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Microsoft's Windows 8: tragic mistake or stroke of genius?
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- By John Howell
I've been arguing with my brother lately regarding the potential of Windows 8 and Microsoft's new Surface tablets. As a die-hard Apple owner, he's not taken with the idea of Windows 8. Will Windows 8 be any good without a touch screen? Even with all the software advances under the hood (and there are plenty), will Microsoft scare the average user to death with such a radical design overhaul?
There's no doubt that Microsoft is gambling big. In terms of its user interface, Windows 8 is the most drastic software update imaginable, equivalent to the launch of Windows 95 - and this from a company that still dominates the desktop PC industry with a 90 percent plus lead. The new touch friendly Metro UI is a colourful (some would argue too colourful) tile based system, a smart cross between the Android OS with its lively widgets and the static icons that make up Apple's phone/tablet software. Tiles can change automatically, displaying current news articles or Facebook posts for example, or alerting you to new emails or a weather forecast - or pretty much anything else. The tiles are perfect for touch. Swiping left to right works nicely.
While it's clear that Microsoft is aiming at touch interfaces with Windows 8, it works well with a keyboard and mouse too. You can use a mouse's scroll wheel to move left to right, and hovering over the bottom left hand corner of the screen gives you a shortcut to the Metro start screen, whether you're on the desktop or using a new Metro style app. Pulling down from the top of the screen closes apps and you can snap two apps together to view them side by side by dragging one next to the other. You can always leave the Metro interface and find the traditional desktop with a single click too (minus the Windows 7 start button).
Microsoft's approach means tablets will arrive with a fully functioning desktop OS. The contrast with Apple is stark. Any software that works on Windows 7 desktop machine (such as Adobe Photoshop), should work on other hardware form factors too. In comparison, Apple has been slowly incorporating pieces of its tablet/phone operating system (IOS) into its desktop software (OSX), but that integration has been haphazard. With small changes Windows 8 desktop apps should run on Windows 8 tablets or phones (and vice versa) - a potential gold mine for developers. By creating a unified, multi-form factor software system Microsoft appears to have jumped 5 years ahead of Apple.
Do we really need touch on laptops or desktops though? Won't your arm get tired controlling your desktop PC over long periods? And why have touch on a laptop anyway?
From my own experience using an Android Transformer tablet, I believe that a laptop or desktop with a touch screen is a great idea. While you don't always use touch for everything, it's very handy to have when you do. Some gestures are more natural and easy using touch (and quickly become the default choice), others work far better using a mouse or a keyboard. It's this combined approach on other form factors I believe will win the day. Sure, if all you are using is touch, your arm may quickly tire, but with multiple different interaction methods, it's another story entirely. A combination of touch, voice and/or gesture control, for example, along with a keyboard and mouse, could be just the ticket. Why should anyone be restricted and locked into one interaction method?
The Windows 8 transition should be boosted by the multiple hardware manufacturers that have already enthusiastically jumped on board. If recent computer trade shows are any indication, we'll see a flood of new Windows 8 desktop machines and tablets launched when Windows 8 arrives arrives 26 October (including Microsoft's new Surface tablets).
Microsoft have sensibly priced the software to maximise adoption. You'll be able to upgrade from almost all older versions of Windows (Vista, XP and Windows 7) for a very low US$39. You'll even be able to upgrade for $39 if you're running the Windows 8 Release Preview (download it here if you don't already have an upgrade option).
Additionally, Microsoft is simultaneously upgrading and launching its very popular Office Suite (Office 2013). They've made the new Office more touch friendly and have finally embraced the cloud (Google Docs watch out). As another incentive to upgrade, Microsoft Office will come free with Windows 8 RT tablets (the version that only runs the Metro UI using Arm chips) and presumably will also be included in the high end Windows Pro versions. Download the preview version of Microsoft's Office 2013 here to check it out in detail. An Apple style Windows App store, a Windows 8 phone operating system with the same Metro approach, and Skype integration could help also help persuade the skeptical.
Still, there's no doubt that they are gambling everything here.The Windows 8 Metro UI does take a bit of getting used to and this factor could have a negative impact on early adoption. Equally, a lot of desktop machines with touch-screens will be released at launch, but the default is still non-touch, especially in corporate environments. Will users find it attractive enough to upgrade? Will non-touch PC users be put off entirely? Can a unified tablet, desktop, laptop and phone OS really be consistent and flexible enough to cover all bases?
It's not long before we find out.
Watch demos of the new Windows 8 Metro UI, Windows 8 Phone, Office 2013 and the Windows Surface tablets below.
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Hayden Panettiere discussed wedding plans and hair disasters in Wednesday's People. While the 24-year-old actress is certainly not a bridezilla, Panettiere admitted to some pretty horrendous hairstyles in her young life. Avoid chopping off the locks, as Hayden had to, with a few of the following hair care tips.
In a refreshingly candid interview with People, Hayden Panettiere gushed over her future wedding plans with 37-year-old Wladimir Klitschko. The "Nashville" star also explained the reason behind her recent dramatic haircut, not visible on the TV show thanks to hair extensions.
My hair was so damaged before, I had to cut it off and give it a rest. I love having short hair. But the grass is always greener. You have it for a couple of months, and then you're ready to go back to long.
I call my hair my 'problem child.' It's blonde and curly. It gets blown out every morning, so the heat is damaging.
Being in the spotlight, Hayden Panettiere has to always be coiffed to perfection, which can be damaging to the hair. But you don't have to be an actress to have the same issues. Instead of washing and styling everyday, use a dry shampoo to freshen the blowout.
Panettiere went on to tout the benefits of Neutrogena's Triple Repair Hair Care System as "completely repairing her hair."
