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Buy cars [Visitor] in response to: First Day with Foyo

Buy cars [Visitor] — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:36:27 +0000

Great points you make here, agree with just about everything.

Jeff [Member] in response to: First Day with Foyo

Jeff [Member] — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:06:30 +0000

Hear, here. I dig Chrome-to-phone.

After a little more time with it, it does seem to be a bit more responsive in some of those situations where the phone and I would disagree on things, particularly gestures and whether or not I'd actually let up on the screen.

Other things I've noticed in the last few days include changes to the car dock interface and some tweaks to the Market, 'though not as sweeping as I had hoped (like additional sorting or filtering).

Roger [Visitor] in response to: First Day with Foyo

Roger [Visitor] — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:28:26 +0000

My anecdotal experience agrees with Randy's stats. My response feels noticeably faster, noticeably crisper, especially when networking via phone/G3 rather than local wifi.

I had also noticed a deterioration in voice call quality under 2.1 when I had lots of apps running. Not to mention an occasional, frustrating lack of response to the "answer phone" or "ignore call" gesture, also seemingly related to background app load. Both of those problems seem to be gone now.

I haven't played with the camera interface yet, but I have tried out a few Froyo-only apps, most notably chrome-to-phone (very cool).

Randy [Visitor] in response to: First Day with Foyo

Randy [Visitor] — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:10:00 +0000

Try a program in the marketplace named Quadrant Standard. It basically checks the performance of your phone and creates a score (after submitting results to a web page). On 2.1 my Droid was scoring in the 350 range, with Froyo I am scoring in the low 800's. The camera interface is different for both video and still shots.

jonny awesome [Visitor] in response to: Vending Machine Bandit

jonny awesome [Visitor] — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:04:43 +0000

Kick it.

Jessica Ballantine [Visitor] in response to: Motorcycle Season Begins

Jessica Ballantine [Visitor] — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:54:10 +0000

I LOVE this photo - shiny cool bike in front of a snowbank. ROFL

Jeff [Member] in response to: March 10 Might Have Been Right

Jeff [Member] — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:48:52 +0000

You are both right, of course. Both of you are smarter than me. Or is that smarter than I am? Either way... <grin/>

At your suggestions, and those of the wife, I drove the Jeep to work today, and will spend some of my weekend time trying to clear a path up the alley, like I did last year. Forecast still says 40F to day and all next week.

It was fun while it lasted, and will be again next week, when my March 10 prediction will certainly come true!

(And I fixed the anti-spam for your link, Brad...someone put .blogspot.com in the filter...)

Brad [Visitor] in response to: March 10 Might Have Been Right

Brad [Visitor] — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:23:46 +0000

The 17 pound bicycle is a bit easier to tip up and is guaranteed not to spill gas unless you're doing something really odd with a fuel container while pedalling... On the up side, better to have your bike tip at zero km/hr on ice in the drive than to tip at 100km/hr on ice in a curve on the freeway when being followed by a 3000kg SUV.