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Pissflaps posted:What secret incantations do I have to perform to get Overcast to download my podcasts, ready to listen to when I start the app? I've not had any issues with that. Did you ever turn off the background refresh or anything that might mess with that part of Overcast?
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Mechanical Fiend posted:Can anyone recommend a good chess app? I just want to play chess with my friend over the Internet without ads. Doesn't have to be free. I'm bad at chess, but had fun with Tall Chess.
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OmniFocus is good but expensive, Things is cheaper but slightly simpler, and Todoist is technically free and more on the side of a todo app but still good if you don't need something complicated.
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bobfather posted:Crystal was a trap. The guy has been receiving poo poo loads of negative feedback because he wants to whitelist some ads. Which is not a bad thing in and of itself. Known-good ad providers are fine to whitelist if you want (he's apparently going to make it an option) but from what I'd heard, he was going to be taking payments to allow ads through and wasn't willing to divulge the details of deals, which seems sketchy.
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At the risk of sounding like an old man, does Spotify's lack of proper library management make it a non-starter for anyone else? I've come to realize over the last year that listening to a full album is apparently a rare thing now? With Rdio shutting down, anyone with a library they either want to manage or want to browse efficiently, Play Music is just about the only service left that isn't total rear end. It also has Songza radio integration, which is awesome and superior to Pandora in almost every way.
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Slash posted:You can still listen to a full album on Spotify. There's also the "Your Music" section of spotify which afaict is exactly the same as a convential music library. What do you define as "proper library management"? It's really not the same, considering how Rdio, Play Music, or iTunes handle library management. Maybe it's changed a bit in the last year, but when I tap on an artist in my library, on desktop I'm presented with a giant list of songs in seemingly random order. It's better on mobile now, since it at least has headers separating the albums; the desktop client just presents a giant, undifferentiated list of songs. I could use album view, but then I'm still presented with the problem of having to browse a massive list to get to what I want. With how I listen to music, it led to me having to browse 200+ item long lists too often for me to want to keep using it when there are other services that do libraries better. Spotify seems clearly set up to present playlists/radio first, which is what I use the least. I was just wondering if I'm the weird one who just wants to easily navigate to a single album and listen, since it seems like most people are turning to radio instead.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Just search the album name and tap on the 1st song I mean, it's not a huge deal, but I don't really like using search to find music. That approach trivializes having a library in the first place; I often find myself wanting to listen to an artist but not having an album in mind. For my use, I might as well use a service that organizes music the way I've been used to iTunes doing it for the last decade considering it's still the way I like to browse my music. No need for me to stick with Spotify if it doesn't emphasize what I use a music app for.
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ddogflex posted:You can search by artist in Spotify too? It's always showed a list of albums for me... That's mainly how I used it for the 6 months or so I had it. Maybe it's changed in the last 4 months I haven't been using it? That would be extremely odd though. Either way, no reason to talk you into using something you don't like. Right, but as I mentioned earlier, I don't really like having to search for an artist to get a simple list of albums. Honestly, it's a bit weird that the way an artist shows up if you search for them is different than if you look at them in your library. If I'm browsing my library, artists on desktop show up as a list of songs not broken up by album, and still as a giant list of songs on mobile but at least sorted by album with headers. I just prefer a system that gives me a discreet artist > album > tracks way to browse. And yeah, I've used their paid service before. I just assume their library management being different than things like Rdio, GPM, iTunes/Apple Music, etc. is a part of them a) emphasizing radio and playlists, and b) not actually having any library management until well after the service launched. Edit: I'm guessing I'm in a huge minority now of wanting old-rear end library management stuff, but I still don't know if it's a weird thing for people to almost exclusively listen to albums rather than radio or playlists or anything. I'm guessing it is. I'll also stop this weird derail now. sleepwalkers fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Dec 2, 2015 |
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dik-dik posted:Lastpass owns. 1Password seems good, but the fact that you can pirate their Mac app pretty easily does make me a little bit skeptical of their security. I realize that doesn't entirely make sense but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It doesn't make any sense.
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Apple Maps, at least for me, is awful for anything related to traffic. Google Maps will offer up alternate routes in the morning that may be quicker due to traffic, and it saved me from a half-hour delay due to an accident in the middle of a trip into the city. Apple Maps doesn't handle those situations as well in my case. Edit: Also yeah, it's search results are sometimes really terrible. For a while, searching for the street I live on gave me a city like, 4 states away. Dunno why. Or it's a relatively new app/service started from scratch that still has some issues in certain situations/areas that make it a bad option for some people. \/\/ sleepwalkers fucked around with this message at 14:29 on May 27, 2016 |
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I use 1password, but if you can stomach a yearly subscription fee, I legit think Dashlane is really good.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:BUT I think it has a microphone on it that overrides the internal iPhone one when on BT and unfortunately it's a piece of poo poo so using Siri in the car now is pretty much useless. When you hold the button to use Siri, there's a Bluetooth icon in the lower right. If you tap that, you can choose whether it uses the Bluetooth microphone or the iPhone's.