The Hair and Nails Examiner has never seen a pharmacy brand restore damaged hair before. Hayden also happens to be the Neutrogena celebrity spokesperson. There are much better professional hair care brands on the market that should be coordinated through your licensed hairstylist, which work synergistically with your salon services.
Hayden Panettiere then discussed her hair disasters she incurred as a teen, all undoubtedly done without the guidance of a hair care professional.
...Some of my school pictures when the crunchy hair was in, you would get out of the shower and put the most intense gel you could find in your hair. You could blow on your hair and it would snap in half. And then I dyed my hair red once, which was also a terrible idea. It washed out into a lovely orange. It was a very unattractive part of my life.
Yes, the wet look young girls loved about 10 years ago kept gel manufacturers in business and hairstyling assistants busy at the sink washing out the product. Thankfully, Hayden Panettiere grew out of that look and fell into the hands of professionals who tend to her celebrity hair. However, for those reading this, please do not dye your hair at home with the box. Hayden's hair turned orange. Always visit a licensed hair care professional for any color service.
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Tai, the Name of the Eleventh Hexagram, literally Means "Peace". In a fascinating cross-cultural parallel, the Rood Means "Completion, exactly like the Hebrew Word "Shalom". Here, the Trigram "Receptive" is above the "Creative". Of course, it could be said that Heaven is "within" Earth here, Kun over Chien.
Treading leads to Completion, a state of freedom and repose, and hence Li is followed by Tai.
The Idea is that treading (moving) correctly leads to completion and peace. There is also a hint to follow proper Ritual.
PEACE. The Small departs, The Great arrives. Good fortune. Success.
The implication is that Heaven is moving Up, and Earth is moving Down. This Means that all is in the Process of returning to the proper place.
Heaven and earth unite: the image of PEACE. Thus the Monarch divides and completes the course of Heaven and Earth, and so aids the People.
There is a Mount Tai on the East coast of China, which has been a Sacred Place for Thousands of Years. It is viewed as a Place where Heaven and Earth meet, hence the Spiritual Realm meets the Physical. In the previous Hexagram,Li, we were told to distinguish Heaven and Earth; here we must merge them.
Nine at the beginning means: Pull up a reed, and the soil comes with it. This action pulls up other reeds, each according to his kind. Undertakings bring good fortune.
In the West, we say, "leave no stone unturned". King Wen here is saying, that it is Time to be thorough.
Nine in the second place means: Embrace the Great River. Fight the Tiger with bare hands, and ford the River on foot. Be in contact with what seems to be distant. Do not rely on others, walking the Middle Path alone.
This indicates a time to pursue a goal, and not to hold back. Keep in Mind, that God is within you and not separate. This line is said to be the Ruler.
Nine in the third place means: The plain is followed by a slope. The peace
may thus be disturbed. There is a return to the Past. Although surrounded
by danger, persevere without feeling guilt, and enjoy what has already been accomplished.
Here peace has been disturbed. Back up a little, be careful, and inventory your successes.
Six in the fourth place means: Flutter down, do not boast of wealth; call
together the neighbors; they will arrive and will be sincere.
Be humble, in other Words, and do not be afraid to ask for help. It will be given!
Six in the fifth place means: The Monarch gave his younger sister away in marriage. This brought happiness and supreme good fortune.
This is based on the Legend of King Yi, who, in Ancient Times, achieved peace by this Method. This indicates a Time to seek inventive resolutions.
Six at the top means: The city wall fell back into the moat. It is not Time to use the Army. Make commands known only within the town. Perseverance brings regret.
As in line Three, the Message here is to reorganize and be conservative.
An overall feeling of what Tai is all about can be enhanced by studying the Geomantic Figure Caput Draconis, the Dragon Head. The First Four Lines of Tai correspond to Caput Draconis, topped by the Bigram for Fire.


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@ George Washington: Try this guy out, he follows this shit:
Look at his recent ones from end July to now.
I just post this without hope of intelligent response:
a friend who organized a vast local fundraiser after the tsunami and then went to teach video editing and such to children in the most tsunami affected areas to help them learn methods to cope, as I just was to know, came down with radiation sickness.
Now, she was never close to where it was supposed to be unsafe.
She barely scraped by on needing blood transfusions, but consulting with my MD friends, they say in given circumstance, it's not terrible reasonable to assume that she will live to be over a hundred years as her mother and grandmother did.
My MD friends also say, under no circumstance to ingest dairy from west of the Rockies, or any other aggregators.
That's all I like to share with the 5 per cent of zerohedge commenters who have a brain.
However, I live for the principle of dialectic discourse. So, bring it on....
America's Nuclear Nightmare
seriously JamesBond? your easy-to-find news is that local officials said all is good in Minamisoma??? believing any pronouncement of an official in Japan about the radiation being "low" is naive at best. of course, you could just check out their published data for yourself but, OOPS, it may already be deleted:
Nuclear commission erases children's exposure data
"The results included information that showed a 4-year-old infant in Iwaki City was exposed to 35 millisieverts of radiation. This amount is not considered a health threat." !?!!
anyone comparing low-dose external radiation (relatively harmless) and internal radiation (much more harmful) equivalently is either a malicious liar or a utterly uninformed. Keep up the good work GW!!!
gw, how do we preach to the "un-choir"?
Are they all going to dye?
Alpha emitting radiation alters DNA configuration. Altering DNA configuration creates the likelihood of cellular disruption and cancer cell development. Despite what the shills and main stream media publish, no amount of long half life Alpha emitting hot particles are "safe," none! The fewer hot particles involved, the less the probability of direct hit cellular disruption but if even one controlling cell's DNA chain is altered, the probability of cancerous development approaches 100%. Disagree with this postulate at your own peril.
