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Am I retarded, is there no Android game thread? Chu Chu Rocket Just $1, nice high-def graphics and 3D bits. It does freeze on me if my screen turns off mid-game. It's brand new though. SG2LTE.
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# ¿ Nov 24, 2011 13:53 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 15:13 |
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Ah well thanks. I checked the forum but the Android tag doesn't show up in the filters and I left it at that. edit: I just neglected to bookmark it from the Android FAQ. Bah. I'd definitely seen it before. Mornings. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Nov 24, 2011 |
# ¿ Nov 24, 2011 14:00 |
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nickhimself posted:First example of why this would be useful: Ex-girlfriend related posts so your current girlfriend doesn't get all snoop-happy and decide to go through your previous wall posts to see what you used to write about your ex and why you don't write those things about her. Aside, I've noticed lots of my friends leave all the smoochy pictures with their exes up.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2011 20:04 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.shiftyjelly.pocketcasts&hl=en Also had to buy Presto separately for faster listening.
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# ¿ Jul 27, 2012 17:01 |
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DoggCatcher and BeyondPod have free trials so I recommend checking them out at least. I definitely appreciate DoggCatcher's widget and lock-screen controls. It does seem to take longer to update feeds than it should.
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# ¿ Jul 27, 2012 17:23 |
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Man, Aldiko is pretty awesome. It's the first tablet app or e-reader I've come across that actually nicely typesets ligatures and the like. (i.e. look at how it displays a double-f, like in "difficult", or an "fi" as in "figure"). I've never used the Kindle app, but the Kobo one definitely doesn't. My Sony Reader didn't either. It's a small thing, but a nice attention to detail.
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# ¿ Jul 31, 2012 14:56 |
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Not available for me on Rogers in Canada. Might finally be an excuse to root though.
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# ¿ Aug 1, 2012 19:55 |
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big mean giraffe posted:Trillian uses push and very little battery if you're looking for multiclient. And yeah, seems absolutely negligible insofar as battery life is concerned. I always have it running 24/7.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2012 16:54 |
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This is awful? edit: oh gently caress, failed with the image size. Forgot my screen's resolution. Anyway, it looks nice to me when it's small and dense on a phone screen.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2012 17:47 |
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I LOVE GoodNews, and want to switch for it for podcasts, but it doesn't support variable-speed (Presto library) playback like the major podcast players. Vote for this feature if you'd also like it: http://goodnews.uservoice.com/forums/149658-general/suggestions/2757342-support-variable-speed-playback-for-podcasts
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2012 16:53 |
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Did you try searching for "keepass" in Play? I use it in combination with DropBox and it's excellent.
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2012 22:52 |
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Gyshall posted:Goodnews is just about the best thing out there and does RSS + Podcasts. Doggcatcher is what I used to use for podcasts but it is really loving clunky and has questionable UI design. The features are sick though. But I agree, Doggcatcher is a little questionable overall. I picked it over Beyondpod at the time because it was prettier haha.
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2012 12:31 |
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Android 4.2 (Nexus 7) now has a second swipe-down menu which lets me get rid of my power-feature widgets ... but it's missing the GPS one It's not too far in the settings at least. I used to use a 5-in-1 plus separate battery metre (the battery widget gave me easy access to see what was killing my battery). The GPS one sticks out because apparently trying to get lock for some reason overnight managed to wakelock my tablet and destroy the battery.
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2012 15:47 |
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Tunga posted:Google's belief is that you should never ever need a file manager on your phone and to be honest that's perfectly true for the typical user. Where would these files be coming from? The internet? Send the link instead. But the option to install one is there if you need it. I think it's a perfectly good model.
