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New feature: XDA-developer encyclopedia

I've built a system where certain words get underlined, and if you let the cursor linger there, a small explanation of that term appears.
This is controlled from the XDA-developer encyclopedia forum, where each topic is a term, and everyone can add explanations.
For instance: the word Wallaby has been underlined with a thin green dotted line. If you linger there, you should get the encyclopedia entry for it.
I'm starting to create some entries, but please all feel free to add entries for difficult terms.

WoooooW that's great idea
Hello Peter Poelman
thanks for providing this new feature and great idea.
keep up the good work and good luck
regards.
Othman

Hi there,
cool feature. But it works only with the InternetExplorer.
No helping popup with Netscape 7.1.
Greetings, Kaputter :shock:

Popup Killers
I use Panicware's popup killer, internet advertising's gotten way outta hand, which cancels out your forum's popups. There are ways to set the XDA forum as a url not to kill popups. As more and more people try to get rid of these popups, you may suffer with your new feature.
You'd thing these advertisers would learn from the home phone soliciting ... I disconnected my home phone service cuz it got so bad (50+ unsolicited calls a day!).
Maybe if we all disconnect the web, these advertisers will get the message ... yeah, right!
Kill all pop-up advertising, pay what-ever it takes but kill these advertisers!
There, I'm better now .. back to XDA'ing ..

Kaputter said:
cool feature. But it works only with the InternetExplorer.
No helping popup with Netscape 7.1.
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Fixed...
(Thanks to Itsme...)

COOOL

great feature! I am also a forums admin could you tell me where you got that little gem? and if you want any help with PHPBB 206 let me know I have messed around with tons of mods etc. at www.scotts-web.com/phpbb2/ its still very new but giving me great ideas for the use of furms like my game clan uses.

macgyver33 said:
great feature! I am also a forums admin could you tell me where you got that little gem?
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Just like the donations feature here, I wrote it myself...
and if you want any help with PHPBB 206 let me know I have messed around with tons of mods etc. at www.scotts-web.com/phpbb2/ its still very new but giving me great ideas for the use of furms like my game clan uses.
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I guess I'll manage...
But if you know of good MODs to use here, or have good ideas for new features yet unwritten, by all means please let me know...

Extreme Text

Guys .... just downloaded this .... works perfectly ...
http://www.birdsoft.biz/extremetext.htm

does it allow you to use a vibrate for your texts? thats really the oly feature I'm missing from IMSMS.

So many free apps out there for it. No thanks!

.PoNeH said:
So many free apps out there for it. No thanks!
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what free threaded app do you suggest then?

Except for a bunch of features that haven't been implemented yet, I'd have to say this is the best threaded sms program out there for the SP. Good GUI and being able to read from the existing inbox and sent items.
I wouldn't pay for it just yet with all the missing features but it looks very promising.

Agreed. I like it, but missing a few things.....
prefer the interface to IMSMS tho!

I really wish IMSMS and the others would display the number of unread messages on the homescreen. I txt a lot and that's a dealbreaker for me. even if it was a custom plugin it'd be better than nothing. Why dont they use the internal database to do this like extreme text does?

nolageek said:
I really wish IMSMS and the others would display the number of unread messages on the homescreen. I txt a lot and that's a dealbreaker for me. even if it was a custom plugin it'd be better than nothing. Why dont they use the internal database to do this like extreme text does?
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Um, this is the Extreme Text thread.... perhaps ask on the IMSMS thread and you may get and answer either way if it is possible or not. Posting a complainant and comparing a free SMS software on another thread for another piece of software seems a bit off.....

Um, I know what thread this is. Someone mentioned IMSMS and I was pointing out that IMSMS doesn't do something that this one does.
Look up the definition of "rhetorical question."

nolageek said:
Um, I know what thread this is. Someone mentioned IMSMS and I was pointing out that IMSMS doesn't do something that this one does.
Look up the definition of "rhetorical question."
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I now understand your point.
I know what rhetorical questions are, my wife has to resort to those as well.

Ban "Sent from my XXX using App" garbage

I can't be the only one who is getting bored of every second post (at least in the i9000 forum) containing:
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA Premium App
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Something should be done about it, because it's getting out of hand.
1) It makes quoting posts frustrating. It actually punishes us, because we need to manually remove the crap, which is ironically MUCH more difficult on mobile webbrowsers, than PC.
2) It makes posts more difficult to read. Most of them add a few blank lines and itself, making less fit on a screen without scrolling
3) It's totally unnecessary.
4) It is spam by the apps themselves.
5) Users who need an XDA app, can just type "XDA" into their app stores. So it can't even be argued that it is difficult to find such apps otherwise.
My Proposal:
1) Automatically filter the comment out of posts. They are lame, and unneccessary. Get rid of them automatically (simple string substitution).
2) Give a 3 month warning that users utilising clients which post such garbage, will be given 3 warnings, and will be temp banned if they use them. It is fair.
3) Start a shame list of poorly designed XDA clients.
I agree it isn't the end of the world, but its a lot of wasted productivity, and it's unnecessary. It's bad enough that I have noticed that some people here have massively long/intrusive signatures. Some of those people also have these annoying tags, so they have 3x more "crap", than they do actual post.