With the above in place, far too many will succumb to this horrific catastrophe in both the acute and chronic distribution cycle. All is such an encompassing word that it is inappropriate, at least to date! I am genuinely sorry to paint such a grim picture.
BTW, roaches are genetically insensitive to alpha emitting isotopes. Care to project the future appearance of Earth's inhabitants moving forward.
GW idiot continues his "FUKUSHIMA IS ARMAGEDDON"-crap. Luckily he is not the one making energy production decisions or we will be all shivering around the camp fire, except GW cannot even start that.
I recommend actually watching at least the first 15 minutes of the video prominently featured in Geore Washington's post. The gist of it is that much of the contamination around Fukushima is much worse than occurred around Chenobyl. The video profiles the heroic work of scientists from Hiroshima and Nagasaki universities determined to get solid evidence of the actual levels of contamination within the first week after the tsunami of March 11, 2011. The film is chilling to watch as these scientists don increasingly bulky protections from the nearly lethal radiation as they draw closer and closer to Fukushima. Japan is in very deep trouble indeed.
Maybe it's time to give thorium-based nuclear power another look (Liquid Florium Thorium Reactors) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWUeBSoEnRk. I know Japan is looking into smaller, uranium-based plants, but thorium might just be ready for commercial usage at long last. Thorium and its' byproducts cannot be weaponized, that's why the US nuclear gurus decided against it during the coldest days of the Cold War. Sadly for Japan, they adopted the US-style plants that are great for creating plutonium warheads and can end up contaminating so much of such a small country.
Keep it up, George Washington. I've been through a disaster and the resulting government cover-up with media complicity first-hand. We need people who aren't afraid of the truth.
I felt obligated to watch all this video after Shinzo Kimura was asked what motivated his interest in the flow of radiation from Fukushima. He answered by showing a picture of his three year old son. This 1hr 28min video is about scientists, not TEPCO or government officals, collecting radiation contamination samples and interviewing people affected by the disaster at Fukushima. Data collected by these scientists proves radiation from Fukushima is worse and more dangerous than most people believe.
George Washington, keep posting info about Fukushima. In a short time it will be recognized as the worst man-made radiation disaster.
checkmark "tim73"= nitwit
Tim.. if you are not smart enough to live in a warm climate..
where the girls wear bikini's 11 months out of the year..
that does not make George and idiot!
YOUR actions make YOU WHO YOU ARE! not George.
Now go vote Republican again so that we can get rid of the top heavy peter principle lobby whores sooner than later!
thanks for playing!
Lebanon is pretty warm, eh?
"on floor like a pancake working its way down"
Out of it's containment vessel, there is nothing that can stop it.
The early rice examinations showed levels of cesium well below dangerous levels. However, to me this is largely because all the tests were conducted on crops South of Tokyo! It's clear that the testing is to be conducted in concentric circles until the level approaches unacceptable levels at which point testing will stop and the entire crop will be deemed safe and the rest will be destroyed without testing.
The only way to respond is to "cool" "it" by hosing it down - for lack of alternative first with seawater (corrosive), for awhile now with fresh water.
There is no way to contain or "filter" the residue at this point.
There is no containment for the vapour either.
The 'runoff' will runoff into the Pacific foodchain.
There will be no government inspections of salmon/thuna runs re: isotopes.
Canada is just about to lay off a slew of environmental employees - by definition the remainder will shut up and be malleable.
There is no way of telling the world that in reality Japan's economy is pretty toast either - not not the way things are right now, anyway.
And then, you'd also have to actually measure and say: pacific seafood is not safe, agricultural produce, meat, dairy, is not safe...... In what world would we be allowed to hear that truth quite yet?
If you have a pregnant spouse, move to Maine or Argentina now - I would.
but think of all the hard data the consumers will not have to suffer then!
it really is a win, win for all involved!
dont ya think?
Thanks HK
Amidst a financial and economic crisis, Congress has reached its summer recess and many representatives are going to Israel.
Altogether, 81 Congressmen and women have announced their one-week trips, paid for by the American Israel Education Fund, a non-profit affiliate of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGhpQi2JVRE AIPAC Sends 81 Members of the US Congress on Vacation! 1/5th of Congress! is going to Israel the Largest single recipient of US AID!! For many years the American media said that "Israel receives $1.8 billion in military aid" or that "Israel receives $1.2 billion in economic aid." Both statements were true, but since they were never combined to give us the complete total of annual U.S. aid to Israel, they also were lies—true lies. Recently Americans have begun to read and hear that "Israel receives $3 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid." That's true. But it's still a lie. The problem is that in fiscal 1997 alone, Israel received from a variety of other U.S. federal budgets at least $525.8 million above and beyond its $3 billion from the foreign aid budget, and yet another $2 billion in federal loan guarantees. So the complete total of U.S. grants and loan guarantees to Israel for fiscal 1997 was $5,525,800,000. http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/cost_of_israel.html **************************************************************************************** Which brings US to this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFbKJxYVirs How Come Israel does NOT! or has NOT EVER ALLOWED the IEA to inspect Dimona? Iran has! I raq did! We ALL KNOW WHY!! Becuase Washington DC is in the HIP Pocket of Israel!
AIPAC Sends 81 Members of the US Congress on Vacation!
1/5th of Congress! is going to Israel the Largest single recipient of US AID!!
For many years the American media said that "Israel receives $1.8 billion in military aid" or that "Israel receives $1.2 billion in economic aid." Both statements were true, but since they were never combined to give us the complete total of annual U.S. aid to Israel, they also were lies—true lies.
