I posted this on G+ and thought I'd share it here.
So, there's an onslaught of people with all manner of "When will 4.4 or Nexus 5 be released?"
Let me help you out by teaching you a bit about Google Alerts.
Google Alerts is a sadly underused service. You can go to http://www.google.com/alerts first and type in Nexus 5 confirmed in the search box.
If you use RSS readers like feedly, you can change delivery to feed. To import it into feedly, after you finish creating the alert, right click the RSS icon next to the alert and copy link address. You then go into feedly and click on Add New Content and just paste the address into the box.
If you don't use RSS, leave it set to your email address.
Make sure that as-it-happens is selected.
Click on Create Alert.
Now, anytime Google gets a new search result that matches your search term, you'll either get an email or a new result in your RSS feeds. This will save you from hours upon hours of scouring the web for results on when it will be released. Feel free to make the search term whatever you like but I'm fairly confident once we have the exact release date, there'll be plenty of Nexus 5 confirmed results but you can also create multiple alerts for multiple search strings to cover your bases, just don't get mad at me if you get inundated with email.
I've used Google Alerts before and it's a fantastic service. Thanks for reminding me to use it here. I didn't put two and two together but great idea.
Finally a thread of use in the nexus 5 forums!
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Nice idea. Personally, I use G+ quite a bit so I'll know that it was released when it explodes with nerd joy followed quickly by nerd rage after Google Play screws something up. :silly:
I'll say this for them, though: I keep coming back for more because every order/pre-order is an adventure.
The problem is that by the time you get an alert, all the stock has been sold out.
ryude said:
The problem is that by the time you get an alert, all the stock has been sold out.
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The Nexus 4 was released in the store something like thirty minutes to an hour before the official announced time; I remember that my obsessive checking got me in before the rush (and then of course my order fell into limbo and I got my phone in the second wave of deliveries).
I say if you care enough to want to get it now, keep checking the obvious places when you get a chance.
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The problem is that by the time you get an alert, all the stock has been sold out.
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The as-it-happens alerts I have set reach me no later than a couple of minutes.
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Watcher07 said:
The as-it-happens alerts I have set reach me no later than a couple of minutes.
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It alerts you when there is news coverage, not when the phone is available for purchase. All the fanatics will be F5'ing it up and there's a high chance that by the time a news site picks up on it, all the stock will be dried up.
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Hi guys and gals!
#firstworldproblem
So, i did something really stupid today. I activated Facebook's new layout "Timeline" (this) and i regret doing it. Every single stupid status update and everything else is just popping up in the timeline, and i do NOT like it. I started deleting some of them, but after 10 minutes i realized that i've written too many updates through the years. I can't delete them all. It will take 17 years.
So i thought that the solution would maybe be to delete my profile and start fresh. I'll "lose" all my friends and stuff, and i'll probably use more time adding them back then deleting my past statuses.
What do you guys think i should do?
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I'll "lose" all my friends and stuff, and i'll probably use more time adding them back then deleting my past statuses.
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Isn't that your answer right there?
Eh.. well.. uh.. yeah I've decided to not delete it. I've used quite some time deleting stuff now, and i'm almost done! 4 months left in 2007, so i guess it'll take 20 minutes or so..
Kill me. Now.
And this is why Facebook sucks.
Everyone should delete their Facebook.
LordManhattan said:
Hi guys and gals!
#firstworldproblem
So, i did something really stupid today. I activated Facebook's new layout "Timeline" (this) and i regret doing it. Every single stupid status update and everything else is just popping up in the timeline, and i do NOT like it. I started deleting some of them, but after 10 minutes i realized that i've written too many updates through the years. I can't delete them all. It will take 17 years.
So i thought that the solution would maybe be to delete my profile and start fresh. I'll "lose" all my friends and stuff, and i'll probably use more time adding them back then deleting my past statuses.
What do you guys think i should do?
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Yes, Facebook is bad, anything you say on there, is always going to be there, hell Facebook knows more about you than YOU know about you. Just sayin.
Yup. I want to quit the whole thing, but then i'll be an anti social guy (online) who doesn't know "what's up".
But i won't do anything about it right now. I update my status like once a month, and i'm only checking the news feed once a day.
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Yup. I want to quit the whole thing, but then i'll be an anti social guy (online) who doesn't know "what's up".
