DMC250 Feature request: "Resume at Power-on"

I have recently purchased a KWHA400.
We use the set in the kitchen to listen to our music collection in the weekend.
In the morning we just want to switch on the unit and get our local radio station.
The unit takes a while to wake up, and requires extra interaction to select the station which is stored as a favorite.
My wish is to just wake up the unit and immediately let it start playing the internet radio station that it is usually tuned to.
One way to do this would be to have an option in the firmware : "Resume at Power on".
Another way would be to assign a favorite as startup link.
The unit could also buffer the remote's request so that the favorite can be selected as soon as the unit is switched on.
My questions are:
Is there any chance of one of these features appearing in a future firmware release?
Does anybody have an alternative solution that does not require a firmware update?
Assuming Cisco no longer improves the firmware, is there any other way/community to make changes like this?

Let me clarify what it means. Currently on the internet, all fonts rendered are limited to what is installed on the user's machine. So for example, if I wanted to display Wingdings on my website, the viewer of the website's computer will have to have Wingdings installed on their machines. If go around the web, you will notice that most websites have pretty much the same fonts: Arial, Trebuchet MS, Courier New, Times New Roman, Verdana, Georgia, etc. These are because the assumption is made that these are installed on most machines. These come default with Mac OS X, Windows, and equivalents exist for Linux. However, this becomes a huge limitation for designers, because in order to use a custom font, they have to turn it into an image, which makes the text not selectable, and removes the flexibility for the designer. Adding this feature allows for any fonts to be used and for them to be on the server, rather than depending on what the viewer has installed on their machine. It is a lot like PDF. PDF is what it is today because it embeds all the contents in the file so that no matter where you go you can see exactly what you saw on every other platform. Before PDF, especially in the print industry, it was a pain because you might be missing a file or a file would be corrupt and you would have issues.

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Feature Requests for BlackBerry10 OS

