Hey Everyone,
I've made my list like everyone else for their suggestions on wp7, I want to send them to microsoft or have it reach the right people, i've seen somewhere on the forums where to send it but i can't find it, does anyone know where? I took the wp7 survey and submitted my suggestions through there. Here is my list in case you are curious
1. True Multitasking: the ability to jump between apps, kill apps ourselves and no tombstombing!
2. Improved notifications: more notification options other than text messages, new email alerts, wifi , Bluetooth, downloaded apps. New text message notification displays entire text message as a stream in toast window. Maybe implement a quick drop down shade to view all notifications.
3. Improved copy and paste: Implement cut copy paste and select all, also the ability to copy all text in text message conversations. Reference winmo 6.5.XX
4. Customizable background wallpaper as well as more options for live tiles: enabling wallpaper in the background behind the tiles and hubs, panoramic wallpaper that moves with you and introduce live wallpaper. More options for live tiles: the ability to make them transparent, semi transparent more color options or more graphics other than plain colored squares.
5. Add integrated voice to text option for emails and text messages as well as commands.
6. More landscape support for apps and homescreen. Live tiles will shift horizontally when in landscape mode as well as hubs accordingly once rotated. Especially more landscape support for sliding qwerty phones. Very much so want this at least as an option for all phones.
7. Improve the camera application PLEASE add the ability to save options as well as more photo options, fix the hardware camera button as the 2 touch click is horrendous, also add the option to have a soft button on screen to take pictures as well as the hardware camera button.
8. Improved MMS functionality: the ability to add more than one photo, gif and animated pictures support as well as video support also. Once again reference winmo 6.5.
9. Please hurry with the flash support for the browser as well as courting opera to bring opera mobile to windows phone 7.
10. Improve the facebook app, include the ability to upload videos, play video links off the app, add facebook chat, morelive tile support such as status updates displaying through the the live tile add more functionality all together .
11. Add the ability to share videos through MMS, facebook or youtube upload as well the option to change the youtube link from the standard msft app to the htc app or another youtube app.
12. Bring back Microsoft active sync support for outlook contacts or at least as an additional option.
13. Allow wp7 device to be accessed as usb drive as well, the ability to cut copy paste rename delete files and move files on the phone and sd card.
14. File browser support
15. Improve the maps application, add voice guided turn by turn navigation as well as more map options.
16. Add Bluetooth file transfer as well as improve Bluetooth overall
17. Allow custom ringtones and notifications.
18. Hurry with the html5 support so that wp7 users who deserve to have an official bing app equal if not better than their ios or android counterparts.
19. Add the ability through zune to back up all downloaded apps or introduce apps that do just that back up everything for those who need to reset their phone can reinstall their apps easily.
20. Add the ability to manage your zune playlists on your phone. Too often I will want to edit my playlist and will be nowhere near my pc to do so, maybe introduce a playlist editor app for the phone.
21. For homescreen add the ability to have folders as live tiles, such as creating a folder containing all social networking apps, the ability to name it as well as various graphics options for the live tile. And for the hubs too the ability to create folder hubs as sometimes going down all the hubs can be tedious to find the one app you use on occasion.
22. The live tiles are a great concept but in my opinion they are “silent” they could provide more information and they are not doing so, the messaging live tile could display the newest text message within its tile, also show who sent the text message, the same for twitter and facebook and even foursquare, as well as email, a great rss feeder live tile feed, more information could be pushed into these tiles that would truly encapture microsoft’s glance and go mantra.
23. Internet explore needs better landscape support as well the sorely missing flash html5.
24. I truly miss the ppc aspect of my windows phone, I suggest that Microsoft bring back all the ppc elements while continuing to improve windows phone, the winmo power users will be happy and new users will unknowingly come to find these options useful as well. A marriage of the ppc aspects from winmo to the new ui of wp7 with newfound developer support will keep Microsoft as a major player in the smartphone wars.
