Name: Tiny eBook Reader, Mango release.
Tiny eBook Reader allows you to read eBooks with the formatting you choose. We've put most of the features that were in the Windows Mobile version and made a Windows Phone 7 reader. We've taken the lastest submission to Marketplace (it's still going through testing) and compiled it for Mango.
It has most of the fixes that will be in the NoDo Marketplace version, but is compiled for 7.1 beta 2 and uses Mango extended Back tile.
Pin the app and it will display the last opened eBook on the back of the tile.
Another app to show off the cool new features of Mango.
Any bugs, feedback, please email using address in app About, and put MANGO in the subject.
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(these are screencaps from the emulator, with photo book backgrounds.)
Download Link:
*This will not run on NoDo devices*
Anyone interested in playing with this version of Tiny eBook Reader for Mango you can download the XAP here:
http://www.goldencrater.com/Tiny_eBook_Reader-Mango.xap
Of course, "since only registered developers have Mango", you'll know how to sideload the app. And, until Marketplace starts accepting Mango verisons for submission...
Enjoy!!
Nice, I'll give that a shot tomorrow. I have already tried the version that's available on the marketplace, but opening a book always results in a sudden close of the app. Could be related to the mango beta, so with this new build I'll find out if that's the case or not.
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Even with the new version I still can't read any books.
Woow great application. Can't wait for newer version.
which formats your app support?
I need reading prc format, can it read that format?
@dkp1977 : thanks for working back and forth with us to get those bugs out of the code!
@biper4x4 : thanks.
@dalmate : You can't read PRC directly. The converter we have will soon support .ePub. However, using the site below, you can convert PRC to LIT and then drop the LIT into the converter tool that will drop the book onto your Dropbox account for you. A 2 step process, I know. Not ideal, but we're working on adding more formats.
http://www.convertfiles.com/convert/ebook/EPUB-to-LIT.html
koornneef said:
@dkp1977 : thanks for working back and forth with us to get those bugs out of the code!
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You're welcome. I'm enjoying using Tiny eBook Reader. Gotta find out though on which step all the umlauts get lost. Either it happens when converting from ePub to LIT (which I currently do with Calibre) or with the Tiny eBook Converter tool.
Update available.
Update to the Mango beta of Tiny eBook Reader with all the fixes and changes made in the Marketplace (NoDo) version.
Same URL as above.
Also updates Dropbox, Coding4Fun, and a few other DLLs for Mango compatibility -- so all the prompt and password boxes should work again without crashing.
Now supports the back-tile (as before) and fast task switching.
Again, this version is MANGO only. It's also the pubCenter supported (free) version.
You can play this version 'till December. By then, Mango should be out (for everyone but out AT&T Focus!)
BIG thanks to all those submitting problem reports, files that don't work, and general comments!
ePub conversion is causing grief. Keep finding files that don't work. Sorry if it's taking a bit, but better to get it right than buggy!
Have a good one!
so what format works best with the reader? i can convert my files, but would like to know what would be best to convert to?
The Windows Phone 7 version takes only .TeBR format directly.
The short answer is: If you can download a LIT file directly, go for that file and open it in the Converter.
Most formats compress as a stream, and so become slow near the end of a large book. TeBR format is uses chunkified compression to provide fast response even in very large books.
The converter program will best convert .LIT files into TeBR with Table of Contents, Cover Image, etc. all intact. That c++ code for LIT has been in the Windows Mobile version of the Reader for years and is pretty robust and stable.
In fact, you should be able to 'Open' a LIT file via File Explorer or Internet Explorer and it will open in the converter, convert and arrive in your DropBox.
But you can also build a book by dropping several HTML or TXT files into the converter. It will treat each file as a chapter in the Table of Contents. Drop a PNG or JPG as the first item and that will be the cover image.
FictionBook (FB2) is the least supported and converts the text and contents only. No images.
When ePub is (finally) supported, it should be on par with LIT files.
Hi koornneef,
the app is really nice but not so the lit-tebr converter (I presume that the problem is the converter).
I'm Italian thus in my language there are a lot of chars like à, ò, ù, etc. and they are not visible (accented vowels are replaced by spaces) in the final converted ebook.
Thanks
Hi keres7
We've come across a few ways that the text in LIT files are encoded.. Maybe a new one, or we broke the code somewhere.
If it's possible, could you send a copy of one of the LIT files to support at
info
@
goldencrater.com
I'll get one of the guys to take a look at it. If you're having a problem, then others are too.
thanks!
koornneef, I sent to the email indicated two LIT files.
Let me know if you have received them and if you are experiencing the same issue.
Truly I don't see any reason to create e-reader without epub support. We are living in XXI century now; time of txt, asc, tec etc. etc. texts is gone (thanks, Lord!) epub + OPDS - what's how the e-reading suppose to work today.
We all appreciate developer's hard work and are grateful and donate / buy when available, however with all the converting, I just don't feel moved to support this app. I would like to have full .rtf, .fb2, .lit, .txt, .pdf etc support without converting. All my ebooks which I enjoyed when back at WM 6.5 are either .rtf, .fb2 or .txt. I hope that a newer version of this reader would support them all. If I missed something regarding formats on previous posts, please let me know.
