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finally 21 and now i want software to help me get drunk in delicious fashion soo does anyone know of free software with mixes based on ingredients and such?
Here is one free one that I know of, however it is in no way the best. It actually references an online database to pull the drinks, so you would need a data plan to utilize it. It can be downloaded from freewarepocketpc at http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-pocketender.html
The best one that I have found is not free but was only like $14 USD and is fantastic. It is from Town Compass, but it is quite inclusive... Here's some of the info: http://software.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=490101
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There's a bunch on this site. check them out. i havent tried it yet thou.
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http://handheld.softpedia.com/downloadTag/drink+mix
http://handheld.softpedia.com/downloadTag/alcoholic+drink
http://handheld.softpedia.com/downloadTag/cocktail
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this is to check if your sober enough to drive lol.( theres probably a better app out there...)
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Health/AlcoholLevel-67390.shtml
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i personally love the bartender app on the tmobile G1 but i cannot find it for my phone... errrrrr
well i hope i helped some. and if anyone can find the bartender app from tmobile g1 and its compatible with raphael/fuze i would love to know!!
later
After looking through what was available, I'm a bit appalled by how horrible most of those apps look (and work).
I'm a former (and possibly returning) bartender and used to be a regular on one of the bigger online cocktail forums...so trust me when I say that most of the apps I saw are abysmal in both looks and function.
If there's enough interest, I'd consider throwing together an application to do this all much better. Any thoughts?
AvantGo
Try using www.avantgo.com and add the "Drink Boy" channel. You'll get good recipes on a nice interface that you can view and search for offline. When you're online, it updates itself. I've had a lot of fun with it.
Oh yeah! Don't drink and drive.
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If there's enough interest, I'd consider throwing together an application to do this all much better. Any thoughts?
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I would definately be down. I totally concur. Half the bartender apps are outdated or are a bit difficult to navigate through. Being an amature bartender, I use my database quite a bit, but yeah if there was a program that would allow you to enter in your liquors on hand and priovide you with possibile combinations... Damn... That'd be sweet....
Sorry it's too early in the morning....
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Heck yeah!
+1 as my favorite quote is: "Candy is Dandy, But Liquor is Quicker"
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speed_pour said:
After looking through what was available, I'm a bit appalled by how horrible most of those apps look (and work).
I'm a former (and possibly returning) bartender and used to be a regular on one of the bigger online cocktail forums...so trust me when I say that most of the apps I saw are abysmal in both looks and function.
If there's enough interest, I'd consider throwing together an application to do this all much better. Any thoughts?
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I'd love a drink mixing app.... so count me twice (for each hand that can hold a drink) lol
iam also a bartender and would love an app for mix drinks and shots!!! but dont forget to add the DEATHWISH shot:
DEATHWISH:
1/3 JAGER
1/3 WILD TURKEY 101
1/3 BACARDI 151
SPLASH OF GRENADINE...
(layer grenadine on bottom of shot glass, after pouring in liqours...)
(NOT FOR THE LIGHT DRINKER!!!)
I'll donate to such a cause since I completely agree on the crappy state of the mixing apps!
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I'll donate to such a cause since I completely agree on the crappy state of the mixing apps!
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I freely admit, since I'm out of work right now, I'm fine with being a whore
I've already got a bit of this started, but I'm working on another project first that I think will get a lot of wide-spread usage across the forum. But I'll get back to working on this one very soon.
In the mean time, are there any particular features anybody is looking for. I'm sure it'll be easy enough to figure out all of the features the drinkers want, but what about bartenders? Tell me how often you think you'll be entering drinks, what extra features do you need. Will you actually be using this while at work...with your fingers?
I know this is in the Raph section, though it belongs in Q&A or D&H, but does anybody here want a QVGA version, or dare I ask, W(Q)VGA? If this app is going to see finger-based controls (which I'd expect to make sense), it's not really going to work out having small windows controls, so graphics/resolution will be considered for the first version.
This site works well for me Webtender
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This site works well for me Webtender
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I used to be a regular contributor to the forums there...The biggest problem is that the drink database is absolutely cluttered with incorrect entries and missing a lot of common recipes.
When I start building a collection of recipes, there's actually a couple of people from that forum that I'm going to ask for help/collaboration. I'm also going to throw them a heads up to ask for any thoughts from them on what they would like to see.
Any update on this app being made?? Im very anxious to have it...
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Any update on this app being made?? Im very anxious to have it...
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lol, from me, it'll be at least a couple of weeks. I'm in the middle of working on another app that'll be quite a bit more relevant on this forum. But I will be coming back to this app shortly.
I'll post more info to this thread when I start it, and then I'll create a release thread in D&H (and post a link to it here) when there's a reasonably good start on a beta version.
You can help out by giving some ideas of what features you'd like to see in it.
this is very cool that you'd consider putting an app together, pour...the best reference app/source I've found is that DrinkBoy channel on avantgo. That said, my advice would be keep it very simple. Not only will this, hopefully, take burden and time from your investment to the group, but I don't think I'd be looking for anything other than:
-thorough database with accuracy on both contents and how to prepare
-a "my favorites" option for quick look-ups and personalization
-organize at the root based on main ingredient (e.g. rum, vodka, bourbon)
-a search option with fuzzy-esque searchability (e.g. southside, southsides or southsider would produce the same drink recipe)
I guess these may end up being more work than I thought but an accurate db, easy search and browse engine with a "my fav's" organizer would be PERFECTION for me!!
