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Engels
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I'm wondering if it'll be possible to jailbreak an EVO/INcredible/etc and make it a hotspot without having to purchase the pseudo extortionary hotspot plan(s).
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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naum
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I'm wondering if it'll be possible to jailbreak an EVO/INcredible/etc and make it a hotspot without having to purchase the pseudo extortionary hotspot plan(s).
Listening to the This Week in Tech podcast, here that EVO on 4G can tether right now without additional plan… |
"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Quinton
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Even google had issues during their conference due to the bluetooth and wifi saturation
Thus, for anyone unfortunate enough to sit through the GoogleTV demo, "Can we switch to the other box" has attained meme status...  |
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Engels
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I'm wondering if it'll be possible to jailbreak an EVO/INcredible/etc and make it a hotspot without having to purchase the pseudo extortionary hotspot plan(s).
Listening to the This Week in Tech podcast, here that EVO on 4G can tether right now without additional plan… That's way cool. I started watching the podcast on twit.tv, but got distracted by work. I was thinking more of the hotspot feature, however, rather than USB tethering. |
I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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naum
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I'm wondering if it'll be possible to jailbreak an EVO/INcredible/etc and make it a hotspot without having to purchase the pseudo extortionary hotspot plan(s).
Listening to the This Week in Tech podcast, here that EVO on 4G can tether right now without additional plan… That's way cool. I started watching the podcast on twit.tv, but got distracted by work. I was thinking more of the hotspot feature, however, rather than USB tethering. Should have specified that "tethering" was via hotspot — that for some unbeknownst reason, can be activated (believe for v2.2) without additional plan for 4G… …also, at some future point, Sprint might "correct" that oversight, but I reckon one could just refuse any more handset updates… Jailbroken iPhone can tether, as Lum pointed out, though for a short while there was an app in the AppStore to do accomplish this, but it got yanked fairly quickly… If tethering was important, suppose the iPhone limitability (or extra cost) would irk me, but it seems I live my daily existence (whether it be home, work, coffee shop, library, bar (yes, even the dankest bars have WiFi now, at least the neighborhood pubs I infrequently gather at…), friends, etc.… in a WiFi cloud. Really hate paying for cellular though it comes in handy when traveling on the road, between these WiFi hotspots… …after receiving iPad, considering dumping AT&T plan… In other news, I am an officially licensed iPhone OS developer now (previously tinkered with SDK but now forked over $99 and digitally signed^H^H^H^H^H^Hclicked all those license agreements and now I can release apps into the iTunes store… …still need to learn more on Cocoa Touch to move past the simple apps (though, surpisingly, it seems some of these "simple" apps can be hot sellers too)… |
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« Last Edit: June 08, 2010, 07:07:06 PM by naum »
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"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Viin
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Whoever wrote that article is retarded. Apparently he just saw a CNN headline and went from there. Here's the good ones: 2.The name implies that it is a 4th generation mobile phone when it is actually still 3G. Apple says that it is the Iphone 4, however some might be dumb enough to believe that it can use the 4th generation wireless broadband standards, although it really can't. 5. ... It also still has a plastic back which can be scratched and break. 7.Judging by Apple's previous behaviour the Iphone 4 will be out of date within a year, although most mobile phone contracts are for two years. 10. It uses Bing instead of Google for Internet search. And thats why you should use an Android phone instead! |
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If I only used things that no retarded people use I would indeed be swimming in money right now.  |
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Tannhauser
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Jobs said it would include Bing and Yahoo, but Google is the search engine.
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FYI Gawker is the owner of Gizmodo, and they *kinda* have a *small* axe to grind.
I mean, they got email addresses. Which is an embarassing security breach, yes, but I have Barack Obama's email address and I'm pretty sure I can't look at his email.
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LK
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Why does Gawker look like Kotaku?
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Because it is Kotaku's parent company.
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I mean, they got email addresses. Which is an embarassing security breach, yes, but I have Barack Obama's email address and I'm pretty sure I can't look at his email.
The ICCID has account info padded inside it which could be used for further purposes, but the bad part will be the targeted email phishing. I wonder why it was done this way when other companies say Rogers/O2 have dedicated programs in the app store unless they are just doing XML calls that could also be spoofed. |
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Pretty sure the actual 'exploit' was an XML/RPC call that the l33t hax0rz were just overloading with nonsense data.
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fuser
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Pretty sure the actual 'exploit' was an XML/RPC call that the l33t hax0rz were just overloading with nonsense data.