Recently Americans have begun to read and hear that "Israel receives $3 billion in annual U.S. foreign aid." That's true. But it's still a lie. The problem is that in fiscal 1997 alone, Israel received from a variety of other U.S. federal budgets at least $525.8 million above and beyond its $3 billion from the foreign aid budget, and yet another $2 billion in federal loan guarantees. So the complete total of U.S. grants and loan guarantees to Israel for fiscal 1997 was $5,525,800,000.
Which brings US to this!
How Come Israel does NOT! or has NOT EVER ALLOWED the IEA to inspect Dimona?
Iran has! I
raq did!
We ALL KNOW WHY!!
Becuase Washington DC is in the HIP Pocket of Israel!
Do you mix your Hummous and Ful Mudammas together like I do?
Ah Sunday mornings in Nablus......
Tyler we need a block user function.
Let him speak. The Palestinians have a legit gripe. However, I think their leaders are equally to blame for lack of progress.
Tyler is a Capitalist!
How about you JOOOOOO's! throw Tyler some Lobby Monies!
and *POOF* you will have blacked out yet another source or real information from the Sheepish Consumers!
All it takes is 6 or 7 figures and Tyler will not allow the truth to be posted about the JOOOO's here!
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for a tight fisted group you guys and gals LOVE to spend Money in Washigton DC!
OOPS! Never Mind! thats becuase the United States gives Israel back 10 times more than the Lobby Costs! My Bad!!
Thank you for making my point for me.
He's just a little frantic-way too much sugar in that Palestinian tea, but that's how they like it.
Bad theology makes for bad politics. Modern Israel is still held up as having a special relationship with God (chosen people and whatnot). This is clearly unbiblical; however, thanks to men like John Hagee (a Christian Zionist--talk about an oxymoron) many evangelical Christians believe in Jewish exceptionalism. But please pay attention to what Christ himself and His Disciples had to say about the unrepentent Jews. It ain't good . . . and it still applies today.
Israel Steals Nuclear Material from the United States!
Israel Selling U.S. Secret Weapons
Technology to U.S. Adversaries
Report in the March 15, 1992, New York Times revealed the pattern of illegal sales by Israel of U.S. weapon technology. The article revealed that Israel did this by either installing the U.S. components in an Israeli weapon system or disassembling the weapon to discover how it worked and then constructing their own, selling the secret technology to foreign countries, some being hostile to the U.S. interests.
Israel received Patriot missiles worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the United States, and instead of keeping the technology secret, sold the missiles with Patriot technology to other countries, including China, in clear violation of U.S. law. A State Department report5accused Israel of engaging, for nearly ten years, in a systematic pattern of reselling cutting-edge U.S. military technology to Third World countries.
5. New York Times, April 4, 1992.
print more money, easy solution, bitchez.
I thought Fukushima had 'gone away'. Damn, you mean it HASN'T?
To think we're only 1, 2 generations tops from Total Recall style mutants. Imagine a dude all pickled on Corexit bangs a newly planted Korean hooker. Roll the dice, roll the dice.
The Japanese rice harvest is only weeks away. I have a very bad feeling about this. If the harvest fails, as I think it will, then the price of rice around the world will go ballistic.
The recently Opened Tokyo Rice Market Exchange was shut down last week due to a radioactive harvest making the crop essentially no good.
I'm long on chopsticks.
Fukushima troubles are over.
No worries, Honda is sending in ASIMO the robot.
Skip ahead to 0:50. Looks like they have the same failure plan as TEPCO.
Honda's building cars with a new cooling system where the entire car acts as a RADIATOR!
I'll translate...
And now Asimo will climb some steps. See how he bounds up them.
Uh Uh ohno, shit he's stumbled and looks like he's fallen.
I think he's hurt, no he might be dead.
Quick somebody cover the gruesome scene.
Aaaaahhh Asimo is dead
RIP Asimo.
Poor Japan just can't get out of it's own way. Remember how cocky they were back in the late '80s, taking over the world. Not.
You sound like a racist to me. Don't sound sorry for those people dying of radiation at all. Guess it doesn't affect the Jews, so who gives a damn anyway, huh?
"Listen, Tonto, I have a plan. I'll tell you as we ride."
Let's face it ... we really cannot do anything about Fu(ck)ushima, nor the Fed, nor anything else much; but in our midst there is juyitrade3
OK he/she/it is but a tadpole (if that) in the BIG POND, but it just might be worth destroying him/her/it as a cathartic exercize.
No matter what your ideological leanings (mine tending to be liberal/tolerant); maybe all of us could get some relief from getting shot of juyitrade3
Then we could go back to the normal of the banter of Zero Hedge comments.
What are you a communist? Dont you believe in freedom of speech or the freedom to waste ~100 lines of space on the tread?
Just kidding - I am for anyones comments (hatefilled and loving - I try to read all and get an idea of the persons thought process) on the thread however when you fill up that much space trying to get people to buy horseshit items... off with his head.
By the way I have some nice watches for sale... cheap. Just had them shipped over from Japan. Damned newest technology. The whole watch glows in the dark not just the minute hands.
Speedi!!! LOL
So what is the potential damage when the pancake works its way through the floor and into the water line?
No one knows. If we can only talk about it here what does that tell you?
Tepco will get the comfy chair.
No one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition, nor riots on the streets.
Thanks for keeping this topic alive. Fine work.


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Let's talk about mobile!
Mathias Dahlstrom(http://flabbergasted.me/) has just joined the team full time as our new head of mobile. This is a massive boon: not only is he regarded as one of the best iOS developers in London, but he also has a MA in interaction design. That combination makes him the perfect man to glorify the mobile Memrise experience.
