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Metahill Website
Introduction
The rage is all about Metahill!
Metahill is a small project made up by 3 computer science students in Karlsruhe, Germany.
We intentionally only use the state-of-the-art technologies HTML5, CSS3, Javascript und Python.
No weirdo Flash and for sure no Silverlight is required. Ah yeah, and thus the website by the way loads super-fast .
But let's come to the real thing here..
What exactly is it about?
The best thing to do here is most likely just citing the landing page:
At metahill, you can meet other enthusiasts and chat with them in real-time.
It is entirely free, ad-free and community-driven.
Simple.
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Metahill is a website where you can totally free of charge (and ads-free!!) chat with ethusiasts all around the world.
The cool thing is that all communication is categorized by rooms - the chat rooms. Plenty exist by default, but everyone may make new ones.
Users help users.
Of course you can be within multiple rooms at the same time, that is no problem at all, it's encouraged!
The page then looks just like that:
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What are the advantages of metahill.com over existing medias?
There is a bunch of good reasons why Metahill can be considered "superior" to other, existing services.
We listed the most significant ones at the official Metahill help site.
I will just touch the categories in this topic. Nonetheless you can find a longer description on each of these at the help page http://www.metahill.com/help
Uniformity across all devices
It is easy to get involved
It is lightning fast, thanks to open standards
We're organized
Beyond text
Never again miss anything
Behind all this is an open community
Metahill is simple to use
Community-revised code on German servers (Nope, NSA!)
To the original list.
Why im I posting this?
I like XNA and the people around here!
Leaving this aside, we also seek freaked-out beta-testers "early adapters" who would like to test metahill or even get involved.
This project is now online since a few month and keeps running quite stable, yet we need waaaay more users for the network to reach its full potential!
What is _your_ top-feature of metahill?
Messages are (if you choose so) logged for three days and there is a real bunch smilies and easter-eggs. Awwr, I like easter-eggs.
Yet my favorite feature is that I can share images so easily. Drag'n'Drop (or CTRL-C/V) your picture into the browser and the others will see it. Dude, it can't be easier . Problem reporting is a dream.
Metahill for (Web)Developers
One thing at the beginning: The developer page can be found at http://d.metahill.com.
What's planned are Android and iOS apps of Metahill.
You can embed Metahill as a client within your websites using iframes.
For instance to comment live-streams, let's play's or just to offer free live-support on your website.
To the "Embedding Metahill" Blog-Entry.
Final words and links
For updates you can surely reach us at...
Our Blog: Metahill Blog | Stay on top of the Metahill.
Facebook: Metahill Community
Twitter: @metahill_com
Google+: Metahill
I hope we will meet there too and look forward!
so long,
Michael
Why don't you support at least IE10? I'm browsing from a windows 8 tablet, and I can't even get to a landing page? Nice.
BTW: I really like XNA too.
We support Chrome, FF, Safari and Opera. IE still does not meet our standards, nor does it meet state-of-the-art web standards. The IE10 is at the technological level of Chrome 16. The current Chrome version is 29 and 30 is just about to come out. I strongly encourage you to use one of the four above browser if it is possible.
That is the reason why we both confidentially and intentionally do not (and never will) support the Internet Explorer.
countryqt30 said:
That is the reason why we both confidentially and intentionally do not (and never will) support the Internet Explorer.
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That's great, but that "never will" tells me that this comes at least in part from an ideological bias, and not purely a technical obstacle. I was going to ask which particular features are you using that are not supported in IE10, but I suspect it doesn't really matter.
Anyway, best luck in your project, and I hope that you'll keep your cool and be pragmatic when tackling many of the challenges that lie ahead in your path.
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That's great, but that "never will" tells me that this comes at least in part from an ideological bias, and not purely a technical obstacle. I was going to ask which particular features are you using that are not supported in IE10, but I suspect it doesn't really matter.
Anyway, best luck in your project, and I hope that you'll keep your cool and be pragmatic when tackling many of the challenges that lie ahead in your path.
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Thank you, sir! The technical issues lie in CSS3 and HTML5 support. We use many of the features that just came out a few months ago to get the most out of the current web. Using the latest technologies like WebSockets over here improves the speed dramatically. We tested a lot with IE yet to make it work properly there much extra work would currently be required. Adding numerous exceptions to the code will impair the user experience of the users who use one of the four favorited browsers.