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Feature Requests beyond BlackBerry OS10.3.1
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Let's use this thread to list BlackBerry10 OS feature requests. There's nothing official to this thread, but one never knows who might view it and get an idea or two to move foward.
Please let's keep it to feature requests with simple short statements and comments, in this manner:
1. Ability to lock the volume keys (since they are so easliy pressed when retrieving from holster)
2. Personal distribution groups Address Book
4. Add BBM Group icon to home screen
**This thread is not for bug reports (i.e., the calendar glitches when I set the date) or for debate or discussion of the worthiness of a feature request.
So, what would YOU add to BB10?
What do YOU need to make the OS platform work better for you?
Here are the collected feature requests as of 04 April 2013. Thanks for Ride_The_Sky for helping collect these from this thread.
There are listed in no order, just as collected.
Ability to lock the volume keys (since they are so easily pressed when retrieving from holster)
Personal distribution groups Address Book
Add BBM Group icon to home screen
Way to add line carriage to BBM messages
Why doesn't the most used name come up first? <- In latest OS, there is another line with most common contacts, but when typing it won't provide most commonly emailed contacts.
Bring back the option "Send As" or include this option in "Share"
Enable word wrap when zooming in to emails and messages.
Import Distribution lists from Outlook on your desktop to your Z10?
*The option* to always show the hub main screen when opening the hub, so when peeking it always shows the hub even if you leave it in another screen.
Offer Balance without BES to have two workspaces in device.
Delete on Server/Device/Both
Delete on Server but Keep on Device (This is going to be tough since EAS does not work like POP, using POP you can do this by deleting on server after sync)
Auto power on/off or Auto Do Not Disturb / Scheduled Airplane Mode / Scheduled Silence Mode / Scheduled Custom Profile
Default Currency Option
More options to lower data usage in e-mail (Headers Only / Roaming Profiles)
Snooze a notification/reminder for more than 5 minutes.
Customized Notifications
Disable certain accounts to stop receiving email or notifications from them temporarily to avoid data usage.
Way to delete recent pictures, videos.
Office Hub customization, sorting, editing, etc., on the fly.
Select which contact groups to sync, and ability delete all contacts.
Larger text select tabs
Add more options to dropbar.
Improve browser functionality and display, add customization and management of Bookmarks.
Calendar in Landscape mode
Option to Disable shutter sounds in camera.
Auto BCC option
Multiple appointments in lock screen, not only next one.
Increase email check frequency, custom minutes (possibly battery concern, most accounts use push nowadays)
Ability to hide "texting" numbers such as Work, home, etc that aren't able to receive texts
Ability to have multiple mobile numbers, such as mobile1, mobile2, for people with more than one cellphone
Ability to have multiple work numbers, home numbers, etc
Ability to have option for actually creating "custom" names for phone numbers, emails, VOIP,
Ability to have multiple WORK emails fields for same contact ...
Ability for a custom note field for each contact, for misc information such as store hours, reference numbers, business account numbers,
Ability for filter or unselect specific Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook contacts so they all don't appear
Ability to "share" contact info with someone else ... like a vcard or the like
Ability to have custom Individual text and ringtones for each contact set within contacts app
Vibrate option for Alarm
Mail Filters for Priority mails.
Option to block ringtones from music app (i don't see ringtones in my music app, I guess poster refers to custom mp3 files)
Swipe down to close, up to minimize (but some apps have menus associated with swipe up gesture)
Swipe half way up the screen to minimize an application to an active tile.
Swipe it all the way up the screen to close the application.
Playbook app switching gestures (swipe sideways, I guess this won't work since there are other gestures associated with side-swiping)
Lock screen with gesture (or maybe they should just add a button on home screen, somewhere on top or bottom)
Airplane mode on status bar options.
Option to customize status bar with select Settings/Options.
Colors for Hub!
Face recognition for camera, being able to associate contacts with faces or pull info from Facebook, etc.
Weather info on Lock Screen (if I may add, and constant info on top status bar, simple temp info should be enough)
We need groups back in contacts please.
Import text messages in various formats from various systems.
Sorting and Ordering of the way contacts are displayed depending on account.
While editing an entry in calendar, notification about a recent call may cause loss of data in that entry.
Location for Calendar entries and be able to see it on the map with a tap.
Being able to see multiple pictures from an email by swiping left and right to see next/previous without having to reopen (I must say the same thing is needed for App World, why can't we just scroll through screenshots??)
Multiple flags or ability to set a flag date, associate with a reminder.
Move people from TO to CC or BCC easily (If I may add, also ability to backspace to delete a contact without having to tap the X in blue box).
Option to add favorites to Hub for easy to reach contact management (I think it is same as going to contacts and choosing Favs)
Being able to answer and make calls when the phone is locked.
Add more colors to LED notification (I think they are there now, orange, green, red so far, did not see blue, I don't think blue is needed in my opinion)
Change the way to add date and time for appointment, rollbar is too slow and too sensitive.
Dismiss and Snooze buttons for Alarm to be different colors, larger, easier to notice.
Make it easier to order world clocks, instead of the order they are added.
Alarms based on days/schedule.
Easier way to get to the bottom of e-mails (I think it scrolls pretty fast, I think poster wants "B" shortcut)
Easer way to get to the bottom of web pages (same as above, space or B shortcut?)
Add option to ask if you really want to dial, instead of just dialing right away every time a phone number is clicked/tapped on.
Ability to resize image before attaching to an e-mail.
More than 30 days email sync on device, please!
Make BB boot up slower, so we can actually get to do something else while waiting for it to start!
SSH client would be nice.
Another keyboard like Swipe (honestly, I have never typed faster in my life on any other on screen keyboard, Z10 keyboard is awesome!)
Volume lock/unlock button on demand.
Auto Run app on device boot up.
Lock or Pin apps.
Ability to run background apps (Google Talk is running in the background, or it is tricking me, I don't know but I am getting messages from it when it is shut down on BB10, I hope they do Skype the same way)
Ability to have multiple documents of same type open at the same time (tabbed docs2go)
Calendar sharing of BB10 users in the area/company/group.
PIN Messaging to return.
Preview e-mails, calendar and other information on lock screen (privacy?)
Way to clear anything in any "Recent" menu, videos, pictures, etc..
Ability to hide apps, docs, pics, videos, folders, etc..
BBM Group Picture notification.
Support WhatsApp more.
Another tap for important numbers (Favorites work for this, and on top of speed dial)
From Call Menu when going into contacts, it should be ready to search with keyboard out.
Option to customize volume key to act as page up/down, etc depending on app running.
Red star in app world (means you need to run Updates, just refresh and check by swiping down from top)
Better headphones with the phone (hey, we didn't even get any!)
Better night shots in camera (hardware or software improvement?)
Ability to choose which address book to sync with bluetooth car.
When app is opened from a folder three or four pages into apps list, we hope the screen can go back to that spot when the app is closed (sadly it uses active frames at the moment)
Change acceptance of auto corrected key, instead of space key, make it something else (actually, you can just backspace to un-autocorrect it back to what you typed).
Ability to load certificates (X 509 S/MIME and/or PGP/MIME) from a computer
Ability to sign and or encrypt emails (POP3) before sending (As in MS Office Outlook)
