Recent content by dullgeek

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    Android N Easter egg

    I probably would have kept playing except that there's a max of 6 cats that I can collect. The only thing that makes that "game" interesting at all is the idea of being able to compare w/my fellow nexus owners how many cats they have. A max of 6... wait I wonder if the next nexus will be able to...
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    Gmail or inbox?

    Inbox for me. I am so smitten by how inbox works that I now passionately hate how I don't have those features on my work email. Here are my reasons: automatic bundling for things like trips, promos, finance, etc most email, including gmail, has 3 dispositions for email: unread, read &...
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    april security ota update

    I got mine two days ago, and since then my signal quality has been much worse. According to XDA MOB30D is supposed to have a radio update. Hopefully that fixes whatever problem was created by MMB29X. Anyone else see worse reception after the update?
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    From S5 to Note 4?

    Did you have the issues that I mentioned on the S5?
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    From S5 to Note 4?

    I am a fairly unhappy owner of an S5. I upgraded from my pretty trusty S4, which, after 3 years, finally had some unrecoverable hardware failures. I'm ready to ditch my S5 and consider a Note 4 instead. But I have a few questions. My main problem with the S5 is that the lollipop upgrade appears...
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    I just don't get the point

    I have a hard time imagining that my chromebook will ever replace my windows laptop. That shouldn't be surprising. My laptop didn't replace the linux server that I run also. Each piece of computing in my house serves different functions and they don't *have* *to* *replace* each other. For me the...
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    chromebook email challenge

    I'm confused as to why you don't just go to gmail.com for gmail, hotmail.com for hotmail, etc. That would keep them all separate. I think I'm not understanding something about what you're trying to do. Can you clarify?
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    Questions about Chromebook and cloud computing

    You can access dropbox via their web interface. I don't use one cloud, but imagine it's the same way. By far google drive is the easiest to use from a chromebook. Yes chromebooks can be rooted... sorta. In chrome OS it's called "developer mode". And you can do all kinds of wonderful and...
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    Can I get some help purchasing a Chromebook?

    I have owned 3 chromebooks: Samsung Series 5 Acer C720 Toshiba Chromebook 2 (2014 IPS version) The Samsung was woefully under-powered. I didn't really start to depend on a chromebook until my C720. It went with me everywhere. Where I couldn't find wifi, I would couple it with a hotspot on my...
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    Galaxy S4: Disable auto S Voice activation when connecting to bluetooth?

    Ok. So I was able to figure out what happened. This was a change that I made about the same time as the 4.3 upgrade, so I got confused as to what the cause was. I'm providing the following instructions in case anyone else ever finds themselves with this problem and not sure how to fix it. Go...
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    Galaxy S4: Disable auto S Voice activation when connecting to bluetooth?

    Really? No one is experiencing this? Maybe I should factory reset my phone?
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    Galaxy S4: Disable auto S Voice activation when connecting to bluetooth?

    Since the last upgrade, my S4 now automatically brings up S voice whenever it connects to bluetooth. I don't suppose that would be so bad, except for it almost always has some phrase that it says to me. The most recent was, "Hi. I hope you are able to make the most of your time while the night...
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    Got Slingbox to cast with Chromecast

    I do the same thing that you want to do for my favorite team (Go Pack Go). My mom lives in Wisconsin, and I've installed a slingbox pro-hd at her house. This is not the newest model slingbox - it's the previous generation. But the newest models no longer include TV tuners in them, while this...
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    ICS delayed for Photon

    My son had a nexus s 4G that he lost. We recently found it. I reactivated it and spent the day playing w/JB. IMHO its not all that. I thought I would be on that phone for a while but it took less than a day to go back to my mopho. JB just isn't that big of a deal. My $0.02. Sent from my...
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    blue vs gray signal strength

    This matches my experience. So I assume blue means background data is on while grey means its off. Sent from my MB855 using Tapatalk