I have seen a few apps to use your tablet as a second monitor, but I am also want to know if I could send a word doc or pdf to the tablet and have someone sign it with stylus or finger and then save it? It would save time and paper from printing the document out and then just scanning it in again. Plus it would just look cool.
Any Suggestions?
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Bump because I'm interested too.
redtheguy said:
I have seen a few apps to use your tablet as a second monitor, but I am also want to know if I could send a word doc or pdf to the tablet and have someone sign it with stylus or finger and then save it? It would save time and paper from printing the document out and then just scanning it in again. Plus it would just look cool.
Any Suggestions?
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Did you ever find a solution to this?
I would be very interested if this can work via USB and not the wifi app solution.
Also if the tablet as a second monitor (USB connection) could use the stylus to interact with graphics programs for basic touchups. Rather than using a mouse or transferring the file to the tablet and using a app on the tablet.
No, but I need to take another look for new tech.
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You may be able to accomplish this using these 2 apps:
Fill and Sign PDF Forms
Signature Capture
You may need to make a purchase. I have not used these apps myself, but check out this review:
Lewis said:
This is the first app I've ever invested money into. When used along with 'Signature Capture', this becomes a powerful tool for field engineers like myself who rely on documentation to get payed. All the time, paper and ink I've saved makes this a winner! Please continue to update with more features. I have posted a feature request for global data binding- hope you can add that to your list! Cheers
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Does anyone know the location of an eBook once you tell it to make it available offline?
Or
I've got some eBooks that I would like to make available to the Books app on the XOOM, where do I put them?
You beat me to it, I was just wondering the same. I have several thousand books I would like to be able to drop in.
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They are In the data/data folder...in the google.books folder...don't have my xoom at work, so can't give you the hole name.
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Data/Data/com.google.android.apps.books/
It appears to be a proprietary book format, but I don't know enough about it for sure.
Each book is split up into many different files. I've transfered it to my computer to investigate it further, but I've had no luck.
I went looking when I first got the Xoom because I wanted to put my book collection in there.
Someone smarter than me will have to figure out how to do that!
The only alternative I've found so far is using Aldiko (ebook reader from the Market). You store the eBooks on the XOOM and import them into the app. I would prefer to use Google Books however.
That's incredibly frustrating. Even iBooks allows you to add your own epub. If Google Book a can't that's a huge setback for me. I read a couple hours a day on my tablet.
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*BUMP* Anything new discovered? It sucks that we need another application and can't use the built in for reading ebooks. I love how books lets you turn pages.
huzz said:
*BUMP* Anything new discovered? It sucks that we need another application and can't use the built in for reading ebooks. I love how books lets you turn pages.
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The nook app has a very similar page turn animation and I think the app in general looks better on honeycomb than both kindle and google books. Maybe give that one a try!
vidriera said:
The nook app has a very similar page turn animation and I think the app in general looks better on honeycomb than both kindle and google books. Maybe give that one a try!
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"Nook" shows no results searching on the market app on the Xoom.
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"Nook" shows no results searching on the market app on the Xoom.
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https://market.android.com/details?id=bn.ereader&feature=search_result
Nook is only available to US users (and maybe certain other countries, but I'm not sure). People outside of US can't download nook. You have to find a way to sideload it to your Xoom if you are not in the US.
And Nook has problems displaying book covers from my own epubs. So I'm sticking to Kindle but converting to mobi format may be a hassle to some.
How did you manage to successfully import your mobi files to Kindle?
I have tried copying the files to the SD card location which makes them appear in the app but the app crashes when I try to open them. I have also tried opening them with the Kindle app from my file manager. Again, this was unsuccessful.
Thanks for your help in advance!
iReader?
gmacf33 said:
How did you manage to successfully import your mobi files to Kindle?
I have tried copying the files to the SD card location which makes them appear in the app but the app crashes when I try to open them. I have also tried opening them with the Kindle app from my file manager. Again, this was unsuccessful.
Thanks for your help in advance!
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have u guys tried iReader?
awesomely free!
I know its been awhile since this was last commented honest and maybe Google has updated Play Books since the last comments, regardless im pretty sure that it now doesnt matter where you get your digital content. Play Books will permit you to upload them and read across multiple devices. I have a fairly decent collection and i go back and forth between my Note III & Note VIII. If the book that you want to read isnt on the particular device that your using, Play Books downloads it. I have been unsuccessful in finding the default directory for the appand it was that very question that brought me to this post. :good:
I have a need for this app; it's called "side by side" and it's only on iPad.
Here is the verbage from the youtube video:
Side by Side is a multiple-screen reader/browser with offline reading and note taking capabilities. It turns one iPad into 1 to 4 devices working in parallel.
You can browse webpages, download files, read documents, or take notes on each split screen.
It allows you to have multiple apps running side by side on the screen....
Any android app that will do this?
agreed
I would love to have an app like this for android.
I'm really hoping someone has or is in the middle of creating this type of app for honeycomb.
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I have a need for this app; it's called "side by side" and it's only on iPad.
Here is the verbage from the youtube video:
Side by Side is a multiple-screen reader/browser with offline reading and note taking capabilities. It turns one iPad into 1 to 4 devices working in parallel.
You can browse webpages, download files, read documents, or take notes on each split screen.
It allows you to have multiple apps running side by side on the screen....
Any android app that will do this?
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it's called multitasking.. android has it
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Multitasking and running 2 apps next to each other is hardly the same thing.
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Multitasking and running 2 apps next to each other is hardly the same thing.
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Yes...that would be the point. Switching apps is not the same thing.
Specifically, I'd like to be looking at one app while taking notes on the other side of the screen....
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Specifically, I'd like to be looking at one app while taking notes on the other side of the screen....