Ability to receive and recognize signed and or encrypted emails (POP3) (As in MS Office Outlook)
Add a password/certificate manager that doesn't require manual copy/paste
Ability to encrypt the memories Device and Media of the Q10 like it is done for the BB9900
Ability to encrypt selected folders (preferably by Private Key)
Ability to create Self-Decrypting Archive like in PGP
Ability to delete email-messages by group as an alternate option to one by one
Opening Video-chat to non-BBM users (Skype for instance)
For above encryption request, SecuSmart was suggested...
Renaming the file without extension can break the file or hide it from pictures list.
Wallpaper scrolling sideways.
Standalone e-mail app (not sure how different it is than choosing emails-only for hub)
Different colors or small tabs in different colors for different accounts in Hub.
Share webpages with smart tag (I think you can just create it by pasting the URL into create QR)
Application management (being able to see which app takes up how much space, etc..) CPU/Memory/Battery Usage/Data Usage/Storage Usage in more details
Custom vibration options.
Move Send button in BBM to avoid accidental submission of message
Forward As… SMS, MMS, EMAIL from one to another.
Send SMS to new numbers (I think you can still do this from call log)
Single key press to change profiles.
Insert a picture into an e-mail. (I think he means into the body of email)
Turning off links of contacts (I think poster did not have multiple accounts, actually BB10 goes ahead and adds all new contacts into all address books in all accounts without user permission.. Create a contact in Hotmail? Gets copied to Gmail.. and then linked, terrible implementation in my opinion)
Presets for browser bookmarks, faster access to bookmarks. (My suggestion was to create a home screen, select 12 icons 3x4 or 16 icons 4x4 as home screen/start page)
Being able to allow flash based on website/url/server.
Ability to adjust different sounds/volumes for different BBM users/groups
Better Voice Dial and Voice Commands (shorter and easier operation)
Ability close one or all web pages/tabs, add "Close All" button.
Call Recording
Faster way to delete e-mails, such as file icons next to e-mails, or Swipe to Delete! Swipe to File!?
Customize email signatures with formatting.
Phone to stay on screen (dial pad always available in panes)
More Options for Clock.
In Playbook we can have a single character password, why not on BB10? "too short" well it is my decision, isn't it?
There is no way to go next/previous while reading an e-mail. Please add these functions.
Add to the e-mail client, Next Unread / Previous Unread.
E-mail or Hub should have more buttons at the bottom in landscape mode. Why keep only three (or four in e-mail view) buttons when you have the real estate. It would be extremely handy if you allowed users to edit which buttons should go at the bottom. Next Previous is really needed while reading an e-mail. For example I would love to add "File" button at the bottom as a shortcut instead of forward, I rarely forward, but I file all the time. Maybe allow users to have two row of keys, add next/previous/unread. Or it could be done with a gesture. How about swiping the account name (top blue bar while reading e-mail) left and right?
When you create a new contact in BlackBerry, it gets synced to all accounts on the Hub. There is no way to limit the new contact to a specific account.
Sometimes when you file an e-mail to a folder, it stops and waits few seconds with no message. Even when it files immediately, there is a confirmation message that takes time to appear and disappear, and the folder list does not disappear automatically.
Messages filed automatically by server using server side filter rules are still showing up on Blackberry hub/inbox. In older BB versions the filtered messages did not show up in the list, filed messages still did.
When you filter your e-mails using Filter / Unread function, new unread e-mails do not show up until you close the filter and re-open. It won't just keep refreshing your screen with unread e-mails. Can BB add a button to the hub "Unread Hub" so when hub shows 8 or 2, you can actually see unread items easily without having to through so many taps.
Native BB QR scanner (Smart Tags) does not work with barcodes (it only scans with no way to use the information). There is Open In function but it doesn't work properly.
We need to add more customs search providers, and be able to add custom search strings/wildcards. For example currently there is Google, Bing, Yahoo, Foursquare, etc..
I hope BB introduces the ability include more standard & custom searches, IMDB, PriceGrabber, Ebay, Youtube, XYZ Forums, ABC Newspaper, 123 Database, Etc.. Most sites nowadays provide search string in their URL Search=?* etc...
None of the Battery apps can access system settings to add a battery icon to the top. I wish battery percentage was there.
There is no way to check carrier/mobile signal strength.
Blackberry, please add the date and carrier / SSID info to the top. Sometimes we just want to glance at the top to see the date without having to swipe.
Please bring back keyboard shortcuts. Since we can easily swipe up to bring the keyboard, just add keyboard shortcuts in e-mail, phone (true speed dialing, dialing by word?), and browser, etc.. if possible. I could always call 1800SOMETHING# now I have to look up the number or use dial pad.. Please bring it back.
Camera zoom function needs to be fixed, also please include option of fixed focus by tapping on the screen to focus. The auto focus in video is focusing in and out to various objects all the time. Stabilization feature also causes tearing/ripples, I guess it is good if you are stationary. Or use Volume Keys to Zoom.
Please allow more than 12 icons in an icon group/folder, I hated Apple for limiting apps per folder, please fix it.
Auto ON/OFF feature is not there anymore. BB should consider Auto DND (DoNotDisturb) or Auto Silent/Airplane modes instead.
Please find a way to stop the music app from automatically starting up every time it connects to bluetooth like car audio. This is very annoying.
No Panaroma mode in Camera app, why not? It is very easy to incorporate. This could be a nice addition to next release, and easy.
The text selection grips needs to be a little bigger, sometimes I cannot see where I am moving them, they work better in Playbook, nice big tabs.
Call Functions, before answering a phone add sideways gesture functions, like swiping right will forward the call, swiping left will answer with a test message, etc..
Or there should be a way to reject the call without sending it to voice mail, phones had this function a decade ago, I don't know what happened to it.
We used to be able to see the "History" without having to save the contact. Now I don't see any way to "View History" of a certain phone number, it just keeps adding
them as individual entries to the log. Now I can't see when was the last time they called me, how many times we spoke which day, etc... I loved this feature in BB5.
Where is BB Traffic? Where is BB Weather, without having to run an active frame? It will eventually disappear if you run too many apps. I liked a little Icon that shows me what the temp is, instead of running a whole app.
There is no Skype. This day and age with all other platforms having it, please either get skype (Microsoft) to cooperate, or open up BBM to other platforms. If necessary, pay Skype to develop the app, then charge BB users for the app. Most will gladly pay.
Can we tap and hold on an active frame to pin it, or can we pin two favorite apps between Call and Search & Search and Camera buttons in the bottom bar? How about Close All running Active Frames app to quickly free up ram?
I hope next generation devices have two speakers or speaker that is facing forward. When playing games or watching videos in landscape mode, I find my palm muting the speaker. I have to hold it gently with fingers to have a gap in between, something I don't want to do when I am on the subway or bus.
Blackberry Maps should have a Zoom In/Zoom Out buttons, sometimes using it with one hand, it is impossible to zoom in and out. (Zoom in is OK but we can't zoom back out)
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- ability to choose deletion of an email on handset only
- desktop software working with all older BB's allowing drag and drop type of transferring data, contacts etc. (BB link doesn't recognize my old Storm)
- auto power on/off
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FEATURE REQUEST: Sticky editing of feed info

