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The "What applications are you running" Thread

Okay I think the time has come for everyone to spill their guts about what apps you have installed on your phone with a brief description of what it is. I guess since this was my idea, I'll go first.
Barcode Scanner-I use this for the square barcodes only
BarTor-Program that tells your computer at home to download torrents. Can use barcodes to find the material and send theinstructions to a pc.
Better Terminal Emulator
Chrome to Phone-Send whatever page you are at on your computer to your phone so you can continue to view the page when you walk away from the computer
EasyTether-Works much better and much easier that PDAnet in my opinion.
Last.FM-Good internet radio. Make your own stations.
Google Maps
MP3 Downloader-search and download mp3's to your phone
Opera Mini-Not beta anymore!(can select as default)
Pandora-another internet radio
Parcels-track packages(ups, usps, etc...)
Ringdroid-crop and edit mp3's on your sd card to use as ringtones.
Root Explorer-can edit r/o files.
Scanner-Police Scanner
Shopsavvy-I tried this for regular barcodes but can't get it to work, help?
SlideIT Keyboard demo-works pretty good.
TuneWiki-displays lyrics to songs you listen to off sd card.
XDA-Stay up to date with the xda forums.

45 views already and no one?

OrbLive - Stream Live Cable Tv from my tvcard on PC and also stream other media stored on PC.
Widget Locker - Add Any Widget or shortcuts to Lockscreen
NBA League Pass - Watch Any NBA Game Live or Archived
Floating Image - Cool way to View Photos
Dual Mount Sd Widget - Easy Way to Mount SD card and still access it on phone
eRay Widget - Lots of features. Memory management, storage, volume controls ect..
Fancy Widget - Nice Weather Flipclock Widget
Launcher Pro Plus - Best launcher to date with tons of features. Now includes Sense like widgets
3 music Widget - My favorate Msic Player
Dro2cap - Nice Screenshot app
Rogue Tools - Set CPU Speed and DPI
Album Art Grabber - Easy Way to Grab Album Art for Your Music

How did you get the launcher pro plus?

Naemion said:
How did you get the launcher pro plus?
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bought it from here
http://www.launcherpro.com/?p=130
It only has 2 widgets right now. People and Bookmarks but updates are free once you buy it. Hes addinga bunch more widgets in the next couple weeks. He will charge more down the road so best to buy it now

incubus26jc said:
bought it from here
http://www.launcherpro.com/?p=130
It only has 2 widgets right now. People and Bookmarks but updates are free once you buy it. Hes addinga bunch more widgets in the next couple weeks. He will charge more down the road so best to buy it now
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What kind of settings and such are different from just the pro version?

Naemion said:
What kind of settings and such are different from just the pro version?
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no settings are different, outside of the widgets.

incubus26jc said:
no settings are different, outside of the widgets.
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Oh okay, I can't find the dual mount sd widget in the market anymore...

Naemion said:
Barcode Scanner-I use this for the square barcodes only
Shopsavvy-I tried this for regular barcodes but can't get it to work, help?
XDA-Stay up to date with the xda forums.
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I just ordered one of these, will let you know how it works out, could be very useful with the camera on the HTC Touch.
Macro lens for bar code reading.

NFHimself said:
I just ordered one of these, will let you know how it works out, could be very useful with the camera on the HTC Touch.
Macro lens for bar code reading.
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Don't think I can use one of those, I have the extended battery with the special hump back for the battery.

incubus26jc said:
no settings are different, outside of the widgets.
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Other than the widgets, you said that it had a ton of other features. Which ones were you referring to?