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my advice would be keep it very simple. Not only will this, hopefully, take burden and time from your investment to the group
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I kinda suspect, with luck, my app will draw attention from hopefully every group....the college students, bar patrons, and even bartenders from different types of places. For that reason, a "simple" app might not be too likely. Simple interface is definitely part of my plan, but the application itself is going to be pretty powerful and probably meant to cover a lot of people's uses.
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but I don't think I'd be looking for anything other than:
-thorough database with accuracy on both contents and how to prepare
-a "my favorites" option for quick look-ups and personalization
-organize at the root based on main ingredient (e.g. rum, vodka, bourbon)
-a search option with fuzzy-esque searchability (e.g. southside, southsides or southsider would produce the same drink recipe)
I guess these may end up being more work than I thought but an accurate db, easy search and browse engine with a "my fav's" organizer would be PERFECTION for me!!
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- Favorites will be very easy to implement, so this is pretty much a sure thing.
- The database itself is a subject I intend to take more seriously than a lot of people probably expect (more on that in the future).
- I've got several ideas for searches/filters, each will be fleshed out as I build it. I'm aiming mostly for live searches and the first will be using quick ingredient filtering.
- fuzzy search...I'll see what I can do, but that's one I know very little about. Some quick googling turned up some information that's possibly VERY usable, but it's all written for the the big brother .Net Framework while the Compact Framework gets no love. I'll bookmark some of this stuff and see where I can go with it after I've released a first version. As much as it might be cool, I can't justify porting Lucene.Net to the compact framework for this project. In the mean time, I can use a "Sounds Like" mechanism that would probably do pretty well for an early version. I'm also a little worried about performance.
As a note, I'd previously said that I wouldn't be starting this until I finished another application. I feel a little dumb for not seeing it sooner, but I discovered Sashimi exists (though I haven't started testing it). While it sorely lacks about half of the features I planned to build, it does a far better job at the other half of the features I had in mind. I'm going to try out Sashimi for a while to determine if there's enough reason to build my app (or possibly a configurator/extension of sorts for use with Sashimi, if possible). As a result, I'm going to put that project on hold and move on to this one.
Second note...err, request actually...I'm ok with graphics...sometimes...But I want to make this app graphically attractive and possibly add skinning ability. At the very least, I will need a few decent looking icons for a few things, at the most, it might turn into an entire interface design. One of my goals is to make this app roughly comparable to something people might expect to buy form the iPhone AppStore (after all, everybody is *****ing about the lack of pretty WM apps). So, if anybody has decent graphics skills and is up for helping out, drop me a line and we'll bump some ideas around when I get to the right stage.
wow i had almost forgot about this thread glad to see something has come of it!
definetly excited to see what you come up with
Is this program still in active development? I hope it is because it sounds like it could be really nice/useful!
Hi,
I have an X1 with the latest updated software from SE.
I want to see if I can get my device to be more responsive / improved / resolve some quirks.
But I don't really have time to read through pages of FAQs and learn about cooking and kitchens and then research all the roms, etc.
So what I would like to request is for some phone optimization consulting services in exchange for green rectangles.
What I'd like to do is:
- Discuss my needs for the phone and how I currently use it.
- Get feedback on how we can improve the phone's performance and responsiveness to those needs.
- Walk me through any kind of ROM fixes/upgrades.
- Give me step-by-step documentation on repeating the process so I can do it again if I need to.
Please either post here or send a PM with your qualifications and an estimate. I think this will run about 2 hours (1 hr or less of discussion via IM and then 1 hr of doing upgrades, etc.)
Thanks.
well...as a personal non-offensive opinion. but if you don't have time to read here, then you shouldn't be thinking about trying to mod your phone to begin with.
I'll give you this free advice.
if you want to get rid of some annoying things and the very very unresponsive speed on the wm 6.1 on your x1. get xperiatweak2. that's something that'll help a heck load.
if you are willing to take the chance of modifying the rom (which sony will say your warrenty is over if they find any rom mods that have been done to phone), then read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446070 . as far as modding the rom goes, this topic has the most accurate information i've found so far.
and I highly recommand you read the forum topics that are posted here in the forum. That will help you more than us trying to tell you what to do and do everything for you.
we are all here willing to help you, but you need to do your part too.
"fish a day for a man, and he'll be full for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll be full for a life time"
I'm helping to start a new industry of cell phone optimization consultants, and you seem to turn your nose up at it.
I started my company doing things that others could do if they spent a few hours looking through documentation but just didn't have the aptitude or time to do so.
I have XPTweaker already. I presume you guys have made improvements to the ROM(s) to make the device run faster and better - or am I mistaken?
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I'm helping to start a new industry of cell phone optimization consultants, and you seem to turn your nose up at it.
I started my company doing things that others could do if they spent a few hours looking through documentation but just didn't have the aptitude or time to do so.
I have XPTweaker already. I presume you guys have made improvements to the ROM(s) to make the device run faster and better - or am I mistaken?
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Although you did feel compelled to rub your alleged achievements in his face, you didn't stop to actually read his post and understand what he's trying to convey. Now don't get me wrong - I mean no offense here, but you do have to understand that you joined a community that has a certain way of dealing with things. You're one of the many (many!) "new guys" that thinks (right or wrong, regardless) that they have a really good idea. This time you got the pre-programmed (or so it seems) response.