I love iTunes 6 on Windows as pod-catching software. It's great. But a minor feature request.... (since I don't see anywhere else on Apple.Com for iTunes feature requests, I'm posting it here).
Most podcast authors seem to do a lousy job of creating intuitive feed metadata information (Artist, Description). And since podcasts seem to be sorted by default on my iPod by Music > Podcasts > [ARTIST FIELD], I always edit the Artist Field in iTunes before I sync with my iPod. I do this by selecting all items in a feed group, right clicking, choosing Get Info, and editing the Artist field to something short which makes sense to me.
However, this edit isn't sticky. When new items in a feed are downloaded to iTunes, they have the original Artist field. So I have to edit this a lot.
What I'd like is to be able to edit the Info of the feed once in iTunes. Then, every time a new item is downloaded to that feed in iTunes, I'd like iTunes to go ahead and edit that item's info to match my sticky feed setting. This way, I only need to edit the info once when I add a new feed, and each item subsequently downloaded will inherit those settings.
Make sense? A "power user" feauture, I'm sure. But it'd be nice....
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Can't be done currently. Interesting idea, though.
However, I've found that podcast creators tend to be pretty responsive to criticisms along these lines. I've had this same problem with some podcasts, and after I mentioned it to them, they started tagging their podcasts appropriately. Some of them even started adding "album art" after I explained how it would show up on newer iPod's when playing the track, if the iPod user uses iTunes.
I'd email the podcast author and let them know what's up. This is generally a better long term solution anyway, as it helps everybody.