He is also going to be watching this forum closely, so please do let him know if you have any thoughts, suggestions or questions and he will get back to you ASAP.
Hi Everyone! As Ben said we are busy working on the next version of the iPhone application and planning the 2-3 phases. I would like to have an open discourse around what you would like to see and have us us improve. We have been going through all the feedback you have sent so far, which have been great and I wanted to thank you all for the feedback you give. I wanted to highlight a few things from the list which I have seen frequently mentioned in the feedback that we are going to be tackling in the next 2 versions, besides a lot of other things.
- Give you more control over how you learn, when you plant, when you water etc.
- Give you feedback about each learning session, which words you got right, which you got wrong. As you are used to on memrise.com
- Test types optimised for mobile use, we want to keep the difficulty of the current tests but provide better mobile interactions then the popup keyboard allows.
- Better and more customisable offline capability
I would like to recruit a handful of Memrisers to help with beta testing new versions of the app - please do let me know if you would be interested because it would be a massive help.
Are there any plans for an Android app?
Hi - I'd be very happy to beta test.
Cheers Ian
Congrats on the new role, should be really high impact for memrise. Am happy to beta test iOS.
Welcome Mathias. Might there be a Blackberry app sometime? Would be happy to beta test that!
Yep definitely need a blackberry app!
Hi Everyone! Android is definitely one of our next platforms, I cant give you and exact timeline but Im hoping to give you an in depth update in the next weeks. We are a small but growing team that tackles all platforms currently.
Blackberry is a more uncertain from a native app point of view, but depending on the feedback and requests we will of course reevaluate it. Its definitely featuring in our test matrix, that we are developing for the mobile web experience. What kind of BB devices are you using and would like to see an app on?
I will be in touch with everyone that expressed an interest in testing the iOS application via email in the coming week.
Cool, glad to hear about both the Android and mobile web options. I'm sure the non-iOS-users amongst us will be happy to wait a bit longer, and I'll be happy to help with either beta.
I'd be interested in an iPhone beta, for sure - I'm excited to see it in action!
I'd love to be in the iPhone beta.
Hi! Nice to know that more attention will be spent on the mobile side of Memrise. I'm hoping that the app will be extended to Androids, and that the app itself will become more functional. An ipad app would also be nice. I'd like for the Memrise app to be as good, if not better, as the actual website. I wish you and others the best of luck.
Blackberry app please.
I'm also happy to test the beta version. Would be good to get an app that works and can sync correctly.
I would love to beta test the iphone app. I am currently using memrise to study for the French SAT subject test and it would be great if I could study on the bus ride to and from school.
What about the iPad? Seems like memrise would be awesome on the iPad. I wanted to use the iPhone app, but it works only on iOS 5. It would be really great for us jailbreakers if you made it compatible with iOS 4.3 (as there is no jailbreak for iOS 5 yet, at least not for the iPad 2). I would be happy to test any beta versions for iPhone or iPad. Thank you!
Excited to see a Memrise iPhone app. I'd be happy to beta test.
Hello Mathias, sounds like you have an interesting challenge ahead! Will be good to see what functionality emerges in the new versions of the app, for example as a regular tube and plane traveller the chance of offline learning would be great.
Like other keen Memrise users, happy to help with any beta testing.
Hi everyone! Thank you for the warm welcome and all suggestions and feedback :)
Our core effort is going to be focused on learning and different types of test that fits with mobile phones, tablets, laptops. We have started the journey by working on devices with a small form factor, next up are the tablet sized devices in the not to distant future. My goal is to bring learning to you rather then to a technical platform.
Is anyone of you using the current website on Android and iOS tablet frequently? Would be interested in hearing your worst and best features.
At the moment I'm afraid I cant make any promises on iOS 4.3 support.
I use the site on an iPad 1 frequently but the site is fairly slow (compared to on a desktop at least) and I find that it crashes fairly often.
I use the site on ipad2 and site seems low and not sure if it has accepted my selection sometimes on multi choice questions as hangs thinking about it. On the practice typing a word screen the ipad keyboard display pushes the screen up hiding the word. Which means I have to scroll down all the time to see it and it is a little annoying. When the word is played to hear the pronunciation it is always when the next word appears on the screen which I don't think helps.
Hi! I'd love to beta-test Memrise in my iPhone!
I've used the website on an iPad 2 several times. Ell's points are valid, but my biggest issue is that I can't type fast on the on-screen keyboard, and the keyboard disappears when I make a multiple choice selection. This slows down my test sessions considerably and makes them frustrating. (To tell the truth, even if you did make a tablet app, I'd be unlikely to use it - I'd use the phone app when I'm on the move, and try to find a computer with a real keyboard when I'm in one place.)
What I'd personally like to see in an iPhone app is identical functionality/tests as on the website, but with a better interface so it's less fiddly to use than going to memrise.com in iOS safari. (For instance, auto-focus the text box for typing texts, and have the keyboard automatically appear for typing tests and disappear for multiple choice tests.) The problematic interface is the only reason I don't typically use memrise on my phone. (Though offline testing would be nice as well!)
I might be in the minority based on everyone else's comments, but I think that the site works much better on the ipad 2 than it does on any of the browsers I've tried it on with a desktop. The difference may be that I'm studying Japanese and the ipad's Japanese keyboard is really quite great, while even with an IME on a desktop you're still typing the Roman characters that correspond to the Japanese. (the freezes that people have mentioned do pop up. I chalk it up to the site being in Beta)
I've tried the iphone app and find it useless because if you don't have a connection when you end a watering session, it gives an error. I travel back and forth on the subway, which means that the one time of day I don't have an internet connection is the one time of day I'd really like to be able to drill vocabulary. If I have a connection to the internet, I just use the website, which I find works fairly well on the iphone but could use some optimizations (it's a bit too small, and the layout means I need to scroll).
