I'm just kinda confused on the usability of this thing.
Ok the 5day outlook thing seems ok (if it was ever accurate), but why do you need to know what the weather is like at the present time? You can just look out of the window.
Also the last week it's been saying partly sunny nearly every day & it's been cloudy/overcast all the time.
It would be great if it showed what the weather would be like in say 5 hours or later in the day etc...
Is there any way to mod the weather feature to make it a worthwhile feature?
At the moment it just seems like something they stuck on as an extra to show the TF3D off.
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I'm just kinda confused on the usability of this thing.
Ok the 5day outlook thing seems ok (if it was ever accurate), but why do you need to know what the weather is like at the present time? You can just look out of the window.
Also the last week it's been saying partly sunny nearly every day & it's been cloudy/overcast all the time.
It would be great if it showed what the weather would be like in say 5 hours or later in the day etc...
Is there any way to mod the weather feature to make it a worthwhile feature?
At the moment it just seems like something they stuck on as an extra to show the TF3D off.
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this a smart question for collectors! thank you for bringing this matter to our attention
have you thought (before you started a new thread) that maybe some ppl are traveling and want to know how the weather is going to be at their destination 2 or 4 hours from now, 200 or 3000 km away from their windows?
it is just a gimmick. And not only that, a rubbish one to be honest: Yesterday here at Heathrow it was cloudy yet it said on my phone sunny!
If you want a proper weather app can I suggest SPB Weather, sadly though it will not plug-in to TF3D.
edit: just checked it today as well, same! "Sunny" according to my phone but its not, its very grey outside!
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this a question for collectors! thank you for bringing this matter to our attention
have you thought (before you started a new thread) that maybe some ppl are traveling and want to know how the weather is going to be at their destination 2 or 4 hours from now, 200 or 3000 km away from their windows?
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and have you thought that its totaly unreliable?
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and have you thought that its totaly unreliable?
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lol! never let me down. here it is always sunny and when i travel it was precise enough to help me pick the right clothing. maybe the meteorological service/site used by SPB is more accurate than the one used by HTC. maybe.
also the weather tab can be disabled. i hate to think at the complains if the diamond has not add this tab.
it seems pretty accurate to me, maybe you don't have any weather monitoring devices locally and it's using one further away
Possible but VERY unlikely, I live in London.
SPB Weather is far more accurate - runs with data from some Russian site.
ABSOLUTELY!
There's a reason; ALL these international weather feeds come from russian and chinese servers, running unregistered unified-model software, and running at resolutions of around 50km with no local topography accounted for. Local met offices run at 4km with detailed knowledge of the topographical issues (mountain, lake, sea, etc). They then claim a degree of cred by pirating the weather station HISTORICAL feeds to show accurate current temps on a specific station, leading you to believe the forecasting is credible too.
I am always facinated by the effort ppl go to on their weather apps (skins, icons, 1m res geo position) for something that if not even accurate at 50km!! It's SO daft.
In short, rather use software that allows you to specify your own URL's to image maps then get them from your local met office web site. This works for radar images (Storm tracking), forecasts, traffic cams, etc etc. Hell, or just set up IE bookmarks...
now you've nicely cleared that up, thanks!, I wonder if there is a reg entry or similar that we can change to point to a local feed?
p.s. anyone know where we can get a list of local feeds? For example, London ... maybe BBC.co.uk? Can't find it though and I doubt its RSS as this would have loads of "text" thats not required.
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this a smart question for collectors! thank you for bringing this matter to our attention
have you thought (before you started a new thread) that maybe some ppl are traveling and want to know how the weather is going to be at their destination 2 or 4 hours from now, 200 or 3000 km away from their windows?
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Thankyou for this enlightenment, but I thought of this already, that's why I said it should maybe tell you the weather in 5 hours or later in the day.
Unless you travel by instatrain or instaplane etc.. I still can't see the use of it telling the weather at present time.
Being a helicopter pilot, I use Metar's TAFs and briefing charts from the met office website to make decisions on whether it is safe to fly or not.
I totally agree with nin0. If I want to know the instantaneous weather conditions I get up and look out the window not pay for a data connection on my phone and get a semi accurate result. (That's just lazy)
If KukurikU can go 200km (let alone 3000km) without the weather changing then I'd love to know how???? In my experience the weather can change extremely quickly forcing you to land in a field until it's safe.
I'm going to try the mort script available here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=289197&page=86 (post #858) No swanky graphics but should give all the information you could possibly need.
for me it's useless and so disabled to
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If KukurikU can go 200km (let alone 3000km) without the weather changing then I'd love to know how???? In my experience the weather can change extremely quickly forcing you to land in a field until it's safe.
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about quick changes of the weather...nobody can predict...complain to god the sudden changes of weather are not so common.
the main screen is not the weather "now". the main screen is for weather "today" and of course is not a promisse.
so, if i intend to make a trip of 200 km from town A to town B it might be useful to know that even if in my town (A) now is sunny, in my destination town is raining. that's even more useful if i am living for a trip abroad today at 7am (let's say to pay u a visit) and i want to know how is the weather in yr hometown 3000 km from my country/hometown. in both cases the "weather from the window" method is not helping me but the whether tab (even if not so exact) can help .