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I think we'd all love to know what technology/trickery you are using to make one eye focus on your notes while the other eye focusses on another app. Totally unrelated ofc, but you made me think of THIS video.
Nothing like this exists that I'm aware of... so far. Unless you are using some remote desktop software and accessing a pc/mac. Most ipad apps seem to get ported over so I'm sure we'll see it in the future.
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I think we'd all love to know what technology/trickery you are using to make one eye focus on your notes while the other eye focusses on another app. .
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That's funny!
This is what you want: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezvAs759rbg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Unfortunately, these guys are only selling their software to OEM's, so the chance of buying it from the market are zero... you'll have to buy a new device with the software built-in. I hope someone will be able to hack and extract the software to run on our tablets - this solution is WAY better than side-by-side as it allows for real apps to be run in each window (not just a simple browser or notepad).
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Yep...that's exactly it....
Hopefully somebody hacks it eventually.
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Yep...that's exactly it....
Hopefully somebody hacks it eventually.
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FYI: you can sign up to be a beta tester on their facebook page! Maybe there is hope that this will be a standalone software!!!!
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FYI: you can sign up to be a beta tester on their facebook page! Maybe there is hope that this will be a standalone software!!!!
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can you link it..? I couldn't find them.
rpavich said:
can you link it..? I couldn't find them.
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Here you go : http://www.facebook.com/onskreen.cornerstone
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Just FYI the "Side-by-side" app doesn't actually allow you to run multiple apps side-by-side, it only allows you do a limited number of specific tasks (web browsing/note taking) that are baked into the app.
To override an application's screen context would require extensive changes to the Android framework (and similar changes to iOS but no-one but Apple has access to the source for iOS) and would only happen as a full custom build of the OS (Like the "EDEN" system of the Notion Ink Adam)
Maybe I worded that wrong but I want an app to where you could pull up something on your screen and use a stylus like a pen and write your name and date on, then save and print it later.
If there is something like this out there then my transformer is now my Ultimate Business Companion and the poster is my new best friend!
~DougP
not quite sure what you are asking for but i believe that you could just use supernote to do what you want.
DocuSign Ink. It's in the Market, but my postcount is too low to put up a link.
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DocuSign Ink. It's in the Market, but my postcount is too low to put up a link.
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this it? https://market.android.com/details?...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kb2N1c2lnbi5pbmsiXQ..
Yes, that's it.
just what Im lookin for!!! Thanks x infinity!!
DocuSign allows you to sign documents which is great, but only keeps YOUR details on file.
Is there a similar app which allows you to capture a client's signature as well, without costing $15/month for a subscription?
Cheers
Nice
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DocuSign allows you to sign documents which is great, but only keeps YOUR details on file.
Is there a similar app which allows you to capture a client's signature as well, without costing $15/month for a subscription?
Cheers
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Couldn't you just hand the tablet and stylus to the client right after you sign and ask the client to sign, much like you would with a paper form? ezpdf is also a good app if the document is in pdf format.
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Couldn't you just hand the tablet and stylus to the client right after you sign and ask the client to sign, much like you would with a paper form? ezpdf is also a good app if the document is in pdf format.
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Awesome! I didn't know ezpdf had free hand editing. I like!
Not sure if anybody has discussed this, haven't found a thread that talks about this.
But some of us, and I believe more and more each day, own more than one Android device. In my case I own two phones and two tablets.
My request is, can anybody make or know where I can get an app that syncs books between android phone and android tablets?
For example if I'm reading a book while at work from my phone.. I would like to go home and open my tablet.. open the book app and continue to read from where I left off..
I do not know how to write android apps but in my simple mind I think this can work if the book is uploaded to a cloud and have the app from any android device have access to the same book. The function to book mark would be needed as it can be marked and saved while in the cloud and when I open the book from the app on the tablet it will know where I left off from the book mark I left behind.
In relation to this I'm speaking of good type of book apps that can read different type of ebook formats and not be limited to a service.
I believe there will be a need for this if not now then soon.
Not a good idea?
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aldiko has aldiko sync. been working very well for me.
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aldiko has aldiko sync. been working very well for me.
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Exactly what I was asking for. Thank you
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I work at Best Buy and part of our job is filling out a recommendation worksheet. I was thinking it would be cool to do this on a tablet instead of the traditional clip board and paper style approach. What is a good app for filling out PDFs?
This is the paper that I would need to fill out:
http://filesmelt.com/dl/docDetail.pdf
right click and save link as...
Ezpdf might still be on the market for 25cents get it while you can
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Another one is sign my pad so there are a few options
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Repligo pdf
jedinegotiator said:
I work at Best Buy and part of our job is filling out a recommendation worksheet. I was thinking it would be cool to do this on a tablet instead of the traditional clip board and paper style approach. What is a good app for filling out PDFs?
This is the paper that I would need to fill out:
http://filesmelt.com/dl/docDetail.pdf
right click and save link as...
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Here is a screenshot of the bottom half of your form using ezpdf and freehand input. The tool bar at the top allows you to highlight, add shapes and text and many other things, it's going very cheap on Google play right now as someone had mentioned above.
Check out the free Acrobat Reader. It does free hand writing, can change line thickness/color/opacity, add text notes, delete, etc.
mi7chy said:
Check out the free Acrobat Reader. It does free hand writing, can change line thickness/color/opacity, add text notes, delete, etc.
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I was looking for something that my clients could sign contracts with and after trying a half dozen applications, none of them would fill the form properly and allow signing...except Acrobat Reader. Thanks much.
For anyone else looking to use this for business, etc. Thickness modifying means the signature looks better and not "too thick" on the line. All text, dates and number fields worked as well where they didn't always on other apps...
I use signmypad for my electronics repair business. it works great and is simple to use. It is a paid app though but well worth the cost
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