In my opinion you portray yourself a bit too selfless, regarding the starting a whole new industry. Fact remains that you posted here because you need help, not us (starting a new industry).
Having said that - I'm sure someone here will be interested in helping you out. If I understand correctly you're offering money for the service ("green rectangles") - perhaps this question belongs in the marketplace - I don't know.
If your search proves fruitless, you may PM me as a last resort - I could teach you the ropes.
Good luck, and enjoy your stay at XDA!
synpax said:
I'm helping to start a new industry of cell phone optimization consultants, and you seem to turn your nose up at it.
I started my company doing things that others could do if they spent a few hours looking through documentation but just didn't have the aptitude or time to do so.
I have XPTweaker already. I presume you guys have made improvements to the ROM(s) to make the device run faster and better - or am I mistaken?
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hey guys what is going on here ?
the man wants personalized help and is willing to pay for it. this is a reasonable request and i find it "trollish" to start and argue about it. it doesnt really matter what his background is. its a standart business decision to save some time and pay someone qualified to do required work or provide infos.
also i find it very annoying to scroll past a bunch of useless so-called "funny" images just to keep track of real posts.
how about helping people instead of using this as a personal entertainment-stage ?
QuadWord
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the man wants personalized help and is willing to pay for it. this is a reasonable request and i find it "trollish" to start and argue about it. it doesnt really matter what his background is. its a standart business decision to save some time and pay someone qualified to do required work or provide infos.
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+1.
To OP, maybe you can list your spec/requirements here. Then me or others could see how to help.
BTW, HTC Advance config tools is much better than Xperiatweak.
Maybe this better fits in Marketplace but I have a feeling that the expertise I am looking for lives here and not there.
I do not have time to become an expert in Rom modification and an expert in the variety of ROMs available, or in all of the applications available. I just don't. I'm an expert in other areas and can't also be an expert in this one. The opportunity costs are too high.
I tried reading the post earlier on HOW TO mod the rom but that's just a small part of the equation. WHICH rom? Why? what other applications? Etc.
There's something called comparative advantage. It means that - for at least one person here I hope - it is better for both of us for me to do what I'm good at, and use the revenue from that to compensate you for your expertise in X1A modifications.
If everyone took the approach of having to personally learn how to do everything they wanted to do, I would be out of a job and they would get a bad result or run out of time.
I think there's a certain elitism that some people hold, and it's probably a big reason as to why Linux hasn't gotten anywhere in the main stream, but I know that not everyone is so elitist so I'm hopeful that at least one of you who is an expert in this area would like to earn a fair amount over a period of an hour or two.
Anyway, PM me if interested. Posting here would probably get you labeled a "sellout" by your peers.
Angelusz said:
Although you did feel compelled to rub your alleged achievements in his face, you didn't stop to actually read his post and understand what he's trying to convey. Now don't get me wrong - I mean no offense here, but you do have to understand that you joined a community that has a certain way of dealing with things. You're one of the many (many!) "new guys" that thinks (right or wrong, regardless) that they have a really good idea. This time you got the pre-programmed (or so it seems) response.
In my opinion you portray yourself a bit too selfless, regarding the starting a whole new industry. Fact remains that you posted here because you need help, not us (starting a new industry).
Having said that - I'm sure someone here will be interested in helping you out. If I understand correctly you're offering money for the service ("green rectangles") - perhaps this question belongs in the marketplace - I don't know.
If your search proves fruitless, you may PM me as a last resort - I could teach you the ropes.
Good luck, and enjoy your stay at XDA!
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I'm a customer. I didn't rub achievements in his face, I explained how the world works. He told me I either have to join the club or f' off, essentially, and I'm afraid that's not how the world really works. Even open source developers have to pay their mortgage.
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I'm a customer. I didn't rub achievements in his face, I explained how the world works. He told me I either have to join the club or f' off, essentially, and I'm afraid that's not how the world really works. Even open source developers have to pay their mortgage.
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Alright, perhaps I misunderstood. That's just how it came across to me.
I think that Jackleung made a good point - it might be a good idea to be a bit more specific as to what you want.
As in the scenario you described earlier, here people also have specializations within certain parts of modifying the ROM/software. With a bit of specificity you might just find the right guy(/girl) for the job.
I'm not saying that you have to either join the club or screw off.
all that I'm saying is that if your willing to pay money and get someone to teach you the steps of getting things done and all that. why not spend a little time here and read some of the posts that people have posted up?
most tutorial posts here are all written up in steps, it's simple, easy, and direct.
and like the other guys have been saying all this time, you need to be more specific as to what you want so that the other members here can help you.
and similar to what I said from my first reply to you. I'm in no way trying to be rude to you or offend you in any sense. I just wanted to give you a little suggestion to help that's all.
synpax said:
Maybe this better fits in Marketplace but I have a feeling that the expertise I am looking for lives here and not there.
I do not have time to become an expert in Rom modification and an expert in the variety of ROMs available, or in all of the applications available. I just don't. I'm an expert in other areas and can't also be an expert in this one. The opportunity costs are too high.
I tried reading the post earlier on HOW TO mod the rom but that's just a small part of the equation. WHICH rom? Why? what other applications? Etc.
