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Hiya all,
Firstly: I hope this is the right forum for this post, if not - apologies.
I just installed my copy of Micorsoft Voice Command and I gotta say its worth every cent!
I just thought I'd post some thoughts and see what comments come back - maybe someone has tinkered with optimising this program or maybe some of the 'nice to haves' that I have identified so far are there and I'm just too thick to spot 'em
The first thing that struck me is that its hands free operation right? So why you gotta hit a button to activate it? Couldnt the mic just stay on permanently (draining the battery like mad of course) and have MSVC wake up on a keyword. like ...say 'computer' a-la-Captain Picard?
Next: how about keeping the mic open for a few seconds after each command to allow 'compound comands' where you kinda string a few together, like: 'open messages; new message; to <conact name>' maybe there is a way to do this that I am not aware of...?
I'd also love to be able to hook into weatherpanel and ask what the forecast for today/tomorrow is(yea, I know its right there on the today screen but what if my glasses arent handy or its monady and I'm trying to decide of I can bear to drag myself to work and I'd rather not even open my eyes if the decision is to stay in bed, eh??)
Thanks 4 reading - any comments appreciated.
M
Hi,
For Date and Time, MSVC does have commands.
However...I think what you suggested will be cool. Kinda my PDA phone becomes like those Star Trek comm devices.
If I could use it to open my garage...turn on lights in the house...start my morning cup of tea...that will be living in the future.
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Hi everyone. I can't really seem to find a decent program to use as a 'whiteboard'. I want a program that i can scribble on, zoom in and out, rub out and change colours etc. I need all of this as I do physics at university and it would be very useful to be able to use the phone to write all my equations rather than wasting paper (green FTW lol).
I used the standard 'Notes' program that came with it, but that womps big time. Let me know if there is anything you come across that does these things! Thanks.
LOL @ 'womps'.
Have you tried M$ OneNote? It comes with Office 2k7.
Hehe, haven't used 'Womps' in ages, used to use it quite a bit in CS:S as an insult XD
Erm, are you referring to the M$ OneNote that comes on the HD, in Mobile Office? Can't find an option to scribble and change colours, just type a bit of text: end of :/ .
Unless there are hidden options somewhere to allow scribbling.
Well, SpooNotes, of course!
Has all the features you want, and then some more!
I use The Pad from Visual It.
http://www.visualit.co.uk/UIQ/P800_pad.htm
HTH
jesus1987 said:
Hehe, haven't used 'Womps' in ages, used to use it quite a bit in CS:S as an insult XD
Erm, are you referring to the M$ OneNote that comes on the HD, in Mobile Office? Can't find an option to scribble and change colours, just type a bit of text: end of :/ .
Unless there are hidden options somewhere to allow scribbling.
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Ahh, I thought that OneNote was a lot more versatile than that.
I used to play CS:S and the original too. Way back in Beta 7, in a clan called UK-SBS. Now I'm showing my age. CS on 33.6 dial-up. Those were the days
yey cs:S you still bust?
Lol, bust? Reckon that means 'do i still play' XD
Answer is: Yes! Yer, i'm on it pretty much everyday lol, normally on my regular server, Aerelon UK Dust 2 server. Have a look around for it, proper laugh.
By the way all, thanks for the program recommendations, have tried out both SpoonNotes and 'The Pad' lol, both pretty good for what I need. Any one been able to get a 'non-5-page-limited' version of 'The Pad'? Seems a bit steep to pay £20 odd for a mobile program :s
sent pm
to your box
LOL I remember UK-SBS!
Hi all!
This is the PocketPC Version (Viewer) of PVD the very best program to organize your movies.
You can download the PC version from http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/.
My thoughts were: what is the best movie managing and cataloging software worth while in the movie store and searching for a title... or sitting in front of the TV and trying to remember what cool movie I could watch...
That, and enjoying to write software for my mobile phone, were the reasons for mobilePVD.
The software is published at PVD's home and at xda-developers place.
