Does anybody know of any video editing software which works with the Topaz?
The only one i can find details for on wm6 is http://www.trakax.com/software/mobile/trial_version/ however this won't work on the Topaz's screen resolution.
Thanks!
None that I know of...
I run a media production company, and I've got a very basic media "workstation" on my topaz already - a mini Photoshop (pocketartist), a mini Cubase (meteor), MS Office, several audio capture and editing programs, but there are 2 things I need to make draft versions for clients on the move. A simple html editor, although I can use Notepad, and a simple video editing program.
The only thing that I've found was the software you also found. It looks quite capable for simple mockups, and is reasonably priced, but was let down by the lack of wvga support. I did email them to ask about this and they said they'd have it sorted sometime in July!
But if anybody knows a good alternative, or decent html editor, I'd really appreciate a nod in the right direction.
On another note, I am still amazed every day that I can have all this software on my everyday phone, that only a few years ago was unthinkable. I can sit on a train and do what I do in the office, with music playing too!
I own a Galaxy Note and I am very pleased with it and I particularly enjoy using the large screen on the Web. However, the lack of support for Android on the Web means I cannot do many things which are available. For example, I cannot view Sky TV on the Web using my Note because it is only available for the iphone and there are many other examples like that. It is no good have cutting edge hardware if you cannot use it. As far as other uses such as taking pictures, reading books, listening to music etc, I am very happy, but the lack of progress on Web based applications is very disappointing.
You should write to Sky.
Most of their apps start on iOS and end up an android eventually, Sky news, Sky soccer centre....
Moon reader is my favorite, has lots of settings, and the paid version will read to you using text to speech. If you do it right you don't need a tablet or an ebook reader. The 4g screen works just fine.
But there's a trick you need for commercial e-books. I found that the commercial e-readers like BN-Nook (free) were designed for tablets and will put useless margins around the text that you can't get rid of. This is fine for tablets but not a 4g as you end up with about a paragraph per screen. Moon Reader will get rid of the margins but won't read copy-protected ebooks like the ones you can buy on line.
There is a free program called Calibre, however available for PC, Mac, and Linux. This program will strip the copy protection so you can read the ebooks on something like Moon Reader without those margins eating up screen space. It works great.
There are a lot of free e-books around if you don't mind older stuff.
I'm gonna throw out a link for my favorite eBook reader (since I also use Calibre. AWESOME tool)
Aldiko:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aldiko.android
Aldiko is a free, awesome eBook reader. I convert most of my eBooks to epub format which works all over the place and Aldiko can read perfectly. I just wish they had support for offline dictionaries but that's asking for a lot. iBooks on my iPad spoiled me in that regard since Apple includes the Oxford dictionaries on OS X and on their iOS devices.
By that I mean, can I just download media say from the browser on the SRT and browse it in a file explorer, and click to play?
Do I (will I?) have a choice of music/video player for that file?
also, since there is no outlook, can anyone tell me if they read about or tried how well does the calendar and email apps work? Most review sites are too excited about the OS and hardware they are neglecting talking about built in apps...
Also, are smartglass features within a contained app? Or is it more universal like AirPlay on iPad?
Thanks
More hands-on info on Windows RT in below link. Metro doesn't have a built-in file manager, and for now you'd need to drop to desktop mode to browse files/folders. A bit klunky. Despite all the hype about it, Metro still has many functionality holes to fill. Since file mgmt is a top need, I imagine there'll be 3rd-party solutions for Metro soon enough.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6392/the-windows-rt-review
>Do I (will I?) have a choice of music/video player for that file?
I've not browsed the Windows store lately, but am not aware of any full-range 3rd-party media player, at least not the kind that can handle a wide range of codecs/formats that we've come to expect from Windows players like VLC. As with many needs, it'll be a waiting game for software to catch up.
Smartglass will be an app, although one would expect substantial integration to MS' existing services over time.
http://www.ibtimes.com/smartglass-r...it-help-boost-windows-phone-8s-success-854120
smart glass is still wp8 only?
I know ms is trying to use exclusivity to promote wp, but there are a few million people right now, that would buy this for iphone and android devices.
"Xbox SmartGlass for Android and iPhone coming early 2013, Windows 8 version here 26 October"
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/48081/xbox-smartglass-iphone-android-early-2013
It's pretty much mixed, there are many settings that you have to use the desktop control panel. There is desktop paint, calculator, notepad and cammand line. The Office is on desktop. Eventhing metro is more convenient when operating with fingers though.
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Probably due to thread prioritization, android tablets always suffer from pdf rendering woes. I was wondering how the tf700 fared as it has a more reasonable resolution than the nexus 10. I've heard that mantano has proven itself to be efficient in caching and rendering, but I don't know anyone with a tf700 and cannot check. Would love to hear experiences.