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..... in both cases the "weather from the window" method is not helping me but the whether tab even if not so exact can.
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If you'd have believed it where I live, you would have got here and been very underwhelmed, unimpressed, wearing sunglases and t-shirt (and looking an idiot) and on the cold side yesterday.
Not much better today - although the sun is starting to poke through the clouds.... shame the days are getting shorter.
Think I'll stick to weather.com or bbc.co.uk for my long distance and future forecasts.
edit: just checked again - weather app has downgraded london from Sunny to Sunny with clouds .... shame the clouds are lifting hahaha...
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Thankyou for this enlightenment, but I thought of this already, that's why I said it should maybe tell you the weather in 5 hours or later in the day.
Unless you travel by instatrain or instaplane etc.. I still can't see the use of it telling the weather at present time.
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it tells you the weather for 5-8 hours in the day. it is a forecast for today (all day). who told you is instant????
maybe they are updating it a few times a day but certainly it is not for "right now". so "instaplane" or not, before i start packing for a 3000 km flight i look in the weather tab at the country/town of destination and know if i have to take the raincoat or not.
weather is only a forecast...not precise.
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If you'd have believed it where I live, you would have got here and been very underwhelmed, unimpressed, wearing sunglases and t-shirt (and looking an idiot) and on the cold side yesterday.
Not much better today - although the sun is starting to poke through the clouds.... shame the days are getting shorter.
Think I'll stick to weather.com or bbc.co.uk for my long distance and future forecasts.
edit: just checked again - weather app has downgraded london from Sunny to Sunny with clouds .... shame the clouds are lifting hahaha...
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in my country except 2 months a year it is sunny with temperatures over 30 celsius. always! two month a year is raining once or twice a week. come here to warm up yr english bones! right now here it is sunny and 29 celsius !!
that;s from the weather tab and verified from the window...lol!
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so, if i intend to make a trip of 200 km from town A to town B it might be useful to know that even if in my town (A) now is sunny, in my destination town is raining. that's even more useful if i am living for a trip abroad today at 7am (let's say to pay u a visit) and i want to know how is the weather in yr hometown 3000 km from my country/hometown. in both cases the "weather from the window" method is not helping me but the whether tab (even if not so exact) can help .
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You are obviously not familiar with the weather in the UK and would be extremely disappointed if upon visiting, packed your suitcase based on your weather tab on your Diamond. You would be better off packing your umbrella, sunglasses, and thermal underwear just to be safe. I'm not kidding!!!!!!
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it tells you the weather for 5-8 hours in the day. it is a forecast for today (all day). who told you is instant????
maybe they are updating it a few times a day but certainly it is not for "right now". so "instaplane" or not, before i start packing for a 3000 km flight i look in the weather tab at the country/town of destination and know if i have to take the raincoat or not.
weather is only a forecast...not precise.
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Not looking for a fight here KukurikU but where did you learn that it's a 5-8 hour forecast? just curious as all?
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Not looking for a fight here KukurikU but where did you learn that it's a 5-8 hour forecast? just curious as all?
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i have to admit: a wild guess seems very probable that they (meteorological stations) are making some adjustments. i did use the magic word "maybe" in my post:
maybe they are updating it a few times a day but certainly it is not for "right now"
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i might be wrong...it happened that the forecast (not for my country) changed during the day. btw, because of the "raining" animation i keep London on the weather tab all the time hahaha. when i feel hot i look at it to cool down a little...when u feel too cold you can also try to warm up by looking at yr weather tab for israel/ashdod or rishon leziyyon (i am in between) now is 8.30 pm and still 27 celsius
i see no fight here. i am enjoying very much our "conversation".
i was amused by the "why not look at the window". once again, ppl have to understand that this is only a forecast and if you travel and if you want to know the weather at yr destination you can not go out and see it for yourself (unless yr destination is yr neighbor's backyard).
as i said, here, in my country 90% of the time i got the same "sunny" and temperature from 25-40 celsius but i am using the weather tab when i travel to Europa and i found it to be very useful.
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Hey all, I recently posted a game utilizing the 3D capabilities of the G1 to the Marketplace called Flyer.
It's a game where you fly around as a jet and try to destroy enemy jets.
It's currently in a very early build but is up so I can get feedback now, when it's easy to change things.
How to play:
Hold the phone sideways in front of you(in landscape mode)
Tilt left/right to roll
Tilt up/down to pull up or down
Press trackball to fire machinegun
Of Note:
Enemies are currently just green boxes but do behave somewhat intelligently
You can't die yet
Next Release:
Main Menu
Possibly a death sequence
Let me know what you think of it!
Don't listen to the market comment goons, this shows a lot of potential. Keep it up!
yea...the market goons are worthless...come here for the "real" comments.
keep up the good work.
i think more than half the comments i see in the market come from 16 yr old. i like this game
This game shows a lot of potential,the market people who comment are idiots who say first all the time
Is the game good? No, it's pretty much terrible.