But i won't do anything about it right now. I update my status like once a month, and i'm only checking the news feed once a day.
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Have you seen the videos by anonymous? Facebook is the worst. And they aren't gonna have it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmHMkg8u56w
I gotta say, I quite like it. There's nothing on there that wasn't available to my friends anyway so it's just a layout change. Nothing's more or less public than it already way.
Also, Facebook is changing to this Timeline view regardless. You don't have a choice whether to use it or not.
Good thing Facebook knows I work at Hershey park as a fudge packer and is a graduate at burgerking university.
Yes, Facebook is inherently evil.
-We do what we must because we can; for the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead-
Actually I activated the time line and I like it, but anyway, I suggest that you kill your facebook account if you have nothing to lose..
I like the timeline as well. A positive change, which is weird in regards to facebook. All the statuses we're available in the old layout as well, so this just changes the look. It was just as easy to find the status updates before.
No, it's much easier and faster to find the idiotic posts now! I've used two hours browsing and deleting
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I've been using the "Timeline" feature for the past 3 months. First I felt it too buggy. But now, I'm used to it (realizing there's no way to go back to old profile interface)
Also, they've messed up the chat lists.
JimmyMcGee said:
And this is why Facebook sucks.
Everyone should delete their Facebook.
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QFT!
Whodaman?
Jimmydamandatswho.....
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face......
Okay guys, finally got my N7 yesterday now and am eagerly awaiting google now to start learning my traits.
Feel free to share how google now has picked up your traits - be specific.
Mine thinks work is somewhere at the sea
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First tip is to set your home/work locations using Latitude.
Next you can ask about when your favourite team/s are playing next, or what the score for their match was etc, that will hopefully teach it the team/s that you support.
Set up calendar items/appointments and it will notify you about them.
If you use Chrome on your desktop and stay logged in to Google, Now will learn from whatever you search. I searched for an address on my laptop the other day and within seconds got an alert on the phone telling me long it would take to get there.
ToL9a said:
First tip is to set your home/work locations using Latitude.
Next you can ask about when your favourite team/s are playing next, or what the score for their match was etc, that will hopefully teach it the team/s that you support.
Set up calendar items/appointments and it will notify you about them.
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The only thing is I'm Australian, and at the moment Australian sports aren't covered. Do you think this will be added in future?
On my laptop I was looking up "cocaine bricks" and then found directions to "the brick"', a furniture store, in my notifications
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noobletsausecakebbq said:
On my laptop I was looking up "cocaine bricks" and then found directions to "the brick"', a furniture store, in my notifications
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Damn! I want to party with you!
Lol, jk
wmoore said:
If you use Chrome on your desktop and stay logged in to Google, Now will learn from whatever you search. I searched for an address on my laptop the other day and within seconds got an alert on the phone telling me long it would take to get there.
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That's interesting, I have tried searching things like pizza places etc on my desktop and it hasn't come through on my nexus 7.
Could this be because I'm Australian and it isn't supported?
(Yes My accounts are synced)
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That's interesting, I have tried searching things like pizza places etc on my desktop and it hasn't come through on my nexus 7.
Could this be because I'm Australian and it isn't supported?
(Yes My accounts are synced)
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I'm in Brisbane Are you logged into Chrome with the same account?
Actually I've just tried searching for my nearest Dominos, looked up the location on Maps, then opened Now and it is proving me wrong. Odd.
Does anyone know if you can teach it to take a particular route to work?
It shows me the traffic on a route I don't use because it would cost me about $15 in tolls to save me about 5 minutes of time.
I have tried to go to navigate, then select my preferred route, but Google Now still uses the other one by default.
Riimez said:
The only thing is I'm Australian, and at the moment Australian sports aren't covered. Do you think this will be added in future?
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Having issues getting it to pick up NRL/AFL as well, but it has a few of my European football teams in there.
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Does anyone know if you can teach it to take a particular route to work?
It shows me the traffic on a route I don't use because it would cost me about $15 in tolls to save me about 5 minutes of time.
I have tried to go to navigate, then select my preferred route, but Google Now still uses the other one by default.
Having issues getting it to pick up NRL/AFL as well, but it has a few of my European football teams in there.
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It might work of you check to avoid tolls in the maps app
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If you want to see something hillarious with Google Now, do the following:
1) Turn ON Safe Search/Profanity Blocker in Google Now settings.
