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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: Deep Toaster on July 17, 2012, 12:34:02 am

Title: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Deep Toaster on July 17, 2012, 12:34:02 am
If you browse Omnimaga from a mobile device, you may have noticed a popup telling you about our newest site feature. The Omnimaga forums now support Tapatalk (http://www.tapatalk.com/index.php), a system for mobile users to easily navigate and browse web forums with a native app available for iOS, Android, Blackberry, and others. Here are the official Tapatalk apps:


Unfortunately, the Tapatalk app is not free; it's $2.99 on the App Store, Google Play, and BlackBerry App World. But if you're a big browser of Omnimaga and other Tapatalk-enabled forums, it may well be worth the cost. Plus, there are some free apps and extensions out there that let you use the features provided by Tapatalk for free:


Hope this will be a useful feature to make the forums more convenient to browse.
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Builderboy on July 17, 2012, 12:38:58 am
I would be fine with browsing Omni normally on my iPod if Omnom didn't keep growing in size o.O
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Deep Toaster on July 17, 2012, 12:40:42 am
^ That, and if it didn't crash every few pages :/

I just disable OmnomIRC before I close my comp browser, so it doesn't glitch up the page on mobile.
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Juju on July 17, 2012, 12:47:32 am
That's a pretty useful feature that got added here, it's a shame Google Play only accept credit cards as means of payment.
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 17, 2012, 02:07:23 am
This is awesome. It shall be useful to me on my phone, as Omni lags and eventually crashes my android browser (even with Omnom disabled).

I guess the next step could be to have a free alternative, or something like the TI-Planet app :D
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Sorunome on July 17, 2012, 04:39:31 am
Free alternative would be cool!
And then all the android/iphone/ipod programmers here had work XD
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: TIfanx1999 on July 17, 2012, 06:03:51 am
I actually don't have any problems browsing omni on my phone. A few features don't work, but i can read and post just fine )(even if it can be a bit slow) I just use Opera mini. ;) I guess Tapatalk is nice for those that have issues though.
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on July 17, 2012, 07:36:54 am
Quote from: DJ_O on July 17, 2012, 02:07:23 am
I guess the next step could be to have a free alternative, or something like the TI-Planet app :D
Hmm, as far as I know you have to pay like 100 dollar a year to apple to be able to have your app on their store.
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Adriweb on July 17, 2012, 08:07:42 am
Quote from: Stefan Bauwens on July 17, 2012, 07:36:54 am
Quote from: DJ_O on July 17, 2012, 02:07:23 am
I guess the next step could be to have a free alternative, or something like the TI-Planet app :D
Hmm, as far as I know you have to pay like 100 dollar a year to apple to be able to have your app on their store.
Correct.
Not too bad if you're able to make (via sales, ads etc.) 8.5 dollars / month on the apps you make
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Snake X on July 17, 2012, 09:50:52 am
last time I checked, tapatalk is *legally* free on a site called getjar.com for android devices
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Juju on July 17, 2012, 11:03:37 am
I can't find it? I found Convo (that free tapatalk client) but not Tapatalk itself.

And oh yeah that site, I was using it back in the time phones were using WAP and J2ME.
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Snake X on July 17, 2012, 11:09:04 am
Hmm yeah I couldnt find it either. If your running ics i read it wont show up. If it still wont show up it probably expired :(
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: leafy on July 17, 2012, 12:57:44 pm
Just got it - this thing is pretty handy! Just wish it had IRC support though :P
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 17, 2012, 06:11:49 pm
Quote from: Stefan Bauwens on July 17, 2012, 07:36:54 am
Quote from: DJ_O on July 17, 2012, 02:07:23 am
I guess the next step could be to have a free alternative, or something like the TI-Planet app :D
Hmm, as far as I know you have to pay like 100 dollar a year to apple to be able to have your app on their store.
Oh I meant for Android. It's ok if there isn't one for Apple. An alternative could be that the one who did the TI-Planet app makes the Omni one, since he already paid the money to keep apps there (unless it's $100 per app?).

The other alternative is having mobile users default to a different forum theme with fewer pictures or have the mobile mode (maybe WAP2) modified to be more complex and support img tags.

