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You should check out the older Play Books as well. One of the many features they removed from the newer version was the inverted 'night' reading mode, with white text on black.

At least they left G+ alone( for now). I sure won't update it to find out I'm wrong though!
 
nickdalzell said:
You should check out the older Play Books as well. One of the many features they removed from the newer version was the inverted 'night' reading mode, with white text on black.

At least they left G+ alone( for now). I sure won't update it to find out I'm wrong though!
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I never got into G+
 
G+ has almost all my Facebook friends but with a much better, more stable interface. I hate when Facebook chooses the exact moment that I type an uber long comment only to have it vanish and end up wasting my time. Also, as mentioned a few dozen rants back, Facebook fails to grasp that I'm vegan and a deer lover, often suggesting hunting groups and having McDonald's Chicken McNugget ads on the sidebar. Google+ seems to grasp the truth and offers many nice, relevant pages. It also has none of the annoying game requests.



Notice no pastels. It also has far more Android pages than Facebook
 
nickdalzell said:
G+ has almost all my Facebook friends but with a much better, more stable interface. I hate when Facebook chooses the exact moment that I type an uber long comment only to have it vanish and end up wasting my time. Also, as mentioned a few dozen rants back, Facebook fails to grasp that I'm vegan and a deer lover, often suggesting hunting groups and having McDonald's Chicken McNugget ads on the sidebar. Google+ seems to grasp the truth and offers many nice, relevant pages. It also has none of the annoying game requests.



Notice no pastels. It also has far more Android pages than Facebook
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Haha caught the volume slider? :p ill definitely look into it. :D
 
nickdalzell said:
You should check out the older Play Books as well. One of the many features they removed from the newer version was the inverted 'night' reading mode, with white text on black.

At least they left G+ alone( for now). I sure won't update it to find out I'm wrong though!
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Since when?

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I don't know why my Nexus 10 does the volume thing when I take a screen shot. Must be a 4.3 bug like Chrome exiting and redrawing the launcher.

Optimus L, not quite sure I understand your comment. Since when 'what?'
 
nickdalzell said:
I don't know why my Nexus 10 does the volume thing when I take a screen shot. Must be a 4.3 bug like Chrome exiting and redrawing the launcher.

Optimus L, not quite sure I understand your comment. Since when 'what?'
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The night mode, it's still there, when did they take it out? Don't you see the option?
 
I didn't have that option in the latest Play Books, but it did have a Sepia, normal, and another color theme. Google could have hidden it like they do everything lately. Right now I'm happy to have my 3-D library view back over the pastel flat junk. I wasn't aware the night mode even existed until I downgraded.
 
nickdalzell said:
I didn't have that option in the latest Play Books, but it did have a Sepia, normal, and another color theme. Google could have hidden it like they do everything lately. Right now I'm happy to have my 3-D library view back over the pastel flat junk. I wasn't aware the night mode even existed until I downgraded.
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I have the latest version and it's still there though.
 
ss1992 said:
Darn. The story went that there was a nuclear bomb blast. One part there was a starving dog that could smell food being cooked because of the time schedule..
Tick tock 7 o clock 7 o tock time to wake up! Something along those lines.
Edit--
Found it. It was called There Will Come Soft Rains
by Ray Bradbury
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Very good Author, I dont recall that book specifically but I read some of his.:)

I have read so many some of them all blur together.
 
BorrowerX said:
One word for all of this " GREED " just pure greedy asswipes as if they don't make enough as it is.
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Sad thing is though is that the greedy are the ones supplying the devices.

Not trying to sound like a stickler but tone it down on the language.
 
new optimus said:
Very good Author, I dont recall that book specifically but I read some of his.:)

I have read so many some of them all blur together.
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It was a more or less a short story. :p shame it brings unwanted nastolgia of my ex. I would love to read it, but yeah.

Maybe one day I'll be able to read it once again.
 
If I OWN the file, be it music or a book, then some other countries laws pretending I do not simply do not interest me. I do not own the rights to the file, I own the file. I bought it/ripped it from a CD I own or legally acquired it.
 
And let's make something clear. NO ONE OWNS ANOTHERS SONG OR ANY OTHER FILE.

What makes anyone so sure it's theirs? Is the copyrights on the name of any said work/s yours?

No?

Not yours.


You're messing with a very VERY fine line here.
 
While you all make very good points, no doubt about that, I think what the OP was saying, and I agree with completely.

If you have your songs on your sd card instead of "the cloud" if you travel to a place that blocks access to "the cloud" you can still listen to your music.
 
After reconsidering and giving the thread a formal cleaning, it will be reopened. I realize this is a lounge, but please keep the chatter relatively on topic. Also keep the political out of this thread or move it to the Politics & Current Affairs forum; and please no more links to warez sites even if the content you post isn't warez.

If any one has questions, feel free to pm me. :)
 
Getting back on topic, I'm finding if I want an SD card slot (or any of the hardware features I need/want) I have to stick to Samsung these days.

I got a Galaxy Nexus to play with last year. It's a decent phone and having the full fresh Android updates is nice (I have the Play Store edition running on a cheap prepaid $30/mo T-Mobile package). But having only 16GB and no SD slot makes this a second "toy" phone for me. My daily driver is my Galaxy S3 on Sprint's unlimited plan.

I also prefer having a minimum 32GB internal storage. I already use 16GB of my 32GB internal. No way could I function with less space. Not if I want to pin music, TV shows or podcasts off my apps. Irritates the snot out of me I cannot pin them to my SD card.

Why do I use my 64GB SD, you ask? Camera and video. Sometimes I plain forget my point and shoot but I always have my phone. The SGS3 does a good job with night shots and HD video. I absolutely NEED big storage if I'm gonna use it as a camera. And if I have any hope of watching something while on the train or traveling, heck even on my commute home, I need that extra storage for downloaded files.

Because of that, I passed on the Nexus 4. No replaceable battery, no SD slot and 16GB storage makes this a toy phone for me. A bigger more useless toy than my GNex. (At least the GNex has a user replaceable battery.)

Maybe when Google starts releasing phones with a minimum of 32GB I'll reconsider. But for now, Samsung has my money because they offer the hardware features I need.

Motorola can take their MotoX and stick it in the R&D black hole for all I care. So can Google with their Nexus phones and LG with their Optimus bricks. They are all falling down the Apple rabbit hole of overpriced underfeatured pieces of junk. I'll vote with my dollars for better choices.

Oh btw the reason for the user replaceable battery? You ever try to recharge your phone with one of those portable units? It takes you a good 2-3 hours. More if you want to use it. Having a second battery gives you a full charge in 2 minutes. At night I just drop the used batteries into an external charger and I'm good to go for the morning.
 
having a removable battery for me isn't so much about carrying around spares should i one day be lost in the woods, but more to prevent my phone from becoming a brick in two-three years when the original battery goes kaput or no longer holds a charge. batteries wear out. some folks like to keep their devices longer than the lifetime capacity of the factory-installed battery. having a removable battery avoids this planned obsolescence
 
pool_shark said:
I have used 40 GB of my sdcard.
I have several movies and boxing matches, well over 200 songs, quite a few episodes of South Park, and various videos.

Retrieving any of that from the cloud in an area with a weak signal (work) would be frustrating.
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I'm like you I have multiple types of files. I like having a movie or ttwo
I did laugh a little when u said 200 songs. :) I've got like 3600 songs
I hate the clouds, it uses so much more data.

For the OP on Verizon I think.your best option is the galaxy S4 or wait a little bit and get the Galaxy Note 3
 
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