There's something called comparative advantage. It means that - for at least one person here I hope - it is better for both of us for me to do what I'm good at, and use the revenue from that to compensate you for your expertise in X1A modifications.
If everyone took the approach of having to personally learn how to do everything they wanted to do, I would be out of a job and they would get a bad result or run out of time.
I think there's a certain elitism that some people hold, and it's probably a big reason as to why Linux hasn't gotten anywhere in the main stream, but I know that not everyone is so elitist so I'm hopeful that at least one of you who is an expert in this area would like to earn a fair amount over a period of an hour or two.
Anyway, PM me if interested. Posting here would probably get you labeled a "sellout" by your peers.
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synpax said:
I'm a customer. I didn't rub achievements in his face, I explained how the world works. He told me I either have to join the club or f' off, essentially, and I'm afraid that's not how the world really works. Even open source developers have to pay their mortgage.
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asian_boi said:
all that I'm saying is that if your willing to pay money and get someone to teach you the steps of getting things done and all that. why not spend a little time here and read some of the posts that people have posted up?
most tutorial posts here are all written up in steps, it's simple, easy, and direct.
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I agreed to his "comparative advantage" theory. It's true it's more effective if everyone works on his/her specialty. (e.g. I gave up to teach my wife how to config (not even rom cooking) WM phone. I rather configure it for her... )
And least synpax stated very clearly he is willing to pay. Unlike some suckers who request free service without do his/her own readings. But again, it's more effective if synpax can list some of your spec/requirement here first.
orelsi, please stop your pointless and harassal reply.
I am working on a website where XDA cooks along with others can post their custom ROMs. I always tought this site is a disorganised mess if you are a newcomer. I built this solution from scratch and it's fully dynamic (PHP+MySQL). I'm almost done with the basics (registering, submitting, browsing...) but I'm still open to suggestions.
Here are a few screenshots. I'd love to get some opinions.
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A few possible domains for the website:
deviceroms.com
wmroms.com
To-do:
-Implement the ratings system
-Spread the word
-"Share this page" and other similar features.
[this used to be a reply to a post that was deleted]
I'm also looking for a complete list of Windows Mobile devices so I can list them in the catalog. I already have HTC devices, but I'd need the devices from Acer, HP and the rest too.
So, what do you people think?
Too many usernames
Hi,
That's a tidy looking design, from a user point of view I like XDA Developers because I sign in, and have access to some user support, software downloads, and ROM updates - without having to sign-up for another website...
I really like the idea of a dedicated portal for ROM updates, and detailed instructions for newbies - how about using your portal as an affiliate to XDA developers? So, for instance, I would use the same credentials to log into either site, or even a shared cookie / user database?
For obvious reasons I do not like to use the same credentials between sites, so for you to broker an arrangement with the administrator of this website for sharing the credential database / profiles / and web site traffic would make life for people like me easier....
If I were the administrator of this website with a large following I'd jump at the opportunity for portals and shared resources on other hosts to boost popularity...
There is a new portal on xda-developers coming soon, perhaps they'll address this?
there's no place like xda for ROMs, i'll pass. nice effort though.
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I really like the idea of a dedicated portal for ROM updates, and detailed instructions for newbies - how about using your portal as an affiliate to XDA developers? So, for instance, I would use the same credentials to log into either site, or even a shared cookie / user database?
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If I were the administrator of this website with a large following I'd jump at the opportunity for portals and shared resources on other hosts to boost popularity...
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Unless they bring you on as a contractor to add something to their existing vBulletin install, having a new 3rd party website access their user database is a major security worry. I guess they could create a user authentication API for you to plug into but that'll still be something to be concerned of both from XDA and existing XDA users trusting a new website.
Also with the gray shade legality of these non-MS authorized ROMs, I wouldn't expect their stance to be that accomodating to this. Perhaps you should consider focusing on helping them orginize these new software releases created by the XDA community. That's even harder to sort thru than the ROMs.
Just giving honest opinion from a fellow web developer.
I mostly made this to practice PHP while creating something that could potentially maintain itself financially (domain name+hosting).
I want to provide a way for newcomers and old users to easily find and compare ROMs for their devices. The forum as it actually is is not exactly a welcoming place for those looking for step-by-step guides and organized information. As for software releases, I'd be glad to support them to and even host them if I can afford it. Once the main frame is built, it can and will be reused for Android and software.
As for working with XDA-developers, I'd love it. I aim to integrate XDA-devs as tightly as possible with the rest of the site. However, credentials will stay separate from this site. It's not secure as stated above and might require ridiculous amounts of work from me and the (possibly disinterested) XDA-developers admin. Yet, there will be XDA-developers integration to a certain level.
deviceroms will be a tool, not a community.
I like this concept, please make it real soon and use a better design and simpler design for it
Semseddin said:
I like this concept, please make it real soon and use a better design and simpler design for it
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I tried to make it as simple and efficient as possible; navigation is simple, registration does not require email confirmation and everything is listed as to make browsing easier for a "ROM shopper". There WILL be moderation as I opted for full HTML support in the description.
As for the delivery date, expect it to be soon enough. I've got only a few work hours and I've done 75 percent of the job after already after 40 days.
The site as it is works but lacks critical features (editing existing listings, rating ROMs and changing account password).
