limpid Posted July 1, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 1, 2012 Many books aren't available as downloads from anywhere. Is it a particular book or a generic question? Can you get the book on Kindle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Darren did you leave a 5 star reivew of NOVA 2 in the Play Store? I've been playing a few games on my S3 as it's screen is great for games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 Not that I can remember. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted July 1, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 1, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Not that I can remember. Why? Just wondering as the reviewer had a xoom and nexus. Just thought it was you. I was gonna ask about the game Cartoon wars is unreal addictive. I defo worth a free download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 I always wondered what the allure of iOS products was. I always assumed that there was something I was missing which only became apparent after you own them for a while. Turns out they're worse than I thought: Never owned an apple product. Ive always been put off by their limited nature and expense. I do like android but I find my s2 unreliable. It keeps burning out the battery within a very short space of time. I have set a cpu kill useage on facebook as thid is one of the worst offenders. It has on occasion drained my battery within 20-30 minutes when idle. Live wall papers do this too. Sometimes I dont know what has done this. Ive had cpu warnings on random android os processes, like 80-90 cpu ussage when idle, which is ridiculous. Dunno, its a love hate thing. When it works its wonderful but Im fed up of looking at my phone only to find its turned itself off and lost 60% battery or like today completely drained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted July 2, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 2, 2012 It's clearly faulty, why didn't you take it back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Defo faulty, I've never had anything drain my S2 battery that fast. Would take hours to drain at the very least. Try buying a new battery, I got an Anker off Amazon for a tenner, tis excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I am physically can't stop playing cartoon wars. I am addicted. Also chrome seems to dislike VT for some reason. Think it's to do with some image from the error I'm getting on my phone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted July 3, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 3, 2012 I can't get an error on Chrome on my S2. Perhaps you could share the error message? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 It keeps saying this site is trying to download multiple files. Do you want to allow this? Yes or No still gives a 404 error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Hmm seems to have stopped after I hit yes again. What files did VT want chrome to download? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Seems random. But requested item could not be found, status code error 404. The error pops up and diverts to http://www.villatalk.com/adimages/ Got it twice there. Alongside the multiple files to be downloaded request from chrome Chrome blocking ads? Maybe I don't have some settings enabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I've tried a new battery, all the same, since the new ICS update. No problems before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted July 3, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 3, 2012 PompeyVillan, have you tried a factory reset? Conor: That path has never existed on VT. I've no idea what is diverting you there. Does it happen with other browsers? I wonder if it's your ISP messing with the ad images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I'm on 3G with O2 at the moment The stock Samsung browser has no problems. But it still doesn't know people require text reflow VT is only site I've had problem with on Chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted July 3, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 3, 2012 I have no idea. The site isn't pointing you at that address, so it's something in your chrome or between your phone and the VT server. Have you tried flushing the browser cache? Not that I have any idea how it would have stored something that never existed. The site doesn't reflow because it's old. I can't stop working to spend the time on it, but we are looking at something that might help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I'll have a play around with the settings this evening. I'm sure it can be sorted out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Conor, Simon, I get that multiple files thing too on Chrome on my phone. Just didn't bother to mention it. Only sometimes so it's obviously only some ads. I get it all the time with the birmingham mail site though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted July 4, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted July 4, 2012 Google Now: Behold the Terrifying Insights Siri has a frenemy. Google has come up with its own version of a smartphone personal assistant. Perhaps confirming Sam Biddle’s accusation that Google “has no social skills,” the search giant hasn’t given the assistant an endearing name or cutesy personality. Instead the Android buddy is just called “Google Now.” Your little friend Now takes everything it knows about you from all of your activity across Google’s products and uses that to make suggestions to you, reminding you that you need to leave now to catch the bus that’s coming or that tickets to see a band you like just went on sale at a venue nearby. Yes, this is why Google made that big ole change to its privacy practices in January, allowing it to dump all of its info into one big Now bucket. “With the predictive power of Now, you get just what you need to know just when you need it,” says a promo video. The day after the new offering for Android users was announced, Jenna Wortham at the New York Times asked, “Will Google’s Personal Assistant Be Creepy or Cool?” “It’s