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Spizz said:
Are you talking about accessing the UK Play Store on your phone by using a VPN?

I've got Unotelly hard coded into my router for streaming at home and a Tunnel Bear account for my devices when I'm on the road, and I've not been able to access the UK Play Store using a VPN or whatever for about 3 years.

As I say, I bought this phone in Oman last week, it's got an Oman sim card and I access the internet using local wifi. The phone has never been near SA but because I've signed into my google account, the prices are shown in Rands and even uninstalling the Play Store then activating Tunnel Bear and reinstalling the Play Store while 'in the UK' still doesn't work. Hasn't done for a few years although it used to.
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Something is wrong with your phone or geolocation service then. I've never had an issue with my Unotelly UK (or US) VPN on my phone. If I open the Play Store with the VPN active (in the router settings) I get the UK landing page.
 
Bryn26 said:
Something is wrong with your phone or geolocation service then. I've never had an issue with my Unotelly UK (or US) VPN on my phone. If I open the Play Store with the VPN active (in the router settings) I get the UK landing page.
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That doesn't add up and is highly unlikely as it's a new phone and has't been near SA yet. Regardless, the last time this worked for me was 2013. I remember it well, I was in Chad and it was on my S2 and it was the Play Store anniversary sale. Since then I've had many phones and been in a dozen countries and it doesn't work.

Can you access the UK store and post a screen shot please. I need to figure this out.
 
Thinking about it. I had iplayer on my S5 a couple of months ago but I can't for the life of me remember how I got it there :erm:
 
Spizz said:
That doesn't add up and is highly unlikely as it's a new phone and has't been near SA yet. Regardless, the last time this worked for me was 2013. I remember it well, I was in Chad and it was on my S2 and it was the Play Store anniversary sale. Since then I've had many phones and been in a dozen countries and it doesn't work.

Can you access the UK store and post a screen shot please. I need to figure this out.
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I'll do it later or tomorrow. My family is busy using the iPlayer in the TV room. I'll disrupt streaming if I change settings in the router.
 
Is there a chat app that can scale to well beyond 100 members in a group? Use-case is for suburban protection/monitoring groups that easily blast right past that limit and, with WhatsApp, that forces a group-1, group-2, group-n scenario, which is sub-optimal. We've seen that Hangouts also goes only to 100, and Telegram gives you a whole TWO hundred. So, is there anything else out there that can scale to what amounts to open-ended (or at least a FEW thousand)?
 
bdt said:
Is there a chat app that can scale to well beyond 100 members in a group? Use-case is for suburban protection/monitoring groups that easily blast right past that limit and, with WhatsApp, that forces a group-1, group-2, group-n scenario, which is sub-optimal. We've seen that Hangouts also goes only to 100, and Telegram gives you a whole TWO hundred. So, is there anything else out there that can scale to what amounts to open-ended (or at least a FEW thousand)?
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IRC
 
I havent got hundreds of friends to test this with, but look at firechat
not only is it built for what you envision, but it also supports a p2p/mesh mode via wifi/bluetooth for when cell networks are down (it was created for disaster zones so people can stay in touch)
it is what the protesters in hong kong used to stay in contact recently during the protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireChat
 
CranialBlaze said:
IRC
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I see now that my error here was in not specifying that this is meant to be used on mobile devices ..you know, on phones and tablets; which rather removes IRC as being any kind of an option. Silly me thought that was implied by having mentioned, you know, mobile apps.

So to clarify: for use on our most to-hand devices, id est this is for our phones and tablets (though web client for desktop PC would be handy but not a show-stopper if missing).
 
werner said:
I havent got hundreds of friends to test this with, but look at firechat
not only is it built for what you envision, but it also supports a p2p/mesh mode via wifi/bluetooth for when cell networks are down (it was created for disaster zones so people can stay in touch)
it is what the protesters in hong kong used to stay in contact recently during the protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireChat
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Thanks, that will be something (else) to look at as an alternate to TextSecure (and its iOS version Signal). About which a question: being as these are under GPLv3, would it be possible to fork (or whatever the correct term/idea behind that is) the code to suit the stated need?
 
werner said:
  1. not only is it built for what you envision, but it also supports a p2p/mesh mode via wifi/bluetooth for when cell networks are down
  2. it is what the protesters in hong kong used to stay in contact recently during the protests
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Item 2 implies open-ended scalability which is the stated need, yes. But, to me anyway (and I'm happy to be proved wrong), item 1 is about the transport layer - the mesh - and effectively requires that all client/participating devices be within (fairly small) physical range limits of each other, which utterly falls down in the context of a suburb where people are in their respective homes and, in Wi-Fi terms, (too) far away from each other ...that seem right?
 
"also supports"
its using cell data if cell data is there, to get a message to any locaiton...., but can fallback to mesh when no cell data is available...with mesh it'll hop the message until it finds the contact, so it scales to a larger area the more users there are.

if an earthquake took out the whole of jhb, cell towers and everything else that is classed as infrastructure, firechat can get a message to another firechat user around 200feet away...and if there is a third user within striking distance they get it too and rebroadcast it. So the more users, the wider the range (in a situation where cell data is down)

If you had cell data, you would get a message to users anywhere on planet earth.

I dont use it much except when the hong kong protests were going, just to have a look-see, however I have read today there is a limit of 10k users per "room".
You dont invite/approve users..they just join, may not be 100% suitable depending on the use case.
 
werner said:
"also supports" its using cell data if cell data is there, to get a message to any locaiton...., but can fallback to mesh when no cell data is available...with mesh it'll hop the message until it finds the contact, so it scales to a larger area the more users there are.

If you had cell data, you would get a message to users anywhere on planet earth.

You dont invite/approve users..they just join, may not be 100% suitable depending on the use case.
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Okay so that takes care of the transport layer, thanks for the clarification. Only that last bit is sadly the show-stopper, drat.
 
bdt said:
I see now that my error here was in not specifying that this is meant to be used on mobile devices ..you know, on phones and tablets; which rather removes IRC as being any kind of an option. Silly me thought that was implied by having mentioned, you know, mobile apps.

So to clarify: for use on our most to-hand devices, id est this is for our phones and tablets (though web client for desktop PC would be handy but not a show-stopper if missing).
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I do not see how its is not an option, works on phones, tablets and desktops. No limits to memberships.
 
Does anyone know of a widget or something that shows you at a glance which WiFi network you are connected to?

I'm working in a cluster of site offices using a wealth of 3g modems and often they drop and it picks up the next one. I've ordered them in the order I want, but I'd like to see at a glance what network I'm on at any one time.
 
Spizz said:
Does anyone know of a widget or something that shows you at a glance which WiFi network you are connected to?

I'm working in a cluster of site offices using a wealth of 3g modems and often they drop and it picks up the next one. I've ordered them in the order I want, but I'd like to see at a glance what network I'm on at any one time.
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WiFi Manager has a widget that shows what you're connected to and strength of the connection.
 
mjwitter said:
WiFi Manager has a widget that shows what you're connected to and strength of the connection.
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Nice one, thanks bud. I'll check it out this evening.

Edit: Great stuff, just what I was looking for. Nice app.
 
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What is the business card scanner that y'all used?

Would appreciate input, as I don't want to sift through the myriad apps
 
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