If you need help with maintenance or moderating, let me know. Btw a small forum wouldn't hurt,too. At least a tool to comment on roms will be nice. People might read the reviews of them before downloading.
All the best !
nice job
really hope that you finhish the site soon
Semseddin said:
If you need help with maintenance or moderating, let me know. Btw a small forum wouldn't hurt,too. At least a tool to comment on roms will be nice. People might read the reviews of them before downloading.
All the best !
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Hey, you just gave me an idea! I know there are a lot of support/bug report posts in the ROM threads. This will also happen in the comments, so I'll include a dropdown box where they can select the comment's nature so they can be filtered.
You're welcome
That's a great idea.
N1c0_ds said:
Hey, you just gave me an idea! I know there are a lot of support/bug report posts in the ROM threads. This will also happen in the comments, so I'll include a dropdown box where they can select the comment's nature so they can be filtered.
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You should consider DIV tabs separating between comments/bug reports. Also you should consider doing a multi-faceted rating system:
Speed
Stability
Free Memory
Built-in Applications
Style/Visual
Then allow people to search and filter based on date plus the rating criteria they are looking for. (ie. within last 3 months that have average 5-star speed ratings)
Also please please please make sure your coding is secure.
The last person who posted on the board showing off that he made a windows mobile application blog/website had made his site public with major security flaws (SQL injection). If I didn't point it to him that there was a major flaw, it might have been left open and someone could have stolen all the e-mails and login info. Since it was a custom job he could have also stored the passwords in plaintext in the database, so any hacker using sql injection could have gotten XDA member's e-mail addresses and passwords which could be horrible if the XDA member is the type that uses the same password on multiple websites.
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You should consider DIV tabs separating between comments/bug reports. Also you should consider doing a multi-faceted rating system:
Speed
Stability
Free Memory
Built-in Applications
Style/Visual
Then allow people to search and filter based on date plus the rating criteria they are looking for. (ie. within last 3 months that have average 5-star speed ratings)
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That's a great idea. There is no ratings system yet, so that might be a cool idea. I still can't figure out a better way than storing individual votes in a table to limit users to a single vote per ROM.
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The last person who posted on the board showing off that he made a windows mobile application blog/website had made his site public with major security flaws (SQL injection). If I didn't point it to him that there was a major flaw, it might have been left open and someone could have stolen all the e-mails and login info. Since it was a custom job he could have also stored the passwords in plaintext in the database, so any hacker using sql injection could have gotten XDA member's e-mail addresses and passwords which could be horrible if the XDA member is the type that uses the same password on multiple websites.
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I'm a starter but I am well aware of the risks of SQL and script injection attacks. I am actively reading on the topic in order to prevent these before going live.
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That's a great idea. There is no ratings system yet, so that might be a cool idea. I still can't figure out a better way than storing individual votes in a table to limit users to a single vote per ROM.
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Yeah that's the best way to do it. You could always have a CRON script to run everynight to parse the votes and store that value in a separate "ROM_Rating_Summary" table.
ROM_ID, RatingCount, AverageSpeedRating, AverageStabilityRating, AverageMemoryRating, AverageFeatureRating, AverageStyleRating, TotalSpeedPoints, TotalStabilityPoints, TotalMemoryPoints, TotalFeaturePoints, TotalStylePoints
So the cron will add up all the SpeedPoints from each user rating (4+3+5+2+3+4+4) and then divide it by RatingCount. 4+3+5+2+3+4+4 = 25 / 7 = 3.57 avg rating in Speed category. The cron will add the last days' new rating points and increment the rating count and then you divide and get the revised average rating. By parsing only the last day's worth of comments this way, it should be fast to loop thru even 1000 ROMs.
Have fun with it.
Alright folks! I'm 90% done! Once I get the BBCode support working, I'll upload it online for bug testing
I’m sure most of you in here are familiar with the midNIGHT rom. I hope most of you are also familiar with ptfdmedic and his blog on lostandtired.com. If you’re not, I would recommend it.
Johnny and I were talking about a week ago about doing some icon set’s and making skinned Launcher Pros to match. We started working on the icons in the development thread I started about 2 weeks ago here. Now when you get people working together on a project, ideas just seem to start flowing. One of the ideas was to do some sets based on an Autism theme to try and do our small part to help spread Autism awareness. We both did a set using very different ideas, so the end result is sets that don’t look at all alike.
Our thanks go to:
ptfdmedic – midNIGHT rom
Timberwolf – Taking the time to answer questions
darren.wlsn1 – Just because he’s DW.
I would also like to thank Johnny Bravo. I couldn’t ask for someone better to work with on something like this.
ZiggSVO for providing the puzzle lockscreen, and talking me into updating this
Sbrissen & Maddoggin for the lockscreen mod
qbking77 for the new base
All of the midNIGHT rom beta testers: chadit, megabiteg, Science Guy, dnathan13, d/\sh, wudstock54, capitaltpt, flyers2114, jmkasperek1
Check our page at PPCGeeks
Autism Awareness Theme:
Here is what's included:
Themed framework-res.apk
Themed twframework-res.apk
Settings, TSMParts & androidpolicy.jar for the lockscreen mod
There are also 4 sets of Icons that can be used with desktop visualizer.
The instruction for the icon sets are further down in the OP.
Just so everyone knows, this is my first publicly released theme for an android device.
