I have used 3 diff usb card readers with win 7 , and they have all auto installed - no issue ( locked down corporate machine )
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I have used 3 diff usb card readers with win 7 , and they have all auto installed - no issue ( locked down corporate machine )
That S3 looks like a winner, could be an iPhone killer
Don't be stupid, do you know how many retards are out there that only buy the phone for the name ? I was on some forum the other night and some of them on there own all 3 versions of the iPad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly
that can't be true, nobody can be that dumb in the world, not even AmericansQuote:
Originally Posted by Kwang
There are some nutjobs out there, and there's another one born every minute
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As for me, I have 3 iPads: my original iPad has an Apple Cover and a Zaggmate keyboard. My iPad2 has two cases. My new iPad has only one case that was supposed to be a smart cover but the magnets are in the wrong place. I like it anyway, so I've kept it. My problem is that I have a really excessive desire to buy technology and all of its accessories. The iPad also makes me buy apps. I have over 177 apps between all three iPads. Thats why I surround myself with people with OBI (obsessive buying impulses) Syndrome
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I have lots and lots and LOTS of ipad2 cases, most of which fit my new iPad. I'm kind of obsessed. I have the smart cover in every single color except cream (because it stains to easily), several back covers and quite a few folio cases. I've spent more money on cases than I have on my iPad. I know it's crazy but I like to switch out my iPad every few days
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spent more on cases then the iPad.. But then my handbag and shoes nearly take up my entire dressing room.. Lol.. Poor hubby gets the closet in one of the spare rooms. I stole the master closet as well
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Yup. I'm a case junkie too! I have about 5 or 6 for my iPad1 and am stating to build on my iPad3 collection
^ got to be jokes or someone trolling
real iPad owners don't even sound that smart when writing, those guys are self-parodying
I bought a Polycom speakerphone years ago on the basis that when Vista arrived, they would provide a driver for it. They never did.Quote:
Originally Posted by baldrick
They had masses of complaints on their forum and never replied.
When Windows 7 arrived, I plugged it in for a laugh and it installed flawlessly.
But on certain older machines, where the vendor says the hardware will not support Windows 7, you may have to load an older Vista driver from the manufacturers website.
I think this is the case here, otherwise two people wouldn't report an identical problem, one of which was apparently fixed by searching for a driver.
I want them to announce the new spec'd note at the may 3rd gigQuote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly
I want to get both the new note and the asus ux31a ( ivy bridge which should be announced before the end of the month ).
Facebook for Android gets dedicated Camera, Messenger shortcuts
News by Dan Seifert on Friday April 20, 2012.0 Comments
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Facebook for Android shortcuts
Facebook released version 1.9 of its Android app, and with this update has included dedicated shortcuts for uploading images to the social network or accessing the messaging section of the app.
The update adds two new apps to the application tray of Android smartphones, one for Camera, and another for Messenger. The Camera shortcut opens up an interface that lets users shoot a new picture or choose one from their gallery to instantly upload to Facebook. The Messenger shortcut opens the Facebook app directly to the Messenger section, which has been upgraded to include a lot of the functionality of the standalone Facebook Messenger app. Users can now create group messages and add other users to existing group message threads while on the go.
The update also includes the obligatory performance improvements and bug fixes. Facebook for Android version 1.9 is free and available in the Google Play Store now.
Google Drive Android app spotted in the wild
Mark Raby, Apr 20th 2012
Google’s widely talked about but still highly under-wraps cloud storage service looks like it is just about ready for prime time. Pictures of an app called “Drive” have been leaked from what appears to be a developer-friendly Android phone. According to previous rumors, the service may be ready to launch as early as next week, and if there is already a fully functional app, that leads us to want to believe those rumors are true.
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Still unclear is exactly what sort of features Google Drive will have. The search giant isn’t exactly the first to the game when it comes to cloud storage. Rival services like Dropbox offer users the ability to seamlessly share files with friends on Facebook and easily connect with their documents and media on-the-go with their smartphones and tablets. Google Drive will hopefully bring something equally user-centric and seamless to the table.
For its part, Google hasn’t actually even announced Google Drive, but there is no doubt in anyone’s mind that it’s coming. All signs point to the service offering 5 GB of free storage to all users, which would be more than other free offerings like Dropbox and the Amazon Cloud Drive. What we really want to see is something that is so intuitive that saving and opening files from the cloud would be as simple as accessing files on your local hard drive. Can Google be the one that does that?
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HB, what's do you recon is the going rate for a second hand Galaxy Tab GT-P1000? Flogging mine but don't what to ask.
This guy wants 9500, should give you some idea, depending on the age, condition memory, blah balah
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3g & Wi-Fi 7"
^Cheers for that, i thought about 10k as mine as the mini card.
The new GT is 14500 at Swampy or 15900 in the shops, in case you were wondering
More on Google Drive:
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By Joe Svetlik on 21 April 2012, 12:00pm
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Doh! Google Drive -- the search giant's cloud storage system -- is all but official, with leaks coming thick and fast. And this one is about as real as they come.
During an Android Developers Hangout on Google Plus, one of the Google employees showed off an Android phone with a list of sharing options, one of which was Google Drive. Complete with the three-coloured folded triangle icon that leaked a while ago. Google yanked the video sharpish, but not before it was archived, Pocketnow reports. Click through to see it for yourself.
The Drive icon makes an appearance about 18 seconds in. It's the second one down, though all the icons are a bit blurred.
Which just about proves that Drive exists. The last thing we heard was that Drive was due to be announced next week, and that you'd get 5GB free storage, which is more than the 2GB offered by Dropbox. Though you're expected to be able to pay to boost that. According to a leaked screenshot at the end of last month, you'll be able to tweak documents, and those changes will appear like magic on the versions stored on your PC, mobile, tablet, and wherever else you keep your docs.
