Here's a great way to use the Notion Ink Adam Canvas app to show a changing "sticky note" reminder widget on your desktop.
Use Canvas to create as many reminders as you need (1 or more), using Paint or Text. Put them all in one directory, with no other files.
DL the free "Android Photo Widget" from the Market. Put it on your desktop (I used the 4x4 size). Configure as follows: for source, "specify folder", and pick the folder with the Canvas png's; Recursive off; Random off; Update every 15 seconds, or your preference; Frame type, "Thin Solid Black", or your preference; Click OK.
Voila, a desktop widget that cycles through each of your reminders every 15 seconds!
I love it!
now that is a great tip!
pbrauer said:
now that is a great tip!
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Glad you find it useful. Much better then being limited to text sticky notes and having to put multiple sticky notes on the desktop, IMHO.
I live innovative uses for apps. Here is a post from my blog showing how to use voice search to quickly create memos.
http://robssimplehacks.blogspot.com/2010/08/use-google-voice-search-v-201-to.html
Hello!
I am trying to find a way, to swap out the widget icon and text on my "Advanced Task Killer" app. I would like to use minimalistic text, to trigger the autokill action the widget normally does, but under activities there is no such activity, only the option to LAUNCH the task killer app.
How can I do this? I've found an application called xShorcut, that allows me to launch applications with a string/command, so does anybody know what the "kill" command is for the Advanced Task Killer? Is there a way to grab said activity, via an app or so?
No wise heads, that is able to shed some lights on this matter?
Maybe this helps?.. Sorry I can't contribute more.
As far as I can understand, this app can trigger the widget at specific times (e.g. 2 pm), but it doesn't allow my to create another widget, so I can have another design on it
Still nobody?
To be honest I think it would help if you posted in a general or q&a forum in your phone's section... Themes isn't really the best spot to post about these things.
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App
To force roam create a shortcut with launcher pro to get to the settings in the LG secret menu.
Download and install Launcher Pro from the market. Its free.
Use Launcher Pro or any other Launcher as your default.
Long press an empty space in your home screen.
click shortcut
click activities
scroll down to com.lge.hiddenmenu
expand com.lge.hiddenmenu
click network select 53rd from the top in com.lge.hiddenmenu category
Now you will have a shortcut on your home screen.
click the shortcut
click Roam Preference
select the mode you wish
Reserved for future.
I found out how to force roam! Using ADW custom shortcuts.
Good you found the solution you were looking at least..
Yeah, If anyone needs detailed instructions how to force roam or tether without rooting let me know and I will post a step by step guide.
You are always welcomed to contribute in the community with any useful information you can provide. You should use this thread itself to tell us the step in the detail and also change the thread name from Q to SOLVED.
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You are always welcomed to contribute in the community with any useful information you can provide. You should use this thread itself to tell us the step in the detail and also change the thread name from Q to SOLVED.
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Thanks, how to I change the thread name?
I have read some book about Silverlight and learn some basic stuff and made my first application with visual studio, it is called WP7 Novosti because i write a blog about Windows Phone 7 in Bosna i Hercegovina. "Novosti" is "News" in our language. The app is in the stadium that it can call the rss from the blog, display summary of posts, and display entire posts if you tap on them. It has a "Category" page where are the categories i used on the blog, linked all to labels on the blog, to if you tap on a category it display you only blog posts of a specific label.i would like to have some tester of my app, because it is in the early stadium of development.
my blog site is: http://wp7novosti.blogspot.com
and in the attachment is the .xap of the latest version, so if you like, test it and give me some feedback or errors i hope it causes any errors!
The app is in Bosnian language so just try it, navigate thru sites and try it, and if you like give me feedback.
I have made some modifications to the reader now, The live tile is not a transparent one and your accent is behind the logo of "WP7 Novosti". The second visible modification is a refresh feed button on top of every page where feeds are loaded. If out of some reason the Feed don't load in 1 sec or 2. press the refresh button.
The third modification is on the category page, the tiles are better aligned than on the first. that's visible on the pictures.
The 4th. modification is the trimmer which trims the text is now a bit better and don't trim the title of the feed.
5th modification is some coding about when what is loaded. the code is some slimmer than before, a bit smoother. but still no big improvements to change the version, still version 1.2.
So if some tester tested the app please give me feedback, what should be made. and if somebody has some nice tutorials, or books or so about live tiles, how to made them active, background agents for the live tile. and so on, but in depth material, because i'am new to coding and need more info than other developers.
I had a couple of random crashes with the Categories page - tapping the tile would just exit the app. The other issue I have is the color of the selected news item - red text on blue background is always a bad idea. Unreadable.