Even if the right person(s) would get it, they'd probably just delete your mail...I don't think that they really read those "suggestment-mails"...
But good luck!
Once I find the right email address or group to submit to I'll email them every single day, "determined to be heard!"
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While the suggestions are very good, we all have opinions, and no one has been heard so far. Visit the General board for WP7, and submit this list to the proper thread on needed improvements. You can find it at the top. It is stickied.
I'm guessing this has been asked and answered many times but I couldn't find anything.
Is there anyway to have pictures and calendar use only a single tile instead of two?
Seems like a simple thing, but it would be nice to have the option to control those tiles a bit more.
Thanks
No current option.
The reason for the calender would be it has a lot of info to display on screen I guess, no idea for the pictures tho =P
I really like your idea, it makes a lot of sense. I'd love options like that too; it would optimise screen-space without sacrificing anything about the Metro interface (and if necessary the opacity of the images could be reduced to ensure the calendar text is always readable).
As Steven says though, it's certainly not possible with the current tiles. Some things would be possible with a custom programmed tile, but it wouldn't be perfect:
In theory an app developer could use a 'background agent' (part of an app which can run in the background on your phone every 30 minutes and update the app's tile(s)) to update a tile with a changing background and merge text from the calendar over the top.
Unfortunately in the current version (unless you're Microsoft) background agents aren't allowed to access the media library - i.e. the picture library on your phone (the required developer 'API's XNA.Framework and Media APIs are blocked to developers of background agents). It could, however, use pictures from a web service which would still make for a nice tile. That tile could still launch an app that views your phone's picture library, and I'm pretty sure it could access the Calendar info for display on the tile (The 'Microsoft.Phone.UserData' API required to access Calendar info is not restricted to background agent code).
One big problem with it is developers aren't allowed to create double width tiles. So I can visualise a single tile version of your idea; but even if a two-sided tile is used, the text still might look a bit squashed.
Do you think a single tile version (perhaps two sided) would still be of use? Or is the fact it can't be double width like the current tile probably a 'killer'?
Ian
I'm curious about peoples' opinions of the app "LectureNotes" by Acadoid Developer and how it stacks up against the other main players in the active digitizer game. I've only been using my TPT for a few days' worth of note taking and haven't settled on a specific app yet, so I would like to hear thoughts on how you chose your primary note taking app.
i use ezpdf reader usually and just annotate my notes onto the pdf lecture slides.
if i need free form writing, i use free-note as it has keyboard + pen input
or quill if i just need pen input.
personally i haven't tried lecture notes, but it seems like MyScript Notes Mobile preloaded with the TPT
Wow, pretty good app. I didn't know about it. Thanks!
I've been using TPT for about 2 weeks now, and like the OP, I haven't really quite settled on a specific handwriting app..
Key uses for me are:
- taking notes during meetings
- something to help me in my Japanese language study
- some silly doodling/sketching fun
Some apps I've tried:
- Notesmobile
- Antipaper
- Writepad stylus
- Lecture notes
- Asus' supernotes
- Freenote
- Quill
For lecture notes specifically, I like that I can choose checkered pattern for the background and set the pattern size, as that is perfect for writing in Japanese.
But I found that it lags quite a bit when writing, and there isn't an easy way for me to scroll between pages.
So I haven't really been using it much in the past week.
For the moment, I've sort of settled with using a mix of Writepad, Supernote and Antipaper. Sadly, neither Supernote nor Antipaper has stylus only option
Still waiting for the one app that can do it all!
Might never come, but I can always hope, can't I?
I use Lecture Notes and have more or less canned every other note software. Lecture Notes just has way more features that I need. It can export in many ways. It can backup all my notes to dropbox, great support for inserting images and easy to change color, pen thickness etc.
Only think missing is better organization of the notebooks themselves. When that's here, it will be perfect.
It's also by far the most stable of Quill, Notes mobil and asus supernotes.
