Post #368,624
12/27/12 8:42:18 PM
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BlueStacks mobile app player for Androids and iOS
http://www.macrumors...-all-750000-apps/
Back in June, we noted that BlueStacks had introduced an alpha version of its Android app player software for Mac. The app, which is also available for Windows, allows users to run Android apps on their desktop machines. With the alpha launch, however, BlueStacks supported only about 15 Android titles on the Mac.
As noted by VentureBeat, BlueStacks today announced that its Mac app has moved into beta, opening up access to all 750,000+ Android apps.
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Excellent. And another reason to strongly consider Android over iOS, IMHO. As handhelds get more and more powerful, being able to use the apps on larger screens with keyboards and mice is an important feature, it seems to me.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #368,630
12/27/12 10:30:32 PM
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Oh dear...
Ummm, exactly what is it you want in a Phone/Tablet?
Running the *mobile device* apps on a Desktop machine?
I mean, come on DSK... now you are just putting things where they really don't belong.
No wonder you are still using W2K... Poop or get off the pot and don't go back!
The longer you wait, the longer you will wait, the longer you will wait for more, the longer you will wait more for more features or faster/longer lasting phones.
Put your peg in the ever downward moving wall and deal with it.
You are waiting for anything and everything to work together... well, most stuff works together now... Except Windows seems to be veering off into its own world again.
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Post #368,633
12/28/12 12:13:34 AM
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Bah.
Sophie stayed at Dogtopia while we were in Texas. They have a web camera set up so we could watch her play, etc.
Their browser-based viewer uses Java and disconnects frequently.
Their Android viewer works much better and stays connected when the browser-based viewer is disconnected. They also have an iOS viewer.
Which type of viewer do you think is more likely to stay updated over time?
That's just one example. HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #368,636
12/28/12 7:51:51 AM
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whut?
first you put your dog in a doggie hotel
then you feel guilty so hafta watch over a mobile app?
Does the dog know or care? All the dog know is that she/he has been put back into the shelter because you didnt want her
all you know is you feel guilty and have to worry constantly and view her over a mobile phone to try to assuage our guilt
:-)
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Post #368,637
12/28/12 8:16:53 AM
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Guilty? What's that?
Sophie has various issues - arthritis, bad hips, epilepsy, etc. J worries about her and likes to see for herself how she's doing. Dogtopia has 3 rooms - "The Gym" (big rambunctious dogs), "The Toybox" (tiny yappy dogs), "The Lounge" (nervous, stressed-out dogs) and Sophie gets moved between them sometimes. It's nice to know where she is and how she's doing.
If J doesn't know how she's doing, she worries even more and can't enjoy being away.
You don't want to be around J when she's nervous and stressed out... ;-)
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #368,638
12/28/12 8:19:35 AM
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yea, after one time the dog goes with now
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Post #368,904
1/1/13 11:38:33 PM
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Yeay Sophie!
..Loved that pic of her communing with the falling snow; hope she long evades the er, Death of Rats© !!
[Don't think that TP did.. Death of Dogs or Cats ??] But still, I much prefer his metaphors to the Popular Angst-filled ones.
I can readily appreciate the use of these modrin oversight-gizmoes.. for watching over such an irreplaceable Patient;
never mind! Greg's Out-with-the-Old/The Future ... Lies Ahead stuff.
Or Box's pop-psych==one-analysis-fits-all.
Jeez.. ya didn't strap her to the car-roof like them billionaire robots do: she got some time in a Spa!
PS re maladies:
Believe there are some new nostrums out there, including one or two which garner (n+1) web-testimonials re "improved mobility" in arthritic cats or dogs:
re. joints and/or the blanket 'arthritis'--when they don't Really know what they are treating.
You may be aware, etc.
Woof
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Post #368,906
1/2/13 12:40:56 AM
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Thanks.
Yes, she loves being out in the snow and can stay out there for hours. She's a funny girl. :-)
We saw the X-ray of her hips a few months ago. She's got pronounced bone spurs and her hip sockets are quite small. She also yelped when the vet tried to extend her legs through the normal range of motion. :-( She's quite a hopper too, so she's rough on her hips and hasn't yet learned to take it easy before she inflames things too much.
But she's doing Ok now, with no more than 30 minute walks. She takes 100 mg of gabapentin twice a day. That seems to help, and has the benefit that it is sometimes used to control epilepsy, so she gets that as a side-benefit.
She was on Rimadyl - a commonly prescribed anti-inflammatory - for a while, and it seemed to help her be more active and happier, but after a short while it seemed to upset her stomach or GI tract terribly - to the point that she wouldn't eat and was drinking at strange times. We had to take her off it and haven't found a replacement.
If things eventually get really bad with her mobility and stiffness, they apparently can grind-down the ball of the femur to reduce the grinding and stiffness and apparently it works great. Sounds weird to me, but there you are. That's a last-resort, of course. Since it is mainly her right hip, maybe only that one would need to be done and her recovery wouldn't be too arduous...
She (and I) is/are taking glucosamine and condroitin and MSM and all that stuff. I'm not convinced it actually does anything, but who knows. If it doesn't hurt, I guess it's worth a shot. We can afford it and it helps keep the vet in business. ;-)
I still owe you a memory stick with some scans. I will get that to you fairly soon, at least in geological time... :-/ Sorry about the delay.
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
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