I've been trying to find the perfect app for photos (particularly for my Flickr photostream) and what an abysmal lot of apps they are. The only one that seems like it might be good is FlickFolio but you have to pay to find out if it is. There is no free trial version or light version. I've tried nearly all of the free alternatives including Flickr's ofiicial app and that is terrible (Stuck in portrait mode on the tablet until you open a photo fullscreen and then it suddenly allows landscape mode. Exit fullscreen and it is stuck in portrait mode again). JustPics HD is sorta OK but has an issue where it makes the screen go full brightness when you show a photo fullscreen. Also it only shows sets instead of the photostream.
Don't even get me started on the inbuilt photo viewer. Complete garbage (why do I want to see every image stored in my books folder! Sheesh!).
This seems to be the way with a lot of apps on Android though. They seem to cater for either phone users or tablet users and rarely both. I don't have experience of Apple stuff but I am guessing things are a little more together over in the Apple apps camp.
EDIT: Sorry just having a bit of a moan.
Give Quick Pic a try. It's free and works nicely as a photo gallery for viewing local content on all my Android devices...you can choose which folders to include or exclude and the image rendering is very fast.
Id get flickfolio, really good app has all your stream and sets and so forth.
It stores it a set amount locally also so you can view while offline.
I've sworn by quickpic for a very long time but since the last few updates my albums sometimes take up to 90 seconds to load.
regP said:
I've sworn by quickpic for a very long time but since the last few updates my albums sometimes take up to 90 seconds to load.
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Try clearing it's cache.
I've done so. its a problem after cache clearking and reinstalls over multiple ROMs.
JustPictures works great for online albums as well as local stuff.
Flickr Viewer HD.
So far seems awesome, pics look great and a very cool layout. Still needs some interface work but my favorite Flickr App
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Tigrev said:
Give Quick Pic a try. It's free and works nicely as a photo gallery for viewing local content on all my Android devices...you can choose which folders to include or exclude and the image rendering is very fast.
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I've been using it since my RAM-challenged Archos tablet and it's always outperformed any stock photo app our anything else I've tried from the market.
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Don't even get me started on the inbuilt photo viewer. Complete garbage (why do I want to see every image stored in my books folder! Sheesh!).
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Put a .nomedia file in you books folder and the images won't show up in the gallery.
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The only one that seems like it might be good is FlickFolio but you have to pay to find out if it is. There is no free trial version or light version.
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Pretty sure there's a 15 minute window during which you can any app out and refund it if you don't like it.
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Pretty sure there's a 15 minute window during which you can any app out and refund it if you don't like it.
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Yup exactly!
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So now adobe Air is released.So are there any apps available which is integrated with adobe Air.
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That app is way to large for my nexus.
Skytunes. Looks cool so far.
there is a list from app brain
appbrain dot com /user/webkitchen/air-applications
sorry for the broken link, but I cant post URL's on a new account
here you go http://www.appbrain.com/user/webkitchen/air-applications
gravity lander is a nice example of adobe air, quite a lot of apps avaliable seeing as it was just released a few hours ago
Air is a huge install 10+ Mb, that doesn't want to live on the SD.
Boo on Adobe.
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After playing around with Skytunes some more, I'm really impressed. There's a neat little option that allows you to switch playback from your phone to your desktop at the click of a button and it's INSTANTANEOUS. ATM, the only drawback is that the server on the desktop is just the application itself, so you kind of have to have it open all the time if you want to use it on the go.
Hopefully they'll make a background process to control the server eventually.
There're already quite a lot of Air apps out in the market. Very impressive. The quality of the apps on average seems pretty decent, too.
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Air is a huge install 10+ Mb, that doesn't want to live on the SD.
Boo on Adobe.
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Firefox is 44 MB. Lol
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That app is way to large for my nexus.
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One reason why I didnt bother, it will overload the memory.
And it will be a while before its a "must have" app.
Your going to have this problem with complicated libarys being used on a phone with bugger all storage space. Hopefully whatever phone I get next will have at least 2gb for app storage.
Hey guys I just picked up my Xoom about an hour ago. I'm a photographer and been wanting a nice tab for some time now to add my work, and use it as a nice portfolio. My issue is this.... I,ve dropped in a few photos into my xoom, all high res but when I go to view the images in the gallery they all look a bit pixelated. I would need to stretch the image out a bit to make them look right.
In the end if I had to do this for each image I wish to show it would just become a real pain in the ass. Anything in settings to fix this, or maybe an app that would help with this problem?
If anyone has any ideas please let me know? If there is no fix, than sadly I would need to return my new Xoom that I love very much.
Thanks.
Try QuickPic.
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Try QuickPic.
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Yup a buddy of mine just told me about that app. Works freaking great! Looks like I'll be keeping my XOOM after all.
Thanks.
I am a photographer too..hobbylist at least (http://www.photographybykevin.net)
Anyhow, I host my pictures on mainly Zenfolio and sometime upload misc stuff to Flickr.
I find both of these apps are AWESOME on the XOOM
zFolio and FlickFolio...