Does it have potential? **** yeah.
Graphics for sure, enemy planes, I would make the view in 3rd person, and show a small jet instead of cockpit view. Keep up the good work, it'll get there.
Just got my G1 like 5 hours ago (After a curfuffle with a postman xD) This was one of the first Apps I downloaded to test the accellerometer and it's frickin awesome! Sure way to kill 10 minutes or so, and yeah it has potential. Maybe a Gyro to show your current heading could be added, that way I can tell if i'm upside down or not!
Could you integrate google satellite view into it?
i suspect that would slow it down, but would make it way fun.
either more targets, or more maze like capabilities.
right now it's very flight simulatorish.
God you wanna talk about a little curfluffle with the postman to get it? FedEx was supposed to deliver mine on New Years eve and the delivery man filed that the road was blocked. I called their headquarters, raised hell about it, they checked into it, he changed it to local holiday (meaning a business was closed for delivery) on a residential shipment. They finally made him come back (which was an extra 30 minutes both ways) and deliver it. He refused to even drive all the way down my driveway, he parked halfway down and stood next to the truck until I walked up to get it from him. The lesson of this story, if you're a delivery man and wanna go out and party on new years eve, do your freakin job first or else it'll just cost you more time.
You have done a great job man! Increadible potential. Atleast we can see that 3d is on its way! Keep up the good job. Afterall bding games takes hundreds of people some time so you've a great job!
anyway to solve this.. arrggghh
Do a blood test, your thyroid might not be working properly. Happened to me too
and i'm always hxxny like daily.
what should i do. haha
leobox1 said:
anyway to solve this.. arrggghh
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Quit masturbating yourself. It might help you.
Although maybe it shouldn't be used more than a couple of times a week at most, 5 hour energy seems to work really well for me.
But be careful, contrary to the commercials, it can make you quite jittery. Once, I took an entire bottle (only 2 fluid ounces, which actually contains over 8000% of your daily B vitamin requirements) before a major exam, and was shaking the entire time.
My teacher thought I was having a nervous breakdown or problems with stress, and now seems to think I should get a stress buster and maybe a therapist too... but other than that it works great.
But like I said, be careful with it, I actually have a really stupid friend who had a heart attack from drinking too many energy drinks at the same time. So USE IT RESPONSIBLY!
Dave
Go and by yourself some Cranberry Juice.
That stuff makes you sleep... like KRZY!
If you take the caffine road, be careful of an overdose, my sister took some caffine pills that you can buy ower the counter here in sweden.
Had to pump her stomach
Making sport helps a lot. Don't know if you make some, if not just pick one up, that's healthy .
I noticed that when I don't make sport for some reasons, I'm getting less active and more quickly tired hehe.
1) Make sure there is nothing wrong with you - get your bloodwork checked out.
2) Make sure you sleep enough and regularly. Try going to bed and getting up at exactly the same time each day for a month, and make sure there are about 8 hours between those events (for some people the sweet spot is 7, for others 9). Do not deviate from these times. For some people this is completely unnecessary, others really need to do this. Especially if you have been sleeping irregularly for some time.
3) Make sure you eat right, i.e. getting the right vitamins you need. Having too little of some vitamins makes you tired. Having too much of other vitamins may kill you though Again, get yourself checked out - it is fairly common that your body may not 'handle' certain vitamins right, which again can make you dead tired. There are various ways to handle that, your doctor will know the best way for you if that is your problem. BUT, do NOT take general vitamin supplements. Most of the time taking those leads to having too many vitamins, which is just as bad as too little. You will get enough of most vitamins from whatever you eat, even if you don't eat healthy.
4) Stop drinking anything containing caffeine - period. Not drinking caffeine at all for weeks straight has pretty much the same effect as drinking caffeine daily The more caffeine you drink, the longer it takes for this to go normal again. Energy drinks, coffee, etc are all bad ideas if you want to be awake. Quit them altogether. (Remember caffeine is a drug!)
5) Stop drinking milk and similar dairy products. Milk is the primary dairy product that can cause what I'm about to explain, but it depends on yourself. Most people for example don't have this issue with yoghurt or cheese. About 1 in 10 people does not burn dairy products correctly - but a much smaller number actually knows this. The result is almost always getting tired. I personally know several people who suffer from this and not drinking milk, eating yoghurt etc solved most of their tiredness issues.
6) Don't drink any alcohol for a few weeks. Makes you tired if you drink more than your body can properly take care of (which isn't all that much).
7) Stop smoking. Also makes you tired.
8) Exercise! Helps a lot. And not just your body - do not forget your brain. Keep your mind occupied - throw away the TV (there's nothing worth watching on it anyway!)
9) Destress yourself. If you are having stress, do what it takes to get rid of it. Stress is a killer and wears you out if you have it for long periods of time.