Personally, I have tried a lot of handwriting notes apps until I cam to this one. At that time this one worked the best overall in my opinion. When I first started using it didn't have everything it has now. But it was already robust and never crashed. I had one issue after a full system crash and reboot that wiped out the content of one notebook. But I simply loaded my backup from the day before without issue and kept rolling.
I have about 15 different notebooks on there now and I use them daily for work notes as I am walk around the office working on equipment or meeting notes.
It doesn't have the handwriting recognition features you find in other apps but I think that is what keyboard are for and I wouldn't write a document up that way anyway.
My good things list.
First, The developer is always adding things per user requests. Options for everything you can think of.
Second, it is being developed directly on the TPT and it seems to be one of the only ones able to be truly palm rejection friendly by only allowing the app to pull input from the pen (Option can be disabled for those that don't have a pen).
Third, and again the endless options... every type of custom settings, scrolling options (one finger, two finger, scroll bars and bar thickness), export options, backup options, sharing options, zoom options, page size - color - patterns, simple drawing tools, cut paste - copy paste, and on and on... every time I turn on the tablet it seems there is anther update to this app.
The dev listens to the feedback and finds ways of making the ideas work. I have submitted several ideas that have become reality.
It isn't free... but I would buy it a second and third time if I could just to support the dev team.
I see a brighter and brighter future of this app.
Hi folks,
I am the author of LectureNotes, I was glad to read that the app is useful for you. Sorry for joining this forum and this thread so late, but I learned only very recently that there are couple of forum threads related to LectureNotes.
Note that I uploaded v1.12.2 today with a couple of minor additions, the most important one probably being the possibility to choose the directory where the app stores your notebooks.
Best regards,
Markus
acadoid said:
Hi folks,
I am the author of LectureNotes, I was glad to read that the app is useful for you. Sorry for joining this forum and this thread so late, but I learned only very recently that there are couple of forum threads related to LectureNotes.
Note that I uploaded v1.12.2 today with a couple of minor additions, the most important one probably being the possibility to choose the directory where the app stores your notebooks.
Best regards,
Markus
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I am using the trial version, but i am already convinced of buying the full version. I have a suggestion to make :
The software really needs a laso eraser it will make it more feature-full
Dear trt44,
LectureNotes has a `lasso´ eraser, moving the eraser in a closed path so that start and end point are close deletes the interior.
Best regards,
Markus
Perfect, i just tried the laso eraser and it works like a charm, so i bought the software .
I have another suggestion : The software lacks the ability to draw basic shapes (rectangles, circles, lines...), and from my humble point of view, basic shapes are very important for fast and accurate drawing when taking notes.
Many thanks for purchasing the app.
The app contains simple drawing primitives, they are part of the pencil toolbox (as long as you do not disable this in the settings). Choose `Show pencil toolbox´ in the pencil menu to get the toolbox displayed, click-and-hold to move it around. A single click on one of the standard or custom pencils chooses the pencil and a double-click on one of the custom pencils opens the `Custom pencil settings´ dialog; a click on one of the drawing tools activates the drawing tool, another click inactivates it.
OK, thank you, i will try it once i get home.
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Many thanks for purchasing the app.
The app contains simple drawing primitives, they are part of the pencil toolbox (as long as you do not disable this in the settings). Choose `Show pencil toolbox´ in the pencil menu to get the toolbox displayed, click-and-hold to move it around. A single click on one of the standard or custom pencils chooses the pencil and a double-click on one of the custom pencils opens the `Custom pencil settings´ dialog; a click on one of the drawing tools activates the drawing tool, another click inactivates it.