Some that haven't been mentioned that I use.
ASTRO - Must have
aTrackDog - keeps apps up to date. I usually run it once a day.
Gentle Alarm(purchased) - This alarm is one of the best i've used.
MicDroid - to goof around with friends and coworkers
Movies - Alter my netflix queue and check movie times on the go
Shazam

I've been running Android on my Vogue for almost a year now, and my must-have apps include:
Fake-call Me: Simulates an inbound call at preset intervals
Pandora: Love my Internet Radio!
Reverse Lookup: Gives name, address, even a map link for unknown numbers
Google Voice: I used this to create an additional phone number (free) that allows me to make and receive calls from the second number using my mobile phone. Also has text messaging and Visual Voicemail.
(FYI...Most of the features use your data plan)
TV.com: free TV! Showtime, CBS, CNET and lots more
Market no longer has this app, but here is the .apk

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Sound Hound - I find this app better than Shazam
Dialer One - hands down best dialer.
Opera Mini - I value fast loading over proper rendering of pages.
TouchPal - hands down the fastest text input for me. It's the chinese version but you can change the option to use English only.
Moxier World - keep track of world weather and time zones
aCurrency - world currencies and conversions
Movies - check out box office movies, upcoming, dvd, trailers, new releases etc...
IMDB - everything else Movies can't do.
Speedtest.net - test bandwidth
Newsy - 2 minute videos of the top news of the day
SportsTap - great for getting my sports fix.
Funny Jokes - keeps me happy.
Google Finance - reminds me of how poor I am.
Factbook - equivalent to the CIA factbook that provides useless facts about countries.
SD Dual Mount - to mount my SD card on the computer.
Widgets
Fancy Widget
Smooth Calendar

A few of the ones I use
3G watchdog - monitors data usage
airplane autoswitch - switch to AP mode at user defined time
Andnav2 - free navigation
Appbrain - market with synch feature
Apps organizer- organize your apps into groups with labels
BlueRSS
Cache cleaner - clean cache
Colornote - notes that can be pinned to desktop
Keeppassdroid - safe app.
Tunee music - mp3 download app.
DGMT - exercise app.
Dolphin browser
dropbox
Fbreader - ebook reader
Fast web installer - install apps from market directly from PC
Gesture search - search for contacts, music, apps using gestures
gmot - control your pc using your Android device
google translate
Gtasks - synchronize your tasks with google calendar
GTwidget data- turn on/off data using widget
Mort player music / MP audio book - mp3/audio book playuer
My backup pro
Oi file manager
Opera mini
Pure calendar widget
Quick settings
Root explorer
Shazaam
Slideit keyboard
Sms popup
Taskkiller
Studydroid
TerminalWapedia

astro- file manager- must have
IMDB- to fulfill my useless movie trivia
bible reader (by olive press) electronic bible KJV
easy excel- self explanatory
quick calendar- helps me track my calan lifedar reminders etc
Rogue tools- overclock to 520
CHOMP- current for text messaging- trying to go through them all and see what i like
linpack- supposed to measure flops per second
opera mini- just a bit better than browser for browsing- i know its a little redundant-
tapXDA for reading new posts i want to replay to later
notepad color- note taking app
google maps
batterylife widget- battery life program

Does anyone know if this app http://hanashi.nu/ uses data or if having just unlimited mobile browser would work... i dont want to get charged for data usage again if thats what the app does. Could someone with a data plan check it out? Thanks

Barogi44 said:
Does anyone know if this app http://hanashi.nu/ uses data or if having just unlimited mobile browser would work... i dont want to get charged for data usage again if thats what the app does. Could someone with a data plan check it out? Thanks
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I haven't installed the app but i'm sure it uses data. It's stated in the "How does it work" page and the FAQ.