Try doing all of the above for a month... I guarantee you will feel better. Once everything is settled again your body should be able to take some 'slacking' again for a while
Get a life, which obviously none of us have
thanks for those who gave the constructive advise
i guess its the lack of sports and sleep... i manage around 6-7 hours.. i think i am a 9hours person... work work.. with the great crisis now... WORK IS MORE IMPT sigh
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Get a life, which obviously none of us have
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Are you sure about that? Because I'm sure as hell I got a life
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Are you sure about that? Because I'm sure as hell I got a life
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Nuff Said, lol
I forgot to bring eye problems up. Do you wear contact lenses or did you notice that your view was somehow getting worse?
Both cases are pretty harsh for your brain, cause contact lenses are known to be tougher to wear than standard glasses (yes, that's also a question of habits and so on ), and if you have view problems (even small), then you brain tries hard to adapt but can't succeed it.
All of this make tired as hell, own experience speaking .
Go to the Gym, if you dont already
no time for gymmmmmmm
my eye sight is indeed not the best..
leobox1 said:
no time for gymmmmmmm
my eye sight is indeed not the best..
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I used to spend a lot of time around my computer screen for work and leisure. I committed myself to less time on the computer and more time with paper work, friends, and family. Try not to use the computer as much I am full of energy now, well somewhat.
redbandana said:
I used to spend a lot of time around my computer screen for work and leisure. I committed myself to less time on the computer and more time with paper work, friends, and family. Try not to use the computer as much I am full of energy now, well somewhat.
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oh .. u mean u tear yourself off the pc.. and u find yourself less tired?.. any idea why? is using the pc so tiring? i heard folks saying this too
leobox1 said:
oh .. u mean u tear yourself off the pc.. and u find yourself less tired?.. any idea why? is using the pc so tiring? i heard folks saying this too
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I was at work one day and my boss said I looked exhausted. I told him I wasn't sleeping that well. He suggested I spend less time around the computer at work then he unplugged my monitor. I then decided to take his advice within a week of using the computer 2-3hrs less a day, I was sleeping better and when I did not get the best sleep I had more energy.
So if time does not allow you to exercise, try stepping away from the computer when you are at home for a few hours less a day or even a week. See if that helps.
Yeah the problem nowaday for lots of people is that people use computer at work AND at home. That represents a large (huge) amount of the day (let's say one use the computer 6/8 hours at work + 3/5 hours at home, if not way more).
That way, yes, you get tired (why, I don't know, I'm no doc , but it certainly has to do with the light from the display, concentration and so on). At the same, you destroy your eyes, very modern sadely.
One thing I have heard and learned to do: never go to bed directly after switching off the tv or the cmputer, your head is then still too much working on what you saw or did before you get yourself in bed. Reading is friendlier.
Hi all
I've been a member of XDA for a while (have a hero and been on the villanrom builds since they began). But I am a developer full time and so I have decided to start in Windows Phone 7. I know silverlight, I know .NET so why not.
I have started the company 'Infinite Monkey Theorem' and this is a showing of the first application.
auto-mate. This app allows you to record your cars stats at each fuel up and service to allow you to view statistics about your cars. This app will also allow you to setup service types (months or miles) and the app will schedule them for you taking into account your mileage per year. MOT and Tax renewals are stored and show when they are close.
The reason for this app is this: I drive 24,000 miles / year which means that I need to maintain the car more than just a yearly service, this app will tell me when I need to change my oil or have a minor/major service based upon the miles I drive per year and the miles I'm doing recently allowing me to budget for it accordingly.
This app syncs to the cloud so you can look over all the cars you are monitoring from your office and export the information or book a service.
This app is in beta at the moment, it is not feature complete as I need you to be able to say you have done your MOT or Tax but its almost there. Of course with it syncing to the cloud there is a cost, that I MUST pass on somehow. I looked into Ads but Microsoft in thier wisdom only allow thier ad framework in america so Im out (UK). But I'm thinking of a free version that has ads (in future) and does not sync to cloud. Thoughts on what you would/might pay for this app would be greatly appreciated.
The future of the app?
Well I am planning a pro version which is for business mileage and will export from the web site allowing business travellers to fill out expense forms. But there are lots to add to this app as well.
Take a look at the vid and let me know what you think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tyw_ivcygk
Njoy.
id add light comercial vans upto 3.5tonnes as many courier use wm devices so many will upgrade to wp7
Love it and it looks superb. I dont know what you can and cannot do in regards to apps interacting with other features of the phone. But the option to put a reminder in the calendar or a pop up one month before the tax is due or service is due etc I think would be really beneficial (liked I said not sure if MS will let you do that though)
The only other thing I can think of is a field it enter a monetary value for the top up. So you put 44.66 litres in and it cost £70 for instance. You could maybe track this in the same way the MPG are, but as a Pence, or cent etc per mile.
In regards to price, there are alot of apps/games I have seen for say £2.99 that I refuse to pay for (bejwelled for one) but this I would pay for. Im not sure what price you were expecting but Id happily pay £2.99 for it which seems the average.
