Hello Big Blue Webmaster,

I just downloaded a SmartPhone App to connect to online forums.

Please activate TapaTalk <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.tapatalk.com/">http://www.tapatalk.com/</a><!-- m --> On The Gauge so that I can take advantage of the streamlined access using my Android Phone.

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Tapatalk is a mobile forum app for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. Tapatalk supports vBulletin, phpBB, IPB and SMF forums and forum owner can activate this service for free. Tapatalk supports all the usual forum functions plus full screen image viewing, image upload, caching (less reload), private messaging, all these features are accessible in just a few simple taps.

Showing New and Unread Thread with Avatar and Number of reply:


Images are thread are converted to thumbnail and allow full-screen viewing


Ability to see Who's Online and what they are doing:


Ability to search by topics and posts:


Ability to upload images directly from Android and iPhone!:



Check out <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.tapatalk.com">http://www.tapatalk.com</a><!-- m --> for more information!

That's pretty cool. We'll let Path take a look at this and see what we can and want to do. Mikey and I would only screw thing up.

Thanks guys!

Just a question, what is the difference from this app to what I can normally do from my Droid phone? With a service like Photo bucket, I can do all the same things from my phone that I can from my PC at home. What are the advantages?

Path has been notified of the request. I looked at it and it does require downloading and installing a plug-in to our software so it's best left up to him to do that. We'll let you know when that is done, but I'm sure he'll have to check it out to be sure it won't cause an problems before he adds it to our software.

Hi Paw,

e-paw Wrote:Just a question, what is the difference from this app to what I can normally do from my Droid phone? With a service like Photo bucket, I can do all the same things from my phone that I can from my PC at home. What are the advantages?

I can access the forum with a browser on my Droid, but then I have to scroll all over the place to see anything.

Websites and forums were designed for large screens where you can see everything at once and only have to scroll up and down without having to resize anything.

TapaTalk wraps all the text so that it is easier to read.

It takes all the photos and turns them into thumbnails. Then you can tap on the thumbnail and get the picture full screen.

TapaTalk re-configures everything for easier viewing on the small screen.

I see, thanks

Do we have some new status? I would be very glad to use Tapatalk on my iPhone (and iPad )reading big blue.

Thanks for the reminder, time to give Packey a push in the rear... I'm betting he blew it off as well.... :o

Sorry.... :oops: