Android phones, apps and tablets

After foolishly deleting "Dragon naturally speaking"
was looking for a speech to text app
Listnote is quite good, currently helping with a 12K essay managed to bang 500 words (spell checked etc) in about 30 mins
Bad- doesn't allow u to put punctuation in at all, and some funny translations, "hypotheses" as "map of the seas" must be proofed and corrected
Good clean app- no ads and does work, quicker than 2 finger typing that I do

phone is an "el crappo" LG optimus 3 with Cyanogenmod9

p.s can't get tomtom app to work, as not enough memory 2Gb internal to save maps, and unable to change the path to read them from the external 8Gb
any help much appreciated

I'm just coming to terms with the impact of using Google Music on data usage :-) If my calculations are correct then it will take a little over 7 hours of continuous play to use up 1GB of data....

(That assumes that you are listening to music with a constant bit-rate of 320 kbit/s. I don't know how Google Music adjusts bit-rate for the bandwidth that it actually finds to be available.)

I've set data limits to hopefully prevent any usage costs for now!

or download the songs/playlists you listen to most to the device

Yeah but that's not very "cloud" is it? ;)

they're still synced with 'the cloud'

Anything you listen to frequently should be cached, provided you have enough space available and haven't disabled it in the options.

Fucking giffgaff. Just magically wiped my balance. Waiting to hear back from an agent.

I has android 4.2.2. It seems to confer me no advantage other than smugness. I like it.

oh that? I got that yesterday, or the day before...

Anyone used DSLR Controller app?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.dslrcontroller&hl=en

Going to give it a try over the weekend.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPqliPzHYyc&feature=share"]Introducing
Google Now - YouTube[/ame]

Is it wrong that I want to return my Nexus back under the 15 day returns policy and get a Lumia 920?

Introducing Google Now - YouTube

Only about a year late. Mine is telling me how far away steak and beer is.

Been living with my first Android device and only smartphone for over a week now. Some thoughts.

AirDroid - worked seamlessly transferring folders worth of photos into QuickPic before developing a hiccup with the warning that 'drag and drop is not supported with your browser'. Surprising given I was using Chrome and had no problem with it earlier. Looking online there's plenty discussion about lack of certain browser compatibility preventing the transfer of batches of stuff, but none where Chrome as an obviously supported one decides to stop behaving itself as in my case.

PowerAmp - tried a few but this is the best player to my ears, and I'll gladly buy it once my trial expires. However I can't convince it to play the FLAC files it claims to support, yet both the stock player and Winamp play them without bother. It's worth saying I'm no expert - only due to this thread have I heard of FLAC anyway so I got curious and converted a couple of tracks to test the difference. Both sounded terribly murky so there's no loss with my preferred application not playing them. I'm quite sure I'm doing something wrong so far as PowerAmp/FLAC compatibility goes though.

Even though Winamp played FLAC from my SD card it wasn't possible to transfer them to my device using the Winamp Wi-Fi tool as it claimed they're an unsupported format.

The baseball game 9 Innings 2013 is magnificently tedious.

With regards FLAC, converting to it isn't worth it, you need to rip to it to get the benefits as I understand it.

The biggest difference I believe is that FLAC rips are uncompressed, MP3 is compressed. so you can go from FLAC to MP3 to gain a space saving at the cost of sound, but going from MP3 to FLAC gives no benefit, as the compression artifacts are already in the file.

If I'm wrong, I look forward to someone letting me know where, as I'm only dabling in the edges of this myself.

^ You are correct.

You can be the first to choose a toy from the toy box.

I suspected the murkiness was due to compression and I wasn't experiencing the format's true worth. I'm still curious to hear the advantages of FLAC but there's a lot of argument it's pointless to use them on handsets anyway.

FLAC files are compressed, it's just that it lossless compression, meaning you don't loose data (ie. audio quality in this case)

^Correct

MP3 is a lossy format - it discards information that the algorithm thinks we can't hear - how much it discards is governed (mainly) by the bit-rate
FLAC is lossless - it is the same data as the file that is input - but is cleverly stored to take up less space

If you rip to mp3 then you have thrown away some info - you cant get it back afterwards.

My phone (Galaxy Nexus) tells me there's a system update. I'm out of the country for the next few weeks and can't afford to have my phone balls up, any reason I should/shouldn't install this?

Just realised how funky Google Now is. I'm travelling at the moment so booking various, hotels, flights, etc through gmail. Went on to google now today and it had today and tomorrow's hotels, flight updates, weather for both locations, travel times, fx rates, etc.

Trouble is though I only got this in a bar with wifi, roaming is so extortionate that I never normally see all this really useful stuff, not sure how they'll get round that (also not sure about gmail reading my emails).

You might have 24bit FLAC, which very few things play.

16bit FLAC is the standard and majority of FLAC files out there.

It's the 4.2.2 update. Loads of bug fixes and not much visible change.

No need to apply it now if you don't want to.

So nice to have the latest OS for a change...

As people are taking music formats, what's the best (i.e. simple, quick) way to convert WAV to MP3 files? I've tried with VLC but managed to cock it up everytime.

Audacity does all that for free