1st February 2011 - iPhone,Android,Blackberry forum access

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 01 Feb 2011, 21:16

I've installed and registered the forum with Tapatalk thus enabling native support via the appstore (or equivalent) and tapatalk. Platforms supported are iPhone, Android, webOS, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry and Nokia.

Would appreciate any replies from folks who use it - keen to see if it's used much. I am writing this as my first post on an iPod!

Jools

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 01 Feb 2011, 21:23

oh let me go see!!

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 01 Feb 2011, 21:26

seems to work...

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 01 Feb 2011, 21:27

The Facebook integration is nice.

Also, I am thinking collecting trips, you can insert maps of your location:

Stanton Saint Quintin, Chippenham, Wiltshire SN14 6DQ, UK

All I did to add that was click on "insert my location". Wow

Jools

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 01 Feb 2011, 21:28

"this forum is IPhone native! click ok to learn more about tapatalk for IPhone."

clicking ok now!

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 01 Feb 2011, 21:52

how do i reply from phone? i dont see an option, i can get into this thread but no reply button.

and the map doesnt show up on my cell

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 01 Feb 2011, 21:54

When you are viewing a post, there is a "reply" button in "options" (at least on my Nokia N97).

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Mats

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 01 Feb 2011, 21:56

Oh there it is. It had logged me out is why. Very cool. Much easier to read and reply

davidkozak · Post by **davidkozak** » 01 Feb 2011, 21:58

I like it..we just recently added tapatalk to another forum I frequent after some of the members requested it. I hesitated to add the app to my blackberry as I was already able to access forums via bolt browser..but I'm glad I did..David
(Posting from Blackberry via tapatalk)

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 01 Feb 2011, 22:00

It's must easier then going thru safari on cell. Thanks for adding.
It automatically logs you out if you go back to different site choices.

MarcW · Post by **MarcW** » 01 Feb 2011, 22:38

Seems to work fine on my Nexus One using Android 2.2.

I mainly use the cat-elog when out on my phone rather than the forum the only issue I've encountered is being in a fish shop with no network coverage!

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 01 Feb 2011, 22:44

Hehehe, just found the shake to reply option!

Sent from my iPod touch using Tapatalk

TP · Post by TP » 01 Feb 2011, 22:55

Have never used tapatalk before so I've downloaded it and it seems pretty good! Nice feature for the site!

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 01 Feb 2011, 22:58

Let's have a go at taking a pic and posting it...

Sent from my iPod touch using Tapatalk

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 01 Feb 2011, 23:15

shake to post? pictures! i need to read a tutorial lol

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 01 Feb 2011, 23:25

Yeah, figuring it out as I go along too. However, it means one can roll into your LFS, snap a pic of a fish, upload it and assuming it's reasonably good have it ID'ed while you're next door in [*insert your significant others favourite store here*] and then look it up in the catelog.

I note a Tesco app that reads the barcodes of pretty much any groceries in my house and adds it to my shopping list (and if I want will deliver it). We can't do that with fish, but we're getting close!

Jools

Dee · Post by **Dee** » 01 Feb 2011, 23:46

Working nicely on iPhone 3GS, good feature to add!

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 01 Feb 2011, 23:59

Jools wrote:I note a Tesco app that reads the barcodes of pretty much any groceries in my house and adds it to my shopping list (and if I want will deliver it). We can't do that with fish, but we're getting close!

A bit of image recognition software, and a large dollop of CPU usage, and we may be able to do that too! - Would of course be much easier if we had bar-codes (that were accurate) on the tank-label - but then if the tank-label is correct, we would't need the feature we're discussin anyways.

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Mats

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 02 Feb 2011, 23:27

So, 24 hours and I note 53 users of this new facility. That's quite good. What surprised me is that about 60% were android users. The rest being iPhone. I tried the blackberry app too, but it's still beta and so nowhere near as good as the iPhone implementation.

Jools

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 02 Feb 2011, 23:30

And at least one Nokia user...

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Mats

davidkozak · Post by **davidkozak** » 02 Feb 2011, 23:32

Hey Jools,
Since I downloaded the BB tapatalk app a couple weeks ago, I've already had to download the update from beta 9 to beta 10. Hopefully they catch up quickly to the more stable releases for other phones ;) David

andywoolloo · Post by **andywoolloo** » 03 Feb 2011, 04:12

so is there no way to access the catalog from the app? seems just the forum.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 03 Feb 2011, 10:02

andywoolloo wrote:so is there no way to access the catalog from the app? seems just the forum.

Man, you guys are keen! In a word, no. It is very unlikely this will ever be the case. However, it might be the case the forum will have a mobile skin and so both catelog and forum would be mobile optimised. I am working towards use of the new HTML media facility to appropriately size the catelog for better use on a mobile, but it's already quite good.

Jools

TP · Post by TP » 03 Feb 2011, 13:01

Going back a couple of posts to the one about barcodes, i have recently found "Google goggles" which is part of the google app on the iphone and I think is on android under the full name. This lets you just take a picture instead of typing in a search term and it then tells you what it is and gives you a google search and so on. I was quite amazed at how accurate it was on everyday items but I haven't tried it on a fish yet!!

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 03 Feb 2011, 16:42

Nice. I wonder if they'll produce google goggles, beer edition? Will check it out.

Jools

2wheelsx2 · Post by **2wheelsx2** » 03 Feb 2011, 17:06

Very nice. Can finally look at thread updates from my BB Bold.

mikey · Post by **mikey** » 04 Feb 2011, 23:24

Very cool jools. Having fun learning on my Sprint Evo.

taksan · Post by **taksan** » 05 Feb 2011, 05:40

Works on a iphone 4.2 and on Ipad as well