Vapers that love Android and Google Chrome

[MrPicC]

I spent 87 to 91 going through the Sunday papers and being mesmerized by the computers on sale each week so I'm jealous of you above me and your foreign language your speaking.
My grandfather one day surprised me with a Texas instruments computer that he bought for his stepson way back in 78_79 lol.
I don't even remember for sure but it didn't even take a floppy disk. He didn't have a power cord so i never figured out what little it did and soon tossed it. I think my father not buying me a computer when i was 7 is what has fueled my desire for the latest ans greatest tech.
Now a days kids get iphones and ipads at 5. Crazy how the world has changed just in my 33 years.
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[sandybeach]

My sister was "knowledgeable about computers", or so I thought. This would have been 1982. She bought a Commodore 64 and let my son who was three years old play with it. It used cassettes, that was the media. There were lots of fun games for kids. They did come out with floppy drives later, that were oh-so-slow, but they did work.

Long story short: if it wasn't for my sister getting that Commodore 64, I don't know if my son would have turned into a software engineer. He was obsessed with computers. I had to insist he go out to play. Oh, I probably shouldn't say this, but my sister had a rule for my son:

"Absolutely under no circumstances are boogers allowed on the computer".

 

[MrPicC]

That's awesome! My parents didn't push me to be anything nor did i care till my late 20s to be productive in life. I'm still quite lazy but hey at least I'm not pc gaming 12 hours a day anymore right?
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[sandybeach]

That's awesome! My parents didn't push me to be anything nor did i care till my late 20s to be productive in life. I'm still quite lazy but hey at least I'm not pc gaming 12 hours a day anymore right?
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Hahahaaha, well I didn't say my son ISN'T PC gaming 12 hours a day
Remember, he learned Japanese so he could buy video games that weren't out in English yet.

Don't remind me. Geez, I had an RPG addiction once. Bad. In the 90's.
Secret of Mana, Chrono Cross, Super Mario Brothers RPG, Final Fantasy, sheesh I could go on, and a bunch of Sega Genesis ones I can't remember the names of.

 

[MrPicC]

Medal of honor allied assault was my sh-t. Logged in a couple thousand hours, ran a clan or 2, servers, site and all that fun stuff. It ruled my life and never left my house other then for work for at leaat 2 years.. And yes does your son still watch or did he ever watch anime? I can't even begin to tell you how many gigabytes of shows i would dled weekly to crave my anime addiction. I mainly stick to manga now a days but i sure miss it.

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[sandybeach]

Medal of honor allied assault was my sh-t. Logged in a couple thousand hours, ran a clan or 2, servers, site and all that fun stuff. It ruled my life and never left my house other then for work for at leaat 2 years.. And yes does your son still watch or did he ever watch anime? I can't even begin to tell you how many gigabytes of shows i would dled weekly to crave my anime addiction. I mainly stick to manga now a days but i sure miss it.

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That's really cool.

He was in a Mud and a Muck, I do remember that.
And.... what was that really cool one --- Dinasaurs?

Oh and lots of Japanese stuff by Miyazaki - Totoro and all that.

 

[DaveP]

I'm still in a Halo clan. We still Play Halo CE because Microsoft made you buy Vista to run the later versions and we didn't want Vista. I still have XP on the desktop upstairs just out of protest and I play Halo CE on that one.

Anyone having trouble logging into Facebook with their regular email address? My wife and I both got the "invalid email" error at login yesterday. I could get in on my phone, but it was logged in already. Once I logged of on the phone I couldn't get on again. I discovered that I have a facebook email account in addition to my AT&T email address. I could get in on the Facebook email address and so could my wife after I discovered that. Our profiles show our AT&T email as the primary. Go figure. It it happens to you, use the Facebook Email address and FB will be happy, FWIW. Seems they want you logged in that way instead of an alternate.

 

[MrPicC]

Wow a halo clan. That's crazy! Been playing it a while huh? Loved that game for a while. Bought a 360 only to play halo3 and gears then it died.
My Facebook account is gone forever, if friends wanna speak then they can text me.
The only social interaction i have now is twitter or this account. No one i know uses twitter so its me speaking to myself basically

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[sandybeach]

I'm still in a Halo clan. We still Play Halo CE because Microsoft made you buy Vista to run the later versions and we didn't want Vista. I still have XP on the desktop upstairs just out of protest and I play Halo CE on that one.

Anyone having trouble logging into Facebook with their regular email address? My wife and I both got the "invalid email" error at login yesterday. I could get in on my phone, but it was logged in already. Once I logged of on the phone I couldn't get on again. I discovered that I have a facebook email account in addition to my AT&T email address. I could get in on the Facebook email address and so could my wife after I discovered that. Our profiles show our AT&T email as the primary. Go figure. It it happens to you, use the Facebook Email address and FB will be happy, FWIW. Seems they want you logged in that way instead of an alternate.

Change your settings on your phone. I found out that it's better when you first set up your Android phone, to not go through the setup. Just do the minimal, then back out of it or just press the menu button.

Add the Facebook app and the Gmail app if they're not already on your phone, and set them up separately. Otherwise the phone's crapware puts all your Facebook friends' info into your contacts.

For me the best way to keep my contacts, calendar, and mail, is to sync them with my Google Contacts, Google Mail, and Google Calendar. All the phones have crapware interfaces; don't use the phone's bloatware stuff if you want to keep everything synced properly.

An amazing app I use every day that you might want to try, is Astrid Tasks.

 

[sandybeach]

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No one i know uses twitter so its me speaking to myself basically

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Ya talking to me?

