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Polyphonie | 3 years ago | on: Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers

Safari introduced 3rd party ad blocker 7 years ago. If you want to run ad-blocker in 3rd party browser and apps, install and run Adguard Pro from the App Store. That’s been around for at least 5 to 6 years.

Polyphonie | 8 years ago | on: Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedly flagged as disruptive

You're probably either not using the right ad-blocker or fail to configure the ad-block properly. If you just want a content-blocker that works in Safari- I find Purify works the best. If you want a full system ad-blocker which works in most apps- NYT, BBC, Chrome though not in the YouTube, Instagram, Twitter apps- it would have to be a DNS based Ad-blocker like Adguard Pro.

Polyphonie | 8 years ago | on: Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedly flagged as disruptive

Not across the system, though. It only works in Safari. For system ad-blocking, the easiest option is via DNS based Ad-blocker services like Adguard Pro or Adblock (both are paid apps and available on the App Store).

There's also the VPN option. PIA, for example, comes with its own system ad-blocker (MACE) although it's nowhere as good as Adguard Pro (which allows you to use custom DNS server).

Polyphonie | 8 years ago | on: Sandboxed Mac apps can record screen any time without you knowing

That's not true either. You can definitely save PDF in Evernote on the Mac (btw, there's only the App Store version of Evernote if your discount the web version).

To save PDF into Evernote on the Mac:

- if it's a file- use the share option (right click>Share>Evernote) - if it's in a browser- in Safari click on share (top right hand corner of the browser) > Evernote. If it's in Chrome, AFAIK, you have to use Evernote Web Clipper (extension) which is also available for Safari. - Of course, you can also copy/paste or drag and drop PDF into Evernote

Polyphonie | 10 years ago | on: Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer

iCloud Drive pricing is equal to that of Google Drive: $3.99 for 200GB (Google doesn't offer 200 but 100GB at $1.99). At 1TB, both iCloud and Google prices are $9.99.

Polyphonie | 10 years ago | on: Android Audio Latency

You can watch this I/O session from a few years back:

https://youtu.be/d3kfEeMZ65c

It probably provides the best insight to the problem Google engineers were and probably is still facing in regards to high performance audio on Android. Even when the latency is brought down, there's still other audio related issues/glitches (like buffer underruns).

Even now that Android is measurably better than it was previously, things like buffer underruns can still affect the overall usability. Increasing the buffer (to fix the underruns) render the device less suitable for such things as using it with external MIDI controller. You can see from Superpowered's audio latency measurements:

http://superpowered.com/latency#cta

that the buffer for iOS is half that of the best Android (the dual-core Nexus 9)- 64 instead of 128 for Android.

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Polyphonie | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Help me get into electronic music?

I'd start off simple by getting a midi controller like a Novation Launchpad (or Ableton Push if you can afford it) or a midi keyboard like the Akai MPK Mini. Pretty much all these controllers/keyboard comes with a software package or coupons/discount for Ableton Live. Or if you haven't already, you may download a 30 day trial of the full version of Ableton Live 9. And then you might want to head here for a free course on Ableton:

https://www.kadenze.com/courses/sound-production-in-ableton-...

Polyphonie | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Boreal – A New iOS Client for Hacker News

I'm enjoying the app immensely.

Are you guys planning at implementing dark/night mode at some point? One of the thing that makes MiniHack (the other iOS HN client) a joy to use especially later on in the day is that the screen automagically turn dark according to the display brightness. May I suggest that instead of going with black background, use the grey similar to the one in Reeder:

http://i.imgur.com/NvbDpHY.png

And another thing- I can't seem to be able to post my comment from within the app. If this comment is posted it's because I've published it via the website:

Polyphonie | 10 years ago | on: Safari is the new IE

There's one discernible difference between Chrome and Safari on iOS 8- try scrolling on both and you'll see that both render them differently. Much faster on Chrome and less so on Safari. Prior to iOS 8, scrolling on both browsers were very much the same.
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