I agree with this, but it's up to the admins, will flag this to them.

TheDeadCpu said:
I agree with this, but it's up to the admins, will flag this to them.
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It's been flagged!
The thing with the signature is that it serves the same purpose as the default signature of your mobile phone in the email client (for example: "Sent from my Verizon Droid X"). It helps to inform people that your message was written while mobile, and so the text might contain errors, or might not be as well thought out as it would have been if you were in front of your computer. The signature is activated by default on our Android apps (and, actually our Windows Phone 7 app).
That said, if there is huge support for turning off the default signature in the application, we'll do it, but this is the first time we're hearing about it being a problem. As mentioned, it serves a practical purpose.
Thanks for the feedback.

svetius said:
It's been flagged!
The thing with the signature is that it serves the same purpose as the default signature of your mobile phone in the email client (for example: "Sent from my Verizon Droid X"). It helps to inform people that your message was written while mobile, and so the text might contain errors, or might not be as well thought out as it would have been if you were in front of your computer. The signature is activated by default on our Android apps (and, actually our Windows Phone 7 app).
That said, if there is huge support for turning off the default signature in the application, we'll do it, but this is the first time we're hearing about it being a problem. As mentioned, it serves a practical purpose.
Thanks for the feedback.
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I can respect that, but surely, there must be better means of doing so, or at least filter them when using Quoting capabilities.. I recall seeing people get in trouble because they included the comments in their quotes (but I might be imagining it)

Auzy said:
I recall seeing people get in trouble because they included the comments in their quotes (but I might be imagining it)
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Huh? I agree it's useful ... more so than not, at least, as an identifier and a screaming 'hello I'm on my mobile so if this doesn't make sense you know why' kinda thing. I don't see how this is a big deal ... at all. LOL ... ? I also fail to see how it gets in the way of anything, like quoting especially, as it is essentially another single line that still precedes the quote tags.
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conqu1stador said:
Huh? I agree it's useful ... more so than not, at least, as an identifier and a screaming 'hello I'm on my mobile so if this doesn't make sense you know why' kinda thing. I don't see how this is a big deal ... at all. LOL ... ? I also fail to see how it gets in the way of anything, like quoting especially, as it is essentially another single line that still precedes the quote tags.
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It's useful IMHO and I am not aware of any issues in including the signature in quotes- it's a single line... who cares? I imagine someone quoted an entire, incredibly long OP, to say "thanks"...

I don't know if it is possible, but how about making the signature from the tapatalk app's just smaller than average text? That way, people can still be informed it was written while mobile, and it would be less obtrusive for the ones who don't like it.... And I'm sorry, I know my normal signature is long
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RANT
You have to post one way or another - we don't need to know how or what you used to post. It is getting easier to post so more people are posting. Teens are no longer getting flip phones and now populating this forum with more and more silly questions looking for answers you can easily find using google. People have the EVO 4g and think they can post anything they want in the EVO General forum because you have an evo and you are posting in the general section. I want to see general information about the EVO and not other phones on other networks and other random things you find interesting. There are other forums for that.
We all have to start somewhere I know that and when I joined in 2006 the first 4 years I probably posted 100 times and now I am posting like crazy trying to help these people find answers hoping people learn something. People are here 1-2 years with over 1,000 posts.
Yeah, it helps to know that is was posted on a phone but with keyboards and big screens take a couple extra seconds to make sure everything is typed right. I do it why can't other people.

But what if you could have the benefits of knowing which client it was posted with, without having that crap in posts too? Surely that would be better, correct?

svetius said:
It's been flagged!
The thing with the signature is that it serves the same purpose as the default signature of your mobile phone in the email client (for example: "Sent from my Verizon Droid X"). It helps to inform people that your message was written while mobile, and so the text might contain errors, or might not be as well thought out as it would have been if you were in front of your computer. The signature is activated by default on our Android apps (and, actually our Windows Phone 7 app).
That said, if there is huge support for turning off the default signature in the application, we'll do it, but this is the first time we're hearing about it being a problem. As mentioned, it serves a practical purpose.
Thanks for the feedback.
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No, please, don't turn off signatures in the app. Can't they be stripped, however, the way they're stripped when quoting and responding on the desktop app? I agree, they're difficult to remove if you're responding on the app, but as you said, they're useful to indicate the poster is swyping, or whatever may account for little errors in their post.

rushco said:
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You have to post one way or another - we don't need to know how or what you used to post. It is getting easier to post so more people are posting. Teens are no longer getting flip phones and now populating this forum with more and more silly questions looking for answers you can easily find using google. People have the EVO 4g and think they can post anything they want in the EVO General forum because you have an evo and you are posting in the general section. I want to see general information about the EVO and not other phones on other networks and other random things you find interesting. There are other forums for that.
We all have to start somewhere I know that and when I joined in 2006 the first 4 years I probably posted 100 times and now I am posting like crazy trying to help these people find answers hoping people learn something. People are here 1-2 years with over 1,000 posts.
Yeah, it helps to know that is was posted on a phone but with keyboards and big screens take a couple extra seconds to make sure everything is typed right. I do it why can't other people.
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I fail to see how this post is even for or against the 'signature' argument.
Its a single line.
Like me finishing off my post with this single line.
Or this one, or below.
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Let MS know your wishes for future versions of WP

Microsoft has a website where users can let them know their wishes for future versions of WP: http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-suggestions

Please vote for my suggestion
http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/f...estions/2281470-auto-bing-wallpaper?ref=title

Is this real? I can't see Microsoft setting up a website whereby things are voted on. I tried to make a comment but came up a popup asking for email or something, I closed it.

