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WP Apps - don't ask, don't get [Threads Merged]

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  • #62
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    Ryanair

    Hailo.
    That's about it for me.


  • #63
    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    For starters how about :

    1. Wifi Analyzer ( have yet to find any WP app in this space )

    2. XiiaLive ( I cant find a WP internet radio app that comes anywhere near it )


  • #64
    Davy
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,340 CMod ✭✭✭✭Davy


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    Ryanair

    Hailo.
    That's about it for me.

    Ryanair confirmed few weeks ago they were working on the WP version so keep an eye out for it.


  • #65
    joujoujou
    Registered Users Posts: 13,499 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    Quiet Hours on 8.1 (or something you may remember from symbians and pre-symbians as timed profiles).

    Registry editor.


  • #66
    theothernt
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭theothernt


    joujoujou wrote: »
    Quiet Hours on 8.1 (or something you may remember from symbians and pre-symbians as timed profiles).

    Cortana has quiet hours
    joujoujou wrote: »
    Registry editor.

    It's not a PC, so no, that will never happen.


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  • #67
    theothernt
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭theothernt


    0lddog wrote: »
    1. Wifi Analyzer ( have yet to find any WP app in this space )

    Just curious, what would that kind of app do?


  • #68
    joujoujou
    Registered Users Posts: 13,499 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    theothernt wrote: »
    Cortana has quiet hours

    I'm not really happy if I have to use all-in-one application just to do one and small task. And cortana is unavailable for my region/language.
    theothernt wrote: »
    It's not a PC, so no, that will never happen.

    Never say never. :)


  • #69
    theothernt
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭theothernt


    joujoujou wrote: »
    Never say never. :)

    I can say definitively that it will never happen :)


  • #70
    wheresmybeaver
    Registered Users Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭wheresmybeaver


    theothernt wrote: »
    Just curious, what would that kind of app do?

    It does a quick scan of WiFi networks in the area and the channels they use. Helps you configure your router a bit better, and sniffs out hidden networks too. I don't think the windows phone platform gives you the OS level access that such an app would require.


  • #71
    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    wheresmybeaver wrote: »
    It does a quick scan of WiFi networks in the area and the channels they use. Helps you configure your router a bit better, and sniffs out hidden networks too. I don't think the windows phone platform gives you the OS level access that such an app would require.

    Yup, all that and more :)

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=en


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  • #72
    Sclosages
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 489 ✭✭Sclosages


    I want one which will tell me how to get from A to B.
    Literally. I am at position x.
    App tells me that I can either walk, or catch this bus, walk, get z train and I will arrive at destination.

    Bit like the drink scooter.


  • #73
    theothernt
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭theothernt


    wheresmybeaver wrote: »
    It does a quick scan of WiFi networks in the area and the channels they use. Helps you configure your router a bit better, and sniffs out hidden networks too. I don't think the windows phone platform gives you the OS level access that such an app would require.

    I just double checked, it doesn't give that level of access or info. It might be possible in future as it's not a security risk to the phone or user.


  • #74
    theothernt
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭theothernt


    Sclosages wrote: »
    I want one which will tell me how to get from A to B. Literally. I am at position x. App tells me that I can either walk, or catch this bus, walk, get z train and I will arrive at destination.

    Nokia Transit does most of that, but Moovit should do all of that - and the official NTA app too?

    Hit The Road may come to Windows at some point although it's Dublin only.


  • #75
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    Hailo. The only app I really want. Uber is there, but I just don't like them as a company.

    Wish Bank of Ireland had a mobile website, I actually don't care about a specific app for that stuff, just gimme 365 mobile web.


  • #76
    AngryLips
    Registered Users Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭AngryLips


    PaulieC wrote: »
    so the idea here is that you contact them yourself to register that interest. Then post up the contact details here so we can all do the same...

    Seems that some of my wishes were granted, Permanent TSB have released an app http://www.windowsphone.com/en-ie/store/app/permanent-tsb/7e5cb143-d8ec-44c9-8a07-abf48f744a8c

    It's just a web wrapper but it's a start.


  • #77
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    Davy wrote: »
    Ryanair confirmed few weeks ago they were working on the WP version so keep an eye out for it.

    Did they? Because I contacted them at the time they were promoting their new app and they said they had no plans despite their PR guy saying they had plans.
    Hopefully they will come through with it anyway. There are a few posts on this very thread about it.