Sign me up for the iphone beta if you need people. I'm definitely willing to try new things!
Memrise runs fine on my iPhone. There's a couple minor things which TL-theUltimate listed but they don't bother me that much. So, I'm not interested in an app with watered down features when the full website is equally accessible.
The one thing that I'm begging you to fix is the mute button. It does not work on the iPhone at all! Every time that a sound plays it shuts my music off which is really annoying.
I would like to help you test the android version when it is in development.
I'd definitely be interested in the Android app. Been waiting forever for something like it.
I've been using memrise almost exclusively on iPad since first visiting the site in December. (iPad 1).
Would really welcome a good app for IPhone and iPad
What would make a good app is the ability to use memrise constructively when you have no connection or very resricted connection. Ok, no connection means you can't download new sets - so let's go over existing wordsets already downloaded. Including new words you haven't yet learned.
Any version of a mobile app for memrise that is dependent on a good connection will be a waste of resource. If there's a good connection, we'll just use the website.
Good synchronisation between the mobile app and the main site is the holy grail here. You really need to get that working seamlessly to get us hooked on using memrise in both modes. Don't make any compromises with that ultimate goal.
BUT - in the meantime, the mobile app could be used for all kinds of offline sessions - learning as well as drill, and we would accept lack of synch as a temporary limitation.
Think of it as like an iPod - you download a playlist to the mobile device, and then you can go off and play with that as much as you like, and then when you can get a connection you can download some new playlists, etc.
Of couse it will be wonderful when we can properly synch the mobile experience with the online system, but that's going to take you a while, so in the meantime please develop the app so it helps us get on with learning using memrise while we're offline for minutes or hours or weeks.
It will be ironic if, the next time I go to Spain, I have to revert to a phrase book and CD because the lack of a useful connection there means memrise will be unusable!
Yeah, I think it is absolutely imperative for the app to be able to work offline and then sync up with the website. If it has to be connected at all times, it would be essentially useless to me, because I'd just use the website on my PC.
The ultimate goal should be first-class seamless synching. But I bet that will take a while. And even when it arrives there will still be plenty of situations, especially for serious travellers, when a memrise user is away from a good connection for days at a time.
So, yes please, start working on the comprehensive smooth synching process, but in the meantime, develop the app so it can be used for days at a time without re-connecting. So you can download some chosen lists, and then plant, harvest and water offline.
OK, when you get back online, you'd have to "
(Sorry, big finger trouble - I'll start that last thought again)
OK, until the super-synch facility was available, when you returned from days offline, you'd have to re-learn and re-water the same words again, but that would be a minor nuisance compared to the benefit of having a useful chunk of memrise with you at all times. And the problem of having a way of marking words as known is there anyway, somthing that memrise will have to accommodate in some way.
So my plea is for memrise to set two goals - a longterm one for a really good synching process, and a short-term one to make the app useful when you have no connection for days or longer.
I'd like to beta test the newest app. I've been using the original Memrise app and it just doesn't work well - yet. Im hoping for some updates to improve the synchronization and usability of the current version.
I was surprised when I went on a long flight and could not repeatedly review my word lists since I did not have a network connection. The app never stays synched with the website wilting/sprouting lists either.
While I have the memrise app for the iPad, I always go to the website when using the iPad and think that the website works just fine. There are a few cases where some tweeks to the style sheet would improve the mobile experience (like larger making sure that click areas are large enough) it is mostly acceptable. Given that HTML5 lets you store data offline (which would otherwise be the major argument of an app in this case), I think that it should at least be considered to put more time into making the website more mobile comparable rather than putting all the development time into individual mobile platform development.
+1 ganderson on the iPad experience, no need to optimize iOS app for iPad at this point. Website on iPad is maybe 80% as good on a computer, am noting down my impressions of a few things that could be improved and will post those up once I have a critical mass of things to say.
iPhone is bit trickier due to limited real estate.
I'd love to be a beat tester for future releases. One great (but hard to develop) addition to the app would be a test of writing characters. A simple way to start this would be a prompt to write a certain character at the top of the screen with a blank space to write below. Then when you finish writing and hit OK it either superimposes the character or shows what you wrote and the actual character side by side and you can mark yourself.
I would like to be a tester
same here. Will be gratefull for betatest possibility (ios)
I'm looking forward to use the Android app! It would be great if the app can also be used when not connected to the internet (e.g. when roaming).
I would love to download and try it, but unfortunatly, I don't have iOS 5 :/. But I'm glad others can use it :)
i would like to help beta testing.
from Jake
Would love to help test the iPhone app. I haven't actually worked out how everything works - sync is not quite as intuitive as it might be.
I'd be very happy to Beta test your iPhone/iPad app
As to the app as it is, I've been trying it today and find that it keeps 'crashing' and having to reload which it does painfully slowly, despite the hi speed wifi I have. I know it's an app in its infancy so I'm sure it'll be ironed out soon but that would be my current 'wish'.
I just tested the site on the new ipad... fairly slow. :-/
I currently have an iphone 4 and new ipad and have myself an app in production. would love to beta test and give feedback :)
cheers from switzerland
I mentioned this elsewhere but this thread might be better - I have a weird sound bug with the site on my iPad. Even if I have the sound both on the site AND on my ipad completely turned off, the audio clips still play!
It strikes me as a rather serious bug, since the website is somehow overriding the volume settings on my iPad.