Everything incubus26jc's got on his super froyo rls 14
Adobe Reader-self explanatory
Advanced task killer-see above
AK notepad-notepad that lets me lock my notes with a passcode or pattern
Armored strike light-fun little game to pass the time
Better Keyboard-I go back and forth between keyboards, I like the symbols and such on this one, but it takes up more screen space.
Color Flashlight-not only white, but any color plus strobe patterns and other nice features
Contacts GroupU- lets me group my contacts to text people easy, and for my People Widget
Documents To Go- read Word, Excell, Etc files
ES File Explorer-I like the UI a TON better than ASTRO
gStrings- Guitar Tuner. indispensable
Handcent SMS- I like customization,
iTag-Change artist, title, album etc info for my MP3's
Jorte- Calendar replacement (I don't have data)
Launch-X Pro - nice shortcut widget
MicDroid-Auto tune your voice. not very useful, but cool
Mobile Metronome-keepin' time
PicSay Pro-Edit pics to the fullest, almost as good as on my PC
Ringdroid-cut MP3's and save as ringtone/notification
Ringtone Randomizer-changes RT everytime someone calls
Robotic Guitarist-sounds and shows and chord diagram
Sound Grenade-plays a high pitch noise. nuff said
Tape Machine-record sound
Titanium Backup-backup my apps+settings. also lets me remove factory apps that I don't use, frees up a lot of memory
Uninstaller- I change apps a lot, and try a lot out.

[Q] How do you see tasks in Samsung Calendar?

I must be blind because I figured out how to add tasks in the Samsung Calendar application but can't for the life of me figure out how you see them after you've added them. Week and month view don't seem to show them and agenda view doesn't seem to be able to show anything but today, despite selecting a different date.
I have a hard time believing Samsung would release such a shoddy Calendar application on their flagship productivity device, so I must just be missing something.

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I must be blind because I figured out how to add tasks in the Samsung Calendar application but can't for the life of me figure out how you see them after you've added them. Week and month view don't seem to show them and agenda view doesn't seem to be able to show anything but today, despite selecting a different date.
I have a hard time believing Samsung would release such a shoddy Calendar application on their flagship productivity device, so I must just be missing something.
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I've never used tasks and I'll take a look but I'm pretty sure the tasks are meant to be used with/as part of the home screen widget.
Edit: looks like you should see them on the calendar and under "calendars" (settings menu) you can choose to show or hide tasks, color code them, and under settings you can choose to hide completed tasks. Perhaps your settings need to be adjusted.

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I've never used tasks and I'll take a look but I'm pretty sure the tasks are meant to be used with/as part of the home screen widget.
Edit: looks like you should see them on the calendar and under "calendars" (settings menu) you can choose to show or hide tasks, color code them, and under settings you can choose to hide completed tasks. Perhaps your settings need to be adjusted.
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That was totally it... I had them hidden under my calendars. Thanks!

Cool, glad it's fixed

Seeing Tasks in Note5
I appreciate the input to finding tasks in Calendar. I was looking at it differently but found a solution based on your resolution.:good:

Not seeing tasks
Hello, I have a similar problem. I have a normal monthly preview, but when I switch to daily, I only get blue fields where my task should be written, but no text. When I click on the field, I can view my task, so I have to click randomly on the blue field, until i find what i need, or switch back to monthly or weekly view. Anyone have the solution?

RIP GenieWidget (aka News&Weather)

I posted recently about the weather section of GenieWidget dying. Now it looks like the whole shebang is gone
I even updated mine (which had the dedicated browser) to what appears to be the last version for Eclair (1.3.04) (which opens selected stories in your default internet browser). Still no dice. Google has left this old version on the ash heap of android history.
So...now what? I still have a working BBC News app (though the annoying ticker at the top is stuck on an ancient story...), a copy of the once-free NewsHog that still works, and the NPR app. All three of these have scrolling issues even worse than those of the old GenieWidget (which was actually almost tolerable with the OC kernal).
I've been looking around. Anyone have news apps with some breadth like the old GenieWidget that still work?