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OK, so far this is the best note taking application for android platform, it works exactly the way it should. But the UI is a bit ugly frankly you should work it more. A software like yours deserve a sexy fantastic UI :
- Attractive icons cause the actual ones looks dead to me, note Books icons for example looks horrible
- The ability to go forward and back in pages using forward and back buttons (more convenient sometimes instead of just scrolling or doing a notebook overview and select the page from there)
- Notebook overview should have an icon in the top tools bar for easy access
One last thing, when you use palm heuristic there is no way to zoom but using the zoom function in the menu witch have a fixed zoom ratio, i suggest to add a zoom slider in the top tools bar where you can specify how much you want to zoom when using (or not) palm heuristic.
Thank you for the fantastic software and keep the good work on .
Many thanks for your kind comments. I certainly agree that the icons can be improved, but I am not an artist and I do my best.
The app allows to go forward and backward page-wise by using `One page forward` or `One page backward´ in the hand menu; alternatively, to move quickly through your notebook without changing mode or switching to notebook overview, switch on `Permanently display scroll bars´ in the settings and drag on the scroll bars (the bar thickness can be increased in the settings).
`Notebook overview´ is just two clicks away in all modes (one click on main menu and one click on the item), I do not think that it is worthwhile to add an extra icon.
When using the heuristic palm rejection, one or two fingers gestures for scrolling and zooming are restricted to the hand mode, but being in this mode you can scroll and zoom continuously. Besides that, there is a zoom slider at the left side, you can change zoom by dragging it (the bar thickness can also be increased in the settings).
Just wanted to say hello to you Markus and thank you for your amazing app.
I am loving your app more and more. I appreciate your email correspondence about features I asked about. It truly puts you and your application above the rest.
Cheers.
I just uploaded v1.13 into Google Play. The major new feature is to allow folders of notebooks (and folders of folders of notebooks, etc.), but I also added LectureNotes as an image receiver (so that the app shows up when you share an image) and fixed a bug that could cause the app to crash when using a template for a new notebook.
To allow folders affects all parts of the app (notebooks board, notebook content view, notebook overview, notebook index, notebooks board index, ...). I carefully double- and triple-checked all features and things should work as before. Please drop an email to me in case you noticed something unexpected and I will do my very best to fix it quickly.
Best regards,
Markus
Sweet, I requested this feature cause of large number of notes
Works good, but maybe change the icon of folders so they stand out more from the regular.
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I just uploaded v1.13 into Google Play. The major new feature is to allow folders of notebooks (and folders of folders of notebooks, etc.), but I also added LectureNotes as an image receiver (so that the app shows up when you share an image) and fixed a bug that could cause the app to crash when using a template for a new notebook.
To allow folders affects all parts of the app (notebooks board, notebook content view, notebook overview, notebook index, notebooks board index, ...). I carefully double- and triple-checked all features and things should work as before. Please drop an email to me in case you noticed something unexpected and I will do my very best to fix it quickly.
Best regards,
Markus
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This is a wonderful feature Markus that I didn't realize I needed until just recently. Love it I like the idea of changing the icon on the folders so they stand out more. I also love the new storage location setting, it eases my mind to know it is on my external_sd.
Also, I dunno if I am just being dense, but I cannot seem to figure out the navigation menu when enabled in settings. Within settings, under Settings > Menu > Enable app's launcher icon menu and it says it provides a navigation menu at the app's launcher icon. I've always assumed this was an extra navigation menu in the top left corner, but cannot seem to ever be able to use it.
Any thoughts?
I am glad to hear that you like the new feature.
In case you switch on the menu at the app's launcher icon, you should see a menu when clicking on the icon in the left upper corner (in difference to the case when this option is off, then you get a message that there is no functionality assigned, with the exception of notebook content view where the changed pages are flushed to the file system). What happens in your case? Does the icon highlight when you click on it?
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I am glad to hear that you like the new feature.
In case you switch on the menu at the app's launcher icon, you should see a menu when clicking on the icon in the left upper corner (in difference to the case when this option is off, then you get a message that there is no functionality assigned, with the exception of notebook content view where the changed pages are flushed to the file system). What happens in your case? Does the icon highlight when you click on it?