P.S. I don't mean any disrespect or harm with my comments.
@Pharmako
Thanks for your comments.
No disrespect taken. Feedback from users is appreciated. We're looking to make the best product you people want to use.
It's been a few hard decisions with many internal arguments. Let me outline some of the thoughts and maybe with user feedback we can come to solutions that everyone likes.
In PocketPC/WM5+ it was easy to support file types. Everyone had access to the file system -- users and code alike. Not so in WP7, so we had to create a way to get the books from your desktop to the phone.
At first we were going to use the Tine Reader Online servers to handle books. So, the decision was made that if we had to push the files into the cloud, we might as well just convert them into internal format. After talking with users, we decided to go first with a non-subscription (free) model -- hence Dropbox (SkyDrive was not available due to its Terms.)
Even Zune and iTunes will convert some content before placing on the device. Not that what they are doing is right for everyone, but this does seem to be the trend in the market.
Once we removed all the logic for HTML, paragraph reflowing (now done in the converter), and LIT, we found that we could repaginate a book almost 3 times faster. Change the font, and jump to the end of the book and you'll see what I mean. The reading paginates one page in front of your current page. If you jump ahead, it's got to figure out all the pages that come before.
We also handle Unicode character storage better than HTML, ePub and LIT do – it’s just in the way we store it.
We figured (originally) that if you needed a program to get the files to the service then who cared what format they were actually read in. And the program could later add new formats (as we did with adding ePub after the release.) I suppose with Dropbox, it's a little more obvious what we're doing now.
I was just looking at the converter and there are a few things broken. You should be able to open a ePub or LIT directly from the web and have it convert and put in Dropbox -- or even double click a file on the local drive. It looks like this isn't working. Also, the 'open' dialog doesn’t list FB2, ePub and LIT formats. These will have to be fixed.
Would some streamlining help? An option to Pre-accept password/drm and legal warning, and if you open a LIT, ePub, FB2 it simply does the convert?
Do we need to add bulk operations? (either multiple file drop or select a folder?)
Text is a bit harder to streamline. You may want to include author and a cover image. You'll definitely was the title. Too often I see text files as BOOK0023a.txt or some such. Not much help if we use the file name as a title. Thoughts?
We might be able to figure out the MOBI format. Trying to choose between that and Palmdoc/PDB. These can be all added without changing the reader itself.
What are the thoughts on this board?
BTW. The reader is being localized into 6 languages. Just waiting on the translations.
koornneef said:
@Pharmako
Thanks for your comments.
No disrespect taken. Feedback from users is appreciated. We're looking to make the best product you people want to use.
It's been a few hard decisions with many internal arguments. Let me outline some of the thoughts and maybe with user feedback we can come to solutions that everyone likes.
In PocketPC/WM5+ it was easy to support file types. Everyone had access to the file system -- users and code alike. Not so in WP7, so we had to create a way to get the books from your desktop to the phone.
At first we were going to use the Tine Reader Online servers to handle books. So, the decision was made that if we had to push the files into the cloud, we might as well just convert them into internal format. After talking with users, we decided to go first with a non-subscription (free) model -- hence Dropbox (SkyDrive was not available due to its Terms.)
Even Zune and iTunes will convert some content before placing on the device. Not that what they are doing is right for everyone, but this does seem to be the trend in the market.
Once we removed all the logic for HTML, paragraph reflowing (now done in the converter), and LIT, we found that we could repaginate a book almost 3 times faster. Change the font, and jump to the end of the book and you'll see what I mean. The reading paginates one page in front of your current page. If you jump ahead, it's got to figure out all the pages that come before.
We also handle Unicode character storage better than HTML, ePub and LIT do – it’s just in the way we store it.
We figured (originally) that if you needed a program to get the files to the service then who cared what format they were actually read in. And the program could later add new formats (as we did with adding ePub after the release.) I suppose with Dropbox, it's a little more obvious what we're doing now.
I was just looking at the converter and there are a few things broken. You should be able to open a ePub or LIT directly from the web and have it convert and put in Dropbox -- or even double click a file on the local drive. It looks like this isn't working. Also, the 'open' dialog doesn’t list FB2, ePub and LIT formats. These will have to be fixed.
Would some streamlining help? An option to Pre-accept password/drm and legal warning, and if you open a LIT, ePub, FB2 it simply does the convert?
Do we need to add bulk operations? (either multiple file drop or select a folder?)
Text is a bit harder to streamline. You may want to include author and a cover image. You'll definitely was the title. Too often I see text files as BOOK0023a.txt or some such. Not much help if we use the file name as a title. Thoughts?
We might be able to figure out the MOBI format. Trying to choose between that and Palmdoc/PDB. These can be all added without changing the reader itself.
What are the thoughts on this board?
BTW. The reader is being localized into 6 languages. Just waiting on the translations.
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Thank you for the reply. I think that I got a grip on how things go on WP7 after your thoughts. I think that, yes a: "Would some streamlining help? An option to Pre-accept password/drm and legal warning, and if you open a LIT, ePub, FB2 it simply does the convert?" would help, I mean if the converter is built in within the app in WP.