On hillaryjoyce iPad sound, I also find the mute button does not work - but cannot reproduce the issue of overriding device volume buttons. If I mute my iPad the sound will not play no matter what.
It's honestly the strangest thing. It's an iPad 2, for what it's worth, and it's not jailbroken or anything. I'm running it in safari - maybe I'll test another browser and see if it still happens.
Quick note, I have started sending out the emails regarding helping us test the iOS app. You will receive an email if you expressed interest this weekend at latest.
Encouraging to hear it works that well on the ipad, definitely a good starting point. We are aware that we need to improve the audio controls, this thread reenforces it.
Just tried another memonic app which could be improved a lot, Anki, which I used before I fall in love with memrise website. Definitely will help to beta test memrise on android. Thanks for your work!
I'd like to test too, I already have the first version so I thought it would be an update on that :)
I would be very happy to test any iPad app - android too though my phone is not particularly powerful.
I would be very happy to test an iphone app
If you need more testers for the iPhone app beta, include me as well please.
I would definitely like to see an android app as it seems that I can't access the site on my galaxy through the browser alone. Gets as far as the loading screen for testing but no further.
This is not specific to the app, but rather using the website on an Android phone. I can use the site fine with my browser on my Samsung Galaxy phone, but when I reach a point where I need to press enter to continue (such as the page to correct your spelling after you made a mistake), I cannot continue. Android phones do not have an enter key! I think it would be useful to add a next page button I can click, as the other pages have.
I love the iphone app and would be happy to test the beta version. My only niggles so far with the first version are: 1. can't turn audio off - really annoys my hubbie 2. app can't connect sometimes - need to log out and back in again to make it work. I'm really looking forward to the ipad version.
"Is anyone of you using the current website on Android and iOS tablet frequently? Would be interested in hearing your worst and best features."
I've been using it on my Android tablet (7") in portrait mode. and the one complaint I have is that when switching to a test type that requires keyboard input the zoom on the page zooms massively to the input area. then you have to zoom it back out to push the "next" button.
A fixed zoom would be good
I would be very excited to test on Android platform!
I'd happily beta test the Android app when it's ready, if you need any more!
I would be very happy to beta test iOS
I can beta test iPhone4, am soho iOS developer. We would use an iPad app on our 1 and 2. Excited about the potential!!!!
I would be happy to beta test the Android version of memrise and give regular feedback/bug report.
Since I have a lot of commute, I agree with all the others who say that offline mode is a must have for mobile, not a nice to have ("nice to have" is an online mobile app when there's already a html5 compatible version... :p). We should be able to buffer a few hundred questions (50 is way too few), answer them offline, and upload the answers.
I'd love some kind of offline mode on my windows notebook/laptop. I have a long commute, and I'd love to use it to study on memrise.
Great! I'm an interaction designer and keen memriser so I'll be happy to test!
Do you think an API would be released? I think progress would speed up considerably if the API were to be released for developers.
I use iPhone App about 2 weeks, may be more, it`s great and worked properly. But 3 dayes ago it had a problem, seemed the same but lost all my datas about plants, shows zero in all of my courses although it was safe on memrise.com . Then it crushed. I reinstalled it but it is the same - zero data in all of my courses.
During that 3 dayes it was changes in design inside courses, but not useful. More datas runs out fron iPhone screen, it needs to scroll and lost time, irrelevant information such as header of courses occupied valuable place on the top and moves nesessery datas down. Please check it, the App is eally useful and I felt a little bit stange feelings seeing my gardent totally empty. Hopes you`ll check it soon!
We are looking into what happend, hope to have fixed in the app store very soon.
in regards to an API question above, I would check out our forum at http://www.memrise.com/forum/developers/ were you find details about it.
Hi Mathias,
I'm excited to hear you have joined the team, as I have been anxiously awaiting a useable mobil app. I would be delighted to be a beta tester for anything you are working on. I've been trying to use the current app but have been very frustrated by it.
put me down as a tester
I have a jailbroken ipad/iphone and would be happy to give bug reports/feedback
I would welcome being a beta tester for the Android platform!
When I use the website on a MacBook Air (which is most of the time), for some reason the sound doesn't work, but it works on the iPhone and iPad and a PC laptop - although the sound is quite slow coming, and if I'm working fast it gets skipped altogether. I find the website works better than the Apps for the iPhone and iPad so I don't bother with them.
I wanna Beta Test ;)
I wanna Beta Test ;)
I've had the memrise iPhone app for almost as long as it's been available.
I've yet to see an update in iTunes. Am I missing something?
I'm with revans. I got the iPhone app as soon as it was available. About 2 months ago, Memrise tweeted that an update was about 10 days away... Even something slightly better (read: at all usable) would be great! My Memrise app won't even connect to the site to download my word list any more :-(
Right now the biggest disadvantage Memrise has for me is that I can't catch up with my wilteds at least via an Android app. Web is too awkward and slow for me to do with Android web browsers and with China Mobile's 2G or whatever I'm getting here.
+1 for an Android app with off-line mode. (I find that the mobile site works reasonably well with Chrome, but an off-line version would be a great boon.)
Mathias has announced v1.1 in a separate thread (about 3 hrs ago).
Try checking your iPhone for an update. But Mathias' post and my first try-out suggest it's not a huge leap forward.
@revans Thanks for the heads up! I downloaded and am testing it out!
do you have any further information concerning Memrise for Android. I would like to participate in the test :)
Hi Mathias, I was trying to use the new iPhone application. Great view, everything clear (number of plants etc) but it doesn
t work. As I download the course it do it slowly (more slowly then previous version), shows the cours downloaded but it will be the white screen only. No work. Whats it?..