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It doesn't seem to do anything when I click on it, with either my finger or with the pen. And it doesn't seem to matter if I have it enabled or not. Neither scenario causes the icon to do anything. It doesn't highlight or say/do anything. It also does not matter what screen I am at, the icon never does anything. Whether I am within a notebook, folder or at the notebooks board screen. Odd.
Would this have anything to do with that I am running ICS?
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We heard it would be flat. We heard it would be
black and white. We heard that it would be a
totally different experience.
It is. iOS 7, the latest version of Apple’s
flagship mobile operating system, is here, and
it’s almost entirely different from the versions
that came before. Gone are the skeuomorphic
designs and 3D effects, replaced by Sir Jony
Ive’s “flat design.” Rumors had been flying for
weeks about the new OS and now it’s here and
it is, at least at this early reckoning, a massive
change for the six year old operating system.
First, we must remember that Ive, Apple’s
industrial designer now in control of software
following the departure of Scott Forstall, isn’t a
believer in interfaces that copy real-world
objects. In the past, making the Notes app look
like a legal pad or the calendar app look like a
Moleskine calendar notebook were part of the
iOS design philosophy, as ingrained in the OS
as “Slide To Unlock.” All that is gone now.
Are you ready for a whole new world?
New Look:
iOS 7 has a new font leading the way, which
seems to be a sort of Helvetica Neue Ultra. It’s
very skinny, clean, and it was hinted at in the
iOS 7 banners that went up for WWDC
yesterday.
Instead of white bars on a black background,
Apple will now tell you what kind of service
coverage you have with five little dots, which
are white and grey depending on how strong
the signal is across a translucent background.
The lock screen is changed for the first time in
iOS’s history, with no more shine top or bottom
bars for slide to unlock or the clock. Instead,
Slide to unlock is translucent above the
background image.
Default app icons are now flatter, but not quite
flat, just as predicted.
Jony Ive’s hand has had its way with iOS
notifications. The notifications panel isn’t laced
with dark grey linen anymore, but actually has
a very flat look to it. There is a today view, that
lets you see friends birthdays, upcoming
invitations, calendar, stocks, and a quick look
at tomorrow.
The apps all seem to have a white base, except
for the stocks app which has a black
background and the weather app, which shows
motion in the background to convey the current
weather.
The keyboard is more white, than grey, with a
translucency that lets you see what’s
underneath the keyboard.
New Features
Control Center
Control Center is a pull-up tray that is available
in your lock screen.
You can adjust brightness, volume, and other
settings including Wifi, Airplane mode, rotation
lock, or Bluetooth.
The Control Center even offers a flashlight,
along with tabs for music, camera, and other
quick-access apps.
The Control Center takes on the environment
it’s in, so if you swipe up while you’re in mail, it
will have the same blue and white coloring
under that translucent panel.
Multitasking
iOS 7 lets you multitask between all third-party
apps with much better battery consumption.
You can double-tap the home button to enter
into multi-tasking mode, just like always, but
the interface for multitasking has been
revamped. It appears to offer live previews, but
Apple wasn’t clear about that.
Safari
Safari opens straight into full screen mode now,
with the option to pull down to bring up the
search bar at the top.
The search field has been improved to be a
unified smart search field, which lets you have
access to all your favorite websites with a
single tap.
Tabs come with a totally new interface,
scrolling in a vertical carousel, and there are no
longer any limits. In other words, you can have
as many tabs as you want, as opposed to just
8 like before. Swipe a tab off to the side to
throw it away.
The new Safari is integrated with iCloud
keychain from OS X Mavericks, and also comes
with parental controls.
AirDrop
You can share sharesheets with other people by
simply tapping their name. No NFC required.
Airdrop supports iPhone 5, iPad 4th gen, iPad
Mini
Camera And Photos
The Camera app lets you swipe between your
various camera types, such as panorama or
HDR so you can quickly take a pic instead of
fumbling around with settings.
