Comments on: 10 Android Apps to Check Out: Fitocracy, Battery Boom, Snap Camera, and More

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:40:00 +0000

Absolutely; choice is good! I’ll still contend, though, that for the majority of people’s usage pattern I believe Google+ is the superior option. I just don’t get why G+ photo backup, editing, sharing, etc. is never highlighted by most of the tech blogs. Not dogging on Dropbox; I just think more people could use the built in solution on Android but they may not know about it.

By: Chiaroscuro7

Chiaroscuro7 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:37:00 +0000

Maybe I wasn’t clear earlier when I implied that you can’t download full res pics from G+, I do know you can d/l full res pics – what I mean is I don’t want to go to the web interface each time to download pics/albums from G+ – the dropbox desktop app works well since it shows up like a folder on my desktop (much like Drive) and I have all pics automatically downloaded – so just easier to see / edit them or have access to them whether online or offline – and I don’t want to use both G+ and then transfer to drive when I can have the same thing with dropbox in one step -

anyway.. good that G+ works better for you; finally options are good for everyone – like others have said above. Just posted my opin Cheers!!

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:27:00 +0000

a) Can’t argue with that. More free storage is straight up more storage. For those who didn’t get any promotions or anything, There’s no advantage there (I have a free 50GB Dropbox from a promo a while back, but I simply don’t ever use it).

b) You can most certainly download photos to any device in full res from Google+, but I don’t know if it has a “pin” option. I’ll scurry off and look.
. . .
Nope; no pin option. So you can basically straight download them and have them on your device, but it won’t be such that you’re viewing what’s on your device through the Google+ interface (like how pinned music works on Google Music). If offline viewing in the native UI of the program is what you’re after, then I don’t think Google+ fits the bill (you could also have your photos stored on Drive, but that has the same issue).

Picasa used to work like that, but it’s really been swallowed up by Google+. Makes sense to me as I don’t want my photos is five different places. My usage is mainly Android and Chrome, so I’m online 95+% of the time I have a device being used. Google+ works great for me for viewing, and I can download an image in a pinch if need be. If you’re going to be needing robust offline capabilities, though, I don’t know that Google+ is really the best bet for you.

By: Chiaroscuro7

Chiaroscuro7 — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:53:00 +0000

The reasons I like Dropbox over G+ are:

a) I have space of about 15 GB (through referrals etc) compared to 5GB on G+ for full sized uploads (and yes, I would like to not pay for it if possible – so the paid options are not useful for me)

b) The main reason I like Dropbox is that – I prefer having the actual jpeg files and dropbox on my laptop allows me easy access to that through its desktop app, I can have all pics synced to my laptop pretty easily this way and access them while offline as well. I don’t think I can do that using G+ – I don’t want to mess with links, or online browsing each time (though I love how easy it is to share pics from G+). Picasa is not a good option.

Would love to hear your take on this Droidzilla

By: summit1986

summit1986 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:45:00 +0000

As the snow flies
On a cold and gray Plattsburgh mornin
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries
Cause if there’s one thing that she don’t need
Its another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto

By: Nicolas Pipitone

Nicolas Pipitone — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:08:00 +0000

No Problem!

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:45:00 +0000

By marketing only one single feature they’re in a sense copying Apple, I wonder if Apple has a patent on advertising a single feature…hmmm

By: Spider210

Spider210 — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:15:00 +0000

Ya the upstate ny still rocking the 3g for about another year sad to say here is a pic of our non-lte tower in upstate burgh area

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:59:00 +0000

I love Reader (formerly Reader HD). Press is very good but is not yet as good as Reader.

By: philnolan3d

philnolan3d — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:44:00 +0000

Not only cropping but also blowing up the pixels so you have the same size image file but with a blurry mess of pixels.

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:28:00 +0000

I just don’t get why the need for third part solutions. I don’t recall being rude about it. No offense intended; if I got your panties all in a twist it was sheerly incidental and in no way volitive. I’m just trying to see what the possible advantages are over a first party offering that seems to already do it all. Feel free to overlook my posts in the future so you won’t be upset by my apparent Google proselytising.

By: TheOiulkj

TheOiulkj — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:23:00 +0000

Why are you trying to shove G+ down everyone’s throat? Nothing is wrong with dropbox as an alternative, especially for power users because of all the 3rd party support for apps such as wappwolf.

I don’t have anything against G+ either, so I’m not going around trying to convert G+ users to Dropbox. Just use what freakin works for you, we don’t need no monopoly here.

I swear, the Android community is becoming the new Apple community. Just because someone owns an Android, doesn’t mean they have to worship Google.

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:44:00 +0000

But you also have 5GB for full res photos (you can purchase more, too; see my post above this one).

By: Droidzilla

Droidzilla — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:43:00 +0000

Well reasoned response and makes total sense. Thanks!

By: Zachary Newman

Zachary Newman — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:41:00 +0000

It’s actually around 3MP size which I do not consider the same as 5MP.