Indeed it's been over hyped it would be fun to see as some of the apps like rogers that request zero user authentication allow you to change settings on your account like copy every text message to another number. |
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naum
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Initial impressions since receipt of 64G WiFi version on Tuesday (a gift)…
THE GREAT…
…eBook/PDF/Text reading — have already read a number of Kindle books, free sci-fi novels on Stanza and ported over programming book PDFs and technical manuals… …love the page tap and turn mechanism in all these — Instapaper (for capturing "text" of long web pages for offline reading), Goodreader (don't need to tether device to computer to get PDFs on), Kindle, Stanza apps, all free, except Goodreader ($0.99), or I think $4.99 for Instapaper Pro (Instapaper has a free version, has full capabilities except limits to so many documents (though more than enough) and you can't do dark background on the free version)
THE GOOD…
…web browsing experience, Safari decent, most pages look just as nice (except, ahem, Google Reader and Google Apps which are crippled and/or needlessly presented in byzantine fashion)… …really wish their were settings available for font-size adjustment (like the ebook readers) and an option to do tap right/tap left/swipe left/right paging like Instapaper and the eBook apps provide — the smooth vertical sliding scrolling works well for phone UI but I'd rather have the tap/swipe model as the sliding on the bigger screen irritates my sensitive eyes…
…mail program works decently, reading mail just as smooth as on computer, though not ready to tap out long messages yet…
THE FAIR…
…the keyboard, however, this just might be unfamiliarity with the on-screen keyboard on the device as I felt this when first using iPhone a few years ago, yet I can bang out paragraphs rather swiftly now (but still not equipped to write full length books like those crazy Asian kids). My thumbs strain to reach the keys in portrait mode while in landscape mode, I seem to be able to type like a regular keyboard but the ergonomics of how the iPad is positioned make it awkward — perhaps when I get a case to prop it up properly…
THE POOR…
…iPhone apps blown up to 2X look awful, way more grainy than expected.
…missing good RSS reader software, downloaded and even paid for one, all craptacular — really would just like to use Google Reader but absolutely stunned how crummy these web apps are, in comparison to the eBook experience and web pages in general (blogs, F13 here, etc.… all look just as good on iPad, and easier to read when laying on couch/in bed/kitchen than my 13" MBP which is pretty sweet too…
Have not done much gaming on it yet — all my games are not universal, but playable. Have an iPad version of NetHack but NetHack on a touch UI (you move your toon by sliding your finger on a circle) just seems wrong. Considered buying an iPad version (though the feature banner states there have been other revisions and enhancements too) of Civ Revolutions to upgrade from iPhone version, but put that on hold. Have some board/card games that work OK at 2X, but really afraid to add more stuff on it — I'll never get any work done that way ;)
App recommendations/suggestions?
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"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Prospero
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I think Netflix and Plants vs Zombies are both must haves.
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schild
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…missing good RSS reader software, downloaded and even paid for one, all craptacular — really would just like to use Google Reader but absolutely stunned how crummy these web apps are, in comparison to the eBook experience and web pages in general (blogs, F13 here, etc.… all look just as good on iPad, and easier to read when laying on couch/in bed/kitchen than my 13" MBP which is pretty sweet too… This is actually THE app I wanted to make for android, iphone, and ipad for a long while now (I guess like over a year, well over a year). I just can't program a goddamn thing. |
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Surlyboi
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If you build it...
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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naum
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…missing good RSS reader software, downloaded and even paid for one, all craptacular — really would just like to use Google Reader but absolutely stunned how crummy these web apps are, in comparison to the eBook experience and web pages in general (blogs, F13 here, etc.… all look just as good on iPad, and easier to read when laying on couch/in bed/kitchen than my 13" MBP which is pretty sweet too… This is actually THE app I wanted to make for android, iphone, and ipad for a long while now (I guess like over a year, well over a year). I just can't program a goddamn thing. Well, I am in the midst of iPhone/iPad programming and believe I could cobble something together here, but the problem is that the Google Reader API has never been officially released to the public (there's some Python libraries from 3-4 years ago, plus some others made a stab at Ruby/.NET implementations that are even more primitive) and the "API" is missing some rather important features (at least how I envision mobile app usage), most essentially, SEARCH! Which is all rather perplexing given that, IIRC, the whole Google Reader web app was spawned from an API which came first. An API that Google, for some reason, 5 years later, hasn't released to the public, not counting the reverse engineering efforts… …one of the RSS apps I regrettably paid for was actually a Google Reader wrapper but it is severely lacking in features, even more so than the Google Reader HTML (though I just figured out I need to go to "Desktop" mode and can 2 finger slide the subscription and news feed content panes… …it simply fetched your feeds and did it rather poorly, though with 1000+ feeds, I might have broken its brain… …my idea would be a tab bar on bottom for Recent, Feed Directory (with a Rolodex vertical jump index, like done for Podcasts and music library), Search and options to send feed to Instapaper (everything wants to send me to Safari, I'd rather just star and/or send to Instapaper where it will lose the ads and all the garbage and also give me eBook styling and page flipping). Also, to make sure when tapping BACK, app delivers focus to the point where I clicked from in the index (I cannot believe the Google Reader mobile is so brain dead in this regard, but they're not alone on the web — lots of newspaper sites with AJAX supplied content do not properly adjust focus/scroll when performing these types of dynamic page loads…). |