How it works
First of all, you have to get PVD and enter your movies. After that, make a XML export. This writes a file containing the movie information and a directory containing the pictures. Take both and copy them onto your device. I recommend to copy them onto the SD card in a sub directory PVD.
Download mobilePVD and install it on your device. When starting, you will have to select the XML file by clicking Menu->Open DB. Your can select other languages and other skins (if someone makes them ).
When going to a sublist in mobilePVD (i.e. viewing the movie details or selecting directories) and you want to get back, just slide with your finger over the list from left to right...
How to translate
In the program directory on the device is a sub directory called "Languages". Within you find the language files. I deployed English and German so far. To make own translations just copy a file to your desktop, open it with any text editor and translate. Please publish your translation on either forum, so I can build the next version with more supported languages.
How to skin
also in the program directory you will find a sub directory "Skin" with all the images I use. The images in "Manila WVGA" are for a resolution of 800x480. If you like you can take those bitmaps and change them to fit other resolutions and other colors. Don't forget to adapt the settings in the skin.ini file.
And please share your work with us and publish your skins on either forum. I will put them in the download section.
Have fun!
Obelix
Changelog:
2.1 Filtering is back and actors are grouped by first letter.
2.0 uses virtual mode to load more movies before reaching end of memory
1.1 out of memory problem fixed
1.0 Initial release
If you like my work, you can buy me a glass of wine
Version 2.1 of mobilePVD
I was hoping this allows you to enter movie info directly on mobilePVD. A desktop entry method is rather inconvenient. Would that be possible?
Does this also mean I have to re-export everytime I add movies? I took a look at the desktop version and it is very good. I can see why it is more practical using the desktop for entry of movie info.
Obelix_A, I have exported some movies and I must say it looks really nice on my HD2 although it is still not very stable, sometime I get an error that quits the program. It's only 3 movies so I am wondering if it may sow down when I have much more (2,800 in my collection). I would love to have Ratings and duration. It is missing after export. Thanks, this is great for movie lovers just like IMDB Mobile. I am just surprised that there is not much feedback yet.
I like it to a while to sort all my movies and still didnt get all the pictures from IMDB, hey ho did it manually, i need to change the skins to VGA how do i go about that im a bit of a noobie when it comes to skins?
The Actor list is huge and is close to impossible to scroll all the way down to "T" etc. Can we have a sort of filter to search actor names? trev666, use IMP plugin for movie posters. It's excellent.
@Kensong cheers mate
it works well after i restarted my phone, without changing anything from wvga to vga so im happy, thanks man not looking forward to adding all my movies though lol
Ok so i now have a HD2.... works great
great app, thanks for sharing it
here we go with Version 2.0 of mobilePVD. It now uses a virtual mode of the SliderList, what means, that it can load more movies before running out of memory.
If it runs on your devices as stable as it does on mine, we can start adding new features...
Really nice work mate
Really nice work
If you don't mind, i have share it HERE.
Please feel free to drop me a comment if you have anything else to add or in case i have missed anything. Cheers~
just released version 2.1
Filtering is back now and actors are grouped by first letter
I have installed v2.1 right now.
If I click on one of the "-" e.g. "- Actors" I get an exception:
"RemoveItem in virtual mode not allowed"
I am very interested in the development of mobilePVD since I would love to have my movie list on my phone (TD2).
Is mobilePVD a "one man show" or are you planing to involve more developers?
I will check this and fix it...
Yes mPVD is a one-man-show. you can ask my friend amirdt (here on XDA) if he wants to join the project...
Actually I wanted to ask if I could help you with mPVD
what exactly do you want to add?
the only thing I could imagine right now, is another way to read the data.
play around with PVD and the exported data (XML) and how fast you can read it.
currently I am reading with XmlReader.Read and evaluate the nodes. If you can read faster, this would help. other proposals welcome
Here is just a spontaneous list:
- WM 6.5.5 Problem with menus. The black background (when menues are displayed) does not cover the whole screen. Above there is some space visible. This is because the top bar (where the clock is) is smaller and the windows task bar is bigger in WM 6.5.5 (Sorry, cant supply a picture now how it looks like)
- Filter Actors: Add a search field also
- Add a clear button to the search fields to clear the field easily
- Add (Readd?) a ">" to the Movie list to open the movie details (I think the ">" was already there in an earlier version.