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2013 18:34 |
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So I've gotten tired of Flow being retarded with double letters and punctuation and wanted to switch back to Swype. My beta trial had expired and the updater is broken, and the original stock version apparently got removed by the official 4.1 update to my phone (S2 LTE/Skyrocket). When I try to download a new APK from beta.swype.com though my phone refuses to acknowledge it as installable. The old Swype APKs on my phone still work, so I don't think anything has changed locally. Any ideas? Googling didn't seem to bring up anything wrong.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2013 05:08 |
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LastInLine posted:So when you try to download from the page the page says the phone isn't compatible or the APK downloads but won't install on your device?
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2013 13:48 |
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Well that worked. Very strange. Thank you!
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2013 15:17 |
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That's cool. My new nuisance is that the updated My Tracks app is supposed to automatically sync the data to Drive (if you enable the option), but it doesn't. I have to force it by sharing the track with another of my email addresses. I need it to geotag my photos. I used to use Instamapper but that service closed down in December without a word.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2013 20:40 |
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XIII posted:App question:
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2013 05:09 |
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Geno posted:For Swype on my S3, when I would type several words and put my cursor back on one of the words, Swype would show several words that are similar for typos, bad swipes, etc. Now, that row is blank and I have to press the Swype button on the bottom left for the words to show up. Anybody else have this problem?
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# ¿ Sep 27, 2013 16:55 |
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Why is Pocket Casts a recommended podcast app? What do people have against Doggcatcher? Put Pocket Casts on my wife's phone because of all the rave reviews I've seen. Immediately the lovely episode clean-up leapt out at me as a poorly-implemented feature. Not really the app's fault, but I was disappointed I couldn't set up audiobook MP3s as a feed. Got my refund, put Doggcatcher on. Love the "virtual feed" feature that lets you set up any directory of media files as a fake-podcast. Handy for audiobooks downloaded from Humble Bundle or whatever. The app itself just seems to be better designed, like ... hey, I can have it auto-delete played episodes. The only criticism of it I can offer is that it might have too many features for someone totally new to podcasts. edit: one really stupid thing I should email the developer about, Doggcatcher isn't set to only download by wi-fi by default. Burned me badly when I got a new phone last year. teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 04:09 on May 28, 2015 |
# ¿ May 28, 2015 04:07 |
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Ah thanks. I perhaps should have spent more time with it, but honestly that work-around is not particularly intuitive. Also the auto-delete, in the app, is labelled as "most recent" episodes, not "listened to".
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# ¿ May 28, 2015 05:24 |
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Yeah loving with the Android file system is a logical way for the average user to make a feature work.
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# ¿ May 28, 2015 05:34 |
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I apparently somehow missed the checkbox. When I was poking through the options, I only saw something about auto-deleting more than x number of recent episodes. I'm most likely wrong. Somehow I just missed this poo poo, panicked (over $4), and went with what I knew.
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# ¿ May 28, 2015 05:56 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:Gonna go out on a limb and say: media players typically won't let you bookmark your place in a plain audio format, in a way that you can return to it days later as opposed to just being paused and restarted the same day. If you want to get fancy you can set up your auto-play order too so that podcasts always come first and the audiobook is there at the end when you run out of current content. Handy when doing stuff like driving or biking, when you don't want to be loving around with your phone.
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# ¿ May 28, 2015 17:30 |
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Canada has privacy laws affecting Google services. For example, we couldn't get Street View until they blurred out faces and license plates.
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# ¿ May 29, 2015 03:48 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Ugh, I hate to ask for a music player recommendation, but could you please assist? All I want to do is set up an agent on my PC which will monitor a few folders that I tell it, and then I want to be able to access those folders from the Android device. I am having a lot of trouble doing this because programs are doing too much or doing it wrong. Maybe give http://subsonic.org a look? I use the caching feature (for subway listening) but it can definitely be disabled. It doesn't scrape, and it definitely uses folder.jpg for album art (that's how my collection is sorted). By default it will transcode files to be more suitable for mobile data streaming, but that can also be disabled.
