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Free Weather Bug App

Found this while browsing, as usual enjoy
http://windowsmobile.weatherbug.com/downloads/
Review is here
http://www.wmexperts.com/reviews/software_reviews/new_app_weatherbug_direct_revi.html

This is a cool app. I like the ability to have the temp in your top bar.

Cool. Thanks for the link.
Unfortunately, it keeps locking up my Tilt....

I'm suspicious of Weather Bug. I remember a few years back, this app would sneak in on my desktop and was a pain to remove it. Seems like it was part of some spy/ad ware.

Very nice...thank you. I loved weatherbug back in the day before subscription, I hope it stays free this time.

GWelker62 said:
I'm suspicious of Weather Bug. I remember a few years back, this app would sneak in on my desktop and was a pain to remove it. Seems like it was part of some spy/ad ware.
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QFT
I have to agree with you on that... LOL I wouldn't even install weather bug on your device if I didn't like you. It's spyware and you should avoid it. Why not try weather to go or weather watcher mobile?

After testing for a few days I ended up uninstalling it. For some reason it seemed to drain my battery faster.
I'll just settle for my Throttlelauncher weather now, after flashing Throttle Diamond.

Weatherbug is draining your battery because it is known to constantly connect not only to get weather updates but to also perform its adware\spyware functions. I would stay away from it. Once installed it is very hard to get rid of.

WeatherBug pwns you all..
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I love weatherbug

Such FUD.
Weatherbug for the PC desktop, the free version, certainly does contain adware.
But this is a Today Screen Plugin folks. What adware is going to run on a today screen plugin on a mobile phone? Spyware? Spying what for crying out loud?
And to remove it, go to remove programs, and poof, it's gone, as gone as any other today plugin.
And if it's draining the batter, try going into options and changing the update frequency so it's not banging away at your data connection all the time. Any weather app will drain the battery if it's updating frequently enough.

gwnorth pwnz you all now too.
sorry I just had to use that pic. Just look at that cat, omg I can't stop laughing.

gwnorth said:
But this is a Today Screen Plugin folks. What adware is going to run on a today screen plugin on a mobile phone? Spyware? Spying what for crying out loud?
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I agree 100%
And to remove it, go to remove programs, and poof, it's gone, as gone as any other today plugin.
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gwnorth is correct, no problems whatsoever uninstalling the program. Yes, the pc version was a little difficult to uninstall back in the day.
And if it's draining the batter, try going into options and changing the update frequency so it's not banging away at your data connection all the time. Any weather app will drain the battery if it's updating frequently enough.
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The program was connecting to the internet each time I woke the phone from sleep mode. It wasn't a phenomenal amount of battery drain but it was noticeable to me.

We obviously have a difference of opinion about the PPC version. The one thing we all do seem to agree on is the PC version was somewhat nefarious. Based on the history you should be skeptical of the newest PPC version. Weatherbug is not to be trusted, in my opinion. But you are free to add whatever you want to your PPC. I am not as confident as you are that it is completely removed.

kimtyson said:
I am not as confident as you are that it is completely removed.
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I flash my ROM to something new at least once a week...believe me, even if I didn't completely remove it I won't ever see it again on my Tilt.

there's always weather watcher mobile. It's free and his desktop software is really good (and ad free)
http://www.singerscreations.com/Weather-Watcher-Mobile.asp
Never used it as I'm OK with HTC's version...
-Mc

Anyone know how weatherbug gets the temp to display on the taskbar ?

I like the severe weather alerts (too many damn tornadoes in Kentucky), and I'm not aware of any other weather apps that will sound an alarm if severe weather is inbound. If others can be made to do this I would like to try them out. Its not that I dislike weatherbug, I've just been using it for years.

•Only U.S. cities
Well as they are only spying on the yanks who cares Lol
•Only U.S. cities so don't even bother to download guys

thefatboy said:
Well as they are only spying on the yanks who cares Lol
•Only U.S. cities so don't even bother to download guys
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It is not US only.
You simply enter: City, Country
It works for me for Canada.

