 2011 |
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Nov 19, 2011 02:56
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hooah posted:That was one of the things I tried; SwiftKey is the only one checked. That's how I've always switched keyboards on Android.
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Nov 19, 2011 03:17
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letsgoflyers81 posted:That's how I've always switched keyboards on Android. That's the only way to set the active keyboard unless you only have one installed AFAIK.
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Nov 19, 2011 03:52
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big mean giraffe posted:That's the only way to set the active keyboard unless you only have one installed AFAIK. You can change in under Language & Keyboard in settings. It brings up the same dialog that choosing input method does though.
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Athenry posted:You can change in under Language & Keyboard in settings. It brings up the same dialog that choosing input method does though. Maybe its just sense but I didn't see an option for changing the active keyboard, just their options.
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big mean giraffe posted:Maybe its just sense but I didn't see an option for changing the active keyboard, just their options. This was what threw me.
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Does anyone know if there is a .psd template or something to make your own custom Launcher Pro dock icons so they match the original icons?
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Nov 19, 2011 20:44
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StickFigs posted:Does anyone know if there is a .psd template or something to make your own custom Launcher Pro dock icons so they match the original icons?
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Ugh, I love WidgetLocker's ICS lockscreen but I hate how finicky the app is. I'm using it with CM7 and a PIN lock, and I've got CM7 set to disable the stock slide lock before the PIN. WidgetLocker, though, will show whatever my foreground app is in the half-second between when I slide the lock icon and when the PIN screen appears. So if the phone locks while I've got an email open, it'll show that email VERY quickly between WidgetLocker unlocking and the PIN screen appearing. It's annoying as hell. Any ideas what could cause this? It wasn't happening for a while but it's started up again.
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