Yesterday we had a little re-design. I hope you like it!
Old:
New:
Once again many little things have been improved.
The focus has been set to practical computer science topics, such as various programming languages and platforms.
Examples are the new rooms "C++" and "Android".
Tech Bytes gives you the latest Tech news from many leading Tech sites. Listen to tech podcasts as you go about doing your work. Tech Bytes is the The UI currently supports more than 60 languages.
We currently support the feeds from following sites:
- AnandTech
- AndroidAutority
- Clockwise Podcast
- Gizmag
- GSMArena
- Tech Hive
- TheNextWeb
- WP Central
- Xda
Please let us know in the Feature Request section if any of your favorite Tech-site is missing.
Some of the features of the app:
-Listen to Podcasts
-Automatically get notifications for new articles
-Read it later (offline reading) supported
-Download only when on WiFi option
-Auto clean up read/unread setting to clear the cache
-Enable/Disable auto sync
-Set sync interval from 1 minute to 24 hours
-Auto sync on startup
-Ability to turn off notifications
-Downloads section
-4 different cool themes to chose from (Dark mode for easy reading during the night)
-Optimized for tablets
-Widgets
-many more..
Note:- Automatic background sync and notifications are enabled by default. You can turn them off anytime or change the frequency of sync by going to settings.
Screenshots:
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Downloads
Download Tech Bytes right away at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blazeappz.techbytes
XDA:DevDB Information
Tech Bytes, App for all devices (see above for details)
Contributors
blazeappz
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2014-08-30
Last Updated 2014-08-30
good app
if more sites supported then it would be great
jeevan_500 said:
if more sites supported then it would be great
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Pls let me know which site you would need under the Feature Request section. Thanks
the following sites are there means it would be wonderful
blazeappz said:
Pls let me know which site you would need under the Feature Request section. Thanks
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Android central, Android authority,Android police ,Android and me ,Android pit ,Android headlines etc. i also filled the Feature Request section kindly check it once
Link to Play Store.
jeevan_500 said:
Android central, Android authority,Android police ,Android and me ,Android pit ,Android headlines etc. i also filled the Feature Request section kindly check it once
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Will add some of them. I had thought of adding all of them initially but it would result in flooding with the same piece of news from various sites. It defeats the purpose and increases data usage, needs more space, etc.
But still might add in a couple of them as they offer breaking and exclusive news.
blazeappz said:
Will add some of them. I had thought of adding all of them initially but it would result in flooding with the same piece of news from various sites. It defeats the purpose and increases data usage, needs more space, etc.
But still might add in a couple of them as they offer breaking and exclusive news.
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Please add these two options in this priority order:
1) The ability to include or exclude feeds from the built in list (checkbox UI)
2) The ability to add your own feed url. You will likely need to specify supported content requirements.
Thanks for considering my requests.
Doug
I really thank you dev I followed you from the other thread about flowly. Thanks for putting this together. I'd definitely look at the sources in flowly because those are the a lot of the main android sources. Like someone posted above the ability to add or turn off feeds individually would be awesome. I know you're working with the appyet format so I don't know it's limitations but those would be the suggestions I have. A working replacement for flowly. Regardless thanks for putting this together.
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contesauce said:
I really thank you dev I followed you from the other thread about flowly. Thanks for putting this together. I'd definitely look at the sources in flowly because those are the a lot of the main android sources. Like someone posted above the ability to add or turn off feeds individually would be awesome. I know you're working with the appyet format so I don't know it's limitations but those would be the suggestions I have. A working replacement for flowly. Regardless thanks for putting this together.
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The ability to turn off feeds is under development I believe.
I did not want the app to be flooded with the same news over and over again. The IFA 2014 week has started and if a new mobile comes out it will be reported in all Android sites and my app will have the same news over and over again! Anyways I will release an update later in the week to add more Android sources.
Guys please click on the Thanks button and more importantly give our honest reviews at the play store.
Also spread the word, I have only 20+ downloads.
I love the way this app operates. The original Flowly was best tho, I ordered pro to get more themes but was obviously ripped off. This app is nice, but I agree with everyone that there isn't enough feeds. It wasn't flooded with redundant information, and not only that, but all the sites do different phone reviews and such. I waited a month and a half for my Note 4, so watching everyones review/hands on videos helped. Going to uninstall for now, let us know if you add more feeds.