Nice app. Remember to change the settings or its gonna drain your battery quickly

Google Chrome!

I am the original user for everything... i use the IE7 in XP but since I use Google Chrome... men the speed is amazing everything works... flash... and many plugins... could Noonski can make the advanced search XDA for this... or it doenst matter?... give it a try!

is it still beta or not? i like it too,. but dont want to use anything that beta,. lol

google
do they ever bring anything out of beta.....look @ gmail how long that went on for

I dont see any BETA ADVICE?????
So I think it is not a beta version but accept it jejeje Gmail istills changing almost every 3 monts at year hahahah Lol... well see the pict...
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So I think it is not a beta version but accept it jejeje Gmail istills changing almost every 3 monts at year hahahah Lol... well see the pict...
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Well
I think Chrome even if it´s not a beta anymore, it´s a very young browser, fast in fact but very limitated in other functions, maybe in a couple of years is going to be a great option, but by now I´ll stick to the majestic Opera!

nice browser ... shame its not on mac yet

Oh well,. yeah,. thanks for the info guys!!,. i am downloading now,. hehe,. last time i download before i format my PC, it say Google Chrome BETA,.

Some issues I run into (I've used it since day one of it's release to the public):
Flash videos work off and on. This seems to be consistent, I will go to play a youtube video and will need to restart the browser because the audio or video will not play.
Spellcheck sucks.
Very few add on's. Add on's are what make firefox so great.
Some pages just do not interact well with Chrome. If you go to a lot of message boards you know what I mean.
Highlighting anything is a PIA. Many times you will will try to highlight one individual word and end up with long blank fields. When you copy and paste it then just comes up blank with the whole field minus the word...WTF??
Other then those few things it's a great browser and I use it full time for work and play.

Ive got a portable version if anyone is interested and doesnt want to actually install it.
Send me a pm if you fancy it

I.M.O not enough to it yet, security wise i can beef up Firefox, don't like Google policies & i need a browser that works efectively on UMPC so Firefox 3 it is...

One of co workers installed chrome on my computer at work so I gave it a try. I started using it more and more since it starts up in half the time IE, or Firefox does. Since then I've been using it ever since. I don't need the fancy plug-ins from firefox and IE just plain sucks. Easy choice IMO.
Also its no longer in beta.

I would recommend switching to "SRWare Iron" as it is Chrome without all the Spyware Crap that Google put into the Browser (Unique ID, constantly running updater and stuff like that).
It is based on Chromium, which is the base for Google Chrome.
It even looks and handles the same as Chrome & Chromium...

I used Chrome since the beta because I preferred the look of it.
Thanks to this thread - I'm now using SRWare Iron which I'll keep an eye on too..
Cheers.

YoungOldDude said:
I used Chrome since the beta because I preferred the look of it.
Thanks to this thread - I'm now using SRWare Iron which I'll keep an eye on too..
Cheers.
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Oh, thankyou, so now i am not wrong if google chrome ever have a beta version,. lol

After I using Iron for a week I switched back to chrome. Spellcheck doesn't work, and its slower to load pages. The privacy issue isn't a problem because there are programs which remove your unique ID and you can simply disable sending google your browsing information in the options menu. The only thing that Iron has going for it over Chrome is a better looking icon.

Chrome Rocks!

I to have been using google chrome since the earlly beta.
to clear things up, There are two version available. Stable releases and a "developer" version (which is like a beta version.)
Personally i love the broswer for its speed but like already mentioned, it doesn't like all websites. I can't stand IE so i keep firefox around incase i have problems. Things are getting beter all the time for chrome though (for example it used to be almost useless for facebook and now its basically fully compatible) I'm proud to say its my default browser

This became a POLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See the top if you know any other tell me! to include it!

Ok, voted already,.

What da...????
Who includes the Internet explorer 8 beta that dont includes the link to the download?
Come on guys... share it share it share it....!