2) Say "****"
It doesn't seem to like when I ask for football teams in Europe.
It also learns from Google maps.. it will display your most visited places from time to time and tell you the traffic etc
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Getting Google Now to work:
http://androidforums.com/nexus-7/588248-all-those-disappointed-google-now.html
see this link for more tips:
http://exzacklyright.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/google-now-tips-and-tricks.html
phonic said:
If you want to see something hillarious with Google Now, do the following:
1) Turn ON Safe Search/Profanity Blocker in Google Now settings.
2) Say "****"
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Awesome... I say "****" and it gives me a stock quote for Sprint.
I guess they somehow... know!
noobletsausecakebbq said:
On my laptop I was looking up "cocaine bricks" and then found directions to "the brick"', a furniture store, in my notifications
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Haha that's a good one
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It might work of you check to avoid tolls in the maps app
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Can it avoid internet trolls too? That would be an awesome feature.
By the way no I'm not calling you a troll.
ToL9a said:
Does anyone know if you can teach it to take a particular route to work?
It shows me the traffic on a route I don't use because it would cost me about $15 in tolls to save me about 5 minutes of time.
I have tried to go to navigate, then select my preferred route, but Google Now still uses the other one by default.
Having issues getting it to pick up NRL/AFL as well, but it has a few of my European football teams in there.
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The first time it showed me the time to work, it was using toll roads. When I headed to work going the other way, I kept Now open and refreshed it a couple of times during the journey. Now it always shows me that route.
What I think would be good is if you could program a primary and secondary route. Tonight, for example, it was telling me 53 mins to get home because I drive past a football stadium where Monday night footy is on tonight. It would be nice if it said "this way is busy, take the other way instead".
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phonic said:
If you want to see something hillarious with Google Now, do the following:
1) Turn ON Safe Search/Profanity Blocker in Google Now settings.
2) Say "****"
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Very good.
tevinwade said:
It doesn't seem to like when I ask for football teams in Europe.
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Apparently this is because the season isn't on there. This has some truth in it because I searched for Arizona Cardinals and got nothing in Now but then I searched for Red Sox and now apparently they are my team Though I've tried it with Aussie teams and it doesn't work either, even though we are approaching the pointy end of the season. My guess is that it only understands US sports at the moment. Hopefully that will change soon.
You need to ensure that web history is turned on in your google account (not on by default) for searches to show on your phone.
Follow the android forums link a few posts up for a guide.
Many people have been toying with the idea that, the Nexus 4, being a Nexus device, could be riddled with bugs and glitches at the time of release, and thus have only placed a small amount of stock for sale so those issues only stay among a small amount of people.
The guys at Google, instead of testing for hours on end, let the public do so, and then check up on sites, like this one, for issues people have with the phone and thus fix it up. This could explain why the Bumpers are already stocked, but the phones themselves are looking to be released Black Friday, several days after, and this time, with a whole lot more stock as they have to take into account the back orders, as well poor guys like me who missed out.
What are your thoughts on this?
Wouldn't that be unfair to the people who managed to buy it out first? I mean they are essentially paying the same amount for a phone that is supposed to have the kinks sorted out already, not pay to have a phone in beta testing. But I really hope this is the case, and Google not only sorts out these issues but also offers compensation to the early adopters as to make everyone happy and fair!
Tin Foil Hat time for you i think...
Where did you see stocked bumpers?
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Google Play.
Google Play, mate.
LaviLoki said:
Google Play, mate.
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It's sold out in the US Google Play store...
If that's true then we'll be seeing an update from Google shortly after the second batch go out?
Negative, the nexus one was the trial run.
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Doubtful. I just don't think Google anticipated it being quite so popular. Worst of all, they allowed you to purchase up to 5 in one hit, which more then a handful of people did. 1-2 max on launch and up to a week or two after in my opinion. This would have ensured 'a lot' more people actually got a phone and it would have stopped eBay being flooded with N4's by people looking to make a quick buck.
Every nexus phone is trails . We get it test it Google updates other OEM make there phones with the new version. As far are you tin foil hat about a multi billion dollar company not testing I doubt that
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How could the 4th generation of anything be a test run?
Tinfoil Hattery abounds in the General forum. It's a conspiracy I tells ya!
