Posts by Craigness

Youtube and...

Google's content does not stop at Youtube. The Android Market has apps, games, books, movies and music. There are also Google apps for catalogues and periodicals. If that's not enough there is Listen for podcasts and News and Reader to help you organise the content of the whole web. Then there's Google Plus to see what your friends (who work in IT) have been up to.

How hard would your mum find it to get apps on Android Market? Type PODCAST into the search field and see how many fart apps you have to dredge through.

As soon as someone demonstrates it working, Apple will be given the patent.

Jim

Android doesn't need a heap of tools to manage it. It just works, and it allows itself to be managed so that it works exactly as you want. I wish all OSs did that!

Your view of "consumer-oriented" is skewed. What you define is "developer-oriented" in that the developers have all the control and the consumer has none (other than to buy a better phone). With android the consumer is allowed to control the app; elsewhere the app controls the consumer.

In what way?

Shouldn't be allowed control over how apps work?

Shouldn't be allowed flexibility?

Shouldn't be allowed to have access to such low-level functionality?

Should be preinstalled? (some of the functionality is in the base OS already)

Externally written

Android allows you to install apps which are not a part of the Android OS. Not all of these apps are written by the Android team and not all of them handle memory, storage and networking in a way which suits every phone owner. This is the same for lesser phone OSs too, so I'd expect them to have the ability to install similar support apps. If they don't allow this then they cannot be called modern consumer-oriented OSs.

Uninstall

Uninstall removes bloatware. Clearing cache means preinstalled apps don't use any of the available storage (they are kept in the protected area which is not user-accessible).

No and no.

ipad pick a pocket

When you get your pocket picked for £1300 by a free child's ipad game, you can come right back to the light side.

http://community.phones4u.co.uk/school-boy-error-seven-year-old-racks-up-1300-bill-with-ipad-app/

Marketing again

It's not the configuration of the Kindle Fire, it's that people know what it's for. If you go to Android Market you'll see sections for Games, Apps, Books and Movies. In the US there's a section for Music too. And they've recently released Catalogs (shopping) and Currents (for periodicals). The Google ecosystem doesn't come up short, it's just not pushed hard enough.

So that's what it was!

I thought another round-cornered ipad killer had been given the special treatment.

Chrome is currently at 15 but they tested 12 and 13. Maybe they did the testing a while ago.

Quicker without a mouse?

If you visit sites a lot then "pin" them from the tab bar context menu. The tab will move to the left hand side and only the icon will show. Pinned tabs open automatically when you open Chrome.

Here are some keyboard shortcuts:

Bookmarks: f6, then type a few letters of the site name

Close tab: ctrl+w

Close Chrome: ctrl+shift+w

Back: backspace or alt+<left arrow>

Search: ctrl+e then type

New tab: ctrl+t

New window: ctrl+n

Downloads: ctrl+j

New bookmark: ctrl+d

...and many more

not logged in

Currently you can search without being logged in, and not be prompted to share stuff.

Why do you think they'll change that? This is only the bar at the top of the screen; I very much doubt they'll get rid of the search box on the homepage.

It's a change to a popular product

therefore news. It's a lame story but compared with the guff that gets written about every iphone rumour, it's really quite important.