Official AIM for Android released

The official AIM app for Android has been released. I've used eBuddy on various platforms for years, but I'm checking out this new app now.
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.aol.mobile.aim

all the comments say its really buggy, ill wait after some updates, but yea its about time for an official AIM app.

TeeJay3800 said:
The official AIM app for Android has been released. I've used eBuddy on various platforms for years, but I'm checking out this new app now.
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.aol.mobile.aim
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I used this for almost 3 days now. It's the best AIM app for Android by far, but it drains the battery fast. Besides that, it's great.

It seems a little laggy and definitely uses more memory/system resources than eBuddy. I'm leaving it installed, but I'll be sticking with eBuddy for daily IM usage.

It uses a lot of battery, and signs out when the phone goes to sleep. I constantly find myself having to re-login.

tehseano said:
It uses a lot of battery, and signs out when the phone goes to sleep. I constantly find myself having to re-login.
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It keeps me logged in 24/7 (unless I'm on the phone and I lose 3g connectivity, but then it would log me back in when I get off the phone and regain internet connection), but then again, I am running 96mb swap.

keeps me logged in...I have it excluded with Advanced task manager...then again, I haven't put the phone down since I installed it...lol...
but so far the best AIM app...doesn't use the dictionary unfortunately so typing can get annoying, not sure if that's a KingKlick Eclair rom issue or the app itself...but all in all 4/5 is def a proper rating...could easily be 5/5 if I could remove the damn livestream and its tabs completely..not a lot of settings though.

I keep it excluded aswell in Advanced Task Manager, and I've been using it all day, and it's gone out on me multiple times, and I spent a good 6 hours with full 3g coverage, so I know it wasn't a matter of losing data. Even or wifi I lose it, and I have wifi lock on aswell to keep it from disabling while going to sleed/stand by. And I have a 128mb swap, not sure what that would have to do with it logging on or off...

I've been using HiAIM beta ever since I got my phone. It doesn't disconnect me unless I'm on the phone (which is normal). I like the interface a lot more than anything else I have used (I turn off bubble-style chat).

nice! great that aim finall released for android. i am currently using helloIM which is great and i think better at this point than this one. but helloIM is no longer supported by its devs i think, so i have a felling official AIM will be the one to use for the future as they update it more.

I heard on the news that Facebook chat will be available through 3rd party IM apps like yahoo messenger and AIM.....can anyone confirm this?

Klyentel said:
I heard on the news that Facebook chat will be available through 3rd party IM apps like yahoo messenger and AIM.....can anyone confirm this?
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It's already working on my aim.
Link your facebook to your aim screen name with the latest beta desktop aim client so when you log into AIM with the official app, you can also log into your facebook chat.
www.aim.com/beta

DOHCtor said:
It's already working on my aim.
Link your facebook to your aim screen name with the latest beta desktop aim client so when you log into AIM with the official app, you can also log into your facebook chat.
www.aim.com/beta
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Great! Thanks a million.

It looks nice, however it is a mega battery drainer, my phone also heats up quite a bit but that may be because I'm listening to music at the same time. Does anyone know if messages sent through this application to cellphones count as messages or date?
[AIM can also send text messages, im wondering if they count as texts or not]

SolemnWishing said:
It looks nice, however it is a mega battery drainer, my phone also heats up quite a bit but that may be because I'm listening to music at the same time. Does anyone know if messages sent through this application to cellphones count as messages or date?
[AIM can also send text messages, im wondering if they count as texts or not]
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It's all data homie

Couldn't stop laughing after I got this...
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Couldn't stop laughing after I got this...
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Lol idk what you did to get that haha. Also what theme are you using and what rom, because I see you are using launcher2.

ElahC said:
Lol idk what you did to get that haha. Also what theme are you using and what rom, because I see you are using launcher2.
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It looks almost identical to Community Hero Mix, but slightly different (especially the battery indicator).
iVisionX01, how did you get your data indicator to display "H" instead of "3G"? Or is that included with the ROM?

My apologies gentlemen I have a Nexus One. I'm using CyanogenMOD 5.0 w/ the Smooth Black Bar Theme.