"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Surlyboi
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Seriously, make that shit happen.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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naum
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That's the one I paid for and now have deleted… Unable to handle my Google Reader setup, crashed incessantly, and is missing key features that I deem essential for a mobile app — searching, nimble moving to different feeds… …really could care less about all the social media "share this" buttons… |
"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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naum
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Not iPad, but iPhone, specifically EA games sale… http://aralbalkan.com/3317EA is holding a 48 hour 99¢ / 59p sale for some of its top iPhone games. The sale is on now and ends on the 24th of June. The following games are on sale:
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR® BY EA SPORTS™
Trivial Pursuit - Electronic Arts
SimCity™ - Electronic Arts
Need For Speed™ Undercover - Electronic Arts
FIFA 10 by EA SPORTS™ - Electronic Arts
CLUE - Electronic Arts
CONNECT 4 - Electronic Arts
BATTLESHIP - Electronic Arts
MADDEN NFL 10 by EA SPORTS - Electronic Arts
Surviving High School - Electronic Arts
COMMAND & CONQUER™ RED ALERT™ - Electronic Arts
THE GAME OF LIFE Classic Edition - Electronic Arts
YAHTZEE™ Adventures - Electronic Arts
NBA Live by EA Sports - Electronic Arts
JEWEL QUEST MYSTERIES: CURSE OF THE EMERALD TEAR - Electronic Arts
Dragon's Lair - Electronic Arts
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"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Engels
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Any in that list that are particularly good? I'm thinking I should get SIm City, C&C, the golf and maybe Fifa?
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Any in that list that are particularly good? I'm thinking I should get SIm City, C&C, the golf and maybe Fifa?
Command and Conquer Red Alert was fun, but I played it on PC back in the day. Have no idea how it'd play on an iPhone. |
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schild
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I won one of these at work last week.
I'll probably get Small World, Scrabble, and load it up with a bunch of totally legit ebooks. Has this thing found a use yet outside of the random board game?
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It's great for Plants versus Zombies....
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schild
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God Damnit, this is going to be just like the first 2 years of the DS again isn't it?
Apps are good too. So list those.
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naum
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God Damnit, this is going to be just like the first 2 years of the DS again isn't it?
Apps are good too. So list those.
APPS Adobe Ideas – a white board for your iPad, basic but gives you an image layer too, if you want better than free then opt for Brushes or other more featured drawing programs Dropbox GoodReader – for PDF reading, can also do wireless sync with desktop/laptop LivePitch – free app, tracks World Cup match stats realtime with graphical layout of pitch and all events transpired, perhaps EPL too, for soccer/futbol fans only… IMDB – have a nice iPad app Kindle – have read ~2 dozen books in the past month on this, prefer over regular Kindle as you can flip pages faster and instantly get to any spot in the book NetFlix – can watch movies/TV on my iPad, though haven't used this as much as simply fiddling with instant queue while watching big screen TV while lounging on the couch… OmniGraffe - for drawing and diagramming, but not buying unless I can get company to pay for… SimpleMindX – free simple mindmapping app, iThoughtsHD doesn't offer much more SimpleNote – the Notes app sans Comic Sans and schoolbookish yellow lined background, also syncs to cloud and updates to all machines (i.e, iPhone, desktop, etc.…) SSH – though editing in vi is still thorny even though there is a "control" key button Stanza – reading ebook classics and free stuff Twitter – waiting for iPad version, but even at fuzzy 2X, best Twitter app available GAMES Civ Revolutions – but I feel this watered-down version and subpar map graphics don't do the game justice Eliminate:Gunrange Nethack – though it just feels wrong with a touch UI Settlers of Catan – iPhone app @ 2X, but I like still We Rule – not my thing, but lots of folks like this |
"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Surlyboi
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<not an endorsement> Samurai: Way of the warrior HD </not an endorsement>
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Prospero
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Auditorium - iPhone game, but much better on the big screen
Galcon - I suspect we'll se an iPad version soon enough, but still a solid game
Mirror's Edge - a fun side scroller
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Viin
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Galcon - I suspect we'll se an iPad version soon enough, but still a solid game
It already exists: http://www.galcon.com/fusion/ipad/I'm not sure it was worth buying the "Fusion" app though, it's not any different from the iPhone version, it just uses a bit more screen. It really should have been an upgrade to the existing iphone app. |
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Here's a few things I use:
1. Drop Box- has free storage online and is usable on the iPad. Easily allows me to sync files.
2. IM+- an instant message program. I don't love it. It's okay and gets the job done.
3. eWallet- because I have to remember a brazilian passwords and account numbers for some reason. I like it.
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