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[Q] Mobvis app.

I Heard about this app via "Click" a late night BBC Tech show.
The application was seen running on a WM handset. The idea being that you can take a picture of a building / monument / piece of art etc. Via GPS the app gets a rough position on you, then searches for images that match the one you have just taken, along with text giving you info on the building/object. (for example taking a picture of Blackpool Tower would give you the complete history)... (scary when you think that in theory someone could take your picture in the street, and be linked to your facebook page)... but anyway, it sounded like quite a cool and fairly impressive app.
The show was on last saturday (9th may) and is still available on iPlayer should anyone want to have a look.
The app website is (i think) http://www.mobvis.org
However I cant see any download options, and it looks like the site hasnt been updated since august 08.
Does anyone have any more info on this app? Perhaps it has been discontinued or maybe the app hasnt been released yet? Anyone know?

Browse music alphabetically

I assume I'm not the first one asking that, but I cannot find any topic about it. It's probably because, since my English isn't good enough, I don't know how to name what I'm looking for.
Actually, I'd like to be able to browse my musics the same way we can browse contacts, using the alphabet. Why that? Because when I listen to music, I listen to all my musics randomly, but sometimes, I'd like to be able to play a particular one, without changing the playlist. Indeed, if I go in the artist section, first, I may have to go down a lot to find the artist I'm looking for (so here, I'd like to be able to browse quickly too), and, besides, when I find the artist, and then the song, if I play it, there will be only this song in the playlist, then if I want to put all the songs in the playlist, I have to go back to "all songs" and put play, it's not nice, and when I'm driving, I cannot do all this, it's dangerous. Moreover, if I ask a friend to do it for me, he won't be used to doing this, to using a touch screen, most of the time, he will play the wrong song while he's trying to go down (for example if he wants to listen to "Viva la vida", he has to go to the end of the list, it's not an easy task if you're not used to it!).
I don't know if I explained my point good enough...
But I think that I'm not the only one with hundreds of songs in his phone, so if anyone know if there is a cab that can do that, or can create a cab to make my dream come true, thank you : )

I really hope I made myself clear lol!

Write here when many peoples need the same someday will be done
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=579987

Will do...

it seems like no one is interested...

Youtube update question

Today, I read in the news that there is a new version of youtube app available for WM phones. I have tilt 2 phone and it came with youtube preinstalled. If I install a new version of youtube ON THE DEVICE, will it overwrite the original/stock youtube installation files?
I wish if it was so, but wonder if anyone knows for sure.
What would happen if i try to install on the storage card instead?
Same question is applicable regarding other apps that came with tilt 2 like facebook, games, etc

ha, was looking for a topic on this..as for what I know, if you update an older app w/ a new, all references will point only to the new one, but I read someone say that the data for both might still be laying around (?)
I haven't got the new YouTube app b/c the URL they put in that article takes you to someones personal page and I'm too lazy to hunt for it.
My theory is that since the native YouTube app is more embedded in our phone (mine is v2.6) maybe this new app will act as a standalone and you will just have both on there. (And for you OCD people, just use a program to delete the icon from the start menu, out of sight is out of mind (it doesn't really matter! ))
edit: wait a sec, why is this new version 2.4?? I really think its standalone, I'm getting it now, hope it doesn't kill my phone.
correct URL: m.youtube.com/app
edit2: yeah, it replaces the old player for v2.4.4 Overall its a hard call which is better. The new version is totally dependent on you logging in w/ ur user info to access favorites, subscriptions, playlists, my videos (obviously) but I like how the other version, you could just favorite or mark videos w/o having to log in. Also, the old version seemed to sort the popular videos easier which is the main thing I watched.
This one has nice finger control to swipe thru the videos, but its kind of small w/ the description taking up 70% of the screen from the bottom. And for some reason the landscape is reversed from what it was, haven't looked into tweaking it yet. Oh well, no reason to re-flash to get the old version back, will give this a try for a while..

Ya i was mad at the new version at first becus the vid quality is a serius step down. However the UI seems pretty awsome. so far i like it except for vid quality. I was told that all I have to do is uninstall the new version and the old version will reappear... hav yet to try it tho

glad I wasn't the only one who noticed the MAJOR step down in video quality, really makes me want to go back to the old version. Everyone had been impressed when I pulled out w/ the original App to show them something or other, hell, I just watched the Iron Man 2 trailer yesterday and it was crystal clear..oh well!

[APP] Shoutcast Streaming App

Hi guys,
As I don't have an xm account anymore (forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2954732) I have created a new streaming app (beta for testing), this time the source is shoutcast, tons of free radios.
The app is written in c++ so it runs pretty fast and compatible with wm 5.0 and up, it works in touch screen phones.
Setup:
Download the cab and install on the device.
Usage:
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1. The Categories screen is shown, choose one category from the list and wait until the list is populated (this process just run once).
2. Choose the radio to play; the radio will start to play and then it will try to display the album art in a thumbnail at the bottom of the screen.
Optional
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Tap on the album art thumbnail to get a bigger view of it and also have access to the Add to favourites options an to exit to the app.
Add to favourites:
In the larger album art screen tap in the add icon (plus symbol), the station will be add to the favourites list.
Shortcuts:
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Tap on the top label to back to the categories screen at any time
Tap on the status (the bottom label) to exit the application
cheers,
Hlov

thanx for this!

thanks! works great on HD2. Is there a way to add channels??..I seem to be missing the Trance/Techno stations..