And the winner is......
Well, maybe not exactly a "winner", but it's sort of an OK substitute. After much searching and trying out, I've come up with two candidates. One is the old NewsHog (the older free version that will still run on the NST). This is the most similar in coverage and some sources to the Google GenieWidget. No weather, though. It has longer article summaries than GenieWidget did and you have the option of opening the full story in either the built-in reader or your browser. The built-in reader has scrolling issues. You need to keep your gutters really clean and develop a quick thumb flick at the bottom right corner of the screen (similar to the BBC News app)--or open stories in your browser. The issue there, of course, is the slowness of the entire process every time you want to pursue a story.
A second candidate is called News Republic. The market version will not run on the NST but I did find an older one that will. The interface is completely graphic. You choose news categories that you arrange in tiles on the app "homescreen". Each category tile takes you to pages (swipe across to move from page to page) that look like newspaper pages, with varied length columns (some with images) mushed together to make a rectangle. The columns have teasers to the stories. Selecting a column brings you to a nice reader which--TA-DA--actually scrolls beautifully (makes you wonder why these other people could not get it right.....). The downside is that it takes a long time to get it set up the way you want it (you do not need to set up an account). Also, there are a lot of fluff tabloid-like sources and categories, so you end up removing a lot in the initial set-up (the video section wants to work with its own player, but then just gives up and says the video could not be opened). And...there are not as many solid traditional news sources. No custom categories. AdAway works to block ads as I occasionally see a blank rectangle with the words "advertisement" along the bottom.
So, that's what I have found so far. I've attached both older apps in case you want to try them for yourself.
Edit: Some time in July 2016 this version of NewsHog stopped updating custom news categories so you only have the provided categories to choose from
Edit: Some time in February 2017 all versions of News Republic that will run on the NST became unable to log in. Another dead one. App removed from the attachments below

[APP][NST/G] Google(ish) News

5-31-21 I've ceased development on this app because I think there is a better alternative. See post #7.
*updated to version 1.3, adding error trap for discontinued or blank feeds*
It's been awhile since the demise of the last working version of Genie Widget (aka Google News and Weather) but not so long since the big G retooled news.google.com so that our browsers can no longer deal with it and also put the kibosh on the Google News RSS feeds. Sigh.
I have a work-around
Google News 1.3 for the NST/G exploits the "alerts" that Google offers on news topics. These alerts can be optioned in the form of RSS feeds. My app downloads the HTML source for the feed, picks out all the good stuff and trashes all the rest, then builds up a local HTML document which is easily displayed by our browsers (I highly recommend Opera Mobile for ease of scrolling and general all-around function). You can build up your own topics, change your mind, mix them about, read that one more story you didn't get to the first time around, etc. I'm not saying that your browser will negotiate every target link. Some newspaper sites have just become too much. That was true even when Genie Widget was still working. But updating Opera Mobile for TLS 1.2 solves much of that. See this post for details.. The beauty of this app is in the simplicity. It's entirely browser-based once the feeds are downloaded, so you're not going back and forth between the app and your browser (like the current Google News app.......). Designed for both portrait and landscape.
Requirements
1. Android 2.1 has a security issue with opening local HTML files. In order for Google News to work properly you need to address that. Included in the zip below is a tiny app, android-open-in-browser-0.0.4-4-debug. Install that. It's not my app but I have used it for years and wish I could credit the originator.
2. This is a Tasker-generated app. If you already have one of my other Tasker-generated apps or have previously installed GApps, you don't need the two Google maps library files included in the zip and can delete them. If you do need them, copy the two files into the locations shown below:
/system/etc/permissions/com.google.android.maps.xml
/system/framework/com.google.android.maps.jar
Set permissions for both files to rw-r--r-- and reboot. Without these files resident, the app will not install.
3. Create a folder in the root directory of your sdcard: Google News (exactly as shown)
4. Install the app itself, Google News.1.apk
How to use
Before you run the app you need to select some news categories, set up the feeds, get the URLs, blah-blah-blah. All of this is covered in the PDF included with the zip. It may seem a little annoying at the start, but it goes quickly once you get started and it's not like you have to do it every time you use the app. You're just setting up your news topics, just as if you were using the current Google News (either the app or the web version). Once you have your topics and URLs and have edited the included text file google_rss_feeds.txt, copy that into the Google News folder of your sdcard.
Note: recently (June 2019) the big G has not been very consistent with the RSS feeds. Some days they are "empty" but come back the next day with lots of stories. Some feed topics simply "die" and a minor change in the topic will resurrect them (change "World" to "World news", as an example). Version 1.3 includes a trap for these eventualities so that the app should not crash, even if your first feed comes up empty. To inspect/edit your feeds, point your browser (on your PC) to your Google Alerts page. If you are signed in this will be found among the options on the Google home page, in the upper right corner where the "apps" grid is shown.
Now you're good to go. Start the app, make sure you're connected to WiFi. There are only three buttons on the app screen. The first one, "Fetch the news" does just that. You will see a little toast that the first news category is being prepared. Once that is done, you will be taken to the browser and that page will open. Meanwhile the remaining pages are being downloaded and reconstructed in the background.
The news page is very simple. I tried to aim for readability over all other considerations (this is the reason the news items are in bold black, even though they are the external links). I have my Opera Mobile set to 100% page zoom. It looks good to me, but you could probably get away with 75%. External websites are another matter. At the title bar left is a drop-down menu button that gives you access to your other news topics. Since no fixed navbar schemes work under Android 2.1, there is a duplicate drop-up menu bar at the end of the page. The use of NoRefresh, or to a lesser extent FastMode, is a plus.
Edit: you cannot use this app with Opera Mini. It lacks the ability to open local HTML files.
The second option on the opening screen, "Read old news" sounds a bit daft, but I just thought maybe someone might have been looking at the topic pages, saw something that interested them and then got interrupted. So this option opens the first local file in the browser again and you can navigate from there. Strictly speaking, WiFi is not needed to browse the local files once they have been created, but it is needed to pursue any stories.
The third option simply dismisses the app screen.
Whew! So this is new...and I think I exterminated all the bugs, but I did not try other browsers. I'm open to suggestions and would appreciate feedback.