I know you have spoke about the cloud but is it possible to export the information to PDF or excel etc and then have the users email this to themselves, this would cut your costs but again I dont know whats allowed
Good Luck and I look forward to this being released.
4 or 5 euro isn't a bad prize .
if you could put in lpg and diesel blend (trucks that run on diesel and lpg ) then this app would be the hammer .
it would also be nice if you could ad your own car/truck .
lets say I have a scania R420 and I am driving on diesel and lpg , I would want to know if I am saving money .
normally a truck uses 32 litre of diesel every 100 KM
now it uses 22 litre of diesel and 10 litre of LPG
Diesel: costs 1 Euro
LPG: costs 0.50 Euro
it would be nice if your app could calculate my savings per 100 KM .
if you could make that happen you would have a winner .
Greetings Cees.
looks great! i would be willing to pay $5-7 for it without adds. I would also be willing to beta test for you as i am picking up a samsung focus on monday.
Keep up the good work, hopefully we will see this app in the market soon!
App showing in other games on my phone
I bought the app yesterday and couldn't find it. Today I noticed in other games. Should I uninstall and resync? I pinned to start for now.
thanks for what looks like a good app. Have another question. I have a csv file exported from a program I was using on my iphone. Any way of exporting or manually entering almost two years of data online vs the phone? You also mention website. Was is the url so I can check it out.
Thanks,
Johnny
Looks like a decent app but it also shows up in other gas for me
Thanks for comments
Hi all
Thanks for the comments, aint been on here in a while. Dont know why its showing in the games section, I've downloaded the trial and it shows in the normal menu, have purchase it and try it that way.
Answers:
1) Cost of fueling up will be coming in an update (not long)
2) Putting final touches to website then its live. it will be at www.infinitemonkeytheorem.co.uk You will be able to do everything you can do on the phone but see more information and view multiple car details over each other
3) Had to do some changes to the app to see the charts better, this is coming real soon.
4) will be adding fuel type soon.
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Hi all
Thanks for the comments, aint been on here in a while. Dont know why its showing in the games section, I've downloaded the trial and it shows in the normal menu, have purchase it and try it that way.
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1) Cost of fueling up will be coming in an update (not long)
2) Putting final touches to website then its live. it will be at www.infinitemonkeytheorem.co.uk You will be able to do everything you can do on the phone but see more information and view multiple car details over each other
3) Had to do some changes to the app to see the charts better, this is coming real soon.
4) will be adding fuel type soon.
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When I put it to my phone using a developer account its in the normal place. Strange
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I bought the app yesterday and couldn't find it. Today I noticed in other games. Should I uninstall and resync? I pinned to start for now.
thanks for what looks like a good app. Have another question. I have a csv file exported from a program I was using on my iphone. Any way of exporting or manually entering almost two years of data online vs the phone? You also mention website. Was is the url so I can check it out.
Thanks,
Johnny
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Love it and it looks superb. I dont know what you can and cannot do in regards to apps interacting with other features of the phone. But the option to put a reminder in the calendar or a pop up one month before the tax is due or service is due etc I think would be really beneficial (liked I said not sure if MS will let you do that though)
The only other thing I can think of is a field it enter a monetary value for the top up. So you put 44.66 litres in and it cost £70 for instance. You could maybe track this in the same way the MPG are, but as a Pence, or cent etc per mile.
In regards to price, there are alot of apps/games I have seen for say £2.99 that I refuse to pay for (bejwelled for one) but this I would pay for. Im not sure what price you were expecting but Id happily pay £2.99 for it which seems the average.
I know you have spoke about the cloud but is it possible to export the information to PDF or excel etc and then have the users email this to themselves, this would cut your costs but again I dont know whats allowed
Good Luck and I look forward to this being released.
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One idea I have going is that as the data is stored online, I should be able to send a message to the phone when a service / mot /tax is due and the pic will go amber and show a 1.
The thing i'm working on right now is auto-mate (offline edition). The basic functionality of keeping track of your vehicle, store when your tax/mot is, and it will schedule the services for you, but all offline. becuase of the zero cost to me, it will be priced low. thinking £0.75...
Hope to have that out in a week.
Just checked and microsoft has put it under games, when I specifically said Tools and it was under tools originally.???
Nice one microsoft.
I could e-mail microsoft to change this but I'll just do an update which will fix it. Sorry for it being in the wrong place, not my fault.
Glad to hear. I just tried uninstall and reinstall and it didn't work. I hope I can enter my 2 years of data easily on the website. Can't see doing that on the phone. I could just get a new car and start over Those new 5.0 mustangs are nice. Add sync and I would be a happy camper
Prepare to be one happy camper, now im not saying now, im not saying in 1 week but excel import/export is always a step in the process
Just to let you know, an update was sent to microsoft over the weekend. This update will put the app back in the apps list. Include better charting, bug fixes. And ability to send error reports on some errors if they happen
Thanks for the update. Finally moved from under Games. When will the web site be up? I still haven't entered my previous data. Have been hoping to do it online and sync to phone.