Thanks for this, I also came from flowly. I would also like to ask for the ability to choose/unchoose feeds, and the option to add your own.
Rippley05 said:
I love the way this app operates. The original Flowly was best tho, I ordered pro to get more themes but was obviously ripped off. This app is nice, but I agree with everyone that there isn't enough feeds. It wasn't flooded with redundant information, and not only that, but all the sites do different phone reviews and such. I waited a month and a half for my Note 4, so watching everyones review/hands on videos helped. Going to uninstall for now, let us know if you add more feeds.
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Thanks Rippley! I am working on an update to add more feeds. Its in test phase now. Please stay tuned. You can expect the update to roll out in a couple of days.
lightsout said:
Thanks for this, I also came from flowly. I would also like to ask for the ability to choose/unchoose feeds, and the option to add your own.
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Thank You lightsout. I will look into your request.
Smart Feed
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Collect your socials in one place
Smart Feed - is a platform for popular social networks, allowing to create your personal feed just for a few minutes by combining all the news in chronological order. Smart Feed extends the basic functionality of social networking news feeds, giving the opportunity to share information in a variety of social networks, to comment, to put Like, to repost records, to save photos from Instagram ( not only) on your device, and so on.
Various types of Feeds
The main "Home feed" allows you to monitor the activity of your friends, groups, communities in all connected social networks. Through the "Home", the you can choose favorite records, write your own post, do re-post and send it in the necessary social networks, while attaching (if desired) photos, links, etc. News collected in all feeds in chronological order, and the app will notify you if there will be new entries.
In the "Favorites" feed you can get the posts that the you liked. Now you can easily find all the records with the "Like" status from the connected social networks.
There is another stream "My Feed". It contains posts written personally by you, which are carefully sorted by relevant social networks and integrated into the overall Smart Feed.
With Smart Feed you can also do all standard operations under a separate social network.
Several accounts in one social network? We say - No problem!
In the application, you can connect multiple accounts of one social network. At the same time, Smart Feed "allocate" a separate tab for news of a new account, so you do not have to guess which of them corresponds to a record. If the user desided, that there is no need to get news from any account, the relevant settings offered him the opportunity to "deactivate" it (reversible process).
Just give a try!
Catch us in Google Play!
Google Play direct link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.click4design.socialfeed
Welcome to XDA
I'm glad to see such a positive greeting!:victory:
P.s. Thank you for the Google Play link:good: I have not yet a permission to add external links .
What do you want to see?
I will be grateful if you share your opinion about our application
what social network you want to add?
will you be able to add widget support or change to a dark theme please, I love this app
Smart Feed New version 1.01 !!!!
Finally! I'm happy to announced that we published the new hot version of our social media aggregator on Google Play! :highfive:There some pretty nice changes:
Modified design (Material)
Added Tumblr
Convenient turn-based user registration
User profile with contact information and personal publishing
View information about the author of the post and all its publications in the social network
Added ability to change the color design of the application through the settings (10 color schemes)
Come and get it! La la la la:victory:
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Hello again!
Yesterday night, we added a few changes to the Smart Feed
- New feed "Popular" (In this feed, our robot collects the most recent and relevant posts from Twitter)
- Partially integrated Facebook, with the opportunity to add posts, to do repost, and view your own posts
Is this project still alive?
daleski75 said:
Is this project still alive?
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I hope so
We are Alive!
daleski75 said:
Is this project still alive?
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Hello everybody! Our micro-team continues to work on the project. We focused on the backend, because we have identified problems in the application due to incorrect operation of the server. I think we need another week to prepare for the next update. :angel:
We also understand how important it is to update the app often, but we're so deep into improving the backend, and improving the stability that is hoped that users will be satisfied :fingers-crossed:
gulnazita said:
hello everybody! Our micro-team continues to work on the project. We focused on the backend, because we have identified problems in the application due to incorrect operation of the server. I think we need another week to prepare for the next update. :angel:
We also understand how important it is to update the app often, but we're so deep into improving the backend, and improving the stability that is hoped that users will be satisfied :fingers-crossed:
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отличные новости!
not all working
Facebook does not load instagram does not load and Tumbler does not work
please add pintrest, google+ vine and maybe snapchat
thanks what i been looking for but needs work best of luck
Any updates on this app?
