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Ever wonder why all those pop songs sound kinda the same? Well, it's pretty simple; They all use the same 4 Chords!
Don't know if it's specific to my phone, (which is basically the same as the A6000 with a lower screen resolution), but if you go to Settings->Networked apps you can set which apps you've downloaded have access to Mobile Data and/or Wi-Fi.-4wd (March 12, 2015, 07:46 PM)
A friend fooled me with the title of this composition.
What did you think it was about?-dantheman (March 10, 2015, 08:01 AM)
Your problem is that you have Android KitKat and under that you're severely limited in where apps can write to the SD card. You'd either have to keep using the system default file manager, root the device to change the external media write policy, or upgrade to Android Lollipop.One word of caution about upgrading to Lollipop. I've been reading some of the Android Central forums, as well as some forums for specific Android apps, and there have been LOTS of complaints about Lollipop, including a number of people reporting that it rendered their tablets or phones useless. It's true that some people are happy with Lollipop, but there were so many people reporting serious problems that I decided not to upgrade when I had the chance to do so. When I say Lollipop, I'm referring to Android 5.0, 5.01, and 5.02. There are reports that 5.1 will soon be available. Given the reports on 5.0, 5.01, and 5.02, I'm planning to wait to see whether Google finally got it right with 5.1 before I install it. You might be wise to wait as well.-4wd (March 10, 2015, 01:23 PM)-cyberdiva (March 11, 2015, 07:34 PM)
I want system wide recycle bin. Any suggestion ?-anandcoral (March 11, 2015, 12:05 PM)
1. Backup and Restore - At least photo, videos and contacts, if not sms and notes etc.-anandcoral (March 10, 2015, 03:13 AM)
2. Undelete or Recycle option - To restore files deleted by mistake.-anandcoral (March 10, 2015, 03:13 AM)
4. Quick note taking - Simple, may or may not have voice note mode.-anandcoral (March 10, 2015, 03:13 AM)
5. PDF reader - Small just for reading pdf files.-anandcoral (March 10, 2015, 03:13 AM)
6. Calender task and reminder on home screen-anandcoral (March 10, 2015, 03:13 AM)
I've used AdAway and AdFree in the past, but for some reason I can't get them to block ads anymore, so that's why I installed ABDfA. In fact, I still have AdAway and Adfree installed. Yet nothing seems to block ads on my Nexus 7 2013 so I guess I might as well uninstall it all.-Deozaan (March 04, 2015, 07:12 PM)
I once had an Android device that was in that state. Finally had to do a reinstall/'factory reset' and then AdAway worked once more.-Innuendo (March 08, 2015, 11:16 AM)
@Deozaan: That is not the default address, unless maybe you use that HTTPEverywhere extension.
It defaults to HTTP.
So sorry to have brought this up. It's legit though.-db90h (March 06, 2015, 11:43 PM)
Appears to be an issue that has been raised before:
https://adblockplus....iewtopic.php?t=11849https://adblockplus.org/en/android-faq
Why does Adblock Plus appear to consume so much traffic?
To filter ads, all traffic has to pass through Adblock Plus. Android considers this to be the traffic caused by the app, while it is in reality the sum of all traffic.
Note that the posters on that thread still don't seem in agreement about the nature of the bandwidth.. some say adblock plus is eating bandwidth, some say its just a reporting problem..-mouser (March 04, 2015, 06:20 PM)
I installed Adblock Plus yesterday before watching some streaming video in MxPlayer on the bus ride home. After seeking a few times to get to my place in the video, I was able to watch a few minutes of video, but was running into major buffering issues. I got through maybe 5 minutes of video over 15-20 minutes. After, I stopped watching the video, I noticed that Adblock Plus was still downloading.
When I got home, I saw that Adblock Plus had used 550MB of data, over the half hour that I had it installed. The entire video would have been around 200MB. I'm wondering if there is an issue with Adblock Plus not terminating connections, and that it continued to download the different parts of the video stream after I had seeked to a different position. This would explain the bandwidth usage and the buffering issues. There were no other applications installed that would have been using that much data. After uninstalling Adblock Plus, the issue went away.
FWIW, I use AdAway which updates the hosts file to loopback any ad servers - probably not as all-encompassing as ABPfA is supposed to be but then it doesn't use any CPU cycles or data unless I'm running it to update the hosts file.-4wd (March 04, 2015, 06:39 PM)
Valve’s sudden entry into the engine race, with an official announcement of Source 2, seems to have put them right up front alongside frenzied rivals Unity and Unreal. (Poor old Crytek, eh?) Meeting with studio founder Erik Johnson today, I learned that when they say Source 2 is “free”, they mean it. Unlike Unity’s (much lowered) subscription rates (for larger teams), and Epic’s revenue cut of successful projects, Valve won’t be asking for any money at all. Well, sort of… They just require that the game be launched on Steam, along with anywhere else you might want to sell it.
That’s pretty huge. But it’s important to point out it’s also pretty smart. In real-terms, it does mean Valve are going to be getting – in fact – 30% of your revenue, as is standard for anything sold on Steam. However, and crucially, developers are going to be free to also sell their game anywhere else, which means you can also use stores that take far lower cuts. Use Source 2, put your game on Steam and take advantage of Steamworks, the community features, and so on, but direct all your customers to your Humble store where only see 5% won’t reach you.
Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free, and all future updates will be free!
You can download the engine and use it for everything from game development, education, architecture, and visualization to VR, film and animation. When you ship a game or application, you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenue after the first $3,000 per product, per quarter. It’s a simple arrangement in which we succeed only when you succeed.
This is the complete technology we use at Epic when building our own games. It scales from indie projects to high-end blockbusters; it supports all the major platforms; and it includes 100% of the C++ source code. Our goal is to give you absolutely everything, so that you can do anything and be in control of your schedule and your destiny. Whatever you require to build and ship your game, you can find it in UE4, source it in the Marketplace, or build it yourself – and then share it with others.
Doing these newsletters makes me realize that Skwire has been on fire updating his apps lately!-mouser (March 02, 2015, 12:54 PM)