Apart from that, I really like the app. And now I have one more blog to follow
Hvala and for the red color the accent color is used for selected items. i look today the code again, but the new version i out in a few days, and i have now a dreamspark account and wait for the verification as a student, then the app will be official on the marketplace. Thx for testing, i had this issue on the category page too, it will be fixed soon.
and version 1.3
new stuff:
- transition effects between pages
- tilt effect on feeds
- new live tile icon with transparent background for use with your own accent color
- the clock and the other icons are there again (on the system bar on the top)
- smaller refresh button on the "Sve novosti" page
- progress bar on every page that loads something (just for you to know if something is happening in the background)
- fixed bug with exiting on taping on one of the categories, still you can produce a similar "error" if you tap on a category than fast tap back button, that will exit the app. This is because transition of pages, the app thinks the transition is the start page and exits like from the first page.
- fixed some code in the background and added some code for the next version to come (with background agent that downloads feeds in background and so on...)
i hope you like it!
If you click on the news item in All news (version 1.3 of the app), it will be opened in the browser and when you click the Back button to return to the app, the news item will be selected (the color is much better now, thanks)- but if you decide to read it again, it's not clickable. You need to select some other news (to unselect it), and only then will respond to taps.
Keep up the good work!
i noticed that too the first day i wrote this app. and i dont know how to fix that. the only solution is to display the posts in the app without internet explorer. But in the app would the post be a "ripped down" version of the blog post, only text, and maybe pictures if i found out how to include them...
Maybe if you override OnNavigatedTo, catch when you return from IE and clear the selection in the news list. The last item wouldn't be highlighted, but it should be clickable.
I noticed something else - the news list doesn't resize itself in the landscape mode (stays the same width as in portrait mode), so almost half of the screen is left empty.
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Maybe if you override OnNavigatedTo, catch when you return from IE and clear the selection in the news list. The last item wouldn't be highlighted, but it should be clickable.
I noticed something else - the news list doesn't resize itself in the landscape mode (stays the same width as in portrait mode), so almost half of the screen is left empty.
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Thanks for the answer, the landscape mode was only a test i don't know how i forgot this to remove before the build of the .xap but i will implement it in the next version. i yesterday get my AppHub account and submitted my app, so it will be an official app in the marketplace soon. after that i will post an update on some thing like the selected after the browser and landscape...
Thank you very much for testing!!!
I still wait for my App to show up in the marketplace it is still in the certification process, it is signed and encrypted but how long does certification process take? i have managed to make the app a bit faster and more responsive, and added some new stuff like from @The Yawning Dragon indicated, the already selected feeds will be selective in the next update, i also moved some code from the UI off to make it responsive but i'm a newbee and that not enough. i will learn how to make an background agent and how to store all feed in a database and then to call it when the app starts or when the listbox appears... there is so much to learn
WP7 Novosti app v.1.3 is now out in the Marketplace. it is now in a few marketplaces but in the next hours it will be in all of them. thru the marketplace app on our phones it is not there but on this link. i sent already an update for some bug fixes, and improvements (v.1.4) it is verified and encrypted, we wait for certification and testing and publishing would be in the next week or so.
http://www.windowsphone.com/de-DE/apps/415b7543-ccfe-4b8f-aad6-d10ce9ba5aea
or via zune on our phones ->
http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=415b7543-ccfe-4b8f-aad6-d10ce9ba5aea
Thanks
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thank you!
version 1.5 will be out soon, with a new Start screen Tile because the first one doesnt fit in the color sheme of my blog. added some metro background to the Tile, and prepared some code for future releases.
good
i like that
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i like that
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Thank a lot! an update is live in the marketplace now. i changed the live tile, and some other stuff behind the scenes. and i've changed the marketplace artwork but it has not updated to the new, i dont know why...
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78682040&postcount=20
I had responded to a thread in the note 8 section but thought I'd pass the info on to the note 9 forums.
So:
you just need to launch the proper screen recorder activity. i use the nova launcher for its activities options:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher
so just create a widget on your homescreen as you normally would then when choosing the widget choose 'activities', then scroll to 'record screen' and choose the correct one.( there are 3 activities for screen recorder so choose 1st one)
if you want the quick tile then just use the tiles apk from the play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rascarlo.quick.settings.tiles
use that app to create a new activity tile. choose record screen as the main activity and choose the 1st of 7 available sub activities.
hit the 3 dots next to the activity you want and save.
go back and then Rename this activity because you can.
Now go to your quick tiles/button order and add activity1(once you add it to your active tiles the custom name you gave will appear)
com.sec.app.screenrecorder.activity.LauncherActivity
is the actual activity if anyone was wondering.
edit :
so i just realised that the thread i responded to originaly was infact in the note 9 forums and not note 8 as originally though.
although my method seems to be more pertinent to the guides and discussion section(rather posting it under the apps section like original thread), if it is deemed as duplication, then please remove.
but basicaly anything can be launched via widgets or quick tiles using activities and following the steps described. so i hope this broadens my initial goal of simply showing how to add the screen recorder.
update:
U models might need the apk:
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AhXVLDDj8g3Age5HsoqLtZs2fSxBfg