    PS:
    I also agree on BOI, even a mobile version of the website would be fine. AIB have one and it works ok. No need for an app


  • #78
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    Vodafone are now encouraging customers to download their app to sync contacts as they are discontinuing their email service.
    Anyway, they have an app for Android, Iphone and even Blackberry, but none for Windows, despite them actually selling Windows Phone!
    Please go on to their forum here on boards and voice you displeasure.

    tweet them @VodafoneIreland


  • #79
    senordingdong
    Registered Users Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    Vodafone are now encouraging customers to download their app to sync contacts as they are discontinuing their email service.
    Anyway, they have an app for Android, Iphone and even Blackberry, but none for Windows, despite them actually selling Windows Phone!
    Please go on to their forum here on boards and voice you displeasure.

    tweet them @VodafoneIreland

    Sure wp will back up everything regardless.


  • #80
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    senordingdong wrote: »
    Sure wp will back up everything regardless.

    That's all well and good but why develop apps for everything else and ignore WP? That's the point.


  • #81
    Fingleberries
    Registered Users Posts: 3,384 ✭✭✭Fingleberries


    yosser hughes wrote: »
    That's all well and good but why develop apps for everything else and ignore WP? That's the point.
    Although, if it's a one time use app for a service that they're closing down, they're hardly going to invest in it now.


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  • #82
    luketitz
    Registered Users Posts: 685 ✭✭✭luketitz


    Some good news for WP Chromecast owners.. three viable options now on the market - http://wmpoweruser.com/a-look-at-chromecast-apps-for-windows-phone/

    Really dull video, but fair play to the guy for compiling it.. gonna give the €1.49 Tube Cast app a whirl now.


  • #83
    Do-more
    Registered Users Posts: 4,748 ✭✭✭Do-more


    Anyone know of a Windows Phone alternative to Mech Tab for calculating engineering tolerances?

    Also something similar to the Seco Tools cutting speed calculator?

    invest4deepvalue.com



  • #84
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    The Banks still dont seem to care about WP users they need to wake up.


  • #85
    Outkast_IRE
    Registered Users Posts: 7,515 ✭✭✭Outkast_IRE


    jimmynokia wrote: »
    The Banks still dont seem to care about WP users they need to wake up.
    To be honest i am not too pushed on bank apps, i was working with a gentleman who almost exclusively works on the software for bank security systems in relation to secure internet access to accounts etc. & he refuses to use any of the mobile banking apps or get involved with the development he claimed that it was only a matter of time before a huge amount of account holders were caught up in fraud as he felt users phones/tablets were too vulnerable.


  • #86
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users Posts: 18,904 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


    This post has been deleted.


  • #87
    yosser hughes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,879 ✭✭✭yosser hughes


    Outkast_IRE wrote: »
    To be honest i am not too pushed on bank apps, i was working with a gentleman who almost exclusively works on the software for bank security systems in relation to secure internet access to accounts etc. & he refuses to use any of the mobile banking apps or get involved with the development he claimed that it was only a matter of time before a huge amount of account holders were caught up in fraud as he felt users phones/tablets were too vulnerable.
    I'd agree with that, having some experience in the area.


  • #88
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    Captain Morgan wrote: »
    PTSB have an app but personally I never bother with the apps as they usually have the same function of the mobile site (Have only used PTSB and AIB so can't speak for other banks).

    People in the States weren't happy recently with a couple of banks pulling their Windows app and the bank sites are either very limited on mobile or don't work at all.

    Same, even BoI's site is workable on mobile, though I wish they actually bothered to make a mobile site. Only reason the US folks are so annoyed is that they still use a lot of cheques over there (no really, for basically everything), and they need the mobile apps to do that (although absolutely no reason why that stuff can't be done via web tbh).


  • #89
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Same here I just don't like the idea of the app. So many of them ask for too many permissions.


  • #90
    joujoujou
    Registered Users Posts: 13,499 ✭✭✭✭joujoujou
    Unregistered Users


    Not sure if this is right thread to ask for advice (point me to a better one if one exists) - looking for a very simple pedometer/step counter. Loads of them appeared in a store, tried some and I am disappointed so far.

    - I want an app which doesn't want to have access to internet, GPS etc.
    - no ads,
    - metric figures (not imperial),
    - AFAIK it won't work if screen's locked manually, so own screen lock is a must as well.

    Thanks. :)


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  • #91
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    What WP device do you own?


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