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Siri's dictation for messages and stuff is pretty dang good. I have constant issues trying to get it to direct me to pretty simple locations. One time I asked Siri to "give me directions to American House in Livonia" and instead of giving me directions to the place Maps has listed as "American House Senior Living of Livonia" in Livonia, it gave me a list of other American House locations and not the one in Livonia. That's roughly when I stopped thinking I could rely on Siri to sensibly interpret commands. Though don't kid yourself, Google Assistant is just as bad in different ways. Not sure if it's finally been updated to do so, but I can't even ask it to read my text messages.
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maduin posted:some other dude was talking about the dangers of "the cloud" Storing poo poo remotely is always going to bring about some risk, and nobody recently has been saying poo poo about cloud storage aside from "yeah maybe someone will get into Dropbox but it'll take 100 years to crack your password vault." xzzy posted:I'm not saying to not use Dropbox syncing, I sure as heck do because I don't want to carry a usb drive with me everywhere. Just be aware that there are risks (there are always risks). If this is what a privacy subreddit looks like, they're both correct and reasonable.
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skull mask mcgee posted:who the hell bookmarks porn
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Red_Fred posted:I'm potentially coming these ways from Android, currently trying things out on my work 5C. The OP looks a little out of date, are there any major new recommendations I should look at? Give the official apps a go, and if those don't cut it for you, there are a ton of replacements for the first three.
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Endless Mike posted:Android has support SD cards since it was created and they still haven't managed to figure out a good system for them. It's at least *better* now that manufacturers have decide that putting barely enough internal storage for the OS and forcing consumers to buy an SD card is not really a great way to go about things, but you still run into things like apps not being able to access the SD card, having to mess around with where things go, and SD just generally being noticeably slower than internal NAND. Since Marshmallow, Android has been able to adopt SD storage as internal, merging the two, and handling where things get stored. It's not ideal, but it's a better solution than the alternative of "here's an SD card, hope users and devs can figure out how it works." Nobody has to support anything, it just exists. Doesn't stop people from using poo poo SD cards, but IIRC good SD cards have pretty good random read speeds. Also doesn't stop Samsung from just straight up removing that feature despite putting SD card slots in their phones again. Also yes, Apple is not going to start throwing SD card slots in their phones. \/\/ They're sticklers about experience (for the most part) and they make a killing on storage upgrades! sleepwalkers fucked around with this message at 16:16 on May 31, 2017 |
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iOS notifications still suck. It's like, my biggest peeve and they're somehow worse on iOS 11.
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Weedle posted:Oh god, how did they make them worse? The notification drawer is just the lock screen, big-rear end clock and all. And you have to swipe up from roughly the middle of the screen to see "older" notifications. Why on earth do I need to see a big clock when I literally have to run my finger over a clock to get to the notification drawer? And why do I have to do something more than pull it down to actually see all of my notifications? All Apple had to do was copy Google on this one.
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Boris Galerkin posted:But did they? There's a Slack channel I'm in and I see the developers talk about Hangouts meetings now and then. (Or do you mean they changed their focus? I've never used Hangouts before but I always thought it was like Skype and it seems like that's what it still it.) They stripped out the ability to use Hangouts to send SMS on Android (unless you're a Fi customer?) recently. So I'm not sure what they're doing anymore.
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My sleep will be interrupted by the horror of having payed $35 per year for a loving sleep tracking app.
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Were my fingers broken or something? I could never get that to reliably trigger any quicker than double tapping the home button to get to the switcher...
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PRADA SLUT posted:I was hoping for something like Check out Pocket Schedule, it's specifically a calendar/to-do app for schoolwork. Seems like it'll likely keep track of tasks daily, I don't think your tasks will migrate to a new day, but if you set a deadline and miss it, it'll still be marked as needing to be done.
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Zigmidge posted:This is an ios thread so those two good recommendations are going to be argued against by idiots who just want the current sky conditions on their lockscreen to ~look pretty~ which also lets them know when their next haircut is. Hi I'm going to be that idiot: good UI/UX design is a good thing and downplaying that is dumb. The equivalent to the kitchen sink is not always the best choice for someone who doesn't need/want that level of flexibility, and apps that have sensible, attractive design are often more pleasant to use than the alternatives. e: Dashlane. \/\/\/\/ Don't tempt me. sleepwalkers fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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ddogflex posted:So when exactly did passes leak fro LastPass? Never? Oh. LastPass didn't kill my dog or anything, but people are absolutely going to keep pointing out LastPass' flaws and it's not because anyone has it out for them, it's because there's a reason to. If you need to keep justifying it to yourself, that's fine, but it's not going to turn anyone's response into "oh, it's okay, they couldn't decrypt the passwords."
