Windows 8?

[cube_b3]

Interesting, I was not expecting Pro-Apple people in this thread.

We are going off topic but if you answer these questions you will convince me to upgrade to i5, over another platform.

1) I have been a Nokia user all my life and now Symbian is gone.
You can't send business cards (phone numbers) via texts, even if you text it from Nokia. iOS and Android will ignore it.

2) How do you call someone from messages. If I have received a text from someone who is not in my contacts, how would I call them? Symbian had an options menu similar to the right click on windows which allowed you to open messages or call the texter.

3) So I found Skype. Downloaded it. Uploaded it on drop box. But couldn't download it on phone. I emailed it to myself and through mail I couldn't even download attachments.

4) I am making this post through an iPhone and I miss T9. I can't even move between previously typed text to fix grammar buttons. The touch screen is not accurate. Maybe cause my fingers are big, so it would have been nice to have a left to right button.
The question is can I get t9 back somehow?

5) What is up with flash? Even google has abandoned support. Blackberry is the only one who allows it.
Makes watching porn on the go difficult :p

[|darc|]

Interesting, I was not expecting Pro-Apple people in this thread.

We are going off topic but if you answer these questions you will convince me to upgrade to i5, over another platform.

1) I have been a Nokia user all my life and now Symbian is gone.
You can't send business cards (phone numbers) via texts, even if you text it from Nokia. iOS and Android will ignore it.

2) How do you call someone from messages. If I have received a text from someone who is not in my contacts, how would I call them? Symbian had an options menu similar to the right click on windows which allowed you to open messages or call the texter.

3) So I found Skype. Downloaded it. Uploaded it on drop box. But couldn't download it on phone. I emailed it to myself and through mail I couldn't even download attachments.

4) I am making this post through an iPhone and I miss T9. I can't even move between previously typed text to fix grammar buttons. The touch screen is not accurate. Maybe cause my fingers are big, so it would have been nice to have a left to right button.
The question is can I get t9 back somehow?

5) What is up with flash? Even google has abandoned support. Blackberry is the only one who allows it.
Makes watching porn on the go difficult :p

1) You can text contact cards with iOS. I'm not sure if this is something that works cross-platform or with just iOS users though because I never use this feature.

2) Just press the "call" button. It's at the top of the text conversation. Tap the status bar at the top of the screen to be taken to the top of the conversation (you don't have to scroll).

3) iOS doesn't let you sideload apps. You have to have them through iTunes or the App Store. This isn't normally a problem if you are using phone that still has support.

4) Hold your finger on the screen on previously typed text and it will pull up a magnifying glass with the cursor. Slowly move your finger to the desired cursor position and let go. This shouldn't be any more or less difficult with finger size. You don't need T9. Just make sure autocorrect is on and type away. It corrects my misspelled words to the correct intention almost every time even if it's absolutely terribly misspelled.

5) Flash is buggy, terribly insecure, power intensive, and proprietary. Apple had been trying to get Adobe to fix Flash on Mac, where it had been even worse than Windows, for ages before iOS existed, and still the product did not improve. So with iOS they did not support Flash from the get-go in an attempt to get web developers to develop for HTML5 instead of Flash. It has so far worked and I personally never have issues with needing flash on my iPhone. Read more info here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

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If you need porn, there are sites that offer MPEG-4 streaming (XVideos, Pornhub). If you're in a pinch, find a browser that will transcode Flash videos on-the-fly. I use Skyfire, but I bet there are better options out there now-a-days.

And if you're on an iPhone 3G trying to sideload apps, you should just jailbreak. I won't share here, but there ways to pirate apps directly on your iPhone. I mention this because these repositories keep older versions of apps. You can also find tweaks to use a T9 keyboard.

[cube_b3]

Well Darc, your post won me over.

I just bought an iP5, from T-Mobile.

[|darc|]

Fuck yeah, Apple fanboy win.

[cube_b3]

Since we are on the topic do you recommend me by-passing Win8 altogether and get a NoteBook Pro?

Cause I optioned them last year, but they were extremely over priced and pretty bad in general.

[|darc|]

Since we are on the topic do you recommend me by-passing Win8 altogether and get a NoteBook Pro?

Cause I optioned them last year, but they were extremely over priced and pretty bad in general.

Why bad?

All I buy are Macbook Pros nowadays.

[cube_b3]

Long story, will get into it tomorrow.

Right now, tell me how I can save Midi's as my ring tone.
I tried going to VGMusic.com with my 3G and downloading my favorite game tone and it said not allowed.

[|darc|]

Why would you use MIDI ringtones? MIDI files are not audio files, they contain data that is used by the device to synthesize audio. They won't sound like the original game so that's really crappy. iPhones do not contain a MIDI synthesizer anyway because it's really unnecessary.