Hi,
Tired of reading? The app reads for you!
New generation of RSS Reader, Blog Reader, RSS Feed, Aggregator, a single app for your news, breaking news, RSS feed, podcasts and youtube channels. More than a RSS Reader, a news finder.
Main features :
- Text to speech: read out loud feature
- Readability
- Slide Show with voice reading, listen all your articles
- Adaptive/thumbnail/compact views
- Find Related Articles
- Google News support
- Swipe right to save article
- Swipe left to hide article
- Quick search on all of your RSS feeds, blog
- Collection management
- Starter guide to help you select feed, blog
- Top news: don't miss breaking news and popular news.
- Browse sources easily, choose what you want to follow, add sources to your collection. Enter a domain name and the app finds the RSS feed (eg engadget.com, cnet.com). Discover new RSS Feed.
- Read all your sources, save them, like them, share them
- Share on facebook, twitter, linkedin and other social networks
- Import your OPML file (import feed from other readers like Feedly, digg reader, flipboard...)
- Notifications on breaking news
Make your own magazine, choose what you read.
At Xoonity,we're always on the watch, reading news on websites, blogs, Rss feeds and other information sources on the Internet. As we couldn't find a RSS reader for smartphones that addressed our needs, we created our own reader. The aim is to provide users with a free RSS reader that includes wide-ranging features and recognized information sources. Thus we constantly update our apps with additional features. Xoonity RSS reader was designed and developed by avid readers of websites, so if you too are a reader, please download our app, use it and rate it.
Find out about the best sources for world news, breaking news, business, cars, comics, culture, design, DIY, DIY Network, fashion, finance, food, cook, gaming, hi-tech, learning, marketing, movies, photography, science, sports, travel, youtube channels and more Rss Feed.
Feedback and advice are more than welcome.
We are currently looking for Power Users, to get feedback on this app "RSS Reader Xoonity". Do not hesitate to contact us with any comments:
https://plus.google.com/communities/104044865279068893475
Download it here.
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This app was developed with Angular 2 and Ionic 2, thanks to them for their great support.
Feedback and advice are more than welcome.
Downloading and testing. Comments soon. Thanks.
I do a test!
First smooth interface, I did not expect that for an hybrid app.
The integration of the "text to speech" is nice.
I will make a full feedback, I still use a bit.
After using the app:
What I like:
- user interface clean and quick
- readability feature (in my opinion, an important feature for an RSS reader)
- work nice on my smartphone and tablet
- i like adaptive view
As improvement:
- search feed could be more accurate (The feed search is currently very usefull)
- Add categories to feed
I think I'll continue to use the app!
Thanks for your feedback.
We work to improve search feed (next version will improve this)
"Add categories to feed":
There collections, collections are like categories, you can group your sources.
In "your sources" screen, top right menu, you can add collections.
Then you can change the current collection by the same menu.
Testing
I have a small problem at startup, your news was empty, after refresh all is ok.
Will be nice: An option "auto refresh articles" when "your news" load
Added to request for change.
Thanks
Someone else has issues at start up?
Flapich said:
Testing
I have a small problem at startup, your news was empty, after refresh all is ok.
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Could you give me your android version? i m unable to reproduce.
Xoonity said:
Could you give me your android version? i m unable to reproduce.
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Android 6.0.1 nexus 5
Could you please test again? with the last version.
I have no problem now
Thanks a lot for your feedback
A new beta phase will begin, contact me if you wish to participate
mikl4343 said:
Use liner list.
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I'm not sure I understand.
There is the compact view (articles appear inline, without image). You use this view? or you would like a view with article inline, liner list?
You could make a request for change. Just here, by email, or google community
add a settings to enable readability by default, when you open article
Phockis said:
add a settings to enable readability by default, when you open article
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This is a feature under discussion.
Tag My Knowledge
Personal Knowledge Management made simple
Quickly store and categorize bits of knowledge you find in books, videos or podcasts and convert them into habits that change your life.
Hey everyone!
I love watching podcasts and CEO interviews on YouTube. However, I quickly ran into some big issues (see below).