Both of them will sync / download your entire gallery to your Xoom when you are on a WIFI connection, not 3G to save you bandwidth. It works pretty smooth and does a good job.
Otherwise the other option is manually copy the picture to the Xoom and use the Gallery 3D native to the Xoom.
The maker of zFolio and FlickFolio also make one for SmugSmug too I believe. The app is only $2.99, a good price for the app.
thanks for the suggestion
Don't know if its just me but is anyone else finding Facebook unusable. I updated it the other day for her and now she keeps complaining to me that its takes about half an hour just to scroll threw it as all the pictures are to big and keep taking up the whole screen
It's Facebook's new timeline update. It's how it is. Lol.
Think she will have to get used to it about time her fingers did some work anyway
Yeah, they didnt really take into consideration how the pictures would look on larger landscape devices. I'm sure it looks ok on phones, but tablets....yeah that's a different story.
Had a quick look on it today every picture takes ages to scroll threw. The only good thing is at least she will leave my tab alone now
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had a quick look on it today every picture takes ages to scroll threw. The only good thing is at least she will leave my tab alone now
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moar sandwiches!!!!!
The official Facebook app? I found it lacking in so many ways. Personally use facedroid, but there are other free apps that also beat the official app by miles.
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moar sandwiches!!!!!
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The official Facebook app? I found it lacking in so many ways. Personally use facedroid, but there are other free apps that also beat the official app by miles.
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Thanks
Friendcaster is my personal favorite.
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official FB app is very lacking on tablets. it's okay on my phone though. For the tablet, I just use the browser and view FB the way it is intended lol.
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Friendcaster is my personal favorite.
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Yes, Friendcaster one of the best and and not hungry for memory.
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Yes, Friendcaster one of the best and and not hungry for memory.
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Friendcaster is by far the best Facebook app, and FAR better than the official one.
Better interface, faster, easier to navigate, integrated Facebook Chat.
Only problem at the moment seems to be inbox messaging, though I believe that is being sorted.
I tried out Friendcaster and the UI is nice, and seems faster but the photos don't work. They are all pixelated. Also, I had it open and was switching between that and FB for android. Friendcaster was missing a bunch of posts that FB was showing. Not sure what the issues are. Why can't something just work the way it should?
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Why can't something just work the way it should?
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You should get yourself an iPad mate, my wife has one and I can assure you it just works... all the time!
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You should get yourself an iPad mate, my wife has one and I can assure you it just works... all the time!
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Do you really think that was at all helpful? The iPad is not the end all and be all. I vastly prefer my Galaxy Tab because I wanted a full featured tablet computer, not a giant iPod Touch.
Getting back on topic, I agree that Facebook really screwed up their latest update. The pictures aren't handled right at all. It seems they've forced the app to behave like it's on a phone and are snubbing tablets all together.
However, if you don't mind viewing Facebook in portrait mode, it's fine. The photos are only screwed up when viewing in landscape mode. I hope they get their act together and fix it soon.
My friends have iPads and they complain about the same issues. The application does the same on both devices. Its just reformating the mobile page contents...
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I pressed that button on the bottom left in the tray area that zooms in to apps that aren't built for tabs, and it zoomed and stretched and the FB app seems to function better, but it is all kind of grainy and pixelated.
Why faccebook who has so many users, can't update their app to use tab's screen size? After all, tablets become more and more popular and recent days.
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Why faccebook who has so many users, can't update their app to use tab's screen size? After all, tablets become more and more popular and recent days.
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Because whoever is responsible for developing their mobile apps is utterly incompetent. They have always sucked and Facebook really doesn't seem to care, probably because they want people to access the site via web browser so they can shove all their ads in their faces.
well, if you have a tablet, FB is perfectly usable in the browser. As far as the ads, would you rather pay to use FB instead?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1rdGCdnF2c
This is an Quick Review of the Official Jelly Bean Update, which demonstrates some of the changes and features, which I thought would be useful for new people interested in this ROM and also those with the ROM to take a look at.
I plan on making an In-Depth review in a couple of days that will hopefully mention all aspects of the tablet, if you guys think you've found some great features feel free to leave a comment in the video or if you have any questions about the update so that I can mention/answer them in the In-Depth Video that should be ready in a couple days.
You can also post some changes you have found here in this thread and how your experience has been with the New Jelly Bean Update; Thanks for the help guys.
If you like the video don't forget to thumbs up the video and subscribe to my channel,
and you can always press the thank button on XDA.
UPDATE:
Part 1 of In-Depth Review now uploaded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FOmb-9bI6s
Part 2 of In-Depth Review now uploaded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr7HO3UuM_c
Extra: Video demonstrating Multi Windows App Mod: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExG3YDZuL0g
Is this N8000XXBLJ9 in German?
You can set the language that you want in the set up. But it was released in Germany.
If the floors open to questions.........does the stock browser still have that slight lag when opening bookmarks?
Thanks for the vids, allthough any chance your camara has a zoom function?
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If the floors open to questions.........does the stock browser still have that slight lag when opening bookmarks?
Thanks for the vids, allthough any chance your camara has a zoom function?
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The browser works great, didn't experience any lag when opening bookmarks even those synced from my laptop.
