Skyfire 1.0 OUT NOW! - Touch HD Themes and Apps

Hi skyfire is no longer beta and an new version is released!
http://www.skyfire.com/

looking forward to this

Ah , i've been looking forward to playing with this, thanks for the heads up

ahh damn, its not native wvga =(

deepinside88 said:
ahh damn, its not native wvga =(
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Yes it is: "Supported Screen Resolutions (pixels) 240x240 320x320 320x240 (QVGA) 400x240 (WQVGA)
640x480 (VGA) 800x480 (WVGA)"
Lets see how well it playes streaming videos.. last one wasnt so good.

One word, YAY.

tunppi said:
Yes it is: "Supported Screen Resolutions (pixels) 240x240 320x320 320x240 (QVGA) 400x240 (WQVGA)
640x480 (VGA) 800x480 (WVGA)"
Lets see how well it playes streaming videos.. last one wasnt so good.
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Supported is a long way from native - it looks awful compared to Opera, blocky, gritty images, impossible to read anything without zooming...
The PC equivalent would be playing Quake in 640x480 on a 1920x1200 monitor...

how do you get it to change resolution?

yes okay it looks not as good as opera. but i think this is a really fast browser. i tink i will use this if i have only gprs connection and opera mini gave up

or you can use wvgafix3 to change the resolution =)

Meh stretched VGA =(. Good browser but that's the only bad thing about it, hope they'll change it one day.

shame its not full res on the touch hd.

Have they got sound working on video streams yet ???

this is nothing. still waiting on opera 9.7

Mach5 browser has same speed as skyfire but opera's clearity/resolution. Also, plays videos without any problems.

Here are the changes:
Skyfire 1.0 has a huge number of enhancements over the longstanding 0.9 beta:
* Thumbnail interaction. Now you can click on links immediately after the page loads without having to zoom in. This enhancement is especially helpful for high resolution phones, and for familiar sites where you know right away where you want to click. It makes getting to the content you want on the page simpler, quicker and more efficient.
* Improved Zoom. Double-tap or double-click to zoom over any element, including links, images or videos. The zoom interaction is smoother and more responsive as well. Best of all: when you zoom in you will get readable text instantly (beforehand, text was blurry and took a while to become sharp).
* Enhanced Navigation. When you navigate back or forward, you return to the last viewport (e.g. zoom level and portion of the page). Thus eliminating the need to pan and zoom into the section you were viewing on the previous page. Skyfire remembers even the viewport when you select a page from your history.
* Improved page handling. Enhancements have been made especially for AJAX-intensive sites such as Facebook and Gmail. If larger parts of the page get updated then the client will more quickly and accurately reflect this.
* iFrame handling. There's a solution for full-width iFrames in Skyfire
* Fast start. The developers changed both the sequence and behavior of the Skyfire launch so you get started as quickly as possible. You can type a search or URL in the Superbar while Skyfire is connecting in the background. You can put Skyfire to work before the start page is even loaded.
* Reconnect to last state. When you leave Skyfire in the background, Skyfire will disconnect to preserve battery life. Once you come back to it (after minutes, hours, days) it will reload the same page to the same zoom level and focus. Thus you can continue right where you left off. When you exit and start again, you will always land on the start page.
* Connection helper. There's a new mechanism in place to detect when connections cannot be established to Skyfire servers. If this is due to a network configuration (common in GSM land), then suggestions are provided to help out. This is especially useful if you are with a carrier/data plan that places restrictions on certain APN configurations, which interferes with Skyfire.
* Enhanced search results. Google results now include video, news articles, local results all blended on a single results page and ordered by relevance. Vertical search categories are still available.
* Improved RSS feed search. Find your favorite custom RSS feeds through the improved Add-Feed feature, found under the Customize menu on the start page. Search by site domain, feed URL, or even topical keywords.
* Easier sharing of RSS items from start page. Skyfire has exposed a simple “Share this article” link below each RSS story displayed on your start page to make it easier to share interesting items to Twitter and Facebook
* Remember last connection (Symbian only). Skyfire can now remember the last connection for you, so you will not have to choose a connection every single time. In addition, if you want to change the connection type while you are in Skyfire then you can do so.