Its in alpha now.... Beta next then live.
I just realized after putting in my second entry that I can't enter how much per tank or price per gallon. Any chance you will be adding this?
Yes, this is coming in an update.
Clicking on the historical button for miles/week shows the graph for MPG?
Also, whenever I enable the live tile, save the settings. The marker always goes back to disabled?
I've been playing Paradise island for about a week now.
I'm loving it.
So thought I would share some tips and hopefully get some back.
Currently I am level 12.
When starting the game best things to do.
build 40 roads ( or 400 if you are bored)
This gives you a free $1250 plus 40xp
leave the screen on for 3
This gives you $5000
Plant 5 flowers ( costs $1500)
gives you $3000 plus 200 XP
Move your first buildings 20 times
gives you £1500 and 50xp
This means you start the game with an extra $9250 and 290xp
Once you are high enough level get a business centre you get 1 of the special money every day save that up for expansions.
Odd achievements
Do 5 things in a moment.
I spent ages trying to collect money as fast as i could.
For this you need to pay the extra and do a instant build.
Secret achievements I have
Stop the hum/rumble ( cant remember the name it changes once you get it)
move to solar power only.
Hotdog fan
$4000 200xp
Build 15 hotdog stands
Atristocrat
Build 3 golf clubs at the same time
$75000 1250xp
We remember about the defender
Build two hold defenders simultaneously
$30000 and 1500xp
Hope people can add to this and it doesn't just get lost in the void.
thanks for the tips
I have also started playing the game recently but got bored by having to move those buildings and making roads
Will try your tips
gagan007 said:
thanks for the tips
I have also started playing the game recently but got bored by having to move those buildings and making roads
Will try your tips
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Also hotdog stands are great at the start only give you $70 but you get one XP every 2 mins. So.have like 10 and you will level up much faster.
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Does anybody know how to expand into a different region. I bought region 2, and I am still fenced in.
thx
foghorn67 said:
Does anybody know how to expand into a different region. I bought region 2, and I am still fenced in.
thx
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It moves the fence a little bit thats all once you buy all the expantions the fence goes. And by expantion 6 you get the helipad
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To add to the "hidden message" in the OP:
If you use the system clock to advance the time, you will notice that if you advance it a week, you have to wait a week for the game to catch up to it before you can play normally again. However, there is a way around this.
All you have to do is put something in storage and place it back on the map. Once you do that, the clock resets on that building and you don't have to wait for the game to catch up to the date that you advanced it to. However, you would have to place every individual building in storage and back on the map in order to reset everything on the map. This can get annoying once you expand a few regions and you have a bunch of buildings, so keep that in mind.
Developers of Paradise Island have blocked the time trick with last update
Haha just got the warning what a shame
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zdjaib said:
Developers of Paradise Island have blocked the time trick with last update
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I had a back-up done with Titanium Backup that allowed me to restore the previous version. Coincidentally enough, I had done a backup the day before the new version came out, so I was able to restore it hardly lose any progress I had made.
Yay me!
Started playing yesterday. You have to spend a lot of time at the beginning. I'm lvl8 now and just built the business center and the galaxy restaurant (improving atm). Now I want to get rid of all those "fast money makers" so I can check every hour to collect my money and thats it I moved tree's like an idiot lol, but I got the skillfull designer achievement. now I have to move another 1k facilities, LOL!
question about "the sun only"-achievement:
If I get rid of all my windmill's and build a solar power plant for 60k I'll get the achivement + 200k? seems very fair to me and what if I rebuild some windmills afterwards? will I lose 200k?^^
ySchaub said:
Started playing yesterday. You have to spend a lot of time at the beginning. I'm lvl8 now and just built the business center and the galaxy restaurant (improving atm). Now I want to get rid of all those "fast money makers" so I can check every hour to collect my money and thats it I moved tree's like an idiot lol, but I got the skillfull designer achievement. now I have to move another 1k facilities, LOL!
question about "the sun only"-achievement:
If I get rid of all my windmill's and build a solar power plant for 60k I'll get the achivement + 200k? seems very fair to me and what if I rebuild some windmills afterwards? will I lose 200k?^^
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Won't lose the achievement its fine.
Just started playing again as flashed my Xoom level 5 in 3 hours lol. With out cheating.
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I googled a bit about "the sun only"-achievement. many complained about not getting the reward allthough they have a solar plant and no windmills. lets hope this is not happening to me, just started building a solar plant. when its done I'm gonna destroy the windmills, hope the achievement's gonna trigger
I really like it ^_^
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Accidently spent a piastre on improving a windmill =/ they should realy add a confirmation popup....I'm stuck at lvl 9 btw (87% to go...). I have 250k$ but dont know what I should invest in. I want to save my money for the disco club's (at lvl10) this looks realy nice!
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Transfer to another phone
So my wife had a Droid 1 which I have rooted and backed up with TB. No she has a Droid Charge and would like her island game moved to the new phone along with her progress. Seeing how I cant root her phone yet (ver. ed2) Is there a way to move the app over and bring the data with it?