How can I sync ebooks with my Windows Phone?? Is the dropbox sync the only way??
koornneef said:
Sorry, reformatting (can't seem to mod the title):
Name: Tiny eBook Reader, Mango release.
Tiny eBook Reader allows you to read eBooks with the formatting you choose. We've put most of the features that were in the Windows Mobile version and made a Windows Phone 7 reader. We've taken the lastest submission to Marketplace (it's still going through testing) and compiled it for Mango.
It has most of the fixes that will be in the NoDo Marketplace version, but is compiled for 7.1 beta 2 and uses Mango extended Back tile.
Pin the app and it will display the last opened eBook on the back of the tile.
Another app to show off the cool new features of Mango.
Any bugs, feedback, please email using address in app About, and put MANGO in the subject.
(these are screencaps from the emulator, with photo book backgrounds.)
Download Link:
*This will not run on NoDo devices*
Anyone interested in playing with this version of Tiny eBook Reader for Mango you can download the XAP here:
http://www.goldencrater.com/Tiny_eBook_Reader-Mango.xap
Of course, "since only registered developers have Mango", you'll know how to sideload the app. And, until Marketplace starts accepting Mango verisons for submission...
Enjoy!!
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So where can we get the books to use with app. I can only find like amazon ebooks and what not.
Can this read PDF books ? I need something better than the Adobe PDF reader....
How do I upload my books to this ?
Well, the e-book conversion tools seemed to encounter errors with Chinese or Japanese ebooks conversion.........though the software in WP7 was able to show Chinese or Japanese fonts.
Hope there will be workarounds on the software.
(By directly clicking the .epub file will perform the conversion, however all characters are changed to 8bit ASCII characters, this will make the converted books simply unreadable.)
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Hey! This forum is awesome, but you guys already know that. I'm starting a new semester at college after this winter break and want to consolidate all my work into a single device (I went the first 3 semesters not carrying anything on me because I hate to hold stuff). I do need to know if it can handle the job, rooting enabled capabilities are acceptable too, I almost exclusively use ubuntu and while I've never owned an Android device before, I'm sure it will be familiar enough.
Here is what I need, Could you tell me if it can do It
-PEAP Authentication Capabilities
-PDF Viewer (preferably with bookmarking, commenting capabilities)
-Some sort of handwritten note taking application (I'm fine wearing a glove with capacitive stylus)
-Can it switch between a notepad and PDF viewer (multi-tasking?)
Things I don't need but would help
-RDP for my campus' cloud
-Access to driver for touchscreen, something similar to synclient for touchpads in linux.
I'm a C/Basic/Python/Java programmer that recently started playing with eclipse's android sdk, sufficiently convince me to buy this and you might get something out of me , thanks for any help.
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all of your questions could be answered by doing a bit of looking.
Does the nook color have a pdf viewer?
Seriously?
lanfearl said:
all of your questions could be answered by doing a bit of looking.
Does the nook color have a pdf viewer?
Seriously?
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I can't find info on PEAP and I can't find any info on the extent of PDF viewing capabilities (Bookmarking/Commenting Capabilities) which is important in a classroom. But thanks for your help, I can see at least 1/3 of your posts are douchey. On many forums this is a typically frowned upon means of increasing post count, I'm sure this forum is no different.
PEAP - http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=36dabddba0ba6162&hl=en
PDF - It's a viewer only... it won't edit. As far as I know there isn't a PDF editor for Android. But there are others, Documents To Go has an office suite with a PDF viewer that should incorporate most of your required functions.
Handwriting - I'm sure there are some apps in any of the alternative app stores (the official Google one isn't as of yet working)
Multitasking - Yes, just find yourself a task manager in the app stores.
RDP - Yes, find a client in the alternative app stores.
Synclient - No clue....
Now, all the above having been said, I will give you that at first glance the answer you received might come off as smug. However, there are lots of threads in these boards that discuss pretty much everything you've asked for. What isn't covered in these boards can be found with simple Google searches. Remember, this is an Android device, somewhat stripped down but Android OS nonetheless. So most everything that works for Android will work for this as well. Just need to root this.
And no need to be a ****. lanfearl is only comparing you to the multitude of other new members who are looking for a magic wand approach without taking the time to do their own research. You, sadly, fall into this exact category.
devis said:
Remember, this is an Android device, somewhat stripped down but Android OS nonetheless. So most everything that works for Android will work for this as well. Just need to root this.
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There are many things missing, especially on the hardware library side. Many frameworks have been scrapped, others have permissions changed and settings have been either removed or hidden.
DON'T think you can extrapolate from Android's functionality to this device's functionality. Some applications just won't install or won't start. Some report a reason, others just don't install... "nope, I don't work. kthxbye."
Vorgle's questions are quite valid:
I have no idea if PEAP actually works on the NOOKcolor. Considering that you cannot access a lot of the Wifi menus that Android usually offers, linking to instructions for the Nexus one doesn't necessarily help. And it certainly hasn't been discussed prominently on these boards.
There currently are no PDF readers with all the functionality asked for by Vorgle. Documents To Go offers bookmarks (some other readers do too I believe) but there is no reader with commenting / annotation support.
So I don't see why he should get snarky replies.
ixampl said:
There are many things missing, especially on the hardware library side. Many frameworks have been scrapped, others have permissions changed and settings have been either removed or hidden.