I hope you like my work.
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The icons in the set work very well with Desktop Visualizer which you can download from the market. Just unzip the files somewhere on your SD card.
To install Launcher Pro you must uninstall any previous version. These have been resigned so you cannot install over what you have. You can backup your setting then restore then after install. Everything except widgets will be right where you left it.
These icon sets and launcher pro can obviously be installed on other devices besides the Epic.
Here’s our first version.
Here’s the second version.
Give us some feedback and let us know what you think. And please, go give Johnny Bravo some love by clicking the thank button on the next post.
Johnny's wallpapers and boot animation coan be found on post #2 here.
Code:
3/21/11 V0.1.1 Minor icon changes
7/16/11 V2.0 The necrobump. Adds the lockscreen mod and changes to an ACS framework base
EI22 version here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20374054&postcount=47
I read ptfdmedic's blog www.lostandtired.com almost every day, and one of the things that I have learned is that many children with Autism never really grow up mentally. A 12 year old child with Autism might have the mental state of a 3 or 4 year old. So when Shane mentioned his idea to me about creating Autism Awareness themed Launcher Pro icons an idea just flashed into my head. What is more reminiscent of a child than crayon drawings? I have two daughters, one is 7 and one is 8, and I asked them to help me with this. After trying to explain Autism to them (which I'm not sure I did a very good job, but I will keep trying) I asked them to help me draw a set of icons for my phone. They both love playing games on my Epic, so both of the jumped up and down and said "YES!" I grabbed a big bucket of crayons, several sheets of paper and opened the laptop and showed them all the icons the Shane had made and asked them to draw them. The three of us spent all afternoon drawing icons and they had a great time. Then I scanned them and used Photoshop to build a frame and put a set of LP icons together. When I loaded them on my phone my kids thought it was the coolest thing in the world that something they had drawn was now on my phone.
I could never come close to understanding the struggles that parents of autistic children go through, but Rob's blog helps me see through his eyes. I urge everyone to that installs these icon sets to please share the story of where you got them. If someone says "cool icons", don't just let it end there. Explain to them why its made up of puzzle pieces, and what it stands for, and then give them Rob's website www.lostandtired.com. If we can explain to just one more person what autism is and how it affect the lives of the families it touches, we will have helped out.
***Update 3/20/11*** Added custom boot animation. Thanks soooo much to optmsprim2 for helping me with the format.
Reserved for updates
Amazing job guys. I'm going to download now. This is a perfect accent to go along with a perfect rom. Thanks for all of the hard work that you all put in to make people like me happy with their phones and also getting some info out to people about a very important cause. Thanks.
Just wanted to stop by and say thanks to you guys for doing this and helping to spread Autism awareness (which I will also do with "Thanks" button). It's nice to see people do something on here like this. A project that actually means something to alot of people, not just a specific phone community/forum. They are a little too colorful for my style of themes I usually run, but regardless I am going to download them anyways, just so I can show all my other real life android nerds at work and such. Very nice concept and they came out great!
P.S I bet you had a blast with your daughters on that project! Not only were you helping others, but I'm sure they enjoyed the time spent with you just as much. Great post overall. I Love hearing things like this.
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Just wanted to stop by and say thanks to you guys for doing this and helping to spread Autism awareness (which I will also do with "Thanks" button). It's nice to see people do something on here like this. A project that actually means something to alot of people, not just a specific phone community/forum. They are a little too colorful for my style of themes I usually run, but regardless I am going to download them anyways, just so I can show all my other real life android nerds at work and such. Very nice concept and they came out great!
P.S I bet you had a blast with your daughters on that project! Not only were you helping others, but I'm sure they enjoyed the time spent with you just as much. Great post overall. I Love hearing things like this.
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Guys,
I want to put up a new page on my blog dedicated to this stuff. Featuring your work. Is that cool. I want everyone to see this.. AMAZING JOB....
Thank you so much.....
ROb
Dude, fantastic job. Great idea. I bet your kids loved it!
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I've posted some pics of the Autism theme here
Still under development, but getting close.
I have tried to express my feelings to this thread and have deleted what was typed already several times.
This is truely awesome. That is it in a nutshell yet still does not say enough. Great work. Thanks.
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I have tried to express my feelings to this thread and have deleted what was typed already several times.
This is truely awesome. That is it in a nutshell yet still does not say enough. Great work. Thanks.
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Johnny and I both thank you for that. I hope anyone in this community that has had any interactions with ptfdmedic or knows of his story is as moved by the guy as we are. Helping him get the word out about autism in this way was the least we could do.
I must say I will probably use some of those icons in my next ROM in tribute,looks good...
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I have tried to express my feelings to this thread and have deleted what was typed already several times.
This is truely awesome. That is it in a nutshell yet still does not say enough. Great work. Thanks.
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I find it absolutely incredible what Rob is capable of handling in his day-to-day life. This is the least we can do to help him out.
Thanks for the kind words and the support.
Tell your friends!
Theme added to the OP.
I fully support Autism awareness and what not, but let's please stop referring to this as (direct quote) an "Autism theme". Sounds like a theme based on Autism.
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thomasskull666 said:
I fully support Autism awareness and what not, but let's please stop referring to this as (direct quote) an "Autism theme". Sounds like a theme based on Autism.
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I pm'ed you about this. If you have an issue or suggestion about how we word things, let's do it over PM and not in the forum.