Feature Requests beyond BlackBerry OS10.3.1

So, with 10.3.0 and 10.3.1 now officially released on the Passport and Classic, let's look forward!
What feature request(s) would you like to see included in future updates, say OS10.3.2 and beyond? Of course, there's nothing official to this thread, but one never knows who might view it and get an idea or two to move foward.
Please post your feature request below, and let's make sure BlackBerry has a good reference point for user-input on what we'd like to see.
Let's simple short statements AND please add the value of your request (i.e., why that feature request has value to you):
Ability to lock the volume keys (since they are so easliy pressed when retrieving from holster)
Implement a shutdown confirmation screen to the top edge power key before shutting down (many pocket carrying users complain of device shutdowns in their pocket).
Allow BlackBerry Protect to automatically backup and restore personal data, such as contacts (I trust BlackBerry to protect our data and other third party apps can do this already).
**This thread is not for bug reports (i.e., the calendar glitches when I set the date) or for debate or discussion of the worthiness of a feature request.
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Cool! I was waiting for this, there are a few things I would like to see.
OS
- No frames option (for the people that want this), this means that you swipe up it will never go to a active frame
- Keep swiping to close, when you keep swiping up it will close the app/frame (like on playbook I think it was)
- Auto reboot, choose a day, time when your phone restarts (and unlocks after reboot) this is nice for people that want their phone to reboot when they sleep so they have a fresh start and don't have to reboot during work day
- Alternative keyboard, everyone knows the BlackBerry keyboard is awesome.. but allow developers to create own keyboards (native, no android port)
- Themes, One reason why people jailbreak iPhone or use Android or loved BBOS. Themes that will totally transform your phone, keyboard, colours will be nice for people that want to customize their device
- Font type change, this was possible in BBOS. Some people like to have a different font.
- Completely light OS, this is something personal; some people like dark theme, some people like light.. but with the latest BlackBerry OS 10.3.1 it is still mixed up, some parts are light some parts are dark. When selecting light theme everything should be light, all core apps, buttons, everything, when you select dark everything will be dark, and then there will be a customize option where you can set it for each app (core apps and layout) how you want it
- Show date, time, signal always on top-option, Remember.. screenshots on internet are shown a lot, when posting a screenshot of a BlackBerry 10 app nobody knows its BlackBerry, with BBOS you always had time, signal, on top people knew it was a BlackBerry and would be nice to get this back, plus no need for swiping up to see the time
E-mail
- Able to create filters, example move e-mails from this person to this folder, and give them this colour or move everything with this word in header or subject and delete it forward it and more.
- "Out of Office", able to set out of office for work emails / accounts as automatic reply
Hub
- More colours, now there are only a few
Keyboard
- Emoij button on the keyboard (including special characters)
LED
- More led colours and settings
Cloud, Sync and backup
- Create backup from your device instead of BlackBerry link and backup them to any cloud storage (or blackberry cloud)
- Sync bookmarks and settings with your BlackBerry ID
- Sync remember with your BlackBerry ID
- Sync Wi-Fi networks and passwords with your BlackBerry ID
- BlackBerry Cloud storage (5 or 10GB free and pay for more?)
Blend
- Webblend access your phone from a secure BlackBerry website so you don't have to install any program on a computer you maybe will only use for one day.
BBM
- Multiply login, access BBM on more devices (including a web version) at the same time
- PIN transfer, take your BlackBerry PIN to your new device. I really liked my old BB pin but when I sold the device I lost it, it would be nice to be able to "keep" my BBM pin or get a personal pin
- Add user my phone number if linked, BBM Pin is awesome but allow users to also add people with phone number so you can give your phone number or pin If my contacts get BBM but forget to give their pin they will just show because I have their phone number
Device
*nothing yet*

Top 10 feature requests for reliability

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My top 10 list:
1) Require enough extra safe guards that users can't accidentally rename their Home folder.
2) Don't let the Finder become unresponsive and beach-balled when dot-mac mounting is occurring.
3) Faster Finder list view updating when sorted by last modified.
4) OS update scripts should perform a hard disk verify before installation. If hard disk does not verify, the user should be told of the risk of proceeding and given directions on how to fix before proceeding.
5) The filesystem should should be able to fix itself with fsck (ala AppleJack) without being booted from install CD/DVD.
6) iPhoto Library folder should have an extra layer of protection to keep users from messing with it via the Finder.
7) Forced shutdown via power key should give OS and filesystem more of a chance for recovery. (Not sure how this would work, but if users are doing this, it should not be so often fatal.)
8) System maintenance scripts should have a method for running (other than cron) for those who don't leave their computer on 24/7.
9) & 10) coming soon ...
What are your feature requests for improved reliability?

