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Pocket, for saving articles to read later. They also have a recommendations tab now, too, though it doesn't seem personalized. SMS Backup+, will save all SMS/MMS to your gmail.
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Abu Dave posted:Just navigation I guess. Don't need anything fancy other than I'd like to customize the route. Google maps? Waze? Here? These have been good apps for years now.
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BoyBlunder posted:Is there an app that will lock the screen to the current app that's loaded? Here's my use case: Android has a native solution to this called screen pinning.
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:I'd love to know this. I prefer Nova, and didn't mind swiping up from the home button, but now Marshmallow adds that stupid Now On Tap which makes it one more button press to go to Google Now. You can disable Now on Tap.
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Defenestration posted:I will be more specific: I would like a language app that actually requires me to learn word lists and conjugations rather than game a multiple choice test for brownie points. I'd like more I have to type in the answer rather than which of these four words most looks like the latin root ok I'll pick that. FWIW, language acquisition usually doesn't work through memorizing lists and conjugations, which is why you won't really see that in some programs like Pimsleur. Children don't usually learn language this way after all.
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Mar 15, 2016 05:21
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kri kri posted:Are there any decent alternatives to Field Trip? Looks like it hasn't been updated in over a year. I think they're working on some type of replacement, but it's invite-only testing at the moment.
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Jun 22, 2016 21:33
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Duo, in and of itself, is "perfect" to me in terms of what is required of an app. Very simple, high quality, cross-platform, and does one thing perfectly. I'd be very psyched if it came out in 2012.
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If Allo nails texting in the way that Duo nails video conferencing, then I don't give a gently caress about Hangouts anymore. But...I doubt that.
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Installed Allo this morning. It does have SMS, and it does tie into your google account. That said, I sent a sticker to my iPhone-using wife. She was prompted to download Allo. She says, "What is Ollo?" "Oh it's some new messaging service." "Uggggh I hate that I have to have 30 loving apps to communicate!!" So as you can imagine, Allo will be a runaway success.
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Sep 21, 2016 16:03
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LastInLine posted:
What if I want encryption, but my friend doesn't -- aren't we in a situation where google now scans our conversation thread anyway?
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Sep 22, 2016 16:07
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Acorn takes small amounts from approved cards/accounts every time you make a transaction. This is helpful for me, as I don't currently have much spare money. They also allow you to set your investment profile in terms of how risky you want it, and it automatically chooses stocks accordingly. So for me, I chose the most conservative route and look at it as forced savings, with a tiny return.
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THF13 posted:Acorns is dumb because it's extremely simple to setup an automatic monthly transfer to a brokerage with lower fees I guess? It took me like 10 minutes to sign up for Acorns. I wouldn't even know where to look as far as a brokerage. I'm obviously not much of an investor.
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THF13 posted:I don't want to go off on an investment derail, but we have a Long Term investment/Retirement thread as well as a newbie personal finance thread that are worth a look. Thanks, I will probably look at those later on.
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Oct 2, 2016 19:50
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baka kaba posted:It uses insane amounts of space on the device though. Your < 100MB books unfurl into into several gigabytes for some reason, I have no clue why. Prerendering pages or something? I have a few books in PDF format, under 10MB each, taking up almost 2GB on my 16GB phone. Thanks google! You can clear the data locally, but of course you'll have to reload your books when you want to read them.
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I started messing around with ad blockers. I don't root my phone. Adguard worked fine, and it has a paid feature that claims to remove ads in apps. Block this! is open source, but the design and the broken English gave me malware vibes, though in fact I'm sure it's fine. DNS66 is what I've settled on. Supposedly it will use less battery because it blocks at the DNS level (I don't know enough about these things to know if this is true). It has several known adblock/malware blacklists, it's open source, and has a simple design.
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I complained about this earlier in the thread I think. I was in Japan, and like once a loving day my compass (5X) is randomly pointing in the wrong direction. Sometimes I noticed right away, sometimes I didn't; sometimes "calibrating" helped, sometimes it didn't. So occasionally I'm walking an entire block in the wrong direction, swinging my loving idiot phone around. Meanwhile my wife's iPhone 5S is almost completely broken, but there is no calibrating the compass, which always seems to point in the right direction. Fortunately my Pixel seems way better, and has yet to ask me to calibrate the compass. The compass issue was making me consider the iPhone, which I don't particularly like otherwise.
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Lanky Coconut Tree posted:My GMail app has stopped loading images / attachments on my Pixel XL. Anyone else gotten this recently? Seems to have happened after the May patch. It is 100% DNS66 because I use it too. You have to pause it or turn it off, then try re-downloading attachments; should work with 1-2 tries.
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