Interesting, I didn't know that the H was included with CM5. I'm requesting that he also make that change for the next release of CM4.

Help! 4.2 update erased my bookmarks!

All of my bookmarks have been erased by the 4.2 update! Is there anything I can do to get them back? I am talking about the local bookmarks.
Actually, the update erased everything related to my browser: bookmarks, saved passwords, search options etc.

Chrome Browser?
Did you get OTA update or did you do something to get it?

Stock browser. OTA, just popped out of nowhere (didn't even know 4.2 was out until it showed) and I thought "why not"? Well that answers why not. I do have a backup of the bookmarks but it's over 2 months old and many are missing, probably lost forever unless someone here has any ideas on how to get them back. The missing bookmarks were the result of many hours of web searches I did at some point researching a topic and I'd really hate to think of all that wasted time. I never imagined an update would erase my bookmarks, it never happened with previous ones.
(I could never figure in titanium backup how to do scheduled backups of the bookmarks only and nothing else)

If you visit each & every site that you had bookmarked you'll find that you can tap on the star in the address bar & bookmark them all over again.

DeadlyDazza said:
If you visit each & every site that you had bookmarked you'll find that you can tap on the star in the address bar & bookmark them all over again.
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Is that intended to be sincere help or sarcasm? How is he supposed to visit each of those sites without his bookmarks?

jsmith8858 said:
Is that intended to be sincere help or sarcasm? How is he supposed to visit each of those sites without his bookmarks?
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Do you happen to have the same Book Marks on your Phone or maybe your Computer. Do you use Chrome Browser on your Computer... If not i recommend it. It as well other desktop / phone browsers will give you the option to sync them across devices.. I LOVE This feature.
Now as far it being a near end of earth catastrophe About loosing book marks. It has happened to me in the past. I just had to search for the sites i use again. I also found i had way more book mark sites then i actually use.
I think this is what the above comment meant about . Just go back to the sites and Re add them.. Some of the Inter-webs and company links are not so easy and i do feel for you for loosing them..
Good Luck.. Chrome will not get them back but could prevent this in the future..

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Do you happen to have the same Book Marks on your Phone or maybe your Computer. Do you use Chrome Browser on your Computer... If not i recommend it. It as well other desktop / phone browsers will give you the option to sync them across devices.. I LOVE This feature.
Now as far it being a near end of earth catastrophe About loosing book marks. It has happened to me in the past. I just had to search for the sites i use again. I also found i had way more book mark sites then i actually use.
I think this is what the above comment meant about . Just go back to the sites and Re add them.. Some of the Inter-webs and company links are not so easy and i do feel for you for loosing them..
Good Luck.. Chrome will not get them back but could prevent this in the future..
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I don't use chrome. I have tried hard to like it, and failed. It is counterintuitive for me.
Like I said, those bookmarks were the result of many hours of research (product availability for a narrow niche market, very hard to find). I didn't have them anywhere else. I guess I will have to waste more hours to find them again.
Anyway, the 4.2 update gets a big thumbs down from me.
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For future reference, there are are apps in the play store that will back up your bookmarks.
I've lost plenty of bookmarks myself over the years. Until I started backing them up with
A third party app.

taqulic said:
For future reference, there are are apps in the play store that will back up your bookmarks.
I've lost plenty of bookmarks myself over the years. Until I started backing them up with
A third party app.
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Like I said, I use Titanium Backup and it does a good job at it, but I haven't figured out how to make it regularly backup my bookmarks only. I don't want to do a full system backup on a daily basis. I backup the bookmarks manually, but I have to remember doing that. The last time I remembered was on Sept 29th.
Another app I tried, Bookmark Sort&Backup has the nasty habit of reversing the order of my bookmarks every time I start it. (yeah I know, just run it twice) It has no automation built in it either, so all operations have to be done manually. Comes down to memory again.