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Many people have been toying with the idea that, the Nexus 4, being a Nexus device, could be riddled with bugs and glitches at the time of release, and thus have only placed a small amount of stock for sale so those issues only stay among a small amount of people.
The guys at Google, instead of testing for hours on end, let the public do so, and then check up on sites, like this one, for issues people have with the phone and thus fix it up. This could explain why the Bumpers are already stocked, but the phones themselves are looking to be released Black Friday, several days after, and this time, with a whole lot more stock as they have to take into account the back orders, as well poor guys like me who missed out.
What are your thoughts on this?
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lol, no
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We, the public, being beta testers for Google products? Pffft!
No place for this type of speculation on this board. If you have news, tips, tricks, guides, or howtos, feel free to post. This type of stuff is more suited for your blog.
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So I'm new with android, and the Moto X. I come from a long line of Nokia dumb phones so please forgive my ignorance.
I got the moto x yesterday, and it has changed my understanding of what a phone can be. But I never thought it would go this far....
First it told me where my house was, and how long it would take me to arrive. That was odd enough. Then last night a friend called me and texted me setting up a dinner date. I said sure I would go, then I proceeded to search up the menu of said restaurant.
The next thing I know I have a tile on my home screen telling me how long it would take me to arrive at the resturant.
No interaction, no Facebook invite, no nothing.
So how in the hell does this phone know so much about me??
Cool and all, just confused.
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jason.912 said:
So I'm new with android, and the Moto X. I come from a long line of Nokia dumb phones so please forgive my ignorance.
I got the moto x yesterday, and it has changed my understanding of what a phone can be. But I never thought it would go this far....
First it told me where my house was, and how long it would take me to arrive. That was odd enough. Then last night a friend called me and texted me setting up a dinner date. I said sure I would go, then I proceeded to search up the menu of said restaurant.
The next thing I know I have a tile on my home screen telling me how long it would take me to arrive at the resturant.
No interaction, no Facebook invite, no nothing.
So how in the hell does this phone know so much about me??
Cool and all, just confused.
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That my friend, is the awesome power of Google Now.
Yep. Google does track your locations, but you agreed to it. It keeps a tab on your most common locations, so after time, it'll figure out where your work and where you live.
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Also, if you do searches using Google on your computer Google now will catch it and ve you the same directions you just searched for on your phone. Its really quite nice. If you get an email to your gmail account with shipping info google now will keep track of your package for you too.
I just wish Google would implement the Gmail stuff for the built-in (at minimum) email client. Not everyone uses Gmail and thus they lose out on, IMO, most useful options of Google Now.
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As others have said, Google builds an 'ecosystem' - if you use Chrome on your desktop and you sign in, and you sign in to Chrome on your phone and tablet, when you search on one, it will propogate not only your bookmarks but also your recent searches.
It's a little creepy at first, and I think also a reminder that someone is always watching, but it's also very convenient. It's great for me to search for a place on my PC browser, hop into my car, and have my phone tell me how far away I am and with one tap get turn-by-turn navigation.
Welcome to the world of Android and the moto X and enjoy!
It even knows when you're peeing.
SysAdmNj said:
It even knows when you're peeing.
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I was wondering why it started laughing
being undisclosed stage.
Woh that's a huge security bug. I, like test it late at my N5 MRA58K. If this is tru then every one should disable the smartlook Funktion. Thx for the info.
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Woh that's a huge security bug. I, like test it late at my N5 MRA58K. If this is tru then every one should disable the smartlook Funktion. Thx for the info.
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Well, I'd probably say that OP should just open a ticket on Google's support page and everyone can star it.
Just make sure you star the issue only, DO NOT COMMENT!
If you comment an issue, everyone who starred it will get a notification. So if people start spam replying with "Me too, I'm also having this issue, Google please fix" etc. then your email gets blown up and that usually makes most people unstar it which means Google doesn't really look into it soon because it doesn't seem to be widespread enough. No need to say "I am also having this issue" as that is literally what the star means.
STAR ONLY!!!
Have you tried this by leaving your trusted place? Just going into the basement won't cut it if it's the same house, besides that, if you get a proper location lock on your location and disconnect from all networks, say you're using an app like Google maps, your icon will still move, and turn and stuff according to you, I use this with an old phone that has no service when I'm on my bicycle, I'll have to test this out my self