I have the Flixster app on my phone, and it seems a great idea, to be able to tell which movies are where near my GPS location at all times. Except? Its database is for shit. The release dates make no sense. I think it might think I'm in the UK, and be giving me UK release dates, but it also knows my current zipcode. Does anyone know a way to fix that, or have a better app?
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Typo Boy, inDesign costs $699 - might be cheaper than a new Mac if that's the only reason you'd buy it. And of course, it's amazing.
ETA: Flixster works fine for me. I've got nothing.
Gris, what does it say is the opening date of Friends With Benefits? I saw that a month ago, and it's telling me it's opening September 9th. I can navigate by theatre, but not by movie. Is this all because I chose UK English for my typing dictionary?
Well I mean for whatever my next computer. The thing about pages as opposed to indesign is that it may be faster for small or simple project. The thing about having bought a netbook for 179 is that it is fine for word processing but slow for dpt. Which is fine because I knew when I got this it was a bridge computer. I did not have $300 let alone $600 at the time.
It's telling me the release date is July 22. I don't know why it would use the typing dictionary to determine your country, but maybe it actually is that badly programmed. Is there a fandango app? I used to use that on my iPhone and liked it exactly as much as flixster.
Is there anywhere else I might have said what country I'm in? I can't think of one. Regardless, the GPS should trump whatever country I might have said I'm from.
Let me go look for fandango.
check the app settings and see if there is a secret in there. do you log in? did you set your timezone correctly?
My timezone is set for LA, yes. So that is another small hint about where I am. And the app settings have me in LA, right zip code. There's nothing on the general Locations settings tab that indicates a locale.
I've noticed some weird omissions in the Swype dictionary, and no obvious way to edit it. It doesn't have days of the week, for instance. And it's really difficult to get it to register "that's" over "that'd". Insanely. I wish it were more readily tweakable. It's a great interface.
I can't get used to Swype. I really like the advanced keyboard that came with my HTC phone, though. I don't like that I seem to be REQUIRED to add things to the dictionary in order to avoid auto-correct annoyances though - why can't I just override without adding for weird names and things I don't expect to use again?
Is that for the HTC keyboard, or Swype? Because neither of my versions of Swype work that way.
I like Swype a lot. I still use the mechanical keyboard on my G2, but I'm quite happy with it on the Tab--I hated the default keyboard and the others I tried. And I cannot get the hang of typing on my iPod Touch.