Google alert change? No option for RSS alerts anymore...
First off, thanks so much for putting the time and effort into this app. I would love to have a more "future-proof" news reader solution for my NST. Sadly however, in typical Google fashion of constantly dropping/messing with feature support, it seems that there is no longer an option to deliver Google alerts to RSS feeds (only email addresses). If I'm reading this thread and your PDF correctly, I'm worried that this may break the app. In any case I'm stuck on page 3 of your setup PDF since I can't figure out how to get the RSS alert string from Google anymore. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated!

v619284 said:
First off, thanks so much for putting the time and effort into this app. I would love to have a more "future-proof" news reader solution for my NST. Sadly however, in typical Google fashion of constantly dropping/messing with feature support, it seems that there is no longer an option to deliver Google alerts to RSS feeds (only email addresses). If I'm reading this thread and your PDF correctly, I'm worried that this may break the app. In any case I'm stuck on page 3 of your setup PDF since I can't figure out how to get the RSS alert string from Google anymore. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
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I'm away from home right now but my copy of the app is working so the RSS feeds must still exist. I'll have to sit down with my instructions in front of the computer and see what mischief they've done. Thanks for letting me know.

v619284 said:
If I'm reading this thread and your PDF correctly, I'm worried that this may break the app. In any case I'm stuck on page 3 of your setup PDF since I can't figure out how to get the RSS alert string from Google anymore. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
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OK, so I've run through the instructions sitting at my PC. Everything is correct although Firefox no longer wants to open the RSS feed page as anything other than an xml "text" file. That just means the image on page 4 needs updating.
As far as page 3, everything is currently exactly as shown. Just to be sure, you have to be signed in to Google on your browser before you do any of this. Then when you get to the screen depicted on page 3 you need to change the "Deliver to" option to RSS feed. But even before that, it's important not to get sucked into the email alert business back on page 2. Do NOT click on "Create Alert" there, only on "Show options". That's how you get to the screen I show on page 3.
When you finally get to click on the little RSS symbol shown on the lower half of page 3, you (at least on Firefox) may end up at a page of xml code, or perhaps your browser may show a news feed page. Regardless, the URL shown for the page is the same and it's what you need to copy, just as described on page 4.
Let me know if you are still having issues with this.

