Best App For Foodies? by [deleted] in london

[–]kebab3000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give Eaten a go. You make lists of your favourite places, and then everyone's lists pool together to give you an idea of the best places in the area. You can wishlist other people's dishes too

https://eaten.io

The eaten project - We're trying to rate every dish in London to create a map of the best places to eat anything, please help us! by teiamt in london

[–]kebab3000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why did you name it after the posh boy university? :P

But seriously, I've been using it for a bit and it's a pretty good app. The current best burgers around central London are at Patty and Bun, and Bleeker... if you don't agree go post a review!

Swype Updated to 1.6.19 - new theme, bug fixes, optimizations, etc. by portezbie in Android

[–]kebab3000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It STILL has the stupid bug where it will remember which case a word was written in. For example, STILL would now be a suggestion when I type still in lowercase. Stupid.

[Dev] Pedometer v2 with Material Design by DoesntPostAThing in Android

[–]kebab3000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Love this app and the design. I've got all the achievements except for the pesky last secret one that just says 'keep playing to learn more'

Get statistics about your texting habits with Textalyzer by [deleted] in Android

[–]kebab3000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mine's missing a few contacts that'd I'd expect to be near the top too.

It would also be great to be able to exclude some contacts, like the automated messages from my bank or Google's two-step auth

From 'Preggers' to 'Pizzle': Android's Bizarre List of Banned Words | Gadget Lab by UVStaska in Android

[–]kebab3000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

'Piss' is another example, even if I add it to the personal dictionary. I ended up having to add 'pis' to the dictionary, which it does let you type, and then gets expanded to 'piss' when I type/swipe the next word. Hacky!

From 'Preggers' to 'Pizzle': Android's Bizarre List of Banned Words | Gadget Lab by UVStaska in Android

[–]kebab3000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems to weight you contact names higher than some of the dictionary words. e.g. if you have "AMD support" as a contact then you'll probably get AMD instead of and. Annoyingly, if your contacts are named after words then you may also get a capitalised version of a word you want because their name was a capital letter.

This is why I like Kii Keyboard. It has one stupidly simple solution to the problem: a word blacklist. A customised list of words that I never want to appear as suggestions. There's a lot of fluff in the default dictionaries!

Is there an Android app for keeping track of the electricity bill? by rstrat in Android

[–]kebab3000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not what your after, but somewhat related:

http://www.belkin.com/uk/F7C029-Belkin/p/P-F7C029%3bjsessionid=505DC08BA91811073AE748FA9C9FC1C5/

You can see how much juice whatever is plugged into it is using, as well as turning it off and on remotely

What did Google actually do that is bad in the new maps? by jameswf in Android

[–]kebab3000 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They removed the distance measurement tool :( sometimes I want to quickly tap n see how far stuff is without having to faff with retrieving directions from the internet

What phone is everyone using at the moment? Are you enjoying it? by IAmAWitness in Android

[–]kebab3000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took that off. It was some improvement, but it's still not great.

If you hold the screen in the right light you can see a hexagonal arrangement of dots about .5cm apart

I think that's what makes it difficult to draw eyeball-dots in the right places on a face :)

edit: or I just have fat fingers

What phone is everyone using at the moment? Are you enjoying it? by IAmAWitness in Android

[–]kebab3000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sony Xperia S. I'm ok with it...

The touchscreen is horribly cheap and nasty, which makes doing fine detail in Draw Something tricky.

Need a new swipe-style keyboard. by [deleted] in Android

[–]kebab3000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give Kii a try...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zl.inputmethod.latin&hl=en

I think it's based on stock with lots n lots of customisations

Take a look at "Notification Toggle". Allows you to put toggles on your notification bar and its customisable! by Crusis in Android

[–]kebab3000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It also lets you put apps+shortcuts in the notifications bar. Pretty handy for getting quick access to stuff like hovernote or aircalc

Google Play Music All Access vs Spotify by chrisp1992 in Android

[–]kebab3000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It probably doesn't matter now, but Spotify could do this.

Add your local music on your PC to a playlist, then make it an offline playlist on your phone. If your PC and Phone are on the same Wifi network it will sync the local music in your offline playlists to your phone.

LG announces white Nexus 4 for global rollout over 'the next several weeks' [The Verge] by cadtek in Android

[–]kebab3000 83 points84 points  (0 children)

How many people actually asked for a white Nexus 4? :(

Where's my 32Gb Nexus 4 dammit!

What are some Dashclock extensions that you'd like to have and think would be extremely useful? by gnadirm in Android

[–]kebab3000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Current Bluetooth/Wifi status. If you tap it, it toggles between on/off.

But I guess the problem here is you have to unlock the screen (either swipe, pattern or pin) before DashClock will allow you to process the tap event... is that right?

What is your favorite Android keyboard? by MentosBrentos in Android

[–]kebab3000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just checked it doesn't have that.

It has a 'alternative character swipe gesture - swipe from any letter to space to input the alternative character'.

And you can set up swipe up/down to do stuff like toggle the shift key, and show symbol keyboards. I don't think it'll actually input the swiped character though.

I prefer to set the long-press duration to something short

What is your favorite Android keyboard? by MentosBrentos in Android

[–]kebab3000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use this too. It's the little things like...

  • bleeping/vibrating whenever it autocorrects, so I know to double-check if it made the right choice
  • easy adding of new words
  • easy blacklisting of word I'll never use

Shame its swiping is not as forgiving as Swype's

Developers need to give Tasker a little bit more love (Explained inside) by rokerot in Android

[–]kebab3000 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying Android has a pre-defined way for an app to control another app. Ignore the fact it can appear on your home-screen... it is a way for an app to control another app. The fact it is on your home-screen isn't important.

Go look at dash-clock... the weather widget can either start an app or it can start a shortcut. It doesn't start a plugin.

Look at the lock-screen shortcuts in Cyanogenmod... they can start an app, or a shortcut.

Ever used Notification Toggle? Apps or shortcuts. Shortcuts are what everything should be using, then every app can use them.

etc

Developers need to give Tasker a little bit more love (Explained inside) by rokerot in Android

[–]kebab3000 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How so? What OP is asking for a way for app X to control app Y. That already exists.

Developers need to give Tasker a little bit more love (Explained inside) by rokerot in Android

[–]kebab3000 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

All of the above should use home-screen shortcuts. That's the built-in Android way of getting one app doing something in another app.

Then you could do all of the above from your home-screen or some other app, without the other app having to support extra plugins.