To make a ringtone, just take any iTunes-compatible audio file (WAV, MP3, AAC, etc.) and import it into iTunes. Right click the file, click "Get Info," click the "Options" tab and then set a Start and Stop time that are no more than 30 seconds apart (ringtones can only be 30 seconds maximum). If the file is not an AAC file, then right click the file and select "Create AAC Version." Right click it again and click "Show in Explorer." Rename the file from .m4a to .m4r. Delete the file from the iTunes Library, then reimport the m4r file. It will now be listed in the ringtone section and you can sync it to the iPhone.

Or you could just find m4r ringtones online.

[cube_b3]

So my iPhone and T-Mobile experience has been fairly negative.

I somehow got a defective iPhone 5. I charged the battery at night, it was on standby for a couple of hours and before I went to sleep battery was 84%.

No application besides phone and clock were active and the brightness was almost on the lowest setting. When I woke up 7 hours later it was 50%. Then I went to work and the phone was in my pocket the whole time. 9 hours later the battery was 1% and died when I tried to call for a ride home. So I went to T-Mobile, complained about the number port (which they haven't done, yet! But that is another discussion).

So this new phone seems better, I talked for a whole hour and drained 10% of the battery (I used ear pods) though no applications were running simultaneously. The person I was talking to was on S3 with email and Facebook app running and his battery drained 10% as well.

Right now, I am waiting for the battery to drain out so I can do a full charge and measure it. The T-Mobile rep said it should at least last you a day.
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As for Midi, I love MIDI! I like to have the columns theme as my Ring Tone and that is a midi.
Does Android support Midi?

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For ringtone editing, I use Audacity. It'll export MPEG-4 or OGG audio. Android does support MIDI ringtones (based on Googling).

Your battery times seem normal to me. I think you we're concerned about the wrong "apps." iOS has some of the strictest app usage management of the mobile OSes. Just because an app appears in your recent apps bar doesn't mean it's running/using resources. What will kill your battery are data/wifi/GPS. iOS will maintain these services and sacrifice battery life. But all smartphones will have these issues, but at least iOS kills most apps from hogging the memory and CPU (ie the battery).

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Also, on-topic: Windows Blue will be a free update (Windows 8.1)

[cube_b3]

My phone has been working very well actually after I traded it in.

I now have Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and Chase app installed on it and running constantly. Battery is over 24 hours and that is a minimum requirement, so I am happy with my slick new phone.
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On topic, great to hear the update is official though aren't the holidays starting next week

[S. Thompson]

Anyone think they will make Metro optional on Windows Blue and beyond? I see the benefit of live tiles on a tablet, but I'm not quite sure it adds a whole lot to the desktop environment... I mean, we had widgets with Vista and Win7 which were sufficient for that sort of thing and didn't add an extra layer.

- Steve

[|darc|]

I don't think they will make Metro itself optional, personally. I'm not necessarily sure they should, either, at least for the consumer versions. They just need to make it able to take a back-seat to the desktop mode, instead of the other way around. Give us a mode that has a classic start menu, direct boot to desktop, a fully featured and easily accessible desktop control panel, no file associations with Metro apps by default, etc.

I don't dislike Metro, and it's a lot more featureful than OS X's dashboard, but I personally think it should be treated as a secondary interface like dashboard is, at least on the desktop. It also isn't intuitive at all and that needs to be changed as well.

[Wagh]

Windows key + M solves all the metro complaints for me. Windows + X is really all I need from the start menu. Who searches for Applications these days? I keep everything else on my task bar.

[DaMadFiddler]

Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows 7
Windows 8

Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox One

...Microsoft really needs to learn how to count.

[S. Thompson]

Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows 7
Windows 8

Xbox
Xbox 360
Xbox One

...Microsoft really needs to learn how to count.

Still easier for me to remember than Apple's big cat theme. I suppose the true Apple enthusiasts won't have a hard time remembering each release, but I couldn't tell you if snow leopard came before lion or vice versa.

It probably doesn't help that my 8 year old iBook can only run Tiger. Time to upgrade maybe?

- Steve

[DaMadFiddler]

It probably doesn't help that my 8 year old iBook can only run Tiger. Time to upgrade maybe?

Yeah, PowerPC-based Macs are old enough now that there isn't really anyone supporting them anymore. Of course, my computers are no spring chickens: a five-year-old MacBook Pro (which I imagine will go unsupported within the next couple of OS releases), a modified Color Classic (yeah...) and a Mac Plus (which is older than my fiance). The MBP has broken in some way every 10-12 months since I bought it (most unreliable machine I've ever owned), and the AppleCare is now expired, so I should probably look into a replacement once I can afford it.

[melancholy]

Another problem with Metro is that nobody is supporting it at all. Why is there no official Facebook app? Spotify? Pandora? YouTube? All the biggest and most obvious apps on other platforms just don't exist in the Windows Store. Why would I use Metro when the most common things I use on my phone can only be accessed through Internet Explorer?