A small app to create pretty wallpapers for iPhone and iPad out of various map designs. Has become quite popular in Germany.
It started after I tweeted a screenshot of my iPhone home screen and people wanted me to make them a similar wallpaper of their city, so I built an app for it. Took exactly one week from tweet idea to App Store!
Completely agree, among my peers at university those who had spent the last four years creating a network on Twitter and Github did significantly better at finding a graduate job than those who didn't.
Most of my friends have the job they have because of a combination of Twitter and attending conferences on discounted student tickets.
I wholeheartedly agree, Typora is my favourite markdown editor. For those few times you really need to just edit the markdown you can quickly turn off rendering and switch into source mode by hitting cmd-/.
I disagree with your first point, if you're using Instagram you're accepting it will be using a lot of data. Further, part of the thing that makes Stories a great feature is the smooth storytelling that would be lost if a "Download this video" button appeared.
I completely agree with your second point however. Make it more like Snapchat and have both types of direct messages; ephemeral and permanent.
> You're in favor of autoplay that can't be disabled?
Especially not for fucking ads. Worst is: most Instagram videos are crapshoots. Low quality, high compression - typical for selfie videos. Which means they're tolerable. But story ads tend to be high-quality productions... requiring sometimes 10+MB.
For reference: common smartphone data plans in Germany are 1-3 GB per month, for 10-30€. 5GB offers are rare and you won't get more than 10 even with expensive business packages.
You can get anything you want with expensive business packages, including unlimited data. I use a wifi hotspot using an unlimited and fast LTE connection whenever I business travel (not sure what they pay for it, I think we even have boxes that pool multiple providers but personally I never used them). Telekom even publically advertises an unlimited LTE plan nowadays (but that is 200€ a month).
However, the typical consumer plans are pretty limited.
I also live in Germany and my experience is a little different. I know several people with 6gb plans for less than 20€, and if you're willing to pay 30€+/mo then 10/15/20gb LTE plans are possible.
Have you tried a comparison site such as Check24? You'll usually find great deals on high data packages. You might have to sacrifice on SMS or Telephone minutes for a high data plan though.
Most of the cheap plans are prepaid or resellers, which often enough don't give LTE or limit the speed. Or they're using the O2 network which you can't really use for anything that demands bandwidth or performance or if you need good countrywide coverage.
Also, all non-first-class customers (i.e. everyone except direct contract customers of the three telcos) get lower priority on the network, both for calls and data.
Most of the cheap plans are prepaid or resellers but those that advertise LTE really do give LATE in my experience.
The O2 network here is terrible for 4G I agree the other two are much better.
Is the lower priority actually noticeable though? Like have their been any third party tests? I'd never heard that until today but it does make sense I guess. They want their own traffic to come first.
> Most of the cheap plans are prepaid or resellers but those that advertise LTE really do give LATE in my experience.
The question is, which level of LTE? If it's capped at anything between 10-15 MBit/s there will be no advantage over HSDPA, versus the 150+ MBit/s you can get via proper LTE.
> The O2 network here is terrible for 4G I agree the other two are much better.
Yeah, but markedly more expensive.
> Is the lower priority actually noticeable though?
Go to any bigger event, say a huge anti-nazi rally, Oktoberfest or rock festivals. I was in Cologne a couple of weeks, approximately 20k people attended. My LTE tablet (O2) had no internet at all. My business phone (Vodafone) had proper internet access, and my private cellphone (Lebara, using Telekom network which is inarguably the best) had massive issues.
Are you saying there are Instagram story ads? I never encountered those. Only ads on my feed. I'm on iOS and use Mozilla's Focus content blocker (which seems to have been pulled from the App Store and replaced by Firefox Klar).
Yep there are, approx. 1-2 a day. I'm on Android, they seem to be rolling out changes in waves, not all at once, though - you may simply be left in a bucket without story ads...
Not sure what you're polling, but it says it's not available in Australia despite Australia being the first release country. Might just want to check that out.
At our school in Australia, everyone was issued laptops last year. The rollout began with seniors (y12) and progressed down through the years. Within about 2 hours of having the machines most of my year had installed chrome, bypassed the web filtering, installed iTunes and copied their music to the laptops. The school knew immediately, and came around to the classrooms to inform everyone that we had now been restricted to 10GB of space on the laptops, and that they had removed iTunes and chrome.
For the remainder of the year everyone found ways to play games and to log onto various school servers and mess with things. It was more a point of we could. A lot of people still used pen and paper, or their own laptops. The most common use of the school issued laptops was free Internet, and thus youtube/ pandora.
From my understanding the younger years don't act such ways as we did being in year 12, and I think it's just a time thing. For them the school laptop is part of their schooling equipment, but for us we went through 10yrs of schooling without a laptop, so getting one was novel.
A small app to create pretty wallpapers for iPhone and iPad out of various map designs. Has become quite popular in Germany.
It started after I tweeted a screenshot of my iPhone home screen and people wanted me to make them a similar wallpaper of their city, so I built an app for it. Took exactly one week from tweet idea to App Store!