 

[MrPicC]

Anyone who will listen.

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[sandybeach]

*Has Verizon, can hear you now*

 

[The Doctor]

Just finished using an aokp jellybean. It's ok, but lacks in some areas. Tried svoice and Google now..got rid of them in favor of speaktoit assistant.

So far, I haven't seen any major software improvements with the gs3 or jellybean upgrades... The 50 gigs of dropbox space is nice though... (came with a ROM a few months ago based off gs3) added it to the 25 gigs I got from playing with a demo HTC onex. Sitting at about 125 gigs of dropbox do far, lol.

Using the skyrocket, custom ROM with many, many tweaks..I've managed to beat every bench mark set by any current stock ROM.

Very excited to see what is in the works post iPhone 5.

Vaping since: a while
Cigarettes avoided: lots
Money saved: probably not
Devices: Yes
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[MrPicC]

Wait a second if i install a custom with the s3 the dropbox 50gig will show up??

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[TheSenator]

Just finished using an aokp jellybean. It's ok, but lacks in some areas. Tried svoice and Google now..got rid of them in favor of speaktoit assistant.

So far, I haven't seen any major software improvements with the gs3 or jellybean upgrades... The 50 gigs of dropbox space is nice though... (came with a ROM a few months ago based off gs3) added it to the 25 gigs I got from playing with a demo HTC onex. Sitting at about 125 gigs of dropbox do far, lol.

Using the skyrocket, custom ROM with many, many tweaks..I've managed to beat every bench mark set by any current stock ROM.

Very excited to see what is in the works post iPhone 5.

The SG3 is probably very smooth, but Project Butter on Jelly Bean made a nice difference on my Galaxy Nexus. AOKP got too big for its own good. Too many tweaks, devices, and users created different bugs showing up after their bug fixes. They just don't have the organization or developers as CM. It was good for awhile though.

I'm hoping for another Google smartphone, since the Motorola Razr HD isn't a huge upgrade outside of the screen. I hope an Android manufacturer has something good up their sleeves!

 

[The Doctor]

Wait a second if i install a custom with the s3 the dropbox 50gig will show up??

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No. That promo is Is over.

Vaping since: a while
Cigarettes avoided: lots
Money saved: probably not
Devices: Yes
(insert crappy graphic and vendor logo here)

 

[The Doctor]

The SG3 is probably very smooth, but Project Butter on Jelly Bean made a nice difference on my Galaxy Nexus. AOKP got too big for its own good. Too many tweaks, devices, and users created different bugs showing up after their bug fixes. They just don't have the organization or developers as CM. It was good for awhile though.

I'm hoping for another Google smartphone, since the Motorola Razr HD isn't a huge upgrade outside of the screen. I hope an Android manufacturer has something good up their sleeves!

Too big? How does an open source project get too big? If anything I would say it's suffering from lack of Dev interest, at least since the kitchen opened. Cm is great for what it is, but what it is has never really impressed me..I like tweaks..I WANT lots of built in goodies like bravia on my Samsung, or the flinger cranked, etc etc. cm is just so...vanilla. Kudos to them for being consistent though.

I like the independent developers who cook, Kang and mad-scientist up roms that really leave you dumbfounded. My only complaint with pretty much every Android ROM (including vanilla) is that none of them are as ram efficient as they could be. That's not the devs fault though..Google needs to revamp the file handling at its core to facilitate the add ons that every user will inevitably install.

Vaping since: a while
Cigarettes avoided: lots
Money saved: probably not
Devices: Yes
(insert crappy graphic and vendor logo here)

 

[DaveP]

Change your settings on your phone. I found out that it's better when you first set up your Android phone, to not go through the setup. Just do the minimal, then back out of it or just press the menu button.

Add the Facebook app and the Gmail app if they're not already on your phone, and set them up separately. Otherwise the phone's crapware puts all your Facebook friends' info into your contacts.

For me the best way to keep my contacts, calendar, and mail, is to sync them with my Google Contacts, Google Mail, and Google Calendar. All the phones have crapware interfaces; don't use the phone's bloatware stuff if you want to keep everything synced properly.

An amazing app I use every day that you might want to try, is Astrid Tasks.

The email login finally straightened itself out. For a while, my wife and I had to login using our facebook.com addresses. I changed my phone over and it worked after that, too. This morning, Facebook defaulted to my old AT&T email login. I clicked and it was happy again. Facebook must be going through some software updates along with their sometimes buggy results.

 

[TheSenator]

Too big? How does an open source project get too big? If anything I would say it's suffering from lack of Dev interest, at least since the kitchen opened. Cm is great for what it is, but what it is has never really impressed me..I like tweaks..I WANT lots of built in goodies like bravia on my Samsung, or the flinger cranked, etc etc. cm is just so...vanilla. Kudos to them for being consistent though.

Yes, this is what I mean. Too many users, not enough Devs to maintain the demand. I'm the same depending on my needs of the time. I want a basic AOSP ROM or an AOKP depending on the device. I'm liking AOSP stuff on my phone...nothing to go wrong. Now my Galaxy 10.1, I like to experiment with heavily since it's my play toy!

 

[sandybeach]

Yes, this is what I mean. Too many users, not enough Devs to maintain the demand. I'm the same depending on my needs of the time. I want a basic AOSP ROM or an AOKP depending on the device. I'm liking AOSP stuff on my phone...nothing to go wrong. Now my Galaxy 10.1, I like to experiment with heavily since it's my play toy!

See that? Who was talking about becoming an app developer? There's a demand. Probably someone older is even better because you are geared to a part of the population that nobody is developing for!