5) The filesystem should should be able to fix itself with fsck (ala AppleJack) without being booted from install CD/DVD.
David Pogue explains why this can't be done in his Mac OS X: The Missing Manual He basically says that running fsck without an operating system disc is much akin to "a doctor performing an appendectomy on himself." While a method of doing this is provided, naturally fsck itself is not analyzed because it can't do that. To run fsck without an operating system disc, boot into single user mode, holding command-S at startup. Type /sbin/fsck -fy
followed by return key,
when done type:
/sbin/mount -uw /
followed by return key and when done with that type
exit. This is documented here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Thankfully single user mode provides more safeguards. But they aren't perfect. Fixing the directory is something that should only be done if your data is backed up, and it is obvious you may have a damaged directory. A damaged directory may have the symptoms of a dying hard drive, and it is impossible to tell the difference.
Apple is readying a really good backup system in Time Machine in Leopard. You can read more about it here:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html
Your best protection for what you are looking for is to learn how to backup your data, as my FAQ* explains:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
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(Harmful) edit not visible in WkiHistory in "Feature Requests"

Maybe this should be a discussion.
I've just removed a porn link from the Forums table in "Feature Requests for..."
The disturbing part is that the edit I removed first appeared in Rev.233, but was not visible in the WikiHistory. I can construct a lot of scenarios here (but I won't!) and all of them are scary. I cannot construct a scenario with a "harmless"
rating.
I'm only a newbie, it's not for me to take this further. But I am sufficiently experienced to know that a revision of best practise access control should be undertaken. Yesterday would be a good time to initiate it.
Gordon.

Hi Richard -
Thanks for answering. It's the comment to the edit that's missing.
I believe (I have not tested) that blank comments are not listed as part of the edit, so all we get is the user's edit listing, but no clue of what was done in the edit.
I draw your attention to Wikipedia, where all parts of the edit are summarized in the History List. I don't believe the Technet Wiki History needs that amount of data, but OTOH that is the sort of thing computers excel at. But I do believe Technet
Wiki should record blank comments as well as filled comments. Maybe a blank comment could be filled with the first 10 or 20 words of the edit?
Gordon.
Okay, please add the feature request to the Wiki section:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4703.feature-requests-for-technet-and-msdn-profiles-and-social-platform-tools.aspx#TechNet_Wiki
Hey, thanks for your edits here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4703.feature-requests-for-technet-and-msdn-profiles-and-social-platform-tools/compare.aspx?revB=0&revA=234
You removed a dead link and a spam link!
And the history tab showed me all that!
We're actually thinking of migrating to the Wikimedia platform. Then that would give us your feature request. But it's best to capture it on our list so we don't lose sight of it.
Thanks!
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
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Feature request : import of multi-line notes in CSV or tab-delimited file

This is a feature request to the AddressBook development team:
Following a question posted here and asked to support (thanks to Barry and Julia from ADC), it turns out that AddressBook is not ready yet to import multi-line notes from a CSV or tab-delimited file.
I would like to kindly suggest the AddressBook development team to update the import methods for such flat files to parse the text of what is assigned to the Notes field, and convert documented escape sequences to their pre-determined corresponding special character.
I would think that the following would be pretty easy to implement, and easy for the targeted audience (enthousiasts power-users and up) to remember:
"\n " : mark a new line (same as ^p in Word)
"\t " : replace by a tab
I would keep the trailing space to avoid problems with DOS-type file path problems.
and of course...
"\\n " and "\\t " for whoever would want to import notes about \n and \t
For example, in a Notes column, the text:
"Escape sequence \\n :\n move the text to a new line\n \n while escape sequence \\t :\t move the text to the next horizontal tab"
would give the following (just consider text between <Note> marks):
<Note>
Escape sequence \n:
move the text to a new line
while escape sequence \t: move the text to the next horizontal tab
</Note>
Thanks for reading...
Frédéric Denis

The developers do not necessarily read these USER discussion pages. If you want to make suggestions and know they will be read (which is at least a step towards implementation) use the OS X feedback page.
AK

Feature Request: Auto-save in Background

Here's a feature request I've submitted. If you agree, please submit your request to:
http://www.adobe.com/go/wish/
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Brief title for your desired feature:
Background Auto Save
How would you like the feature to work?
Auto-save would work just as it does today, except it would work as a background process, as it already does in Photoshop (without the Autosave popup getting in the way of the edit).
Why is this feature important to you?
The current autosave feature is terrifice and expected in any application today, but the current autosave popup dialog is useless. It only has a "Cancel" button. What's the point? I can't imagine when I would ever want to cancel an auto-save. And let's say I *did* want to cancel. The dialog is only on screen for a second or so. That's not enough time for user interaction, but it is just enough time for my work to be interupted, and for me to potentially hit the enter key as I go to Render something at precisely the same time.