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# ¿ May 29, 2015 12:34 |
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I know this is petty but I'm just shocked I can't do this for free. I run foobar, winamp and XBMC for various needs, and they all do exactly what I want, for not a penny. Even if it's a dollar, I'm just surprised I'm going to have to buy an app to find out it may not even be what I want. Still, you can install the server for free, pay your $1, and quickly see if it works for you. Grab the refund if not.
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# ¿ May 29, 2015 14:19 |
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Casyl posted:There's a very good chance it'll go on sale during the Steam sale sometime in the next week or so for $15. That said, it's a system that has you manually enter everything (which is part of its philosophy), whereas apps like Mint and Level Money automatically look at your CC/bank statements to see your spending. The Mac version IS tied to Steam however.
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# ¿ Jun 10, 2015 13:28 |
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lostleaf posted:Was this posted yet?
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2015 04:54 |
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Some people just don't want to use cloud storage services I guess if nothing else, might be handy if whatever service you use is full or down.
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2015 03:42 |
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Got an app called Light Flow recently to solve a major nuisance with my S5. When my S5 got updated to KitKat, it completely hosed up the notification system I was used to. I finally found a compromise I could live with using the priority-only mode, but that disables the notification light. Short of my wife calling me, the only notifications I ever want are by light -- no sound, no buzzing. (Oh and my alarm. Without priority-only set, turning off the ringer even disables the loving alarm.) Light Flow not only overrides the bad firmware behaviour, but is extremely customisable: you can set up notifications for both apps and contacts, and set specific colours, speeds of flashing, etc. Hell, doesn't even have to be lights ... you can set ringtones and vibrations from it too. I paid $2.50 for the premium version. There's a free one too, I'm not sure what it cuts out.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2015 15:27 |
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Hm, it's been working for me for a few days. Initially though I hosed around with all the settings, to do with whether it's active, background, takes up a notification slot, etc. I don't think it worked for me as a background app, but seems fine 'active'.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2015 16:36 |
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Current Android Hangouts is the only app I can count on to actually be available instantly.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2015 05:25 |
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For what it's worth, Light Flow updated recently to explicitly add support for Android 5.1 in priority mode, and now it works for me as a background app on my S5.
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# ¿ Jul 6, 2015 20:27 |
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Doggcatcher works for me. Playlists work great for me, but the auto-playlist is a bit strange if you're combining virtual feeds. Keep meaning to email the dev to fix it.
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2015 03:35 |
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Noticed the same thing on my S5. Wasn't sure if I was imagining things.
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# ¿ Jul 21, 2015 16:06 |
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hooah posted:I recently moved my computer downstairs. Being a Windows machine, it doesn't hibernate reliably, so I'd like to be able to tell it to do that remotely. I tried out Microsoft's remote desktop app, but that only let me log off. Is there some app that will let me do this? Using the remote app, can you do ALT + F4 on the desktop of the session? That's literally how you shutdown/hibernate from the desktop terminal apps using the gui.
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2015 12:23 |
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Is there some cheaper/free version of Subsonic these days? I have a grandfathered account so I'm good, but I don't know what to recommend to others when it comes up. I use it to stream my home library to my phone or wherever else. It will automatically transcode FLAC or high bitrate MP3s if necessary. I use it particularly when I'm unexpectedly asked to DJ parties, and the playlist + other features just work so much better than say Rdio or Spotify for that use. I like having it show me a random selection of my albums, then I queue up tracks from them that I feel would be appropriate for the particular event. I first found it when steaming music started getting to be a thing, and I thought it was ridiculous that services (here in Canada at least) would charge an additional fee if the music was being played on a "mobile device" as opposed to a general purpose computer.
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2015 05:37 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 15:13 |
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neogeo0823 posted:Yeah, I don't intend on getting rid of Google Play, but surely there has to be a less bloaty browser I can use and some decent cleaning app out there. The couple I've tried don't seem to do anything unless I pay $5 to unlock them, which is just a kick in the teeth to me. You could give Opera a try? The download is 20 MB, not sure what the installed size is.
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