Not sure where else in the forums to post this question.
Thanks
Rodent2517 said:
So my wife had a Droid 1 which I have rooted and backed up with TB. No she has a Droid Charge and would like her island game moved to the new phone along with her progress. Seeing how I cant root her phone yet (ver. ed2) Is there a way to move the app over and bring the data with it?
Not sure where else in the forums to post this question.
Thanks
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My wife went from stock rooted to cm7 I dropped all the files back in place and it just doesn't load or game resets. So looks like it can't be done :-(
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iammodo said:
My wife went from stock rooted to cm7 I dropped all the files back in place and it just doesn't load or game resets. So looks like it can't be done :-(
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She is quite upset I cant make this happen. I will continue my quest to find a way.
Rodent2517 said:
She is quite upset I cant make this happen. I will continue my quest to find a way.
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If you do find a way please post here
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I just started playing this game and I think I'm addicted.
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What happens when you take a monster 4.1 meter telescope in the southern hemisphere and point it at the same patch of sky for 55 hours?
This http://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/large/eso1213a.jpg
Just a word of warning the picture is 17,000 x 11,000 pixels and comes in at around 250mb so if you want to to view its best to have at least 8mb broadband
Ps don't forget to save it if you wanna view it again
Source: http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/23/an-ultradeep-image-thats-full-galaxies/
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The Total Perspective Vortex from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
.........., when you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little mark, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says, "You are here."
Sorry, you are limited to 8 thanks per day
thanks for the link man
Np dude amazing when you actually look at the picture in detail
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dam, My internet sucks so bad... it's like going dial up speed. Lol I'm paying 48 dollars for dial up speed.
Note my DROID RAZR does not agree with this pic lol I can't zoom in and then it makes my phone slow down and my gallery app force closes lol. Amazing photo though I guess ill have to view it on my computer haha. I guess a 250mb photo is a little to much for a phone.
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Note my DROID RAZR does not agree with this pic lol I can't zoom in and then it makes my phone slow down and my gallery app force closes lol. Amazing photo though I guess ill have to view it on my computer haha. I guess a 250mb photo is a little to much for a phone.
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im going to test if it works on mine, and laugh if it works probably moto is the problem haha no jk.
the weirdest thing about this is when you have the slightest understanding of general relativity, and look at this trying to connect the science behind it. SG-1 scenarios all over the place for sure, billions of past, ongoing and future civilizations in space, banned from visiting eachother via the awesome relativity laws
Do we have Cosmology/theoretical physics thread ?
Igoritza said:
the weirdest thing about this is when you have the slightest understanding of general relativity, and look at this trying to connect the science behind it. SG-1 scenarios all over the place for sure, billions of past, ongoing and future civilizations in space, banned from visiting eachother via the awesome relativity laws
Do we have Cosmology/theoretical physics thread ?
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The universe may never know, because who truly knows maybe one day we will know when and if we had space travel fast enough to do so
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Igoritza said:
Do we have Cosmology/theoretical physics thread ?
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We do indeed...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284024
XxLostSoulxX said:
The universe may never know, because who truly knows maybe one day we will know when and if we had space travel fast enough to do so
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Sorry to dissapoint you - but no. unfortunately. and sorry for the long post im about to write
Im kind of a science geek also, and Im updated with all the current stuff from theoretical physics and there is no actual way for us, or anybody out there to reach anyone else, or any other part of this picture apart from their starting point, for instance.
As it seems - the recent screw up with measuring neutrino speed was actually good for science (they taught that in 72 kilometers distance, neutrinos go 18 meters longer than photons but it was a mistake) cause it has been proven that Einstein was right, and that there is no higher possible speed than 299.792km/h (light in vacuum)
laws of universe are constant in every part of the universe, and for any kind of matter to go bigger distances there are only a couple of ways in theory:
1. entering some sort of "Hyperspace" (yeah, TV shows got that right) - long story short - we observe 3+1 dimensions, but on a much smaller scale, there is total of 11 dimensions (M theory) and our space-time configuration is only one of many combinations of all dimensions. If someone, somehow managed to change that, he would enter "hyperspace" where it would be possible to use "instant transmission", like Goku does. we are, on our current development scale, about 2000 years behind that discovery, and it may be very wrong (M theory, that is)
2. bending time-space: using artificial gravity, or using wormhole (blackhole that has sort of a tunnel that you could go through) - each method requires negative energy, that exist only in theory cause of the other theory called - vacuum energy. If someone is interested in that, I would offer explanation, and a simple one to understand. And we are also 2000 years behind that.
Seeing how we are more likely to kill ourselves before we get to the point where Gravity makes sense (biggest mystery in modern theoretical physics) - No, we wont go anywhere past the solar system.
Igoritza said:
Sorry to dissapoint you - but no. unfortunately. and sorry for the long post im about to write
Im kind of a science geek also, and Im updated with all the current stuff from theoretical physics and there is no actual way for us, or anybody out there to reach anyone else, or any other part of this picture apart from their starting point, for instance.