Hi cscouper2013,
Thanks for taking the time to point out that my BSODs might be a problem with my RAM! Yes, I'll test it with the program you mention.
cscooper2013 wrote:
While I'm thinking of it, too. Sometimes Premiere will do an auto save only moments after I've done a hard save. That also seems like something to address in the next auto save feature update. If I have my autosave increment set to 5 minutes, then it seems to me there's no need to do an autosave for another 5 minutes after my last manual save.
I fully agree! That's something I requested during the CS5 beta program. I requested that every time a user does a manual save, the Autosave reset its counter. So for example, if the delay is 10 minutes between auto saves, and the user does a manual save two minutes before the next scheduled autosave, the autosave counter resets to 10 more minutes. But with the better solution of the current project constantly being saved after each edit, as Jim suggested, this feature wouldn't even be needed anymore.
MonkeyEatsMonkey wrote:If Premiere could "borrow" that functionality, while still retaining a "save as" option for versioning, I feel like we'd have the best of both worlds. It would even make dynamic linking more seamless, since changes wouldn't require saving. Any thoughts from the community on this?
That would be a perfect solution IMO! And yes, retaining the 'Save As' option would be very important!
I also like the idea of automatic versioning/backups (could be renamed to 'versions' since with a constantly saved project file, automatic 'backups' would no longer be necessary.
To resume, based on what has been discussed in this thread, I believe these would be the ideal saving options in Premiere:
Autosaving of every edit in the background without slowing down editing performance (as suggested by Jim).
Ability to create a user defined number of automatic backup versions, by setting maximum number of versions and time intervals (as is currently the case with Premiere).
In other words, the current project file would constantly be updated as the user edits. The automatic backups/versions would be created at user defined intervals.
Users would retain the ability to create a copy of the current project at any moment through the 'Save As' and 'Save a Copy' commands that already exist in Premiere.
Pop-up Auto-save dialogue boxes and the 'Save' command would be a thing of the past!
IMO, this would truly give us the best of both words as MonkeyEastMonkey suggests: constant saving as per FCPX, with the comprehensive versioning options Premiere currently offers.
Anything missing?

LabVIEW feature request: tunnel array concatenation

I am requesting a LabVIEW feature that would be very convenient. The following situation is very common: I have a source of information, say an array of numbers, in a for-loop. When the for-loop has finished, I normally end up with a 2D-array (because of the index operation at the tunnel). Now, in many cases I would instead like to concatenate the arrays inside the loop, so that I end up with a 1D-array of numbers after the loop.
It is easy to remedy the problem: use shift registers or feedback nodes together with the 'concatenate arrays' VI. An easier approach, from a programmer's point of view, would be to right-click on the loop tunnel and select an option that, instead of adding the data from each iteration into a new array dimension, would concatenate the arrays. The tunnel could have the + symbol instead of [].
I wish I could find a more convincing argument for this feature than just convenience. But the reason for this request is just because of convenience. I find myself using the feedback nodes and the 'concatenate array' VI again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again... and I always need to create empty array constants for the initial value. It feels really unnecessary.
I think this feature would make LabVIEW an even more convenient programming environment.
I am using LabVIEW 7.1.
BR
Patrick

I agree this option would be great to have built in automatically. It might also be nice to allow auto-indixing of 2d (or more) arrays going into for loops where it will iterate through all dimensions an grab the (i,j) single elements and add an i and j index inside the loop, instead of nesting loops inside of each other. I guess these features cater to the power users who want to save any amount of coding possible.
Paul Falkenstein
Coleman Technologies Inc.
CLA, CPI, AIA-Vision
Labview 4.0- 2013, RT, Vision, FPGA

Feature Request - Safari Dimmer

Did not see any other place to make a feature request, so here goes:
Recently I installed a DivX player on a WinXP system as was pleasantly surprised with the "Desktop Dimmer" (apparently also available for OSX). It seems that though this functionality is currently a function of the player, it may be possible for Safari to detect that a particular video player plugin is active and streaming and perform the same function for all formats.
This would tie in nicely with the annoying behaviour on my MBP to dimm the screen after a minute or so of inactivity which can't be controlled from the Power management or Screen controlls in System Manager. Argh.
If I'm trying to stream an hour long motorcycle race, I don't want to have to keep moving my mouse to brighten up the screen. And it absolutely MUST be dimmed, then at least leave the streaming part alone.