DON'T think you can extrapolate from Android's functionality to this device's functionality. Some applications just won't install or won't start. Some report a reason, others just don't install... "nope, I don't work. kthxbye."
Vorgle's questions are quite valid:
I have no idea if PEAP actually works on the NOOKcolor. Considering that you cannot access a lot of the Wifi menus that Android usually offers, linking to instructions for the Nexus one doesn't necessarily help. And it certainly hasn't been discussed prominently on these boards.
There currently are no PDF readers with all the functionality asked for by Vorgle. Documents To Go offers bookmarks (some other readers do too I believe) but there is no reader with commenting / annotation support.
So I don't see why he should get snarky replies.
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He's getting snarky replies because he doesn't seem to have done any research at all and is coming here looking for all possible answers. For someone computer savvy (note the various programming languages he claims to know) he should know better. Do your own research, then come ask the questions you didn't find answers to. Such as PDF for example. he doesn't seem to even know the NC supports PDF, let alone all of the functions he's looking for. Something as simple as that is easily obtained by reading the device's specs! And they're even in the FAQs!
Thanks ixampl. I put my computer background hoping people would simply believe me and infer I had specific reasons for asking the questions I did, rather than explaining the reason behind every question to get the help I need. I really wasn't wanting to make enemies here, I hate starting off like this but it is necessary for me to know. I need to be sure of some things before I spend the money, or if I should look elsewhere at other tablets (or e-readers).
But Here They Are:
-PEAP Authentication Capabilities:
I've seen a tutorial for the nook with no confirmation from any source on the net that it actually works, from what I've read it isn't native.
-PDF Viewer:
Because All my Books are in PDF, obvious. However, no PDF capabilities are listed on B&N (just that it will view), or any other app store I can access via my computer. I've never owned an android device, and I frequently use Adobe Pro to edit and annotate my books.
-Some sort of handwritten note taking application:
I've seen something close to this in a market clone, but it was advertised as supplemental to keyboard based notes; too slow for a lecture. If there is something like dasher for Android that will work on the Nook Color, I'm fairly adept with it, and that would suffice. There is a Dasher beta for Android, but it is spotty on devices it was meant for, no idea what would happen on nook.
-Can it switch between a notepad and PDF viewer (multi-tasking?):
I've seen no documentation on multi-tasking capabilities for the Nook Color. I can't assume what works on other android devices will work on the nook, it is too highly modified (as pointed out by ixampl) to just infer this on a specifically necessary requirement of mine. I think the market would be nice on the nook too, that works on other android devices, it certainly works on the... oh wait, no it doesn't.
-RDP for my campus' cloud:
Valid enough, I think. I know some exist, but I was expecting: "don't bother, they're unusable". I don't know, I asked.
-Access to driver for touchscreen, something similar to synclient for touchpads in linux:
To restate, I want the ability to modify the touchscreen driver for the nook, allowing me to drastically change the sensitivity, I have hotkeys on my laptop to do this in linux; it would be nice to mess with the driver on the nook. This would allow me to display a technology on a portable tablet device that just isn't as impressive on a laptop. I didn't/still don't expect to get an answer on this one.
Thanks, and I'm sorry if I have caused any confusion or come across as a noob to google. I used to use lmgtfy too for "stupid" questions. Then I realized it was kind of rude; especially since once elaborated on, I often found there were legitimate reasons the questions were asked.
I think the Nook Color is not the right device for your needs. An iPad has apps for editing pdfs and everything else you've asked for. Another option would be the Dell Inspiron Mini Duo that was just released.
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vorgle said:
Thanks ixampl. I put my computer background hoping people would simply believe me and infer I had specific reasons for asking the questions I did, rather than explaining the reason behind every question to get the help I need. I really wasn't wanting to make enemies here, I hate starting off like this but it is necessary for me to know. I need to be sure of some things before I spend the money, or if I should look elsewhere at other tablets (or e-readers).
But Here They Are:
-PEAP Authentication Capabilities:
I've seen a tutorial for the nook with no confirmation from any source on the net that it actually works, from what I've read it isn't native.
-PDF Viewer:
Because All my Books are in PDF, obvious. However, no PDF capabilities are listed on B&N (just that it will view), or any other app store I can access via my computer. I've never owned an android device, and I frequently use Adobe Pro to edit and annotate my books.
-Some sort of handwritten note taking application:
I've seen something close to this in a market clone, but it was advertised as supplemental to keyboard based notes; too slow for a lecture. If there is something like dasher for Android that will work on the Nook Color, I'm fairly adept with it, and that would suffice. There is a Dasher beta for Android, but it is spotty on devices it was meant for, no idea what would happen on nook.
-Can it switch between a notepad and PDF viewer (multi-tasking?):
I've seen no documentation on multi-tasking capabilities for the Nook Color. I can't assume what works on other android devices will work on the nook, it is too highly modified (as pointed out by ixampl) to just infer this on a specifically necessary requirement of mine. I think the market would be nice on the nook too, that works on other android devices, it certainly works on the... oh wait, no it doesn't.
-RDP for my campus' cloud:
Valid enough, I think. I know some exist, but I was expecting: "don't bother, they're unusable". I don't know, I asked.