sound is included. hm strange if i change the resolution to vga (wvgafix3) the texts and pictures are still noisy -.- dont understand that but i think a higher resolution will be not good for the skyfire servers.
waiting for 9.7
but i think 9.7 will be released end of the year. fennec also....

much better than the Beta's... I actually quite like this.

help needed
its not working with 3g connection wy not,
how can ill fix this.
please advise

sitaniace said:
its not working with 3g connection wy not,
how can ill fix this.
please advise
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Same problem here...

Related

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Two weeks ago I made a little application to convert any input video to MP4 compatible with our HD Touch HD.
At the beginning it was only for spanish people. It has been grown and now it's a big aplication and I want to share it with english spoken people.
Its main features are:
- Support for avi, mp4, wmv, mkv, mpg, m2v, mov, vob, flv. Dvd directly rip included.
- Adjust bitrate to resolution output video (from 250 to 800)
- Lets crop to our HD ratio aspect (5/3), and change the input video aspect ratio
- You can add, change order, or delete videos of the video pending queue in any time.
- Supports srt subtítles (if a srt file with same name is present)
- If heigth is greater than 480, it scales video
- Shows complete information of the video to convert (resolution, framerate, duration, etc)
- If input video includes multilanguage (Dvd, vod, mkv), you can select audio language, and subtitles language.
- You can select for each video the start and end position, and preview the video.
- You can join Mp4 of same resolution (if a video is splited in two videos, you can convert each one, and after join them)
- You can select if computer hibernate/suspends or shoot down after converting process.
- If application is minimized you see actual progress.
- Multilanguage interface support (actually English, Spanish and Catalan)
If you want to traslate interface to your language, copy the english.lng file to the name desired, and then edit with notepad, changing each input for the traslated one. Please send me this file if you want it will be present in the next version.
The link to the setup file is here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=938060f0b669aea5931c7453395df0253b8a2def81d84139ce018c8114394287
I hope you enjoy it.
Regards.
Nobody has tested?
Great work!
I have a feeling most others probbably use some other application...
But don't let this stop you. Please keep us informed of updates.
I will try this when I get a free moment
Thanks
Dark Knight said:
Great work!
I have a feeling most others probbably use some other application...
But don't let this stop you. Please keep us informed of updates.
I will try this when I get a free moment
Thanks
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It makes the same as 'the other' and much more,
and absolutly freeware.
Sorry, but where is the option to switch the bitrate for video?
Cupra TDI said:
Sorry, but where is the option to switch the bitrate for video?
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It's automatic. It's calculated depending the size of the output video.
Looks great would love to give it a try... could someone attach it locally.. or post it to somewhere other than mediafire? I live in China... Mediafire is blocked. Although i can view the page using Firefox and the Gladder plugin to proxy it the php download gets screwed up. BTW just off hand anyone know a plugin or app for WM that can handle multi public proxies? the Great firewall blocks most free web site pages, more than half download pages Wikipedia on and off depending on moon phase <sigh> most blog pages ect.
If someone could relink it that'd be great, if you can advise on a proxy setup for china on WM please Private message me. Thanks
Psyberd said:
Looks great would love to give it a try... could someone attach it locally.. or post it to somewhere other than mediafire? I live in China... Mediafire is blocked. Although i can view the page using Firefox and the Gladder plugin to proxy it the php download gets screwed up. BTW just off hand anyone know a plugin or app for WM that can handle multi public proxies? the Great firewall blocks most free web site pages, more than half download pages Wikipedia on and off depending on moon phase <sigh> most blog pages ect.
If someone could relink it that'd be great, if you can advise on a proxy setup for china on WM please Private message me. Thanks
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Tell me in what server must I attach it.
Regards.
Thread Moved to Blackstone Forum
alternative video converter for me
gona try this one
hey, Psyberd
Duplicate thread
Thread duplicated here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478050 which also contains a rapidshare mirror.
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Sounds good
I'll try it tonight when I get home. I have tried almost all dvd converter softwares from Handango and none of them work with Omnia, I can't get full video screen. The only one that works is DVD catalyst 3.
Luego te digo como fue con este. I'll let you know later
Thanks Gracias
Omnia device and DVD convertion
I just tried tonight converting a DVD to mp4 and when I play movie in Omnia device I get message file format not supported even though the movie plays with a good full video resolution screen which is very hard to get with most of the softwares out there but in slow motion, it keeps stopping during the play.
Also how can I get subtitles from DVD? I can only see support for srt .
Thanks a lot