As it seems - the recent screw up with measuring neutrino speed was actually good for science (they taught that in 72 kilometers distance, neutrinos go 18 meters longer than photons but it was a mistake) cause it has been proven that Einstein was right, and that there is no higher possible speed than 299.792km/h (light in vacuum)
laws of universe are constant in every part of the universe, and for any kind of matter to go bigger distances there are only a couple of ways in theory:
1. entering some sort of "Hyperspace" (yeah, TV shows got that right) - long story short - we observe 3+1 dimensions, but on a much smaller scale, there is total of 11 dimensions (M theory) and our space-time configuration is only one of many combinations of all dimensions. If someone, somehow managed to change that, he would enter "hyperspace" where it would be possible to use "instant transmission", like Goku does. we are, on our current development scale, about 2000 years behind that discovery, and it may be very wrong (M theory, that is)
2. bending time-space: using artificial gravity, or using wormhole (blackhole that has sort of a tunnel that you could go through) - each method requires negative energy, that exist only in theory cause of the other theory called - vacuum energy. If someone is interested in that, I would offer explanation, and a simple one to understand. And we are also 2000 years behind that.
Seeing how we are more likely to kill ourselves before we get to the point where Gravity makes sense (biggest mystery in modern theoretical physics) - No, we wont go anywhere past the solar system.
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What if all the information that makes sense to us is actualy false haha, the word impossible is just an obstacle. I'm going to laugh and find you one day and say I told you that it could happen. Plus how do you know if there other people that have discovered and accomplished just havent got to our planey yet?
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think of it this way -
world record 100 meters running is: 9.58 meters, held by Usain Bolt from Jamaica. it has been long time (30 years when sport drugs came in) that record was ~9.80
and WHATEVER they do, and whit all the new drugs they invent - human wont be able to run it faster than 9 seconds.
Does that mean that somewhere in Africa there is an African man, that could do it in 6.5 seconds .. ? no. genetics are the same, gravity is the same, conditions are the same. now this is analogy that goes for: space-time-matter conditions all around the universe. they are the same. and ANY civilization that arose in universe would come to the same conclusions that we did. Aliens would have their Pitagoras, Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, Tesla, Bhor, Fermi, and so on, and they would also hit the milestone of the speed of light.
Kind of a proof that General relativity is right, and that there is no way of Faster-than-light travel is the fact that we humans didnt see anyone visit. And acording to science - Milky way is a perfect place for harboring earth-like planets suitable for carbon-based life (recent findings). There may very well be over 1 million civilizations just in ours galaxy, that CANT connect to each other.
Igoritza said:
think of it this way -
world record 100 meters running is: 9.58 meters, held by Usain Bolt from Jamaica. it has been long time (30 years when sport drugs came in) that record was ~9.80
and WHATEVER they do, and whit all the new drugs they invent - human wont be able to run it faster than 9 seconds.
Does that mean that somewhere in Africa there is an African man, that could do it in 6.5 seconds .. ? no. genetics are the same, gravity is the same, conditions are the same. now this is analogy that goes for: space-time-matter conditions all around the universe. they are the same. and ANY civilization that arose in universe would come to the same conclusions that we did. Aliens would have their Pitagoras, Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, Tesla, Bhor, Fermi, and so on, and they would also hit the milestone of the speed of light.
Kind of a proof that General relativity is right, and that there is no way of Faster-than-light travel is the fact that we humans didnt see anyone visit. And acording to science - Milky way is a perfect place for harboring earth-like planets suitable for carbon-based life (recent findings). There may very well be over 1 million civilizations just in ours galaxy, that CANT connect to each other.
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Here's the thing those unstable planets for "Us" maybe stable for those out there? Ever think of that maybe there's other people out there that have passed us because of that there are so may factors that we 100% truly don't know.
Plus who knows maybe some can do a 100 meter dash in 9.57 and below I gurantee it.
Think there's a lot of talented people out their that just don't promote or bother to show others that they can achieve something.
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Not to mention by looking at a planet thousand of light years away you are in fact looking at it thousands of years in the past. It could very well be different at that very planet now.
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patrao_n said:
Not to mention by looking at a planet thousand of light years away you are in fact looking at it thousands of years in the past. It could very well be different at that very planet now.
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Exactly we need some instant telescopic time
Still loading with a 8mb net... I think it'll never be complete
ArmorD said:
Still loading with a 8mb net... I think it'll never be complete
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I sat there for 30 mins lol because I have clear which, sucks miserably. I'm supposed to have unlimited and no cap but its 4 to 6MBps with bursts up to 8 to 10MBps. And nevr hit 1MB ever for download speed I average 200 to 500kbps with 3 to 4 bars out of 5 bars on clear modem. BS service
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Was just about to load this up on my data plan, luckily I noticed and switched wifi on!
Still waiting for it too load completely but from what I can see it looks epic!
I just downloaded the image through Wi-Fi n can view when ever I want
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