I would like to be a beta tester for iPhone 4s. I'm currently using it to study Japanese.
I would like to be a beta tester for android motorola photon.
I would love to participate in any beta testing for the android app. Currently running 2.3.5 on an HTC Desire HD.
I would love to test an Android app too!
You can add me to the beta tester list for Android!
To iPhone app: it was really frozen in the way to download particular acting (the same with wateing, seeding o growing processes). I wasn`t able to work, the white screen was more then 10 min and then the app crushed.
Also I strongly support carl_a about the possibility of previous app version to download everything in one click and then to use the app in a subway or another place of poor internet connection.
Mathias, previous app had several advantages, would you please to save it for the best work? The simple work sometimes is the best instead of beautiful view, so looking forward to your help.
I've been dreaming about an Android app since I first joined Memrise. I would certainly appreciate an email or some kind of notification when it is released. Thanks you kindly.
I'd like to second Crunch's post - desperate for an Andorid app!
I'll join the Android app testing group as well! I got a smartphone about a month ago and have been longing for one since. I tried using the website, but it's just a mess on such a small screen. I constantly have to zoom in to see the word, then click the blank, type the word, and the whole process is so tedious that I just wait until I can get back to my laptop. Really excited to know the app. is in the future though.
If an Android application is released, I'll be the happiest man this side of the world! Waiting eagerly.. would happily pay for it!
Add me to the list of volunteers for Android beta testers. Al we need is a volunteer developer :)
I just got a really cheap android 2.3 phone (LG 690) and was surprised to find the site works OK with the android browser. A bit of screen scrolling required for each test, but I was able to answer almost everything I knew correctly in the time. I've since found the default zoom settings, need to try again with far zoom to see if its even better.
can we have an update on the progress please memrise?
I'd like to beta test the iphone app.
I run into issues when I'm downloading and I get disconnected from the internet. Or I download the words to harvest/ grow do the series and then try to connect back to the internet. Sometimes I get a loop when I keep downloading the same words again and again
I notice the app doesn't differentiate between when you need to water all your plants versus when you can just practice. The website will say for example I need to water 40 plants , then if i I want I can practice the rest from a course, but the app doesn't show that. I'd really only like to water the ones that need it
yeha I would be happy to beta test. Massive fan of this site, 200+ words in 5 days? yeaah!
Also slightly contraversial opinion, and of course your free to discard my advice, but I would recommend holding off on the android app for another month or so and focusing on iOS development. Get the mobile platform rock solid and out of beta before cutting across.
can't wait for android app : )
Love the new vi.3 app out now. Had a few niggles logging in at first but worked fine after a few minutes. Only one comment really and that is that not liking having to scroll down to the continue button when having fluffed a word on a watering session. Would be easier if everything were visible without scrolling.
I am unable to login using the iPhone app ;-(
The iPhone app doesn't work at all for me, ditto the iPad. I can login but it won't start up.
Any updates on the Android version?
Also, sign me up to be a beta tester for the Android version when it comes out. I can't wait to try it out!
As soon as you begin writing an Android app, and /especially/ when you reach beta testing phase, /please/ do not hesitate to contact me, as I would be more than happy to test it.
I am /extremely/ desirous of such an app.
happy to beta test
I want to test the beta app for android please.
I've been using the site on a nexus 7 tablet, seems to work pretty well in the chrome browser, occasionally crashes partway through a test, but you can reload and continue. Google's pinyin keyboard (set to english) works well as it gives you the numbers on the main keyboard.
iPhone app sometimes asks you to give the answer to the word "None". Pictures don't fit on the screen, too big. When will there be an Android app or a mobile site?
Android user happy to beta test. :)
I would be hapy to beta test the Android app as well
I would also help test the Android app
I would also help test the Android app
I would also help test the Android app
I would also help test the Android app
I would also help test the Android app
I would also help test the Android app
I would also help test the Android app
I would also help test the Android app
I would also help test the Android app
I would also help test the Android app
I would also help test the Android app
android user ready to beta test
Didn't they say it would be out before Christmas? I bet it is going to be awesome when it finally does appear on the app store. If you still need an iOS beta tester I would be happy to help.
The site will not even load on my iPhone, so I can only use the site when I have access to a computer.
Android user, reporting in. Let's get a beta pushed out. :)
The app needs to have offline functionality, especially for commuters
@goobenation 100% agree
@goobenation Most definitely. That would be a great aspect of the app.
I think the app would be kind of pointless if it didn't work offline. If you are online the website works fine now, at least on android/chrome.
Most of these comments are months old and include tester feedback on a beta client, which I am not part of. That disclosure out of the way, the one thing which has annoyed me with all language learning software and apps (something which also plagues flashcard apps) is support for multiple fonts.
When learning a non-latin character based language, say something using Cyrillic as in any Slavic language, then some characters look radically different in one font versus another. For a prime example look at the lower case character т in Cyrillic. Memrise currently shows this character as similar to ш due to the choice of a script font. This does a disservice to beginners. See the attached screenshot for an example of the font/character confusion. Yes, that word is technically typed and spelled the same in memrise and google translate although the font (script) displays differently.
I'd like to beta test the android app if there is the possibility. using the app on mobile would be so different as you can use it anywhere and would help a lot to focus on your learning routine.
Why is there still no Android app?! I would happy to go in for beta.
Bump on the need for an offline version, as well as the need to create apps across platforms (I have an iPad and an Android phone... curse phone company contracts!!)
android app asap please!
Hei Memrise staff, i am getting in love day by day more with your fantastic site.
I am using a BB bold 9900 and i'd like really to see an app for it :)
I would like to beta test the Iphone app please


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