[App] 8th Ball - Windows 8 Development and Hacking

Hi folks,
I just released a simple App called 8th Ball. This is a classic Ball 8 application where you pose a question and receive a random answer. I've tried to add something new by implementing a "Post on Facebook" function where you can write your question and post it along the response on your timeline (you can't see the answer before it's posted !!).
Well, it's free so ... maybe you can give it a try and possibly send me some feedback, I will really appreciate that!!!
Thanks

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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...

Toubles with messages & TAB

Hi
at the beginning I want to thank everyone for such great site and their contributions, specially to user jasjamming his Windows Mobile VI Pro - Black 3.0.1 of which I am proud user .
I have got these "problems":
- any time I want open any message (SMS, MMS, Mail) it's opened at the bottom . It's independent on the method of opening (by keys or stick)
- may be it properties of WM6, I don't know, but when I would like by key TAB switch from address line (TO, CC etc.) to message during writting new message (SMS, MMS mail etc), doesn't work. It just SHOW me bottom of message, but cursor stay at the same place. But from Subject to address line, it's working.
It is not anything very important to make HARD reset or reinstall ROM, I was just interested, if there is some setting in registers which was changed by some application or something else.
May be someone of you have similar experience.
Thank you for any response.
how about you search the thread that has all the info you need i know its long but you might learn something and fix your issues instead of us spoon feeding you
I think I read once that if you go to HTcustom, which should be on your device or it might me called pimp my black, you will need to deselect the "Navigate with D-pads" under pocket IE. I think that will stop your messages from opening at the bottoming.
Hi,
sorry for this new thread but finally the problem was with D-PAD settings. Thank you very much
thanks for the feed back this helped me also.
austinsnyc said:
how about you search the thread that has all the info you need i know its long but you might learn something and fix your issues instead of us spoon feeding you
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Is that how you became a senior member? By posting over 400 insults to noobs?
It's a forum to discuss stuff, no matter how many times it's been uttered to others... how many times has someone asked you 'hey how are you?' Do you reply 'someone else asked me that already, go away and find out the answer from them!'?
Politeness goes a long way... and it's only easy if you know the answer

Rhodium Android features poll

Hey all,
I'm a very new user to Android, but the last few days I've been trying it out from the XDAndroid build and I love it.. I know what my next Mobile OS is going to be now. Which device is another question.
As I've used it and read some of the threads it occurred to me that it could be valuable feedback to users and developers to get a poll of several aspects of the XDAndroid build. Missing features, importance of existing features, how often you use the OS, etc.
This is my first time using this Survey Monkey tool, so forgive me if the questions aren't perfect. I've fiddled with it over the last few hours and I think it reflects most of what I've thought and from existing posts on the forum from other users.
Click here to take the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GFD2QKG
As I start getting responses I'll post the results periodically. A free account doesn't appear to have the ability to publicly post the results so I'll do it periodically manually.
Thanks for taking the poll, and a huge thanks to all of the people who have worked on it and facilitated making it this easy to use Android on our devices!
reserved for results
I'll post results every few days.. I have yet to figure out a decent way to scrape them. The HTML below looks the best but you can't see the free-form input. PDF you can see it.
Results as of May 05:
Results.html
May042010.pdf
reserved for future
reserved for future
Cool.
I just took the survery.
I think I am the first one.
Hopefully, we will get a good poll on what people want the most out the features of the Andriod, which is already amazing as it is right now.
Great idea man, just took the survey ill say it was pretty nice taking it
Thanks for the poll. I've completed it although I did have to be creative with some of the answers because they didn't allow for a "none of the above" answer - I haven't used Android yet but want to as soon as GPS is working on the TP2. (Wishing I hadn't given my mum my TYTN2, otherwise I'd be playing with it already.)
lindsaysnow said:
Thanks for the poll. I've completed it although I did have to be creative with some of the answers because they didn't allow for a "none of the above" answer - I haven't used Android yet but want to as soon as GPS is working on the TP2. (Wishing I hadn't given my mum my TYTN2, otherwise I'd be playing with it already.)
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Hmm, what do you think I could modify in that regard? I'm not sure I can edit it now that it's active but I'll take any suggestions.
your answers to the "how often do you use the MJG upgrade util" or whatever it said will be null bc you cant select "never" and there are quite a few of us that update through glemsons autobuilds and have never touched the cab version. I had to select weekly for it to let me finish.
Thanks though!
Sorry about missing "Never" on a few options, first time I've created one of these polls..
Results as of right now I've just posted. I'll post every 3-4 days as it makes sense to do so.

Text tones?

Do we know yet if WP7 will have customizable text tones?
Edit: Also, I've heard that WP7 doesn't support multitasking, but rather "screen shots" of your last activity. Is this similar to how iOS does most (not all, such as Pandora) use multitasking?
81 views and no one felt the need to help a guy out and answer my question? It's really not that hard. Either a conformation that it can/cannot do them, or a "we don't know yet" would have sufficed.
Intervenient said:
81 views and no one felt the need to help a guy out and answer my question? It's really not that hard. Either a conformation that it can/cannot do them, or a "we don't know yet" would have sufficed.
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Please be patient...WP7 hasn't launches yet...how can you expect someone knows the answer?and this section is not as popular as android...everything still under guessing,predicting and developing...
Cheers...finger crossed...and wait...
About Multitasking...
IIRC You can say its similar to iOS.
No 3rd party apps allowed to multitask though, not at launch anyway.
And at the moment there is no fast app-switching, you have to go back to Homescreen and then go to the new app.
Google for wp7 Tombstoning

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

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