Yes the camera has zoom, thought it had it before as well; you have to pinch zoom.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTENGl56rvQ&list=UU2aVtEgFA_ZKN4dIbyVW5dQ&index=1&feature=plcp
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Nice video, I like your convo with S Voice lol.
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The browser works great, didn't experience any lag when opening bookmarks even those synced from my laptop.
Yes the camera has zoom, thought it had it before as well; you have to pinch zoom.
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Cheers mate........... when i said camera, i meant the camera you use to make these videos
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Cheers mate........... when i said camera, i meant the camera you use to make these videos
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Ohh lol, yes does; you think it was too zoomed out?
Something I noticed...
Hey - great Video.
I noticed something on 4.1.1 (and did not see it in your video). It took me for a spin-loop the first time: When downloading something fom the web (deafult browser) it does not save the file anymore to the internal (/mnt/sdcard/Downloads) - but instead to the external SD-card (I assume when one is present. I have not tried it without my externalSD yet.
Thanks again for the features.....
LOVENOTE10.1
One disappointing thing I have noticed in s note.
If you wish to have a custom background based upon an image it does not save that image as a template background for future sessions. You must go through the entire process each time. I prefer to write with a white pen on black lined paper. It would be nice if the background gallery would retain this option for me between sessions.
Also I do not see any way for us to custom design our own templates. Am I missing something? I can think of a number of layouts I would like which they do not offer by default.
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Ohh lol, yes does; you think it was too zoomed out?
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Yeah, if its possibe, ideally enough so we can read the menu options, pause the video so we can see if anythings new or changed, generally a better view of everything, if its possible, i assume you do it this way because its easier, less fiddly not worrying about being out of camera, im assuming
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If you wish to have a custom background based upon an image it does not save that image as a template background for future sessions.
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If you save a blank note with the background you want, when you want to start a new note, open the orginal and "save as" before you start using it. The orginal "sort of" becomes a template. Kind of crude but faster than changing the background each time. I think the S-Note we have is going to be the S-Note we'll be living with for quite a while.
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If you save a blank note with the background you want, when you want to start a new note, open the orginal and "save as" before you start using it. The orginal "sort of" becomes a template. Kind of crude but faster than changing the background each time. I think the S-Note we have is going to be the S-Note we'll be living with for quite a while.
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Yeah that's kind of what I have been doing. Surprising Samsung thought no one would want to create their own templates. Looks like a good opening for a popular aftermarket add-on.
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Yeah that's kind of what I have been doing. Surprising Samsung thought no one would want to create their own templates. Looks like a good opening for a popular aftermarket add-on.
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Now that there's a Windows version of S-Note they'd be smart if they published a SDK like they have for the S-Pen in general. The fact that syncing S-Note's to a Samsung account has been added might mean something's planned for the future.
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Now that there's a Windows version of S-Note they'd be smart if they published a SDK like they have for the S-Pen in general. The fact that syncing S-Note's to a Samsung account has been added might mean something's planned for the future.
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Oh, that would be nice!
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Yeah that's kind of what I have been doing. Surprising Samsung thought no one would want to create their own templates. Looks like a good opening for a popular aftermarket add-on.
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Frustrating indeed. Custom template seems so basic...
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Now that there's a Windows version of S-Note they'd be smart if they published a SDK like they have for the S-Pen in general. The fact that syncing S-Note's to a Samsung account has been added might mean something's planned for the future.
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I agree guys, they should at least have a section in the settings or somewhere in the app to request features or leave feedback. Especially since its not in any of the app stores.
Also I just signed into Samsung Apps and they're giving $20 coupons for learning hub to all users, not that I've seen anything in learning hub that interests me :/
Why isnt youtube avaliable inn multi view? It is on the note 2. Was kind of hoping.
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Why isnt youtube avaliable inn multi view? It is on the note 2. Was kind of hoping.
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Yes the note 2's multi-window is compatible with Google apps like chrome, youtube, gmail and talk. Hopefully we will get those options soon. I think they also have some social apps working like facebook aswell.
This issue is really frustrating me as I've never had this with any other phone, and I cannot figure out how to fix it. But in all the browsers, when I open a site like facebook, and someone has posted an image, it is so blurry I cannot make it out. If I click on it it takes me to a very small size image that is clearer, but as I said very small. There is a clickable link for a full size image, but then it goes to download the image on my phone! So frustrating!! Also pictures in people's photo galleries on Facebook are very small and nothing I do will make them larger. I can't pinch to zoom in or double tap the screen, nothing makes the pictures larger. I don't know what's going on?? I've checked every setting I can find, but nothing relates to image size and/or quality.
Am I the only one with this issue? Do I possibly have a defective phone?
If you're phone is displaying other things sharply and it's only Facebook or browser then it's software. You're phone is fine.
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If you're phone is displaying other things sharply and it's only Facebook or browser then it's software. You're phone is fine.
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Okay, well everyone on Sprint would have the same software right? So why isn't there more people complaining about this?? I can't find any info at all regarding this problem. It's bizarre. And it's not just on one browser either, it doesn't matter if I use IE, minidolphin, or Chrome.