-Access to driver for touchscreen, something similar to synclient for touchpads in linux:
To restate, I want the ability to modify the touchscreen driver for the nook, allowing me to drastically change the sensitivity, I have hotkeys on my laptop to do this in linux; it would be nice to mess with the driver on the nook. This would allow me to display a technology on a portable tablet device that just isn't as impressive on a laptop. I didn't/still don't expect to get an answer on this one.
Thanks, and I'm sorry if I have caused any confusion or come across as a noob to google. I used to use lmgtfy too for "stupid" questions. Then I realized it was kind of rude; especially since once elaborated on, I often found there were legitimate reasons the questions were asked.
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Documents To Go 2.0 - for editing viewing pdfs, along with the ability to open other types of documents.
Note Everything - For note taking both typing and stylus input.
Name: RSS Central v1.1
RSS Central is a powerful and easy to use application that can download and display RSS, Atom and RDF news feeds from web sites all over the internet. Its quick multi-download system will bring all the news feeds you want to your fingertips in no time, and will hold on to them so that they can be read even if you lose your internet connection.
RSS Central features an attractive and informative user interface, categorised news feeds, a feed search to discover new news sources, article summary and full web page displays, article search tools, read/unread article tracking, support for international characters, a useful "send to email" feature, portrait and landscape support, plus a whole lot more.
RSS Central's trial mode is fully featured, and just displays occasional "nag" screens while using the application. Please give it a try and see what you think.
Before getting my Windows Phone 7 device, I had an HTC Touch Pro2. One of the applications that came pre-loaded on it was Ilium software's RSS Hub. This rapidly became one of my most-used applications. When I moved to WP7 I tried a number of the RSS apps that were available, but none of them worked in the way I wanted or offered the features that I was looking for.
In true programmer style, instead of compromising with one of the available alternatives, I set about writing my own application. RSS Central is the result. It is functionally inspired by RSS Hub and uses a similar approach to displaying and organising its content. I also used the opportunity to clean up a few of the little annoyances that I found with RSS Hub. I hope you like the end result!.
I intend to continue developing and enhancing RSS Central, so if you have any comments, suggestions, complaints or bug reports, please let me know and I'll see if I can address them in a future version. As you will see from the version history below, I added lots of new things in version 1.1, and most of these were suggestions from people using the app. I have more enhancements lined up, if there's something you think should be added or changed then please let me know and I'll add it to my list.
RSS Central is available now from the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Key features:
Attractive and functional Windows Phone 7-style user interface.
Streamlined navigation to make using the app as quick and easy as possible.
Fast application startup to get you straight into your feeds without having to wait.
Create categories to group your news feeds together for easier browsing.
Feed search function to help you discover new feeds and news sources.
Quick display of article summaries, or show the full article content with just one touch.
Search for keywords within feeds to help you find articles of interest.
"Minimum refresh time" prevents unnecessary re-downloading of unchanged feeds.
Automatic tracking of read and unread articles. Choose to hide read articles and read subsciptions if you wish.
Full support for international character sets.
Quickly and easily send the details of interesting articles as an email message.
Full support for portrait and landscape orientation.
Reviews from the Marketplace
"Best RSS reader on the market, and I have tried most!" -- irdawood
"Best RSS reader I've seen so far. Worth the price." -- leongustavo
"Love it. I have tried many news and RSS apps and this is the best one." -- Tusker
"This app does exactly what's needed, making it easy to add feeds through searching, categorize feeds and HIDE items that have been read. I've tried about 10 other options in the Marketplace, but this is the one you want if you have a large number of feeds or have varied interests that don't correspond to some of the hard-coded readers." -- Mlizardi
Just tried it on my phone. And I'm impressed.
It's one of these apps which use nice animations all over (I like it )
Also the preinstalled RSS are quite informative. It's surely one of the most appealing RSS Reader out there.
It'll surely stay my RSSReader of choise!
Hi the_Crispy,
Thanks for your message and glad you like it.
I tried my best to get nice-looking animations throughout the app and I'm fairly happy with the result. Silverlight does do a very good job providing tools to get them up and running. It's difficult to decide whether to put the animations in or just get the app released though!
good app but i need a google reader support like in wonder reader. then i will buy it
Very nice app but it doesn't support "windows-1250" encoding. So I'll stick with SimpiReader for now.
Hi libor_m,
It should support whatever encoding the RSS feed specifies -- I spent a fair bit of time working with different encodings to ensure (in particular) that accented characters in non-English feeds displayed correctly.
Can you give me an example of a feed and article that isn't displaying correctly? Then I'll take a look at what's happening.
Thanks,
Hi Adam,
try this one - http://servis.idnes.cz/rss.asp?c=zpravodaj
Thanks for that -- that certainly didn't do what I had expected! Let me see what I can do...
No prob
Just let me know if you will fix it. After a new version will be out, I can test is with more Czech RSS feeds.
Well that was a bit more effort than I had expected: it seems (unless anyone knows different?) that .NET on WP7 doesn't have any support for decoding windows-1250, hence it falling over.
So I wrote my own decoder. Does this look OK?
