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.

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.

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.

Those are way cool.

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!

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

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)

I bought it about 3 years ago (less than a month after getting my first android phone) at a deep discount, so I don't really remember. I just really like its interface and the customization it offers in terms of auto-downloads (some podcasts I autodownload everything and keep them all, some I autodownload but only keep the latest 5, some I don't autdownload at all and stream or download on demand, etc.) And it now syncs "listened" information across devices, so my Nook and phone stay in sync.

And it now syncs "listened" information across devices, so my Nook and phone stay in sync.

I wish I could work out how to have iTunes do this for me across my Apple ID store logins. I mean, it's supposed to be me on all the machines, right? But the read position from my iPod never seems to wend its way (it's synced with the PC) to the Mac (which only has my purchased items on it).

On the offchance, it wouldn't happen to sync with desktop OSes, would it? Just between the tablet and phone would be a start, but...

This is a minor issue as long as I have few podcasts, but I'm intending to put a device mount in my car as well as an iPod hookup, and catching up with WTNV has left me hungry for more.

Jessica: [link]