v619284 said:
First off, thanks so much for putting the time and effort into this app. I would love to have a more "future-proof" news reader solution for my NST. Sadly however, in typical Google fashion of constantly dropping/messing with feature support, it seems that there is no longer an option to deliver Google alerts to RSS feeds (only email addresses). If I'm reading this thread and your PDF correctly, I'm worried that this may break the app. In any case I'm stuck on page 3 of your setup PDF since I can't figure out how to get the RSS alert string from Google anymore. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
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So a few days after I wrote my last post, the app stopped working for me. It just hangs on "Preparing......News"
Google has apparently changed the format of their RSS xml file. Right in the middle of something else at the moment, but I will get it fixed.
Nope, nix that. After fooling around with the app and an xml file from the Big G, I find nothing out of place and it seems the app is now working again
They're just messing with us.
Edit: Indeed they are. Today I caught another malfunction but this time looked at the Tasker routines for an error. Google is sending out (at least today) RSS feeds with empty content fields. That messes up my app. So I wrote an error trap for that. Updated in first post. Have to watch the big G like a hawk....

v619284 said:
If I'm reading this thread and your PDF correctly, I'm worried that this may break the app. In any case I'm stuck on page 3 of your setup PDF since I can't figure out how to get the RSS alert string from Google anymore. Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated!
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Whilst looking around for a solution to a different issue, I came across this: https://medium.com/@cassandragraft/...tion-not-appearing-heres-the-fix-bf842ca32b88
It appears to address the issue you describe. I never encountered the issue, but obviously some people have.
The Big G is making me very angry lately. Even version 1.2 with a new error trap is crashing. I'm finding that some of my feeds are "empty". The skeleton of the RSS file is there but there is no content populating the file. A category as ordinary as "world" is simply blank. This is new and very annoying. Just a change of topic to "world news" brings up a list of stories longer than your arm. I encountered this before with "science" and fixed it with a slight change in name, so I should have seen this coming. It's a nasty game Google seems to be playing....
Anyway, if the app crashes on the first topic it leaves an overlay artifact behind when you exit. To remove this, go to the App Manager and force stop the app. I will work on a fix which will alert you to the effect that the feed appears dead but allow the app to complete the download of whatever is still working and exit properly.
Grr....
Edit: App updated to v1.3 in first post. I hope that solves the problems. For now.

As I mentioned in my edit of the first post, I think my app is exhibiting creakiness already owing to Opera Mobile's increasing difficulty negotiating many websites.
I have an alternative to suggest, however, that is totally browser based. It seems to work "OK" with Opera Mobile although text display is a bit small with a default zoom of 100%. In Opera Mini, however, it shines, especially with NoRefresh.
Thanks to XDA member @SJT75 , I found out about a list of text-only news sites. One of them is a text version of Google News! The list is at: https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/
While the Google News option does not allow for custom categories (hey, there's an app for that!), it does cover all the usual suspects. Even better, all of the links lead to text-only versions of the sources. Occasionally you go to a page and find it could not be fetched by whatever mechanism the author is using, but pages (even those error ones) include a link to the original source
Also notable on the list are the NPR and CNN sites. Both work well.

Touchpad as a 'always on' clock and weather station

My touchpad is still going strong. Amazing this old dinosaur is still working. Sadly it's too slow to do much with. I tried setting it up for my toddler, but after numerous attempts at games and whatnot we've given up - just too slow.
My wife asked me if I could at least make it into a clock. I thought adding weather to it would be nice. I used to have this working prior to installing the latest tenderloin OS, but can't seem to make it work now.
Running ev_tenderloin-9-userbuild-2019.08.30, been running OK for over a year.
It sits in the wireless charging cradle.
The OS doesn't have the 'always on' option in settings. At least not that I could find.
I can not find an app in the play store (after trying half a dozen) which will
a. Be an always on clock
b. include weather
I did find one app called "Clock Weather Launcher Clean" which seemed to show promise of at least handling the clock side of it because it had a setting to make it always on, but it's a pay now test later app which times out after 3min. no real way to test if I don't want to take the risk of pay now.
Anyone have any suggestions to making this work?
As always, thanks in advance.

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