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
This will be included in version 1.2. Not entirely sure when I'll be releasing that yet, probably in the next week or two. I'll post an update to this thread when it's available, so you can subscribe to the thread if you want to be notified.
Looks amazing, nice job adam...spanish support in a future would be nice.
are you planning to integrate a greader support
@BigwaveMx -- thanks, glad you like it! I've not really considered localisation at all at the moment, but it's certainly something I could give some thought to. Are you volunteering to provide the Spanish translations?
@yeahtyeaht -- not at the moment, I'm more interested in keeping this as a stand-alone RSS reader for the time being. Maybe at some stage in the future, but I can't promise. I do hope to offer a feature that would allow feed details to be imported from Google Reader, but that's as far as the integration would go.
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@BigwaveMx -- thanks, glad you like it! I've not really considered localisation at all at the moment, but it's certainly something I could give some thought to. Are you volunteering to provide the Spanish translations?
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I would be happy to provide you the German translation, if you're up to the task.
Until now I'm enjoying your Feed Reader in English...not much of a problem whilst most of my feeds are English too
Yes, let me know how may i help you to traslate in spanish.
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Well that was a bit more effort than I had expected: it seems (unless anyone knows different?) that .NET on WP7 doesn't have any support for decoding windows-1250, hence it falling over.
So I wrote my own decoder. Does this look OK?
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Great, this looks perfect!
And I am volunteering for possible Czech translation. I have done a couple of translations for apps in the past already.
Glad it looks good, libor_m
Version 1.2 was submitted to the Marketplace last night, but was rejected after a couple of hours. When I looked at the failure reason, it was completely blank. Nice. Usually it takes several days to even get looked at so I'm hoping this was just a glitch.
I deleted the submission and tried again, and it hasn't been rejected yet, so fingers crossed...
To all of you that have volunteered for translations, many thanks for doing so. I've put "localisation" on to my To Do list, and may well be in touch with you in the near future.
Version 1.2 has finally made it through certification, with the following new features:
* Added context menus for the subscription list. Press and hold one of the subscriptions to display the menu. The menu allows the subscription to be marked as read, marked as unread, refreshed, or edited.
* Added context menus for the article list. Press and hold one of the articles to display the menu. The menu allows articles to be marked as read, marked as unread, sent by email or sent by SMS.
* Added a further minimum update frequency that indicates that the subscription should only be updated manually. These subscriptions will never be included in the update when the Refresh button is pressed on the main subscription list, and are instead individually updated via their context menu.
* Added support for sending article links by SMS.
* Fixed a bug where the article list occasionally jumped back to the top when returning to it after reading an article.
* Added support for reading feeds encoded with Windows-1250 encoding.
* Clicking the "Read more online..." link on the article summary now changes the link text to highlight that it has been clicked. This provides some positive feedback for slow-loading pages.
* A new navigation setting is available to control the back button behaviour on the article page. This can be set to either navigate backwards through the browser history, or to return directly to the article list. If navigating back through the history, a new menu option is available to return directly to the article list to save navigating all the way back.
Hope you like it and as always please let me know if you have any feedback.
Adam, I gave your app a 5-star rating on the Marketplace. It is a shame I cannot buy the app from Marketplace as I am from Czech Republic.
I have found one more problem. I have problems with following feeds:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://google-cz.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
These are giving me a following error: "An error ocurred when this subscription was last refreshed: NullReferenceException"
And one more feed:
http://skrz.cz/rss
This is giving me a following error: "An error ocurred when this subscription was last refreshed: NotSupportedException"
Hi libor_m,
Many thanks for the review, much appreciated! Sorry you can't actually get the full version at the moment.
Thanks too for continuing to spot problem feeds and send them over. I've fixed up the blogspot feeds now, they will all work correctly in the next version.
The skrz.cz feed is causing me more problems though. It's managing to download the content fine and it looks quite normal, but .NET is falling over trying to parse it. It's possibly because it says it's UTF-8 encoded but is actually Windows-1250 encoded, but even it I manually change this it still fails. I'll have to keep looking at this one, I'll keep you posted.
Thanks and regards,
I have both DocumentsToGo, and QuickOffice on my G-Tab. DocsToGo will let you open a Word Doc, but when you go to edit, it opens a new edit dialog with the previous sentence (at most) visible. It does not seem to allow you to edit many formatting options, and I can't see any way to use it to insert an image file into a document. QuickOffice lets you edit inline, but otherwise seems to have the same limitations.
Is there a "complete" word processing program for the G-Tab that will let me do some formatting and insert pictures, as well as produce a .DOC or .DOCX compatible file?
Is there some way to setup Google Docs like this, and have it be available if I don't have a connection (maybe through dropbox)?
TIA!
I'm using the QuickOffice HD from the Notion Ink Adam and it works great!
It's available via this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=928832
Right now, the current version lets you connect to Google Docs and both edit AND create new documents (Word, Excel, PPT) as well as read PDFs
You could easily open a document up and re-save it internal to your gTablet for offline use -- or as you suggest use Dropbox to keep a local folder synced up for offline use...
