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Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Jessica - Oct 22, 2013 10:59:18 am PDT #23180 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I don't even know where I'd begin to do that - I've never had to install driver in iOS before.


tommyrot - Oct 22, 2013 11:05:46 am PDT #23181 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I did read cases where the HBS-730 works fine in iOS 4 but the buttons stopped working in iOS 5 and iOS 6.


Jessica - Oct 22, 2013 2:03:01 pm PDT #23182 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The call button works (I accidentally called someone testing it) but volume, ff/rw, and play/pause, nope. Boo!


omnis_audis - Oct 22, 2013 6:18:15 pm PDT #23183 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Garage Band for iPad is free. Not sure if it's a temp thing, or forever. But, figured I'd alert folks. Looks like a couple basic instruments (acc gtr, lx gtr, keys, drums), and then lots of in app purchases of other instruments.

So far, app is great! Sounds like I know how to play guiter. Still suck at piano. Eh.


§ ita § - Oct 22, 2013 8:55:00 pm PDT #23184 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What would the components be for coding an "on hover" menu. Say, if you went to hover over "Film and Television" you'd get a hover over stripped down version of the page itself, so you didn't have to navigate to it to see what's up.

I know what the web dev team at work would say: "Hand us a JSON file with the information, and we'll use the appropriate library/libraries (usually jQuery) to create a floating men."

I only know the theory of JSON, and am assuming that for at least this implementation, it's faster to learn than the javascript and jQuery conventions (I can read the former, and "Hello World" of sorts, have only read about the second). Pointers to starting places? Web resources preferred, because lazy, but a good patient book that doesn't condescend to me would be fine, and even finer if it were a NookBook....she yells as she's grabbed off the computer by an unseen force that clearly cares more about a night's sleep than she does.

Oh! And NFS stickers! Anyone know anything about those (cost, flexibility (both literal and metaphorical), ease of use(? Because I could, it seems, slap one in the back of any phone car mount and it would be good to go. Fire up Waze automatically, check and see if it's charging, if so, turn on the WIFi hotspot (actually, I don't think I can do that, sadface--but WAZE for sure!). Hell, maybe I could get Night Vale on the phone and have that autoplay if there are unread episodes. BOUNDLESS.

Good night Gracie.


§ ita § - Oct 23, 2013 8:09:02 am PDT #23185 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ha! NFC stickers, not NFS. I'm looking here [link] and I can think of two applications right away--one for a phone mount in the car for car mode, Waze, etc, and one for the back of my tablet so I can turn on the wifi hotspot on my phone (the Note tablet does not have NFC, sadfacedly).

Anyone out there using it? I'll probably start with Tasker.


Jessica - Oct 23, 2013 8:48:58 am PDT #23186 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Those are way cool.


§ ita § - Oct 23, 2013 9:02:48 am PDT #23187 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am falling down a rabbit hole of theoretical applications. Android limits the functionality to working when the screen is unlocked, but apparently there are workarounds (that involve rooting), which would be extra amazeballs. You can put some in your clothes and they'll survive laundering!


Ginger - Oct 23, 2013 9:11:26 am PDT #23188 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm still trying to work up the mental energy to root my phone.


§ ita § - Oct 23, 2013 9:15:58 am PDT #23189 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I have zero excuses left. I'm not going to custom ROM it, I just want to be able to manage it more thoroughly. But my eyes keep glazing over...

I really like PocketCasts on Android

What does it have that makes it better than the free ones? (I have only listened to podcasts through Apple channels so far)