It's expected to work almost identically to Dropbox. The leaked screenshot read: "Put your files in Google Drive and you can access them on your desktop, mobile phone or tablet, and drive.google.com". Sounds like Dropbox to me. But given the service's simplicity, that's no bad thing.
Samsung is also rumoured to launch its own cloud-based back-up service along with the Galaxy S3 at the event on 3 May. Its service is said to be called S-Cloud. It sounds very similar to others already available, with 5GB free storage, and possibly the option to pay for more, though details are pretty scarce.
jesus, how many are providing these services these days ? all of them it seems,
There have been third party solutions around for years, it's just that the big boys have finally realised the value.
Actually, there has been an unofficial add-on for years to use Google Mail as online storage.
I just wish they'd stop calling the Internet the fucking Cloud. It hasn't changed, it's still the Internet.
value ? seems like costs to me, when it's all freeQuote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
DropBox use Amazon S3 thing, like many out there. There seems to be a lot of overcapacity of online storage.
except how many people will be encrypting what they store - datamining heavenQuote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly
there is supposed to be a truecrypt addon for dropbox , but I think probably the best is a 5USD a month VPS with fully encrypted file system and VPN server
The Cleverest Ways to Use Dropbox That You're Not Using
I use the Google Chrome Browser and have a Gmail account,
My homepage is Google. This is what is in the corner when I don't sign in
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I will be the judge of that :)
Google have their fingers in all the pies, a bit like Buttplug on a nite out down Boyztown:)
datamining garbage ? 99% of those data are worthless without their context descriptionQuote:
Originally Posted by baldrick
the real encryption is the level of useless shit that users will be storing,
Less than 24 hours after it has been launched, more than five million downloads of Google Drive Android App have been logged by Google Play.
In comparison, Mozilla's Firefox 3 clocked more than eight million active downloads in one day back in 2008 (ed : one might say that Microsoft's patch Tuesday routinely smashes this record but that's a tad different).
The service was launched yesterday by Google and appears to be rolling out gradually worldwide which means that the number would have been significantly higher had the initial launched been global.
The application has already received more than 35,000 reviews at the time of writing and averages four stars out of five. It requires Android 2.1 or above to install and is currently available as version 1.0.77.
Google Drive only offers 5GB compared to Microsoft Skydrive's 7GB and is on par with other players on the market (Box, Amazon) and higher than Dropbox's 2GB. Upgrading to 25GB will cost you nearly $30 a year, more than twice what it was only a few days ago.
Google also upped the amount of storage for Gmail to 10GB and scrapped the 1GB allowance for Google Docs (which has essentially been merged with Google Drive and increased to 5GB).
Source : Google
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Free (limited version)
CamCard is one of those casually life-changing apps – in short, by recognising text on business cards, it spells the end of the ancient rolodex or, more likely, the drawer full of disorganised old bits of cardboard acquired at business meetings.
The premise is pleasingly simple: if somebody gives you a business card, use the camera on your phone to take a picture of it. CamCard recognises the text, stores it, categorises it and files it along with the image of the card. The character recognition varies from perfect on plain cards to useless on complicated ones. But overall, this is an app that saves hours of either hunting for that card you’ve lost or cumulatively typing up every contact you ever make over years.
Where CamCard comes into its own, however, is in its additional features: you can introduce contacts electronically, it will recognise 16 languages, back everything up online and synchronise with other address books.
While getting started with the app is a laborious process, because photographing many cards is tedious, it does at least offer a batch mode that takes some of the pain out of the job. Camcard's larger weaknesses are with occasional problems with the camera locking up, resulting in a problem that could only be solved on my Galaxy Nexus by restarting the whole device, and with imperfect character recognition. Even with those drawbacks, however, it's one of a very few apps I'd regard as essential.
anyone use box? i got 50GB free
Samsung Galaxy SIII unveiling expected today:
[UNPACKED 2012] Teaser 2 - YouTube
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Samsung on May 3 is expected to unveil the next-generation Galaxy S III, the latest iteration of a blockbuster device that has helped the South Korean company overtake Apple as the world’s largest smartphone maker.
“A whole new world will soon be unpacked,” Samsung promises on its official Galaxy splash page. Perhaps taking a page from the Apple iPad 3 playbook, the company has thus far referred to upcoming phone as the “next” Galaxy S.
"We are anticipating very strong demand of Galaxy S," said senior VP Robert Yi, during the company’s Q1 earnings call, a comment believed to be a reference to the new phone.
A company spokeswoman declined to confirm to FoxNews.com that the company will reveal the new phone at the London event, dubbed Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012.
The next Galaxy is expected to be equipped with the company's own Exynos 4 chip, a quadcore processor running at 1.4GHz. It is also rumored to carry a high-resolution 4.8-inch screen, a 12-megapixel camera, and the latest version of Android, dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich, according to various rumors, leaks and reports.
Samsung has enjoyed success across a diverse product line of phones, including a collaboration with Google to create the Galaxy Nexus as well as the larger, more niche Note device. But the flagship Galaxy S series remains the company’s stalwart performer, winning near unanimous praise from critics and customers alike.
Reviews of last year’s Galaxy S II were generally enthusiastic. Engadget gave the device a 9/10, calling it “the best Android smartphone yet” and “possibly the best smartphone, period,” while TechRadar gave the S II a perfect 5/5 stars noting that it “set a new bar for smartphones in 2011.”
Samsung sold 3 million units worldwide within 55 days. By February 2012, the company had shipped over 20 million units globally, becoming the world’s premier mobile phone provider and overtaking Apple and Nokia.
Samsung held a 30.6 percent share of the world's smartphone market, while Apple followed with a 24.1 percent share, according to data released Friday by London-based research firm Strategy Analytics.