Google only recently added support for the XML office files to GDocs -- so creation of new documents in those formats isn't natively supported in this version (but may be available in a newer version of QuickOffice HD I suppose)
Long Pressing in a Word document brings up a dialog with the following options:
- Add Image from Gallery
- Add Image from Camera
- Select Text
- Input Method
You can also change Fonts (inc. set Bold, Underline, Italic, etc), Alignment, Colour...
I think that just about meets your requirements (?) -- give it a try...
+1 for quickoffice tablet addition from notion ink. Works great for me!
OK, have given it a try. To begin with, I feel a little odd using it since I can't find the HD version in the market, so have to wonder if it won't up and die on me at some point.
In any event, I was able to insert and resize a picture, but couldn't find any way to select just the picture so I could try to center it. Selection handles seem a bit difficult to operate. Also could not find any way to edit my headers or footers, or to apply my document styles for chapter hearings.
Tool may support all this, but the online help isn't the greatest either. Half tempted to register and see if there have been any updates.
FWIW
The HD version is great. Use it for my college classes and I love it. Have the USB case and this and ur good to go. Being integrated with google docs and dropbox is a nice feature too
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I just side loaded the Notion Ink Quick Office app, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a document. Am I supposed to create a Google Docs account or something? Or should I just be able to create a document on my G tab?
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I just side loaded the Notion Ink Quick Office app, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a document. Am I supposed to create a Google Docs account or something? Or should I just be able to create a document on my G tab?
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I think you click the app (e.g., word), then select SDCARD, then press the small + at the bottom, which will popup file or folder choice.
Jim
Got it, thanks. Very cool!
Wow i must say the Quickoffice HD is way better than my DocstoGo full at this moment. Wasted my money on Docstogo...
I like the ported canvas app as well.
This seems to be much better than doctogo.
It asked about registering it do I need to?
Nope it's optional.
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I ordered my A7 today. It will be here tomorrow. I will be undertaking a project to get my books for next semester scanned and onto my A7.
I want to be able to highlight and take notes all in electronic format. If any of you know good android apps that support highlighting and note taking in conjunction with text reading and quick access to content (page turning, smart bookmarks and searching) I would appreciate the tips.
I am also looking for the best file format to convert my books into for this purpose. Thanks for your thoughts.
-dave
I put this in the wrong category. Please move. Thank you!
You can actually buy eTextbooks through both B&N and Amazon, and both the Nook and Kindle apps support highlighting, bookmarking, and notes. I would explore that option as opposed to scanning books...
If you need to highlight pdf files, Repligo Reader is in the Market. It works well for highlighting, annotation and underlining. It also remembers the last place you were at in your file.
Thank you for the suggestions!
-dave
Hi all, just a quick question regarding the functionality of Wp8 that I am fighting with, that I need to resolve or another WP phone is going back to the supplier [I did the same with WP7].
First off, apologies if there's an answer that I haven't managed to find.
I currently have an HTC HD2 running very nicely on WM6.5, however, it's been creaking a bit recently & I'd decided with a favourable review of WP8 that I read the other day suggesting that finally the device can be plugged into a PC & seen as a USB drive, that the time was right to move forwards.
Now that I have the Nokia Lumia 820 & WP8 however, I still don't think I can get it to do what I need it to do.
ALL I would like to do, is be able to copy text files from PC to WP8, & then display them on the phone with text wrap switched off.
Easy hey? Well if so, I haven't worked out how to do it yet!
I plug the phone into my PC, & an Explorer window fires up on the PC [XP] showing 'SD card' & 'Phone'. Drilling down one level on the latter gives Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos etc.
The only way I can get to see the Documents folder on my Phone appears to be via Office Mobile, under 'places' > phone. It appears to be very fussy about what it allows to be displayed there - I can see .PDF, .DOC, .XLS & .TXT files [but not .LOG. .ONE, .ZIP etc (which remain 'hidden')].
When I tap a .TXT file, I have no choice of how to open it, Office Mobile pounces & that's that. Having got this far, all I would now like to do is switch off text wrap [so that it'll view in a usable manner] because there doesn't appear to be such an option.
I have scoured the Store, & the best I've found is 'Text Reader', though this requires that I load it via email [upload a file to Hotmail or wherever with a .LOG (or similar) suffix & away you go, which it then downloads & stores in its own sandbox]. Ok, but faffy.
I believe that other progs might enable transfer via the cloud [Skydrive or whatever], but because of the nature of the data [& the fact that I don't want my data in anyone else's hands], this is out too.
I've spotted a couple of other quirks.
Office Mobile also does not allow you to display the folder hierarchy that may exist in Phone>Documents, just giving a flat filesystem, which makes finding a file in thousands, say, horrible. All I'd like to do is exactly duplicate the hierarchy that exists on the PC [& then I am always looking for things in the same place on either device].
I have also noticed that Office Mobile Word sometime hangs part way through a file. e.g. on loading a 1mb file, & searching for a text sequence I know to be on the last line, it hangs on a line part way through the file [say a 1/3 of the way in]. Not great, & I have the odd file that's c.10mb so I dread to think with that.
Words fail me, & once again I am hugely disappointed with MS. Please, please get the odd decision right & maybe WP will be at the top of the pile again as it was with [the sometimes awful, but very functional] WM.