@Art I got a Samsung Galaxy 551 and I think I just don't have enough RAM to browse the site for an extended period of time. It scrolls/zooms/lets me type text at about 2 or fewer FPS, then after about 3 minutes, the phone vibrates 3 times as the browser hangs, then the browsers suddenly closes.
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: AzNg0d1030 on July 17, 2012, 06:15:01 pm
I saw this, but it doesn't support lower than iOS4...
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 17, 2012, 06:25:56 pm
Can't you upgrade? ???
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: leafy on July 17, 2012, 07:44:51 pm
The older devices can't run the newer OS because Apple is mean :( There's a way around it to "spoof" your software version, but it requires a jailbreak or at the very least a modified IPSW.
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: AzNg0d1030 on July 17, 2012, 08:51:26 pm
Quote from: leafy on July 17, 2012, 07:44:51 pm
The older devices can't run the newer OS because Apple is mean :( There's a way around it to "spoof" your software version, but it requires a jailbreak or at the very least a modified IPSW.
Offtopic sorry, but can you link me to maybe an instructional page or video? :o
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 17, 2012, 09:24:45 pm
Wow that sucks. That's like the total opposite of TI, who wants you to run the latest firmware (although I guess it's good to a certain extent)
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: AzNg0d1030 on July 17, 2012, 09:38:13 pm
Quote from: DJ_O on July 17, 2012, 09:24:45 pm
Wow that sucks. That's like the total opposite of TI, who wants you to run the latest firmware (although I guess it's good to a certain extent)
Well it's not necessarily Apple being mean, it's just that the older iPhones iPod Touches don't have a good enough hardware/software that can handle newer iOSes.  It's the phone/ipod, not apple
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Deep Toaster on July 18, 2012, 01:58:15 am
Quote from: DJ_O on July 17, 2012, 09:24:45 pm
Wow that sucks. That's like the total opposite of TI, who wants you to run the latest firmware (although I guess it's good to a certain extent)
Apple wants their customers to keep upgrading to the new model (so people keep buying new Apple hardware).

It doesn't matter for TI, since a calculator is a calculator (not around here, true, but in general), and nobody (except us) would ever consider buying more than one. So TI has no reason to prevent users from updating their firmware, and they might as well recommend/force it so they can fix bugs patch Ndless exploits.
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: renatose on July 21, 2012, 09:53:29 pm
does anyone know if there is any free symbian app?
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 22, 2012, 02:27:53 am
What is symbian? Is it like Taptalk?
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Nick on July 22, 2012, 03:12:11 am
Symbian is a nokia OS, but it seems like it's dying a quiet death, since more and more phones are getting android (or even windows mobile)...
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: renatose on July 22, 2012, 05:04:23 am
Quote from: Nick on July 22, 2012, 03:12:11 am
Symbian is a nokia OS, but it seems like it's dying a quiet death, since more and more phones are getting android (or even windows mobile)...
I experienced windows mobile 6.1 and android 2.1, however I think that my nokia E63 with symbian fits me best. QWERTY keyboard and non-touch phones ftw :P
So... There's no symbian app, right?
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Nick on July 22, 2012, 05:15:11 am
i found some, but i won't list them here because of reasons :) just search google with "tapatalk symbian" and you'll find some versions, as i read it seems there are some problems though xs

and i have an android (touch) phone AND azerty keyboard :) best of both worlds imo xp
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 25, 2012, 10:38:26 pm
Do you mean the old monochrome screen Nokia phones that broke your leg when vibrating in your pocket and that could put holes in the floor if thrown from the top of a skyscraper? :P
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 15, 2013, 01:08:46 am
Bug report: If someone posts an image link (using URL tags instead of IMG) to an image located at img.omnimaga.org, it will load some random topic instead of opening the actual image in a browser. ???

I think that Tapatalk thinks that any URL containing omnimaga.org is supposed to be an actual topic and tries to parse it as such.
Title: Re: Omnimaga now has Tapatalk support
Post by: Deep Toaster on July 15, 2013, 04:55:30 pm
That's weird O.o I wonder if there's an option to turn that off.