This is a perfectly good place to post this. There is also at least one other place to give Apple feedback (including feature requests) about their Mac OS X applications: the Mac OS X feedback form. (You will not receive a response by filling out that form, but the feedback is channeled to the people who can best use it.)
This would tie in nicely with the annoying behaviour on my MBP to dimm the screen after a minute or so of inactivity which can't be controlled from the Power management or Screen controlls in System Manager. Argh.
Raising the time before display sleep in the "Sleep" section of Energy Saver settings, making sure that's changed for both the Power Adapter and Battery settings, doesn't do the trick? (It might not, always - just checking. :-))

Feature request - Disable packet data

I would like to make a feature request for the otherwise awesome phone Nokia Asha 302. You have done a great job there, the phone is very nice and popular.
Can you please make an additional setting, so that we can DISABLE packet data completely? Currently, only two options are available - 'when needed' and 'always on'.
I see a lot of people are using different bizzare techniques to overcome a basic problem - there is no setting to disable packet data. Why there isn't, is beyond me, and as far as I can tell - beyond a lot of people. It is most intuitive to make it 'yes' and 'no' in the first place, but engineers made it 'yes' and 'yes, please' instead, which does not make any sense. It is a source of MAJOR frustration and inconveniences - applications fire up the internet and keep it always on, leading to battery drain and unwanted bandwidth charges.
So, can you please implement 3 states in Settings - Connectivity - Packet data&colon;
- always on
- when needed
- disabled
I would go even further and ask to make a shortcut (like WiFi and Bluetooth) and a dedicated hardware key, since I think it is a base setting that needs to be easily accessible.
Please do it as soon as possible, since it is a major shortcomming, and make a release immediately. My phone is Asha 302, but I think all S40 users are complaining of the same.
Thank you very much and hope you will consider it.
If other users also think it is important, please star this message.

Yes, this is a feature which is definitely required.
It will reduce power consumption by a lot, and also save us valuable bandwidth.
Please consider implementing it. If there is a new release, please let us know.

Feature Request: Disable report-level sums if only break-level sums needed

Hi,
With all my success earlier in reporting a bug and getting it fixed in the same day I thought I might try my hand at a feature request and see how I get on.
Would it possible to have the option to turn off the report summary record when summing on a break column?
There are times when you just want one level and not both. I know there is a trick using javascript to hide the summary row but its pretty unfriendly and the javascript shows up in Excel when the report is exported.
Also, I'd quite like to be able to put the sum column value in the description for the summary. At the moment you can only include the header using #SUM_COLUMN_HEADER# but #SUM_COLUMN_VALUE# would also be useful.
Keep up the good work - Apex rocks!
Thanks,
Alastair

- ability to choose deletion of an email on handset only
- desktop software working with all older BB's allowing drag and drop type of transferring data, contacts etc. (BB link doesn't recognize my old Storm)
- auto power on/off
- contacts syncing with yahoo & Outlook (almost two weeks trying to work around it and no luck)

Feature Request: MW1 Wireless Headset Pro - Make Button configuarable

Hi Sony Support,
I'm using the MW1 in combination with my Xperia V and I'm pretty happy with it besides one thing which is actually really annoying. The round button next to the display diconnects the current call on short press or puts it on hold on a long button press.
I would rather like to use that button for mute/unmute as I'm stuck in a lot of conference calls and it would save me a lot of trouble when I could mute or unmute myself from the headset. Without this option I'm force to take out my my phone and do it there which is pretty inconvinient especially if you use the phone "on the go" running over an airport or to a train.
With my cabled headset the button on the mike just toggles mute/unmute, so switching between both when the battery is out I'm disconnecting a lot by accident :smileywink:
I looked for some mail to send a feature request but didn't find any so I'll try my luck here.
I would love to see an option to reconfigure the buttons behavior, like a software on the phone where I could select one of the following options for
- short press: Disconnect, Re-dial last inbound/outbound number, toggle Mute/Unmute
- double short press: Disconnect, Re-dial last inbound/outbound number, toggle Mute/Unmute
- long press: Disconnect, Re-dial last inbound/outbound number, toggle Mute/Unmute
Thanks,
fassy

Hi, can I also ask for old very nice feature to be returned to the current version of the software (0.1.E and above). Back in version 0.1.D.. and below you do not need to select media source (SD Card selection) when you need to listen or view media from the phone. I am using Xperia Arc S. Before when you press play in the phone it automatically switches the MW1 and you can hear the audio from the phone without manual intervention. When there is music currently playing from MW1's sd card, it automatically pause the playback then you can hear the audio from the phone then when you are through with the media on the phone, MW1 automatically resume playing from the SD Card. The feature is very convinient it do not need for me to install SMS notification apps. You can even hear the keyboard clicks if its not configured to be silent.
Many of us are looking for this feature when it is taken out during the introduction of the update.

DMC250 Feature request: "Resume at Power-on"

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