There you go MS, voted some points to what interested me the greatest.

sure haven't said:
Is this real? I can't see Microsoft setting up a website whereby things are voted on. I tried to make a comment but came up a popup asking for email or something, I closed it.
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They posted it right on their own blog.
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_...ws-phone-feature-idea-try-suggestion-box.aspx
I just use my gmail to sign in, doesn't really matter. I have not received any spam.

I don't really see how this is new, they have had this for a long time (it was just never added to the official site)

They originally had one for developers that got overrun by consumer suggestions. Therefore they made a 2nd.
for Dev's: http://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/110705-app-platform
Consumers: http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-suggestions

Hi guys my first suggestion seems to have gone down quite well. Please vote some another issues which has been bothering me. The ability to swipe through image search results in Bing. You can do that in the IOS Bing app. Note sure why they've not included this in wp7.
http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/f...-go-through-bing-image-search-redul?ref=title

Ringtones

I was happy at the fact that Mango was FINALLY supporting custom ringtones. But i dont see who is the stupid person at microsoft who made the decision to have a 40 sec limit on them. Now I gotta edit all of the songs.
Is there a website you all use that have already songs that are already under that limit?
I think someone should make an app for that to make that process easier

Umm...40 seconds, since after that the network either goes to voicemail or hangs up.
Audacity is freeware.
I think most people slice their music as well, people rarely start a ringtone from the beginning of a song. It's more like the chorus that's ringing.

I know the iPhone has the same restriction, and I would bet there is something similar on Android as well (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

i found this website makes it so easy and fast.
http://mp3cut.net/

bmazloum said:
Umm...40 seconds, since after that the network either goes to voicemail or hangs up.
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But alarm tones does not.

RoboDad said:
I know the iPhone has the same restriction, and I would bet there is something similar on Android as well (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
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WP7 restrictions is similar to IOS, they try and make you pay for tones on IOS.
No restrictions at all on Android.

I thought I read that Android has a size limit (in bytes, not seconds) on ringtone files.

^ nope. No restrictions.

Cool. Thanks for the clarification.

vetvito said:
WP7 restrictions is similar to IOS, they try and make you pay for tones on IOS.
No restrictions at all on Android.
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why don't u just cook android Roms and stop trolling the wp7 forums eh?

There is a simple way to do you own ringtone's have a look here:
http://www.topleya.co.uk/2011/09/how-to-create-windows-phone-mango-ringtones/
Just remember to keep the files at 112 Kbps or under.

try this : http://www.1800pocketpc.com/how-to-make-your-own-ringtones-for-windows-phone-mango/23188/

elcapo24682 said:
why don't u just cook android Roms and stop trolling the wp7 forums eh?
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I think he was just trying to be helpful and expressing his opinion sincerely. Chill man

Understandable
ahlee said:
I think he was just trying to be helpful and expressing his opinion sincerely. Chill man
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I understand his sensitivity. The trolls had disappeared from the forums for a good period of time and a few are now back, but people have no tolerance for them and you can see that in the responses to their posts.

I understand his sensitivity too, but people need to keep things in context. vetvito was answering a question that I asked, because the OP had complained that Microsoft was "stupid" for implementing a 40 second limit on ringtones. My intent was to show that WP7.5 was not unique in that limit, and I had posted that I knew that iOS had the exact same restriction, and wondered whether Android did as well. He answered my question, that was all.
BTW, I do think the argument about alarms is a valid one. Until that was mentioned, I didn't even realize that our new custom ringtones could be used for alarms. I think it would be worth a suggestion to Microsoft to have a longer (or no) limit on them, given that the can be used for both ringtones and alarms.

bmazloum said:
Umm...40 seconds, since after that the network either goes to voicemail or hangs up.
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I've disabled this "feature", but still have to put up with a 40 second tone. It just repeats it like three times which is pretty lame...

cocochannel said:
i was happy at the fact that mango was finally supporting custom ringtones. But i dont see who is the stupid person at microsoft who made the decision to have a 40 sec limit on them. Now i gotta edit all of the songs.
Is there a website you all use that have already songs that are already under that limit?
I think someone should make an app for that to make that process easier
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Demaar said:
I've disabled this "feature", but still have to put up with a 40 second tone. It just repeats it like three times which is pretty lame...
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what u expect the ringtone to be the entire length of the song? get real!

40 seconds definitely seems fine. If my phone is still ringing after 40 seconds, something is usually wrong.