Latest game: Steve Jackson’s Sorcery!
On the radio side, I’ve been playing Pocket Transceiver (aka PocketTxRx) to operate webSDR-enabled radios all over the place. It’s really amusing to pick up Russian ragchewers on a 40m radio in Sweden and have the audio streamed to my tablet while I’m in bed in WA state. This is a marvelous age in which to live. The same app theoretically will control my Yaesu FT-817ND radio, though I haven’t yet made it work.
I found multiple apps named "Flashlight Free.’ (How can they do that?)
Who wrote that one, @Nabiki?
Humberto. Here’s the link.
Thanks!
Doesn’t work on DROID RAZR MAXX… 8-(
And no settings panel, so I could try tweaking things.
Try DroidLight instead then. It’s by Motorola and also requires no special permissions.
Excellent! Thanks!
Call for recommended launchers!
I’m running Nova and I like it but it seems to be slowing my phone down. I recently switched to Buzz and I’m liking it but I’m not sold. The new Google Now launcher is not compatible with my current phone ROM so that’s out. I’ve also tried Go Launcher and I’m running Apex on the tablet. So what do you use?
I’ve had no complaints with Nova.
I gave Aviate a spin (semi-private beta) but it was really bogging my phone down and it didn’t seem to be “learning” like I expected it to. Maybe if I gave it more time? I didn’t want to keep going with it slowing everything else down. It also seemed to be a memory hog, I had a lot of apps being terminated in the background to make room for it.
Nova’s been fine for me, though I’ve also used Apex. Of the two I slightly prefer Nova.
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GPS game for Android devices only. Kind of like geocaching with a competitive element (two factions) and a sci-fi-ish backstory. Kinda hooked, been playing since mid December.
Also, “OWM for Outlook OWS Web Email” for work
I tried it for a bit, but just couldn’t figure out the point.
It helps if you ignore most of the backstory. And from what I’ve seen, Resistance/blue team is a great bunch of folks, while “Enlightened”/green slime team is a bunch of cheating jerks. But I could be biased.
Not an app, but I got an unexpected update to my RAZR HD this morning. All the way to Kit Kat, 4.4.2!
Another member of the blue team here.
Mostly I like it because it encourages me to go exploring places I wouldn’t otherwise. I’ve found many things, some very close to home, that I’d never have known about. I dislike it for sucking my phone’s battery die 
Ya, I’ve done a ton of exploring that I wouldn’t have otherwise. Plus, last night, I walked at least 3 miles more that I would have if I wasn’t playing. I got in with a great group in my area, just a subset of the north Houston resistance. We went out and took over a couple frog farms, guerrilla style. 
Whereabouts are you, @CryHavok?
UK, mostly. Lots around London, but all over the UK and sometimes beyond.
I’m going to try that MagicPlan app @Darktan. As far as I’m concerned (based on what I’ve read) this is pure sorcery, but if it works, it’s a must-have for any house/apt searching folks out there. Did you have any luck with this?
I saw there were in-app purchases. Is this a trial of the basics, “but you need to purchase specific features” kind of thing?
It worked okay. Not perfect and super accurate but great if you want a rough idea of a room size. You can export the layouts once you’re done and the in-app purchases remove the water marks and lets you add other furniture or window types. I didn’t buy anything and it worked just fine for my purposes. I used it to generate a floor plan that I could then use on my CAD program. It was a little sluggish to use, but that can easily be attributed to my phone.
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I was using Nova for quite a while and really liked it. Then I got a new Xperia and used whatever Sony give you, and it was OK.
I managed to fsck-up rooting it and wiped the TA partition (aka the DRM keys for the Bravia engine and other stuff) so moved to CyanogenMod 10.2.1.
So far it’s OK (for one day’s worth of use), but the text under the icons keeps getting truncated. Instead of seeing “Settings” I see “S…ings” - even though there is plenty of space for all the text. To make it stranger, some text displays fine, and some doesn’t.
I don’t know whether to jump to CM11 or to FreeXperia. Or to stick with CM10.2.1 and install Nova again.
Any suggestions?
I answered my own question - CM10.2.1 and Nova it is.
Loving it.