DrmMaster said:
thanks! works great on HD2. Is there a way to add channels??..I seem to be missing the Trance/Techno stations..
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Hey,
thanks for the feedback, As I have mentioned in my post this is in beta so u can tweak it edit the categories.txt file (make a backup of it first and don't change the first line [favourites]) and add a new line with your preferences, the format is keyword|Display ie: Trance|The best trance
Hope this make sense if not reply me and I'll help u,
cheers,
Hlov

Awesome, might cook it into my roms, with credits to you ofc

Works GREAT on my Palm Treo Pro (850).

I think this app is great! Been looking for one for a long time... One question though... anyway you can make it compatible with the crapload of AAC+ stations out there ? I have the accplus plugin dlls from TCPMP if that would help

This app is great! It is so fast! It needs more channels though

very good app
the best radio app i have ever tried, soo good and fast, wish i could add my own stations..keep the good work up..

okidem said:
wish i could add my own stations..keep the good work up..
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I second that! Hlov, i would also donate my skin making abilities if you wanted, because i've been waiting for a dedicated SHOUTcast app like this one for ages!
In the meantime i've written MortScripts that query and allow me to auto connect to one of my 4 personal streams with CorePlayer.
Great job! I'll be following this thread like a hawk!

Where does it search with the keywords?
I added the keyword "stern" for howard stern. and on shoutcast.com, i get different results (the ones i want) than through the player.
edit: Nevermind, just found out how to add my favorite station with using the station id in the radios.txt file.
Great app!!

It doesn't show me any back button or other button and whenever i click ready (in the bottom) or nice one (while the song is playing), the application exits.
but i like the application. i have touch pro2.
Thanx for the application

options
great start, how do i add custom shoutcast servers?

hlov said:
Hey,
thanks for the feedback, As I have mentioned in my post this is in beta so u can tweak it edit the categories.txt file (make a backup of it first and don't change the first line [favourites]) and add a new line with your preferences, the format is keyword|Display ie: Trance|The best trance
Hope this make sense if not reply me and I'll help u,
cheers,
Hlov
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Hi, I am really excited about a shoutcast player for winmo, since I use Spider player radio every day on my computer. Anyway, so I tried to add to the categories.txt and adding known shoutcast genre's worked well. I added "House" and "ambient" and both produced a lot of channels. However when I added something like "piano" it only produced 3 channels. I added a category "skyfm" and it didnt come up with anything.
Can the categories added only be the default shoutcast genres?
Is there anyway to add a search in the program?
Also, For pretty much all the things the search results in the program are different then when doing that search on the shoutcast website
Just a few things I have ran into while using your program. Thanks for all the hard work.
One last thing I remembered after the program does the initial search it caches the results and always pulls those back up. Is there anyway to refresh the results without having to delete the file in the program directory named after the search

works great but it doesnt seem to open all of the folders - like it wont open the "alternative" folder for me...but apart from that great first edition! hopefully you'll refine it some more!
it also seems to automatically shut off when the phone turns off after about 1 minute (yes its the settings) but it ought to play like the music player which runs even when the phone is off.
i have an hd2 btw...

man this is awesome! I didn't think twice before installing and it's better than I imagined! yeee thanks!!

This app is great!!! was looking around for something just like this,

great app are there any hiphop station???

Fast & Just works!
This app is great so far! it is quick, simple, and just works! Keep up the great work.

jasond22 said:
great app are there any hiphop station???
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I added rap|Rap to the categories.txt and it listed quite a few stations.

Facebook App MarketPlace 3 issues fixable?

Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone else had 2 issues I've run across since using the Facebook app from Marketplace:
1) Sometime when posting comments, it doesnt send to post, anyone have this problem?
2) Does the Facebook app always have to be re-freshed to see whats been posted instead of it notifying you when something gets posted?
3) I know everyone has the photo album not displaying issue I do too, but when I go to HTC Album, I have a freaking list of folders with either pix or no pix, how to I make them not appear in the HTC album when I am picking albums to view?
Thanx

I had the same issues as 1 and 2 and gave up on the app. I use the mobile website for everything except uploading pics, in which case I use the application.
Kind of a pain until someone smarter than me comes up with a good app.

Sux, dont want to use the website, I know they have it working on the blackberry where its real time updates, you'd think they would have done that with this lite app, whats the point of refreshing manually.

the app is pretty worthless, i rarely use it. the manual refresh is horrible. It'll only download the latest (say 25) posts, and if there are 35 new posts on your wall/feed and you refresh, it will only update 25, and when you scroll through them, it would go from the last of the latest 25 to the latest of when you previously refreshed so there would be a gap in your feed...
i use touch.facebook.com and lite.facebook.como via opera mobile and works out very well.

i no longer attempt to use it to post comments because what i found out is its posting on random old posts. it can cause you to say some things you really dont mean.
my other real issue is it will only load the first photo in an album and just sit there rather than opening the next. and of course you cant see who likes a post. hopefully microsoft will fix these little issues so it will be as complete as it is on an iphone or android.

TJoC,
Thanks for the laugh, Microsoft does as little as possible, and in their eyes it works, Being a expert in windows, dont expect MS to be adding anything to this app, MS rather have you jump to a 3rd party. The one that SHOULD make the app is Facebook themselves. But who are we? Just barnicles on the end of a stick.
I went so far to try the Xperia X1 panel facebook, as much as I like its functionality it also lacks simple basic features, like the ability to comment, like/dislike. You would think someone would be smart enough.

Your right, facebook does need to create the app.. They created the app for the iphone and android, what blackberry? did facebook create that or was that RIM?
also since WP7 is due to be released soon, i think MS dropped the development for this as social networking is a big focus for WP7

MS drops everything trying to make the big buck, if they set a dept up to take care of the little things like this, they'd be amazed how all the little cents would add up. They crippled WinMo 7, from everything I have heard and read, I'll stick to the flexibility of 6.5, not that its great, but sure beats the choking factor. If they are so big on social networking, they sure dropped the ball on that front.