- Maybe make the UI somehow less sensitive. At least on my device it moves very quickly. E.g. I cant open the details view without moving the movie list view up or down accidentally.
- Add "Reset all Filters" menu item to the Filter Menu.
- Remove the search field in the detailed movie view to get more space to view the details.
- Maybe make the "letter lines" (+A, +B, ..) in the actors view a little bit thicker so that it is easier to open/close them with a larger thumb
- Maybe add the "letter lines" (+A, +B, ..) to the movie list also. Dont know, how large collections will be handled right now.
- Add more filters like rating (stars...)
- Add movie trailer support (e.g. prepare trailers on PC (conversion etc.) and copy them to device. Link from within mPVD to start media player on device)
- ...
So where can I get the source code to get started with it?
Regards
Al
ok, ok
I will prepare the sources and make it available for you via SVN, so we can handle developing both.
By now, the list won't move when clicking. I changed that... (but all other things from your list can/need to be done)
so, drop me a PM with your wished user name and password for SVN and give me little time to prepare...
alfish2000 now officially joined the development of mobilePVD. So let's welcome him
thanks for your support!
http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=1755.40
I know, I know, if i want good photos, use a real camera. BUT, if I'm gonna have a phone with a camera and flash, I'd at least like the F'n thing to be usable. Taking pics with the flash is mostly worthless. 8 times out of 10 the LED flash washes out the subject (see attached). Is there an app/hack/kernel that allows us to adjust this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=369973&stc=1&d=1280530713
So far am not having any issue with the flash/Cam. have you disable the flash and then try again?
BTW: Unable to view your link, got this error: Invalid Attachment specified.
Only a hack solution so far...use scotch tape to diffuse the light. I agree that the flash should be controllable. I am learning as fast as I can...camera and mms are two that do not seem to get lots of interest...so someone new will have to learn and dig into them.
Even though Windows Mobile 6.* is coming to it's end, there still isn't a decent PDF Reader. Adobe Reader LE 2.5 is fast & efficient, but lacks outline & text-only views, and PocketXPdf v0.5.0 is slow as F*&%!! & seems to've lost support eons ago, but has outline and text-only views. So, what I'm requesting, if the devs of this here xda-developers community of ours are willing, is for the development of a PDF Reader that melds the best from the two, leaving behind the gross, and possibly adding support for multi-touch. I think we all need it to be --
# fast & efficient, able to open large .pdf files quickly
# with outline view, so we can browse by chapter, rather than only by page
# & a text-only view for even speedier performance in .pdf files that may be image-heavy, but one only requires the text
# multi-touch zooming (pinch to zoom)
So, here's to hoping at least one dev out there is in the request-taking mood.
::cheers:: \(^_^)/
I often searched for good pdf-viewers.. we have 600 dollar phones, but they can't handle pdf.. the mobile adobe viewer sucks. Would definitly like a replacement.
x1Albertx1 said:
... we have 600 dollar phones, but they can't handle pdf...
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My sentiment, exactly. And, I'm sure devs've gotta feel the same.
I had the same problem. Try Foxit Reader.
zinconnu said:
... Try Foxit Reader.
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Tried it, and although it's quite fast, it still lacks outline view, and pinch to zoom would be nice, too.
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Just bumping to show my dedication to this thread here. Devs ... we all need your help. Adobe & Foxit've failed us, mainly, because they're lacking outline view & multi-touch. So, a fresh, new app is totally necessary at this point.
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Might as well've called this thread Pong, as I see I'll be doing a lot of ::bump:: 'ing for this topic.
Well, I see no devs are interested in this. Does that mean there is already a PDF Reader that...
Opens .pdf files fast & efficiently
has outline view
and, supports multi-touch???