Photos marks the first update to the photo
gallery on iOS since it was introduced.
You can search based on date, and location,
within the photos app.
Instagram must be flattered — Apple has
introduced photo filters so you can add a little
professionalism to the picture.
Users can share via AirDrop, iCloud photo-
sharing, as well as shared Photo Streams.
You can even share video with iCloud photo-
sharing.
Siri:
Siri has a new voice! It sounds similar, but also
weird. You can choose a male or female voice,
if you like. Voices include languages like
French, German, and other languages “over
time.”
The visual UI has also been upgraded, with a
sound wave going along the bottom.
Siri has also been integrated with settings,
letting you tell her to turn on bluetooth, or
lower the screen brightness.
The company has also added support for
Twitter, Wikipedia, and shows web search
results direct from Bing.
iOS in the Car
iOS in the Car depends a lot on Siri.
It puts the iOS homescreen on the screen of
your car, and lets you search for directions,
listen to music, etc.
App Store
You can now search for apps based on
location. In other words, search for apps by the
Louvre and see a lot of French museum apps.
The App Store also automatically updates apps
for you in the background now. Hallelujah
again!
iTunes Radio:
Apple has finally introduced the much-
anticipated iTunes Radio, which gives a Genius-
like experience to the entire 26-million title
iTunes catalog.
You can see the full list of songs on each
station by clicking history, with purchase and
preview buttons built right in to send you to the
iTunes store.
iTunes Radio also lets you customize each
station by clicking a star to show that you want
more of this type of music.
iTunes Match users will get an ad-free
experience, but others will be able to use the
app for free with a few audio and text ads.
Activation Lock:
This is for those of us who have had an iPhone
stolen.
If a thief steals your phone and tries to turn off
Find My iPhone, they can no longer turn the
device back on without your iCloud password.
Users can also block messages and calls from
other users.
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I tell you what I think:
lol.
Thread closed: this discussion should be held on a more Apple friendly website....
This seems like a simple question, but I can't find an answer. Any help would be appreciated.
0. Pixel 4A running Android 12
1. In Chomp (my default SMS/MMS app), when I want to send a picture, I click the small picture icon under Tools to select an image.
2. This opens an app with "Gallery" at the top and all my pictures.
3. The Gallery app has no date seperators or controls to change the layout of pictures - it is just one long grid of pictures.
4. Unfortunately, Gallery seems to sorted by date taken only. As I scroll down, there is no way to tell when a picture is was taken (no breaks between dates). So, when I need to find a picture from last year sometime, I scroll forever - back and forth - trying to figure out if a picture I see was before or after the picture I want. This is nuts.
5. So, I want to stop using Gallery and start using something better - preferably F-Stop (where my pictures are organized by folders, keywords and dates.)
6. My first try was to disable Gallery - however there is no app listed as Gallery, Photo Gallery, Google Gallery, etc (At least I could not find it)
7. My second try was to disable Google Photos (and it sorts by date taken but it has breaks between different dates ) - I disabled it but no change. Gallery still opened as the selection app.
8. My third try was to attempt to change the default app for pictures - but there isn't one. I see defaults for Browser, Calls, Digital assistant, Laucher, Phone app and SMS app - nothing about images.
I'm stumped (but that is not hard to do to me)
Does anyone know how stop Gallery from opening or use a different app when in Chomp?
I use Chomp but don't use it to send pictures, but try this
Let the gallery app open and in the top left hand corner there should be a Recents icon, this should open a file viewer that also shows a 'Browse in other apps' bar where hopefully your app of choice is shown, tap that and you should then be able to pick F-Stop organised the way you want.
You may have to do this each time though
Thank you. The frame in the upper-left corner looks like a broken picture. However, when tapped, it is a search box that also lets me change apps. Thanks again for solving my problem.