Luckily, since I'm a developer, I can fix these for myself. The solution turned out to be pretty good, so I decided to share it
Issues that I ran into with existing solutions (ie. what this app is trying to solve)
Issue #1: Knowledge is buried under grocery lists
Originally I used Google Keep, but at some point I realized that everything below a certain "scroll threshold" was lost forever unless I specifically searched for it.
To combat this, Tag My Knowledge uses what's called spaced repetition.
By reading something 10 times with time in between, you remember it much better than If you read it 10 times in a row.
That's why Tag My Knowledge uses a feed-approach. Every day, you see random items so you subconsciously build habits out of them!
Issue #2: Note taking wasn't fast enough
Speakers talk pretty fast and while you can pause & rewind YouTube videos, it quickly becomes annoying. Even worse, you can't rewind live events.
Tag My Knowledge is optimized to keep up with that. Adding knowledge takes as few clicks possible.
That way, you never miss some important off-topic nugget never again!
Screenshots
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Features
A single piece of knowledge can consist of a title, rich text description, a source (with optional link), tags and one or more categories
You can manage all of your tags in one place
You can modify your list of categories (up to 5). You can change name, icon and order.
The first 4 will be shown as tabs at the bottom for quick access
You can filter for tags
You can toggle feed/history mode. History mode shows all your knowledge in chronological order (within that category), feed is essentially random (algorithm behind it but whatever)
Works on multiple devices (currently only on Android & via Progressive Web App)
Download / Where to get it
Website (here you can also sign up for a newsletter to get notified on updates)
Progressive Web App (also works on iOS)
Huawei App Gallery (doesn't have Google login, otherwise equal. Screenshots are outdated, app isn't.)
As of right now, the app is completely free and everything that's in it will definitely stay free forever.
That being said, if there's enough interest, I'll probably create some sort of premium plan so I can continue to improve it.
I have so many ideas on how to improve this, but I can't afford to invest my life into it without being able to pay my rent.
Please comment below and let me know what you think about it
Specifically, these are the question on my mind right now:
- Is this useful to you at all?
- What solution are you currently using, if any?
- I would use this, if ...
Have a great day!
~Philipp Bauer
Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google LLC.
Basically a good idea, but why do we need an account for it? I'd rather keep my notes local. If need be, put them in a folder to sync via the preferred solution (e.g. NextCloud).
Thanks for the feedback!
I thought about that as well, but in the end I decided against it for a few reasons:
- The app is built for simplicity and having to set up your own sync solution would go against that
- Synchronization between mobile & web versions can never be completely seamless & instant when relying on cloud storage providers or custom solutions. I also found this way too easy to mess up on both sides.
- Local-only data is inherently lost when you lose your phone. This is obvious, but originally I was the only person I developed for and I constantly softbrick/switch/factory reset/upgrade my device so I'd rather not risk that or take the time to do manual export/import
I also have a lot of features planned which simply aren't possible (or become incredibly tedious) when the database is local.
- A twitter bot to tag knowledge automatically when you @ it (similar to readwise.io).
- In-app knowledge sharing (if I get the chance, I'd build some optional social media features into the app). For example you could share your knowledge in exchange for a custom email feed of other people's knowledge that could be interesting for you
- A chrome extension
CiriousJoker said:
Thanks for the feedback!
I thought about that as well, but in the end I decided against it for a few reasons:
- The app is built for simplicity and having to set up your own sync solution would go against that
- Synchronization between mobile & web versions can never be completely seamless & instant when relying on cloud storage providers or custom solutions. I also found this way too easy to mess up on both sides.
- Local-only data is inherently lost when you lose your phone. This is obvious, but originally I was the only person I developed for and I constantly softbrick/switch/factory reset/upgrade my device so I'd rather not risk that or take the time to do manual export/import
I also have a lot of features planned which simply aren't possible (or become incredibly tedious) when the database is local.
- A twitter bot to tag knowledge automatically when you @ it (similar to readwise.io).
- In-app knowledge sharing (if I get the chance, I'd build some optional social media features into the app). For example you could share your knowledge in exchange for a custom email feed of other people's knowledge that could be interesting for you
- A chrome extension
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Right, that does sound interesting and well thought-through. But in the end of the day that approach is exactly *not* what I am looking for. Thanks anyway.