I prefer to use Perfect Viewer. Works fine for me, I read all my graphic magazines on my tablet as PDF.
I read a lot (both e-books and magazines), and the TF700 serves well. I use Mantano for my e-books (and sometimes for magazines), but it does stumble on full page imagery (actually it doesn't load it at all, and just shows a blank page). Repligo handles that a lot smoother! I've used Moon Reader+ in the past, but it did not feel quite as smooth as Mantano and lacks some features the latter provides, as far as I recall, although that may have changed since.
To be honest, the last few updates from Mantano's dev(s) haven't really brought anything new or unique, and performance seems to have degraded the last few months -- that specifically applies to loading an .epub of (very) large .pdf, for example; once you're in, it's all good.
The 700's screen resolution is really great when looking at graphs and such -- autopsy photographs, organs in all their splendor, radiographs ("X-rays")... Heh!
Does anyone have experience reading scanned books? Those tend to be 300-600ppi scanned images, sometimes clearscanned by acrobat pro.
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Does anyone have experience reading scanned books? Those tend to be 300-600ppi scanned images, sometimes clearscanned by acrobat pro.
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Yup, I do. I'm using Aldiko Pro, file is a PDF. Performance is good, loading speed is very fast in my case
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Does anyone have experience reading scanned books? Those tend to be 300-600ppi scanned images, sometimes clearscanned by acrobat pro.
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Did you miss the part where I mentioned graphic magazines? The ImagineFX, 2D Artist, 3Dworld, Expose, Photoshop Advanced, Digital Artist and Digital Arts Magazine are all full-res mags, they're exported at 600+ dpi directly from Indesign.
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Pinktank said:
Hello all,
Probably due to thread prioritization, android tablets always suffer from pdf rendering woes. I was wondering how the tf700 fared as it has a more reasonable resolution than the nexus 10. I've heard that mantano has proven itself to be efficient in caching and rendering, but I don't know anyone with a tf700 and cannot check. Would love to hear experiences.
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Short answer: Solo PDF reader (free, just a reader, no annotation ...)
Longer answer and background:
Coming from iPad, my main disappointment with my TF700 (and my other android devices) was/is the laughably poor performance in reading PDFs. Yes, they may load very quickly, and yes it can handle very large PDFs. I am talking about getting smooth and silky transition from one to another page or flipping through pages. After trying more than 10 readers, I settled on Solo PDF reader for reading purposes. As I said I cannot annotate them but it gives me the graphic performance close to what I had on iPad.
I don't know the details but it is insulting that my old iPad2 flips through pdf pages faster and smoother than my cutting edge android tablet.
I am sure not everybody share my sensitivity on this. But I am sure it is not a lot to ask. It is just baffling to me and I guess it should be a software issue in Android.
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Did you miss the part where I mentioned graphic magazines? The ImagineFX, 2D Artist, 3Dworld, Expose, Photoshop Advanced, Digital Artist and Digital Arts Magazine are all full-res mags, they're exported at 600+ dpi directly from Indesign.
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Yes they are, but they contain graphics and text as vectors, unlike scanned books which are single, giant images per page.
Matte paintings as vectors, that's a new one.
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Matte paintings as vectors, that's a new one.
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The images are obviously not vectors, but the magazine is a proper export that combine properly hinted and rendered fonts and not gnarly messes(if converted to vector) or solid image pages.
Ah. Well, not always. Thing is, they're not all from the 'official' (ahem) source. Most are actually just giant jpegs.
Guys use perfect viewer with the pdf add on. You'll never be disappointed reading a pdf ever again
Just another option that I didn't see listed - I've tried them all and personally prefer EZ-PDF Reader (I have the purchased version) - especially since it now supports dual-page pdf viewing, which is great in landscapre mode on the TF700 - can view two pages at once like a real book or magazine.... I believe that Perfect viewer with the PDF plugin does this as well.
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Just another option that I didn't see listed - I've tried them all and personally prefer EZ-PDF Reader (I have the purchased version) - especially since it now supports dual-page pdf viewing, which is great in landscapre mode on the TF700 - can view two pages at once like a real book or magazine.... I believe that Perfect viewer with the PDF plugin does this as well.
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EzPDF is great too -- I have used both EzPDF and Repligo and found Repligo to be a tad faster/smoother. I'll try Ez again, who knows?
Repligo FTW!!!!! ive tryed a lot of others and there simply s no substitute for repligo pdf viewer.
While it might not be the fastest, Mantano is doing a great job at organizing collections and keeping track of what I am reading at the moment.