Sunday, 19 October 2014

Ok Pebble Now. WILL PAY DEVELOPER

I'm not an experienced programmer. Or in that way inclined but would I'd like to develop or would want helping. An app that would activate the google now voice search from a pebble application. 

1. Activate pebble and access the OK pebble now app.
2. Would activate the google now voice search on your phone.
2.5 speak your request through your headset (if wearing a headset) (hands free).
3. Speak your request through the microphone through your phone. 
4. Does the request in your pocket. Shows task complete on the pebble.
5. Show message sent to recipient.

Thanks in advance. if an experienced pebble developer decided to take on the project. i'm willing to pay them £10 through paypal once the job is finished. all i want to see is the project complete.
Vibrate on task complete.
I tried my hand at the application and couldn't do it.
UI is very simplistic.



I've just found an application that has functionality like what I'm asking for. Its called tasker and it works in conjunction with pebble tasker. So commands and apps can be open from the watch and to be opened up on the phone itself without even touching your phone. But its so long winded.

There's so many more options that you can do with the tasker/pebbletasker but I just want a google now voice search launcher.

No with the pebble receiving an update that allows you to have shortcuts to the apps that you assign them buttons too. This is a perfect opportunity to have a google now voice search launcher or a siri launcher so it covers both platforms.

Don't forget, I am willing to pay someone that will develop this idea. I will be creating images that I would like the UI to be.


Here's pictures that i've designed that i would like for some to develop this app. 

as you can see it's very minimalistic and it's very simple.
Somebody make me an offer and i will pay them to develop this app, it will be beneficial for those working at an office and those working in retail that would like to reply back to family/friends whilst working.











Thursday, 17 July 2014

Youtube app for ps3

Since I've discovered the youtube application on the ps3, I've been watching a lot more documentaries gaming videos and basically any of a video that I can think of. Everything that are use to watch on my ps3 with either downloaded or streamed. I use to have this little thing call play tv it would let me watch pars and record live tv right onto my ps3 hardrive. 4 months I knew that the weather youtube application for the ps3 it was in america only so me being in the uk I sell a little bit bummed out.

It's great I can parrot up with my iphone to my android device on my tablet and unable to run youtube videos on my phone and then direkt the youtube application to that video and it starts please. It's just like the chrome car but you can't stream play movies on netflix so it got its limitations. I was actually going to buy a conker but once I discovered the youtube application for the ps3 I don't see the point anymore.

When I'm watching videos at night I normally have a sleep timer on and if you don't touch any of the controls within an hour it will shut itself off so I don't have to worry about leaving the ps3 on all night. Plus my tv has a sleep timer too if it retries no signal to 5 minutes that shuts itself off as well.
So I've got it all worked out I can watch adventure time and not worry about falling asleep television on. If I wanted to watch any documentaries I would have to manually search them in and download them on and stream it from my computer of them on a portable hard drive and and coffee over to the ps3 now I can just type in the documentry that I want on youtube and it's that simple.

Mainly I've been watching documentaries on how the earth was created because of the sun layers of the song planet from hell and how the moon affects, which is what I came hear talk about. But I think I will just save it for another blog.

I think google have really hit the nail on the head dave come up with a little device it's very cheap and you're able to play getting into any hdmi tv. It cuts the need out of any smart tv period. Get yourself a netflix account which cost about 6 pounds a month and you're set for life you're able to stream every movie that's available on netflix and also the tv show music etc.

With the chrome cast it's not actually streaming any content if you use your phone from youtube or play movies. So you can start a youtube video connected up to the chrome cast on and turn the wifi off on your phone and it will still be playing on the chrome cast.