easy to see how this kind of service could be helpful,” she wrote. “It’s also really easy to see how it could be creepy. What’s harder, however, is to see the line between the two, and to know where (and when) Google might cross it.” Well, a few lucky Android users have met Now. And the Atlantic says the verdict is in: “Confirmed: Google’s Siri-Esque Personal Assistant Is Creepy.” Get ready for some thrills and chills! Via Rebecca Greenfield at the Atlantic: From the looks of the service, which we get from Business Insider’s Steve Kovach, it does indeed sound like the service keeps a very close eye on us, begging the question: How much do we want our computers to know about us? Not as much as Google Now, at least from Kovach’s experience. Having the latest Android software, Kovach has gotten his hands on the product. And, like a creepy bot, it already knows lots and lots about him, monitoring everything he does online to guess what he’ll need before he knows it. Some examples: It knows his favorite sports teams: “I’m a Mets fan (unfortunately), so a lot of my sports-related Google searches are for the score of the latest game. Google knows this, so Google Now automatically sends me notifications with the latest score. I don’t even have to ask anymore.” IT KNOWS WHICH SPORTS TEAMS HE LIKES. I just got a chill down my spine like someone was playing the “Spider Crawling Up Your Back” game with me. Goosebumps all over my body basically. That is terrifying. It knows his friends, which is creepy not just for Kovach. “The other night I was getting dinner with a few old journalism friends from college. We were talking about Jim Romenesko, and one of my friends wondered how old he was. I asked Google Now, “How old is Jim Romenesko?” The answer came up in less than a second.” IT KNEW THE AGE OF A PRETTY FAMOUS DUDE WHOSE WIKIPEDIA ENTRY INCLUDES HIS BIRTH DATE. I can barely breath. I’m so creeped out. This is too much. It’s like I’m watching the Blair Witch Project all over again. After those two examples of Now’s “all-knowing” powers, Greenfield ran out of fodder. So I’ll move over to the Tales From The G-Crypt review from John Dvorak at PC Mag, who met Now on his Galaxy Nexus. This phone OS represents the future. It’s startling, invasive, creepy, amazing, useful, foreboding, and desirable, all in one. Tell me more! The most interesting feature of Jelly Bean is the spooky Google Now software. The company began to explain this system at Google I/O, but just managed to frighten users. Bring the spookiness! By turning on sync, I found all my contacts that were stored in the cloud were combined with all my Google Voice contacts in one massive contact list, complete with pictures of my contacts. That sounds spookily… convenient! More eerily, the system pokes into your search habits and starts to feed you information you are glad to see, but were unaware you wanted to see. If you thought Google was prying before, you’re in for a surprise. But so far, so good. I’m not about to complain yet, although I worry that something weird is going to happen. Um. That doesn’t sound spooky exactly. For example, if I swipe down the top menu bar to see if any messages have come in, I get the San Francisco Giants score and a note on how many minutes I have been away from home. Did I ask for this? No. But I’m not complaining. But you said it was invasive, creepy, foreboding, and frightening. I usually consider those to be “complaints” when it comes to consumer technologies. The new system looks at the search history from my home and office machines and figures I am a Giants fan. (Indeed, I search for the schedule on Google every so often.) It has not figured out that I am also an Oakland A’s fan, yet. Seriously leave it for a guy who could be accused of being a professional troll to be both an A's and a Giants fan... So actually, he’s a little disappointed by it not being omniscient enough… Here’s an interesting example of what the product can do: You can set it up so it knows exactly where you are at all times. When it senses you are waiting at a bus stop, it will generate a bus schedule out of the blue. Wow. Creepy or great? You tell me. That sounds kind of awesome actually. Where’s the spooky stuff you promised? Supposedly, it will also look at your Google Calendar, check your location, and decide if you are going to be late to an appointment. If so, it will also tell you to get going. This has to be useful, if it works. Of course, I think it will require you to put some details in the calendar. It’s like the Blair Witch turned out to be a nice grandma in the woods, who gives lost kids GPS devices to help them navigate themselves back home. Dear world, this is not an appropriate use of the word “creepy.” What would actually be creepy? * If when you woke up in the morning, Now told you to skip breakfast because it checked in with your Withings Scale and realized you’re putting on some inadvisable pounds heading into swimsuit season. * If at lunch, Now advised you to start doing a job search because it checked in with your boss’s Now and saw he had scheduled some interviews with candidates to fill your position. * If on the way home, Now tracked your driving speed using its GPS system and notified relevant authorities that you were 15 mph over the speed limit most of the way home (and slow-rolled through two stop signs, instead of coming to a complete stop). And it took video, in case the po-po needs evidence. * If during dinner with your significant other, Now did a quick analysis of your Facebook profiles, ultimately decided you weren’t compatible, and strongly suggested you end things. (If you resist Now’s advice, Now spitefully sends your partner a sabotaging text message.) * When you arrive home alone and depressed, Now suggests a few ‘adult movies’ you might like to watch based on your previous XXX Google searches. * That night, as you’re falling asleep, Now decides on its own to play “Another Lonely Day” by Ben Harper, because it feels badly for you. Once Now starts crossing those lines, I’ll be happy to label it “creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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