I am hoping that someone will explain an easy way to do this, & that I can finally move forwards from WM6.5. Android concerns me re privacy & I don't like iPhones, so not much choice really! Stuck waiting for MS to provide basic functionality or [worse] a potential need for a future jailbreak to make the thing work properly!
Here's hoping. Many thanks for reading.
First of all, nobody who knew what the hell they were talking about said that WP8 displays as a USB drive (properly called USB Mass Storage). It's an MTP device, like most media players (or indeed WP7, though that had an extra layer of encryption around it). MTP doesn't display the actual filesystem; although the hierarchical display that it presents *may* mirror a real filesystem, it's under no obligation to do so.
The dearth of supported file types in WP7 was a real pain, but it could be fixed by tweaking the registry. In WP8 it's still a pain, but now third-party apps can (officially) register to handle file types. However, as you point out, there's no real way to browse the phone, and the Office hub only shows the filetypes it recognizes. We *might* be able to fix that, if we could get registry write permission, but that's not possible right now. With that said, I don't know if it would be possible for another app to register the (for example) .txt extension; the phone does offer the ability to choose what app opens a given file type.
For what it's worth, Bluetooth file transfer to the phone works fine, and the files will open in whatever app is registered to the file's extension. You can then save them into the app's storage (Documents, for Office apps). This may be a better way to transfer your data.
In WP8 you can build Apps that associate themselves with certain filetypes (identified by the ending). If your App is associated with a certain file type the App can also open files of that type from anywhere on the SD Card.
So for example if you put a *.log file onto the SD Card any App that is associated with the ".log" ending can read it (the Explorer functionality for the SD Card would have to be implemented by the App itself but it is supported). This does not work with the integrated storage though. With integrated storage you would still have to receive it via E-Mail, SkyDrive, etc.
Now for the caveats:
- Apps can't be dynamically associated with File Types. If you want to open "*.log" files the App developer has to associate his App with the filetype in it's manifest. If several Apps exist for a given filetype the user will be asked which one to use.
- There is a quite extensive list of file types that are reserved for the OS or built in Apps. Any file type that is reserved in that way can't be associated with third Party Apps. This contains Office documents (except PDF, TXT files and lots of media file types). The complete list can be seen here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/jj207065(v=vs.105).aspx
- Apps can only read from the SD Card but they can't Change data there.
Now as for your Problem: someone could build an App that supports e.g. Log-Files and you could use your Lumia 820 with an SD Card to pretty much work the way you intend to with those files. It's not really trivial though, given that 10 MB big plain Text-Files regularly lead to Trouble even on PC text Editors (the developer has to be smart on how to handle These "huge" files, so just some midnight hack job won't do).
What are your further requirements? Search pretty obviously. But what are all the filetypes you would need? Would you need editing capability?
Just trying to understand the compelete picture of your requirements. Perhaps you can tell us what kinds of files you use and for what purposes.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
@GoodDayToDie
Re 'seen as a USB drive' - That's me being careless with words, what I meant to say was the ability to local sync over a USB cable, & then access the copied files on the device. I didn't think that you could do this with WP7 [without frigs], & had high[er] hopes for WP8.
I might have a look at Bluetooth FT as a method for getting the [bulk] data over locally, as I won't be doing it via the cloud [email or Skydrive]. Thanks for the advice.
@StevieBallz
Thanks for the MSDN reference - Very interesting.
Ok, so the apps can potentially access the data on the SD card but not write to it - As an aside, I thought I read something the other day that said data on the SD card was limited to Pictures, Videos, Music etc, as a security measure. That's interesting too then, though anything I want to be 'secure' I'd keep in the internal storage anyway.
Re the comment re 'Trouble even on PC text Editors'. Yes, I tried way back on WM2003 to get a file displayer going, but immediately hit problems with [I think] a 32KB limit on the textbox display. I've just made do with WM6.5's Word displayer since, which offers basic functionality.I keep meaning to go back to the coding, but haven't managed it yet [I think Visual Basic was missing for a while with WP, if indeed it's there yet (I thought I'd read it was with VS2012?)].
Re my 'requirements'. Just to be able to search [large-ish] text files & have the o/p displayed in a manner that's readable [no word-wrapping]. I realise editing is a whole new ball game, so read-only would be good enough. Longer term, I'd like the ability to have many text files open at once - On the desktop I use "Programmer's File Editor", & something like that [if only as a viewer] I'd find invaluable on the smartphone/PDA. I also have many thousands of files on my desktop [PDF, DOC, RTF, HTM, TXT etc] & ideally I'd like access to those on the go as & when needed, via a hierarchical file system on the mobile device, with the structure exactly mirroring the PC's file system, so that I'd search for & find data in the same places regardless of which device I was using [Why thousands? Might be 100s+ actually, & these could be electricity bills, sales receipts, insurance documents - anything - the stuff of life really].
I'll continue with my testing of Office Mobile Word's displaying & searching of text files. I've found it patchy & not consistent so far, but am going to have to move from WM6.5 eventually [more's the pity], & don't really want the hassle of sending the device back again.
Many thanks for your advice so far.
Device returned, many thanks for your help. Maybe WP9 then?
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Device returned, many thanks for your help. Maybe WP9 then?
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Judging by the ideas picked up for review on dev user voice, situation may drastically improve with the next SDK update.