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Re: Oracle People2 iPhone App Drops

Mike — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:00:56 -0000

Hi, is the iphone app still around? Pls send link to mikael.holmqvist at oracle.com

Re: Turning on Developer Options in Android 4.2.1

Jake — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:31:06 -0000

Awesome, thanks for finding this. Love me some Easter Eggs.

Re: Turning on Developer Options in Android 4.2.1

changoborracho — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:50:15 -0000

If you don't need Developer options you can either turn off the switch in that screen (left image) or clear data from Settings app (Settings > Apps > All > Settings) if what you want is to completely remove the Developer options entry from Settings screen (right image).

http://android.stackexchang...

Re: Turning on Developer Options in Android 4.2.1

changoborracho — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:43:46 -0000

is there a way to re-hide them?

Re: Luscious Links and Things

Jake — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:28:23 -0000

Heh, internets.

Re: Turning on Developer Options in Android 4.2.1

Jake — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:27:04 -0000

Awesome, send one to my Amazon lock box :)

Re: Turning on Developer Options in Android 4.2.1

Graham — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:57:25 -0000

Thank you thank you! A hilarious fix for a very annoying problem.

You deserve a pizza trophy!

Re: Luscious Links and Things

joel garry — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:44:30 -0000

That cat-curiosity jpeg on the nostalgic history made my day. http://www.alicesastroinfo....

Re: Website vs. Web App?

Jake — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:16:36 -0000

Not a bad distinction, maybe the one true thing is the website is a thing of the past. There just aren't many out there anymore.

Re: Website vs. Web App?

Jason A. — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:12:09 -0000

I feel like a website is a collective of information and web apps. As in you can have a website with or without web apps. Ex: a simple news website that merely displays articles that are provided by the site admin. Then you could upgrade it by adding web apps to support user accounts, log in credentials, and commenting. Then other users may register, add/edit/delete news articles.

Re: The Macbook Pro Odyssey Continues

Jake — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:50:09 -0000

I asked the Google, thanks man, fingers crossed.

Re: How-To: Install Chrome Extensions Manually, the New Way

Jake — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:49:41 -0000

I'm here to help.

Re: The Macbook Pro Odyssey Continues

Floyd — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:44:54 -0000

Try the Airport Utility in the Utilities folder under Applications.

Re: How-To: Install Chrome Extensions Manually, the New Way

Bing Wang — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:26:57 -0000

Someone did benefit from this... thanks a lot!

Re: The Macbook Pro Odyssey Continues

Jake — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:40:14 -0000

Interesting. I replaced my Netgear dual-band w an Airport Extreme as part of this whole saga. Not even sure how to check its firmware version, given how many things it hides from me. Definitely worth some more digging though, thanks for the tip.

Re: The Macbook Pro Odyssey Continues

Floyd — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:13:09 -0000

Check your router firmware. Make sure it's current. Went through this with my iMac about 18 months ago - tried everything, including the full wipe. Was about to replace the iMac when someone suggested checking my router firmware -bingo! Seems OS X is really picky about that - operating system updates assume you're on the latest firmware for your router.

Re: The Macbook Pro Odyssey Continues

Jake — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:14:37 -0000

I'm not a huge fan of Retina anything, and those MBPs can't be modded aftermarket, which is a downer. To your question, I think the cost creates the tinkering, both monetary cost and utility cost. For me, the Chromebook is an appliance for web, whereas the MBP is a tool for work. Surprised to hear about your MBA fan; Jobs was famously irritable about fan noise. Intermittent problems, like these, are the worst kind.

Re: The Macbook Pro Odyssey Continues

uvox — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:38:35 -0000

Interesting, thanks for sharing. You're obviously committed to that machine (probably in a number of ways); I'd have gotten rid of it by now, guilt-free excuse to move to a Retina version. The story does offer some interesting insights though - about Apple, but also why users keep tinkering to get it right? If it were a Chromebook would this happen? Perhaps? It CAN be infuriating and painpoints can hurt in different ways - for example, I am driven absolutely NUTS by the fan coming on on my MBA. It's embarrassing, frankly. Tried resetting SMC, etc. No good. Know problem. Except it's intermittent too. It's enough to make me NEVER want another MBA. It's now just a question of when to move from it to something else (Haswell rMBP if I can raise the cash).

Re: Another Link Post

Jake — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:39:57 -0000

Interested to hear that person's review :)

Re: Another Link Post

uvox — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:37:37 -0000

I think BB will be an attractive purchase for someone (cough). #saynomore

Re: Another Link Post

Jake — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:39:05 -0000

Read a headline on TC or somewhere, two horse, two pony race, or some such. Does BB have enough time to give the new stuff a fighting chance?

Re: Another Link Post

uvox — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:29:41 -0000

I think most analysts are missing the real power of BB (and attractiveness to would be partners) - i's server infrastructure. Security (as you know) is a massive issue in our enterprise world, as is the blurring of work and personal personas. Presenting...

"BlackBerry 10 server software will allow corporate and government users to divide employees’ BlackBerry 10 phones into separate work and personal spheres and give I.T. managers complete control over the work spheres."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013...

Haven't had a a whole lot of time to read through the analystfest, but on first inspection it would be the Q10 and not the Z10 I go for. It's the keyboard... I'm pretty fast with it and love it. And I just don't see the Z10 going up against iPhone 5 on its own merits.

Re: Build Your Own Siri Application . . . in the Browser!

A G — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:18:41 -0000

For an easier implementation, iSpeech has a web API which supports text-to-speech as well as speech recognition. Check it out: http://www.ispeech.org/api

Re: Another Link Post

Jake — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:56:49 -0000

Mostly skimmed the coverage, did notice that 40% of the apps are Android though, or some such. Noel got a Playbook at jQuery Conf last year, and I saw they would get BB10, so maybe he can do a review.

Re: Another Nexus 4 Review, Mine

Jake — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:55:03 -0000

Yeah, that comes up pretty often. The People app is Clayton's side project, and he doesn't carry an Android phone. So, if anyone wants to scratch that particular itch, there are a lot of people like you who would welcome an Android version. No takers so far.