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FCKGW posted:I’m the only idiot I know who uses Dashlane. I like Dashlane. Dashlane is good.
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Josh Lyman posted:I feel like I downloaded an earlier version of Things but all I see is Things 3 for $9.99 now Gotta look at the purchased section in the App Store, you won't be able to find it via search.
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Yeah, Pages is still a word processor and is going to frame all of your content in the context of being on a page, writing from left to right, top to bottom.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Best soccer/world cup schedule and notifications app? FotMob and Forza Football are the best, hands down. I personally use FotMob because Ilike the layout for favorite teams slightly better, but you kinda can't go wrong with either.
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Proteus Jones posted:The OmniFocus Web situation just lead me to moving over to Things, which ended up being better for my needs. What’s this web situation about?
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Red_Fred posted:Hello Weather had a good update the other week but I guess DS will be gone as a source soon. I changed to Aeris anyway to get the pollen details. i don’t think many people are going to consider the end of 2021 “soon”
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yeah, i spent the better part of the last year flipping back and forth between outlook and gmail and eventually just threw my hands up and bought a domain to use a third party mail host with and finally try to cut myself off from google at least to the extent that i can reasonably do so. it's been a great decision.
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Violator posted:My big issue is that I can't find a service that does push that integrates with Mail.app. I don't want IMAP polling every 15 or 30 minutes. So right now I have the Gmail app installed for the instant notifications on my phone and watch and then I do all of my actual email stuff in Mail.app. It's kind of clunky but works. zoho mail provides exchange activesync and the basic mail service was $12/yr if the service you're waiting on doesn't come through.
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Weedle posted:the main thing that keeps me away from apple music is all the dumb bullshit you have to use the desktop app for What sort of dumb bullshit is that at this point? I don’t know if they advertised it very widely, but there’s an official web client now that seeeeeeems to work okay? Also I feel like I must be the only person with relatively few complaints about the keyboard? I don’t use it very frequently, but I remember being told years ago that if there are weird autocorrects that seem to trigger randomly and/or all the time when you don’t want them, add a word substitution for the exact word to be substituted with that word and iOS supposedly will stop replacing it (ie. gently caress > gently caress, so it doesn’t try to correct it to duck). I’m not sure if that’s the case anymore, but it might be worth trying for some folks. sleepwalkers fucked around with this message at 14:13 on May 23, 2020 |
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I. M. Gei posted:I just pulled up an iCloud account settings page and it’s telling me that my iCloud email password is 16 characters, which I have no loving idea what that could be, I have never used a password that long in my entire life except here for some reason. also i know not every bit of tech support advice on the internet is correct, but it just takes a quick google to see a universal agreement that an icloud account and apple id are the same thing (which is correct). afaik the only way you’d have a “separate” apple id and icloud account is if you just ended up making two accounts at some point.
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I. M. Gei posted:An iCloud Mail account, however, can apparently have a different password from the Apple ID/iCloud account in general. This is the problem I am having. I. M. Gei posted:Turns out I just needed something called an “app-specific password” which is a thing you can get from your iCloud account profile page. You click a couple of links and it farts out an auto-generated character string that you can use as a login password with your Apple ID on third-party apps that connect to your iCloud account, like iCloud Mail. aside from the part everyone's already said, there's an entire page on apple's support site about 2fa that's very relevant to you: Apple support posted:Generate app-specific passwords
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i was critiquing op's incompetent description of, and overselling of, the app's security. they said all user information is "firewalled", which, no. firewalled means that data cannot move from one part of a computer system or network to another. thus if all the user information is firewalled, then no contact tracing is possible. Typically a “critique” is detailed or analytical, your first response didn’t critique anything. You could, perhaps, provide someone else’s analysis of how it’s intended to work, potential pitfalls, etc. instead of using more words than necessary to say “nuh uh.”
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i didn't write much initially I get the  part, but you kinda dumped on someone making a pretty benign mistake (IMO) and that’s gonna get a “wait, what?” response most of the time I’d bet.Anyway, for people who’re interested: there’s plenty of info about the specs (https://covid19.apple.com/contacttracing) and there’s some relatively easy-to-understand examination of the conceptual shortcomings (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/apple-and-googles-covid-19-exposure-notification-api-questions-and-answers) with having third parties implement this API (older, but still relevant in this case AFAIK). There’s more out there as well, though it’ll take a minute for people to dig through this specific implementation. Long story short, the actual exposure notification part itself is AFAIK fine, and Apple and Google have been relatively open and made changes based on community suggestions and research. The privacy issues are most relevant when it comes to the implementation of that work, and are worth looking into before using. sleepwalkers fucked around with this message at 16:49 on Oct 4, 2020 |
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