Galaxy Nexus Watering Hole

blkbeltkid17 · Apr 16, 2013

The_Chief said:
RIP Pat Summerall. Legendary NFL announcer. He was 82.

He was one of the few I actully liked hearing complain to lol

AntimonyER · Apr 16, 2013

Bummer. He and Madden were who I grew up to. End of an era.

halon · Apr 16, 2013

I loathe Madden. I loathe him with every bone in my body.

breadnatty08 · Apr 17, 2013

No one is as bad as Joe Buck. Can barely watch a game when he's calling it. :mad:

AntimonyER · Apr 17, 2013

halon said:
I loathe Madden. I loathe him with every bone in my body.

Haha, well I didn't say I liked him, just that I grew up with the two.

wasn't a huge fan myself, in fact not really a fan of any of the big names. The more obscure, the better in my opinion.

Morning everyone! Happy hump day.

CaptainRon · Apr 17, 2013

That's great news BBK!

Morning all.

Unforgiven · Apr 17, 2013

Congrats on mom's victory BBK.

Stigy · Apr 17, 2013

Goooooood morning all - happy hump day!

Got my wheels (lips and faces) back from the powdercoater last night and I am so excited with how they turned out. I was going to do a red similar to last year, but the Dormant Red color that I would have done are on Joey's LMs and then he has two sets at the shop waiting to get the color so I wanted to change it up. He had this color leftover from a custom request he got and he hasn't laid it down on a set of wheels before. It's called Robin's Blue / Silver so it looks like a silver base coat with a robin's blue texture on top. I have yet to see them in the sunlight but I am so excited to get these on the car. Gotta polish up the bolts this weekend and hopefully get them together ASAP.

And dropped into the freshly polished lips.

IHateMyTreo · Apr 17, 2013

dreadnatty08 said:
No one is as bad as Joe Buck. Can barely watch a game when he's calling it.

Marv Albert triggers my mute button. Bryant Gumbel the channel change.

MSUgEEk · Apr 17, 2013

Morning all

halon · Apr 17, 2013

Who here is running Windows 8. I'm buying a laptop for my oldest niece for her bday. Is 8 fairly easy to figure out? I'll have to learn it before giving it to her so I can show her how to use it. I'm not looking for a high end laptop. It will be in $350-$400 area.

Liamo_210 · Apr 17, 2013

halon said:
Who here is running Windows 8. I'm buying a laptop for my oldest niece for her bday. Is 8 fairly easy to figure out? I'll have to learn it before giving it to her so I can show her how to use it. I'm not looking for a high end laptop. It will be in $350-$400 area.

I run and well the piece of advice is give you is just get a windows 7 laptop. Windows 8 takes a bit of time yo get used to but you've also got to constantly switch between desktop and metro mode just to get things done. Its kind of redundant having the metro ui. If I could go back I'd of bought a windows 7 laptop.

AntimonyER · Apr 17, 2013

halon said:
Who here is running Windows 8. I'm buying a laptop for my oldest niece for her bday. Is 8 fairly easy to figure out? I'll have to learn it before giving it to her so I can show her how to use it. I'm not looking for a high end laptop. It will be in $350-$400 area.

Not a fan myself. My wife feels the same. She is always complaining because our Touchpad is set up for gestures, and when she plays her favorite game, the gesture actions kick in and switch her Window.

MSUgEEk · Apr 17, 2013

I miss windows 7, but I do like some of the built-in stuff of Windows 8. There's so many things that are counterintuitive or just plain impossible from the "metro" screen that, like Liamo said, you have to constantly switch back and forth between that and desktop mode. Even with desktop mode the start menu is gone so things are even more confusing. Supposedly with the next update though, to be released this summer, you get the start button back and go back to more of a Windows 7 feel on the desktop and the option to boot straight to desktop and bypass the "metro" screen. You can still get to it, but it just isn't the default.

All in all, I do like Windows 8, but it needs tweaking.

EDIT: To elaborate more on the bolded/underlined statement, let me add these points. I really like the built-in e-mail client. I do like the live tiles on the metro screen, especially the photos live tile once you get your albums in the right folder for it to pull from. Their version of an app store is good, gives you a few free/cheap programs to add here and there.

TKEnzy · Apr 17, 2013

Got a touch nostalgic last night playing with my GNex, and searched out this forum. Can't believe it's still going strong! What's everybody running these days? Also, glad to see another homebrewer in here, cheers Stigy!

Stigy · Apr 17, 2013

BTW I ordered this from Amazon the other day and it has made a HUGE increase in my battery life. Seems the extended battery I had bought from Verizon from when I first got the phone just had barely any juice left in it.

These got great reviews and even come with a charger which is nice.

Amazon.com: Anker

CaptainRon · Apr 17, 2013

Stigy said:
BTW I ordered this from Amazon the other day and it has made a HUGE increase in my battery life. Seems the extended battery I had bought from Verizon from when I first got the phone just had barely any juice left in it.

These got great reviews and even come with a charger which is nice.

Amazon.com: Anker

Stigy · Apr 17, 2013

CaptainRon said:
Looks nice, but no NFC. I still may look into it for that price.

Oh yeah forgot the mention that, but honestly I don't use it as much as I used to because not many places accept it and most people I know have iPhones so I can't beam with it.

It's good to know that its not the ROM that is causing the battery drain, but rather just the battery being old and run down.

BabyBlues · Apr 17, 2013

CaptainRon said:
Looks nice, but no NFC. I still may look into it for that price.

I've only used the NFC capability once, and that was when I had the free $10 from Google Wallet forever ago. :eek:

AntimonyER · Apr 17, 2013

Yeah, they took away the paypass vending machine reader here at work, so I had stopped using Google wallet as well. (of course now I can't even use it, even though isis is nowhere to be found.)

CaptainRon · Apr 17, 2013

BabyBlues said:
I've only used the NFC capability once, and that was when I had the free $10 from Google Wallet forever ago.

I've used it to "bump" with other Android users a few times and that was nice.

BabyBlues · Apr 17, 2013

CaptainRon said:
I've used it to "bump" with other Android users a few times and that was nice.

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Unforgiven · Apr 17, 2013

BabyBlues said:
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:rofl:

AntimonyER · Apr 17, 2013

Haha, nice BB!

jhawkkw · Apr 17, 2013

Hilarious BB

I also have stopped using Google wallet because I got so fed up with having to reset it and then reset it up with every rom flash. It gets annoying after a while.

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