TV Out Performance ?

I'm very curious with TV Out Picture Quality? It's better than Touch Pro or not, what about the resolution (still 480x800 on TV or not) ? My dream is use this features to surf internet on my 50 inch HDTV
For what it's worth, I tested it with video and Video-googles - and it works just great.
The video googles are "only" 640x480 , I did not test internet & stuff like that - if I find an old-fashion TV - I'll test .
(in my house, there is only MediaPortal + DLP projector/and 30" displays) - without composite input. - Projector does have, but they are installed so nicely into ceiling, it's hard to get to.)
Here a review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bOD17rMSKI
If you want I can get some pictures of the device showing on an LCD projector tomorrow. Let me know.
Thanks Bro, It would very nice if we can see it on picture , I hope we can view all Pro2 activity on tv out like video call, editing office mobile, reading ebook/comic, playing games and many more that will make Pro2 as our media center, very
OK sorry for the delays people, I haven't forgotten.
All content is hosted on my home server so can't guarantee the speeds or availability.
All photos were taken in a moderately dark room and the images shown on a 78" 4:3 IWB (interactive whiteboard) with a 4:3 projector. Hence the image is letterboxed.
When running in TV-out mode, the phone will REMAIN in landscape mode even when the keyboard closed.
My first tests were with CorePlayer. I was also unable to play and show movies in CorePlayer properly, there was weird blue bands running all over the screen during playback. I also tried the YouTube Player which worked fine though.
Core Player Image showing the blue band issue (it's much more noticeable in the video below).
CorePlayer Video
YouTube Player Video
(The videos are in MP4 format. Play with VLC if you have problems viewing.)
The quality seems OK but due to the limitations of composite video, you if there is too much fine detail its going to look like s**t. For example check the following shots of Opera both zoomed in and out.
Zoomed In
Zoomed In (Close-up)
You can see when zoomed out that the text is not very readable.
Zoomed Out
Zoomed Out (Close-up)
On connection of the cable you get a default launch screen.
First Connection Prompt
Home screen looks like you'd expect.
Home Screen
A game running (Kevtris 2, for those interested )
File Manager
File Manager (close-up)
Seems I screwed up my port forwarding and the links were all dead. Sorry .
Try again now.
Comments welcome.
links doesn't seem to be working for me

Facebook & Youtube social network engine..?