Thanks in advanced for your consideration regarding this.
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I pm'ed you about this. If you have an issue or suggestion about how we word things, let's do it over PM and not in the forum.
Thanks in advanced for your consideration regarding this.
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I'll respond on here even after replying to your pm; I meant no disrespect at all and I appologize if I have offended anyone or caused a ruckus of sorts. Just from a grammatical point of view, referring to the theme as an "Autism theme" is nonsensical and doesn't convey the message that this theme is intended to put across. Once again, my appologies to anyone I may have offended, I know plenty of people with Autism and I fully support spreading awareness by any means necessary. It is most certainly a serious subject and not to be taken lightly. I was simply pointing out the incorrect usage and connotation of the term "Autism theme".
Please disregard my statement if you wish, and I would be more than willing to delete my post if you, OP, feels it is necessary.
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I'll respond on here even after replying to your pm; I meant no disrespect at all and I appologize if I have offended anyone or caused a ruckus of sorts. Just from a grammatical point of view, referring to the theme as an "Autism theme" is nonsensical and doesn't convey the message that this theme is intended to put across. Once again, my appologies to anyone I may have offended, I know plenty of people with Autism and I fully support spreading awareness by any means necessary. It is most certainly a serious subject and not to be taken lightly. I was simply pointing out the incorrect usage and connotation of the term "Autism theme".
Please disregard my statement if you wish, and I would be more than willing to delete my post if you, OP, feels it is necessary.
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Our thoughts when putting these pieces together for every thing on the OP was that most people know what the ribbons, puzzle pieces and hearts stand for. Johnny and I were just trying to do something nice and give back at little for all of the time and energy ptfdmedic gives in all aspects of his life.
I have a couple friends that have childeren diagnosed with Autism. The daily battles they go through are something I don't know if I could deal with.
While doing this I got to make myself more aware by reading the information on the pages I would visit while gathering ideas for the theme.
In no way was it our goal to make light of Autsim in any way, shape, or form.
If anyone takes offence to anything in the thread, I appologize. Feel free to pm me so we can discuss it.
Thanks.
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Custom boot animation added! Follow link to PPCGeeks in OP and look in post #2.
Slight update to the theme to v.0.1.1
Very minor change.
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Big Changes coming. go to last post to see!
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The ROM's are graded from one to ten. One being the worst (for me, not meant to hurt the developer) to Ten being the greatest. This will consist of Fluidity, Stability, and Customization. I will list my definition of these terms since sometimes they could spread unclear messages because your meaning cant fit my definitions at times. All notes added to these notes are not counted for the ROM score there just rants, so clarify these don't count against the total score.
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Name: MAHDI-ROM
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Date: October 11th, 2014
Review: MAHDI-ROM offers great features and one of the few smoothest ROM I ever tried with keeping a aligned stock experience. It offers great speed with no catch to it with apps opening instantaneously and also boot up speed being around ten seconds its wonderful and excellent. The developer is always ever so nice helping out the users problems and try to identify them with logs. I never experience no hiccups when using Instagram, Google+, or YouTube. The battery life was a great point of the ROM getting almost three hours on screen time and eight hours of battery life with causal looking at Instagram and Google+ with brightness being at a quarter brightness. One point being ART is working on this and I haven't ran into much much crashes and no reboots at all while using this ROM. UI stutters only happening when going swiping down too quickly but, that's reasonable since it has to load up the data. I am amazed how the ROM has so much customization that you would expect from Carbon ROM for example and the customization menu is sorted neatly in a nice menu, but I sometimes find my self having to look for the wanted feature. I also noticed some parts that are scattered in the setting menu and to find the options you want at times can get difficult. I almost forgot one thing too, features. This ROM features Floating Window, Heads-Up, Active display along with other lock screen notification features. It does lack Hover but, that's replaceable with Heads-Up and much more.
Note(s): Nothing to say.
Score:
Stability: 8
Fluidity: 9.5
Customization: 10
= 9.1
This is so wrong. In so many ways.
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this IS wrong. what you are doing is grading developers, who spend their own personal time on roms, who do not get paid for this, in your own subjective ways, in your own opinion. also, what you think deserves a 10, someone else will think deserves a 5.
End it.....
Also *glossary.
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Also *glossary.
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As well, *reviews.
Thread review- 1 out of 10.
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Ok everyone. I contacted forum administration to come and have this thread for review and check if its infringing any of the forum rules. I want to clarify it says in the first paragraph that there work are still greatly appreciated and its not to pick on ROM developers. The grammar issues happen since I was awake quite late in forming this thread (I live in the Pacific Timezone). I'm going to get those checked and thanks for correcting me. If the thread is infringing on any rule it will be taken down.
Araan45 said:
Ok everyone. I contacted forum administration to come and have this thread for review and check if its infringing any of the forum rules. I want to clarify it says in the first paragraph that there work are still greatly appreciated and its not to pick on ROM developers. The grammar issues happen since I was awake quite late in forming this thread (I live in the Pacific Timezone). I'm going to get those checked and thanks for correcting me. If the thread is infringing on any rule it will be taken down.