That would be something nice to see in titanium... The closest you can get is to schedule
A backup for modified data. But it backs up all modified data, not individual apps.
(Pro version)
(Edit) Just realized that TB does backup individual apps with modified
Data on a schedule... If you create a filter for just that app.

I use chrome and all my bookmarks are still there. However on one game it cleared my history of winning games. No big deal.

Chrome battery consumption

Is there a way to keep Chrome from consuming too much battery? I know apps have to consume some battery when being used, but not twice the amount of screen! This stays consistent throughout a normal drain period.
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As far as I know Chrome is known to not be as battery friendly. Before I even switched to Firefox, and it used much less battery. But there is just something about Chrome that I love, so I'm stuck with it. My best suggestion is try other browsers and see how they fit your needs.
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AB__CD said:
Is there a way to keep Chrome from consuming too much battery? I know apps have to consume some battery when being used, but not twice the amount of screen! This stays consistent throughout a normal drain period.
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hi,
just a quick question. In Chrome browser settings... have you enabled "data saver"? *I am sure it helps a bit (don't think to much.. but sure it must help)
My thinking ( might be wrong )
The less data ..the less power/battery etc ..no ?
See screenshots
Good luck

willcor said:
hi,
just a quick question. In Chrome browser settings... have you enabled "data saver"? *I am sure it helps a bit (don't think to much.. but sure it must help)
My thinking ( might be wrong )
The less data ..the less power/battery etc ..no ?
See screenshots
Good luck
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Yep,it's on.
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Yep,it's on.
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hi,
i have been thinking about your issue re Chrome.. battery use etc.
i personally alternate between Chrome and Firefox. Why don't you compare battery usage between the two.?
My personal choice is Chrome, but for me Chrome has always been "heavy".. eg ram usage etc. I am a medium user and so far Chrome has not worried me... re battery. (Like in your your case )
On the other hand I am sure it will heavy on battery, if you use it a lot.?
Alternative, tried clearing Chrome data and cache.. might help?
Bottom line,
i use Chrome on my laptop with Win 10. Chrome (stable versions) but it freezes, from time to time.! so i cannot use cetain of my banking software eg Rapport. Yet, Chrome beta i have no problems.!,no freezes, but cannot use any of my banking software! . So yeah, Chrome has it issues.and frustrations.
Good luck

willcor said:
hi,
i have been thinking about your issue re Chrome.. battery use etc.
i personally alternate between Chrome and Firefox. Why don't you compare battery usage between the two.?
My personal choice is Chrome, but for me Chrome has always been "heavy".. eg ram usage etc. I am a medium user and so far Chrome has not worried me... re battery. (Like in your your case )
On the other hand I am sure it will heavy on battery, if you use it a lot.?
Alternative, tried clearing Chrome data and cache.. might help?
Bottom line,
i use Chrome on my laptop with Win 10. Chrome (stable versions) but it freezes, from time to time.! so i cannot use cetain of my banking software eg Rapport. Yet, Chrome beta i have no problems.!,no freezes, but cannot use any of my banking software! . So yeah, Chrome has it issues.and frustrations.
Good luck
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Nah, prefer to use Chrome due to bookmark syncing and all that.

AB__CD said:
Nah, prefer to use Chrome due to bookmark syncing and all that.
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hi,
i agree with you. I also use Chrome for bookmarks and syncing. but I use Firefox as a backup browser, it also has ability to use it for bookmarks and syncing. So i alternate between them. Both synced and Bookmarks backed up.
Good luck

Simple solution: Disable chrome! Download Chrome Beta which is better than normal Chrome and put to always optimize in battery settings or Greenify it! Solved!

Fullmetal Jun said:
Simple solution: Disable chrome! Download Chrome Beta which is better than normal Chrome and put to always optimize in battery settings or Greenify it! Solved!
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Not all variants have the optimize option.

Ryano89 said:
Not all variants have the optimize option.
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Download Greenify app from play store and enable it in accessibility. It's completely safe! Hibernate the apps(works for apps u downloaded only, not preinstalled ones)! Chrome Beta rocks!