I notied how the built in social network engine on the touch pro 2 has been removed. Is there a way to re-ad this feature to the touchpro 2..? I have seen various CAB files to open this up on ROM's for the fuze/original touch pro but are there any that make it work with the touch pro 2..? Also, may be a stupid question as I'm pretty sure I know the answer... Does this phone have any capability yo go into the youtube app when clicking on a youtube link send via email or text message like some other phones... IE - Iphone, android, etc. In the past, I have seen windows just load up the default browser instead and we all know that opera does not support flash to make this happen. And even if you install the flash lite 3, half the time it will NOT work or the video frame rate will be poor. Is there a way around it or has windows mobile just not evolved to this stage yet..?
I thought that these were posted already in the forum but wasn't sure.
Facebook:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/facebook.mspx
Youtube is also already built into the TP2 and should be in your programs. You can't auto-launch it with a link unless stuff gets hardcoded as Youtube Application links.
whtrbt7 said:
I thought that these were posted already in the forum but wasn't sure.
Facebook:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/facebook.mspx
Youtube is also already built into the TP2 and should be in your programs. You can't auto-launch it with a link unless stuff gets hardcoded as Youtube Application links.
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No, I'm talking about the social network engine within the HTC album interface that was originally introduced with the touch HD. It was ripped when TF3D2 was ripped. Now the newer versions of TF3D2 do NOT have it running. The way it works is, you take a picture or choose an existing in the album, then it will give you options to either send a pic to facebook or send a video to youtube. Also the network settings for this were located in settings. This is where you would enter & save your youtube and facebook login settings. Then there was an uploader option in settings to allow you to view your upload progress.
Youtube from Album
Yes, I remember this one, on my HD I was able to send several videos directly to youtube. but now with my TP2, the option to login and send the files is not there any more. The Youtube app doesn't have the option to upload videos either.
I remember seeing a post for this that had some other issues with it like other parts of the album not working once they got this working again....
any real solutions.
Keep up the great work guys,
Ali.
This is the only thread I know about for the TP2:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=469106
However, it didn't work for me, I'm still looking for a solution.
Not sure if its what you want but Microsoft MyPhone will share pictures etc. for you to certain networks...

Anti-aliasing and bar-zoom on Skyfire

Was having a play with the Skyfire browser on my TP2 today. It's quite nice, and having some flash support is neat.
One major problem, though, is that it doesn't anti-alias text nearly as well as Opera does - I guess it isn't using Cleartype, maybe...? The effect of this is that you need to make text several point-sizes bigger in order to be able to read it than is the case with Opera. That's enough of a reason not to make it the default browser.
Also, based on a quick try, it doesn't seem to support the zoom bar.
Any way of getting around either of these issues?
And is there any way of getting a better frame-rate on flash videos than one gets with Skyfire? The bundled Youtube client seems to do a far better job.

Questions/thoughts about my Incredible

Ok I'm coming from another phone where I'm used to certain things so I'm trying to figure out some things on the Incredible... any help would be appreciated.
1. How do I send MMS video? No matter what resolution I take a video at, when I try to send it through MMS I get the message saying it's too large. It doesn't give me the option to edit it and send or anything.... When I used other android devices (Hero and N1) there was an option to take "MMS Video" which I thought was pretty poor way of doing things since I could be taking a video that I then wanted to later send as MMS but didn't have the option if it wasn't taken at MMS... Shouldn't it just convert it and send it for you or something? Anyhow, I don't even see the "MMS Video" option so I figured they had fixed this and made it so it converts it for you but no dice...
2. In the web browser I can't view videos like on Vimeo etc... For some reason I was under the impression that this phone did flash? But I can't get flash videos OR HTML5 embedded videos to load. :-( Now on Vimeo, the video does appear to be there but when I hit the play button the loading bar appears, loads up to 100% and then nothing happens... and hitting the full screen toggle in the corner of the video window doesn't make it full screen either... What am I doing wrong?
3. On the mail client it doesn't seem to be rendering HTML correctly. Some of the formatting is broken and I have to tell it to load pictures each time I open a message. Is there a way to change it so it always loads all HTML and pictures? Also when I do click to load the pictures, the rendering is off and not sized correctly; I have to scroll side to side as well as up an down to view the full email. Also a lot of the text is unaligned especially around pictures. This also happens in the Gmail app too. How can I improve this?
4. In the camera App, the app works fine actually it's just odd that the controls are stuck in landscape mode and when I turn the phone to portrait the controls don't change with it... Just seems like something that should be addressed especially in out of the box apps.
5. Is there a way to arrange the order my friends are in on the people widget?
6. What's the default movie player on the Incredible and does it support subtitles/chapters? How do I get them on the device?
7. What are some good task switchers you recommend? Other than the default long press on home task switcher.
try skyfire browser for vimeo.. works well but unfortunately does not work for hulu
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