Paranoid android 4.4

For the past year, I've been using the galaxy nexus as my daily driver, and its one of the best phones I've ever had. Native android is the best experience you can have out of any android skin. Its simple, everything works the way its supposed to without any the manufactures bloatware on the device. Using the galaxy nexus, I rooted and flashed a paranoidandroid ROM onto the device. This gave me permission to change each application to either have the tablet UI, Phone UI or a phablet UI. And not just other the entire OS. I could set it to each application. Over the past few years, paranoidandroid have been leading the pack with features that no other ROM creators have intergrated into their system. Its two features that I really love on the galaxy nexus and that's the Halo feature and pie controls and something that I grew to a custom within days of using the controls. Swiping up from the bottom would reveal the back, home, menu, recent apps buttons. Therefore relieving the screen of the navigation bar at the bottom to give me more screen real estate to work with. I've always say this since the original native OS which implemented navigation bar as a basis for the OS. Obviously google won't integrate this feature into their OS because the majority of people won't know how to go back unless they get their son to show them. But if this was built into the settings where you could have pie controls in the developer options. It would be fantastic and therefore me not having to root or flash a paranoid android ROM onto the device.
The other feature is Halo, which is not based on the game. But in fact a way of displaying your notifications in a little bubble, there's no need for a notification bar. So you get the full experience of the app. Double tap halo, and you can move it around the screen. Hold down and reveals all your info on your phone such as signal. WiFi status, time etc.
Swiping right from the halo and keeping your finger on the screen will display your notifications one by one and then when you've found the notification you want to work on, lift up your finger and it will go to the app corresponding with the notification in a floating app mode, where it floats on top of your already running application.

Sunday, 27 April 2014

OnePlus One


There comes a time when Smartphones are one of those luxury devices that can be used for work, leisure or personal. Use the phones for Video editing, Gaming and Word documents. With a Phone with top of the range specifications, you have to pay up to 800 Dollars for the Samsung Galaxy S5 or for the HTC ONE M8. Up until a few days ago, we've got the Nexus 5 as the flagship for Google using completely native android at an affordable price, With a snapdragon 800 processor and a beautiful 1080p screens.
I'm super excited for this new smartphone, not only from the specifications but from the price too. At a price that you can't really beat for a top of the range phone. Snapdragon801 Processor, 3gigabytes of ram, 16gb of storage at £239 and if you want the 64gb model variant, it's an extra £30. With apple devices, an iPhone 5s with 16gb is roughly £600, 32gb is £700 and 64gb is £800. Those are just estimated prices from the long history of apple products.

The OnePlusOne. Is created by a company called OnePlus. 

Friday, 4 April 2014

Spotify Review

Spotify may have been out for quite a long time and you've probably heard of it already but just in case you haven't. Spotify is an Online Music streaming service where you can virtually get any song that you want and start streaming it virtually straight away.
The days of carrying round an iPod with Local storage is behind us, We've now moved forward of using Youtube and Spotify and other Music streaming services like pandora and Google All Music Access.

It's a fantastic service and it's only Ten Dollars/Pounds a month, which isn't too bad for getting the premium version. even if you don't want to shell out that amount of money a month, you can always get the ad supported version. But there's a few set backs, Firstly you can't just listen to whatever song you want, you type in the artist you want and then you can't click the individual track you want, you've got to do Shuffle play and then you have a limit of 5 skips in an hour. It's a pain but paying that amount of money a month is worth it.

The one thing that has been holding me back from getting spotify is that i prefer my music being on local storage, already there on my device so i don't need an internet connection in order to play the music i want. and the second reason is battery consumption. On my phone i've got a 3600mah battery and that's double the capacity of the stock battery. So battery life isn't an issue really but i prefer knowing that i can get through an entire day doing whatever i want on the device, playing games, streaming videos, it's fantastic. and it's a shame phone manfactures don't push forward with the technology of batteries. Once we solve the problems with batteries, then we can push forward in increasing CPU and Display tech. We've already got 2k displays in our phones found on the Oppo FIND7.

It seems that we've slowed down on CPU technology as well. We've not really pushed passed Quad-core. The snapdragon 801 Processor is way more battery effiecent than the 800. and the 800 has been out for at least a year.

Spotify is a great service and it doesn't drain on battery life as much as you'd think but it's a fantastic service and i'd get it if you constantly finding yourself listening to the same songs over and over again because that's what is on your ipod or phone.

Thanks for reading