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its not that its infringing any rules. its that the idea of rating developers, who work on roms and kernels on their own free time, without pay for it. especially rated just by you. rating them does not show any appreciation. basically, you also are not giving us accurate information. what you are doing is giving your personal opinion. opinions can be very off in accuracy. so its best just not to do it. and as you can see, already every response to you was unfavorable for starting this thread. all you are going to do is upset many more people. is that what you really want to do?
Until very recently, literally the past few days, Moderators would routinely close what we think of as "comparison" threads for phones, Apps, ROMs etc. The reasons we gave for doing this were that often such threads would encourage trolling and fanboyism. Also, comparisons are subjective; what suits me does not necessarily suit another Member with different needs and likes.
However, we have reviewed our policy and we have decided that Members views of ROMs, Apps and Phones, if they contain some level of analysis, can be useful to new Members or those who haven't yet tried them. It doesn't mean of course that you have to agree with the subjective views expressed in such threads and Members can express different views provided they do so in a reasoned non-trolling way.
We all compare things every day, we read or listen to the views of others before we buy things or use them. We probably don't just listen to one person but research different ponts of view before making decisions. Those who make ROMs, should expect that Members can express views on whether it suits them and what they find good and less good about them. Comparison threads must always be respectful to the developer however and must adhere to our basic rules on language and tone.
So we understand that many will be surprised we have changed our policy on this, but let's see if we can run this thread successfully. That means Members must respect each others views whilst expressing counter opinions if they disagree.
Note, this is not a comparison of Developers, it is a comparison of particular ROMs produced by them. A Developer may well have some excellent ROMs, but also some that are less good than one made by another Developer, accepting of course that a ROM can be good for one Member but not for another.
This thread and other comparison threads will succeed only if Members always respect the Developers and support their comparisons with as much evidence as they can. Also note that if a ROM comparison thread exists in a forum, it should be used rather than creating several different threads for the same purpose.
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Araan45 said:
Ok everyone. I contacted forum administration to come and have this thread for review and check if its infringing any of the forum rules. I want to clarify it says in the first paragraph that there work are still greatly appreciated and its not to pick on ROM developers. The grammar issues happen since I was awake quite late in forming this thread (I live in the Pacific Timezone). I'm going to get those checked and thanks for correcting me. If the thread is infringing on any rule it will be taken down.
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It's not infringing any rules, but it's just morally wrong towards those few people who actually do some work around here.
Another point is that this system of rating is very subjective. Let's take Mahdi ROM as an example (since you mentioned it), it's definitely one of the best ROMs around here, with almost every feature and customization option available out there, but i would never give it more than 8/10 for fluidity, nor 10 for stability. Someone else will come and rate it different. It just doesn't make any sense, and leads to nowhere.
Some people want more customization options, other are looking for simplicity, some others want battery life, some use hotplug in kernels, other don't. There is no one size fits all
the original nexus 5 "best" rom thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/best-rom-nexus-5-t2893766
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the original nexus 5 "best" rom thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/best-rom-nexus-5-t2893766
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This a comparison of ROM's on terms of Stability, Fluidity, and Customization. I don't mean to have the best 'ROM' when I rate them it doesn't mean there the "best". I'm pretty sure people will look at the rating for Stability, Fluidity, and Customization. The average is just there to have a fit score. Again, I don't mean to pick on developers since they work hard on there software.
rayiskon said:
It's not infringing any rules, but it's just morally wrong towards those few people who actually do some work around here.
Another point is that this system of rating is very subjective. Let's take Mahdi ROM as an example (since you mentioned it), it's definitely one of the best ROMs around here, with almost every feature and customization option available out there, but i would never give it more than 8/10 for fluidity, nor 10 for stability. Someone else will come and rate it different. It just doesn't make any sense, and leads to nowhere.
Some people want more customization options, other are looking for simplicity, some others want battery life, some use hotplug in kernels, other don't. There is no one size fits all
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I'm using my experience from these ROM's. When in my use I never had much crashes maybe like four but, that's it. I will mark of Stability to eight. I don't rate hotplug since that is kernel side. I'm sure mainly some people are not going to look at the average score but, the sub scores. Again, as stated below and above, I don't mean to pick on the developers since they spend there free time on there software and its greatly appreciated.
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I'm using my experience from these ROM's. When in my use I never had much crashes maybe like four but, that's it. I will mark of Stability to eight. I don't rate hotplug since that is kernel side. I'm sure mainly some people are not going to look at the average score but, the sub scores. Again, as stated below and above, I don't mean to pick on the developers since they spend there free time on there software and its greatly appreciated.
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4 crashes is an 8? seriously? ive never had a rom crash on me and my nexus 5(since december 2013, regular version and lichtis version of Rastakat).
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4 crashes is an 8? seriously? ive never had a rom crash on me and my nexus 5(since december 2013).
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Will I just got mine in September 6th. I believe this is a issue on my end since I would keep lots of apps open. Not a rom crash, app crashes. I might revise that a FC instead later on. I would experience these FC when I get on Google+ mostly and once in Instagram.
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Will I just got mine in September 6th. I believe this is a issue on my end since I would keep lots of apps open. Not a rom crash, app crashes. I might revise that a FC instead later on. I would experience these FC when I get on Google+ mostly and once in Instagram.
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i see. you are right though, its probably a user related issue and not a rom related issue.
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i see. you are right though, its probably a user related issue and not a rom related issue.
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I am going to try CM in a few days so I would see if its the ROM, I honestly think its my end though.