Well having bought the tablet for work I use it mostly for reading.
I am of mixed mind as to whether I bought the correct device or not. Windows 7 is good as it lets have me multiple applications open , but Windows 7 would really suck without a pointing device and I do find that it can be a pain to do stuff without the mouse buttons.
The iPad content model is I think a great model for everyone to emulate. Provide a means by which anyone can put create an app for the great unwashed and then give a portion of the payment to the author, would be neat if the author got the lions share.
Not aware of much in the way of tablet apps for Windows 7 but maybe its out there, I have not really been looking. Have been impressed by some reviews for some ipad stuff but sadly no good for my tablet.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Saturday, June 11, 2011
more on viruses
I had thought I had purchased a licence for AVG, turned out I had purchased a download program that allowed me to download AVG, now if I want to license AVG I need to pay them.
It obviously pays to read the text that goes with the Download button. Or rather you pay if you don't.
So, anyway went to connect my tablet to my PC with synergy and I could no longer see my PC, dicked around for a while trying to find where I could enter set IPs to be allowed, but ultimately gave up and decided to de-install AVG and go elsewhere.
Decided to go with the Microsoft freebie, Microsoft Security Essentials, its free and a co-worker said that its very good.
Microsoft Security Essentials is now installed, thank you Mr Gates !
http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/security_essentials/default.aspx
I can see my shared drives again, yay !
It obviously pays to read the text that goes with the Download button. Or rather you pay if you don't.
So, anyway went to connect my tablet to my PC with synergy and I could no longer see my PC, dicked around for a while trying to find where I could enter set IPs to be allowed, but ultimately gave up and decided to de-install AVG and go elsewhere.
Decided to go with the Microsoft freebie, Microsoft Security Essentials, its free and a co-worker said that its very good.
Microsoft Security Essentials is now installed, thank you Mr Gates !
http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/security_essentials/default.aspx
I can see my shared drives again, yay !
Saturday, June 4, 2011
mouse
Why would a tablet want a mouse, because its windows. I don't much like the little rubber thingy in the keyboard so I got a bluetooth mouse from ebay for a few dollars. Luckily it was cheap as i have not managed to get it to work yet.
So for the moment am just using an old USB mouse or my desktop mouse if I have synergy running.
So for the moment am just using an old USB mouse or my desktop mouse if I have synergy running.
Virus and such
Well I connected to the internet and 2 seconds later had some rotten malware that was hijacking links on my browser to weird and wonderful pages, basically you click on a link and end up somewhere other than where you wanted to go. If you copied the link and pasted into the address bar it worked fine.
Used Norton Power Editor from safe mode to clobber that ( I hope ) and then forked out $26 for a license for AVG.
There needs to be a wall that we could line up all the malicious bastards who create these, trojans, malware, virus and adware, against which they could be shot. Or, if we could find a nice empty someplace,somewhere we could send them there, the moon perhaps. Call it New Botany Bay and reintroduce flogging.
Used Norton Power Editor from safe mode to clobber that ( I hope ) and then forked out $26 for a license for AVG.
There needs to be a wall that we could line up all the malicious bastards who create these, trojans, malware, virus and adware, against which they could be shot. Or, if we could find a nice empty someplace,somewhere we could send them there, the moon perhaps. Call it New Botany Bay and reintroduce flogging.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Keyboard dock and external power
I think I would have liked the external power to either be able to be plugged into either the tablet itself or into the keyboard dock, not just the tablet.
If it were in the keyboard dock then I would not have to pull the tablet out of the dock and also unplug the power to walk away from my desk and vice versa when I come back.
If I choose to work with the tablet laying flat or holding it, then the ability to plug it into power is needed, but, powering through the dock would be nice to have.
The dock is weird. I don't understand why acer could not have spent a few more dollars on the plastic case so that you could simply close the tablet down as if it were a laptop/netbook and then open it back up again. But no you have a silly system where you have to unplug the device and then place it carefully and lock it on. When you want to put the tablet back in its keyboard slot, you have to lift up folding covers. If you have finger nails its easy enough to do it but it seems a bit clunky.
If it were in the keyboard dock then I would not have to pull the tablet out of the dock and also unplug the power to walk away from my desk and vice versa when I come back.
If I choose to work with the tablet laying flat or holding it, then the ability to plug it into power is needed, but, powering through the dock would be nice to have.
The dock is weird. I don't understand why acer could not have spent a few more dollars on the plastic case so that you could simply close the tablet down as if it were a laptop/netbook and then open it back up again. But no you have a silly system where you have to unplug the device and then place it carefully and lock it on. When you want to put the tablet back in its keyboard slot, you have to lift up folding covers. If you have finger nails its easy enough to do it but it seems a bit clunky.
screen rotation
A not so impressive part of the device.
There is a switch to lock the rotation and presumably to unlock it, but it seems to me that every time I unlock it the rotation stays where it was locked. It appears to work ok if you have it unlocked, power down and power up and do NOT lock it.
The other thing that is screwey is that when you power up the device and its sitting nicely in its keyboard it comes up and you may get an icon pop up that indicates that the rotation lock is on or off, why it pops up is beyond me, if its in its cradle and its the right way up why would anyone care what the lock says. Rotate it and you might want to know that its locked and the screen can't be rotated but otherwise it should not throw up un-needed notifications.
I also get the rotation icon displayed when I remove the tablet from the keyboard. So it detects that movement is happening but then the rotation is NOT adjusted.
There is a switch to lock the rotation and presumably to unlock it, but it seems to me that every time I unlock it the rotation stays where it was locked. It appears to work ok if you have it unlocked, power down and power up and do NOT lock it.
The other thing that is screwey is that when you power up the device and its sitting nicely in its keyboard it comes up and you may get an icon pop up that indicates that the rotation lock is on or off, why it pops up is beyond me, if its in its cradle and its the right way up why would anyone care what the lock says. Rotate it and you might want to know that its locked and the screen can't be rotated but otherwise it should not throw up un-needed notifications.
I also get the rotation icon displayed when I remove the tablet from the keyboard. So it detects that movement is happening but then the rotation is NOT adjusted.
webcam
I am not impressed with the Acer Crystal Eye Webcam, it seems to me to be very slow to start and then finally becomes responsive. Once its up and you press the camera icon to take a photo it can take seconds to do anything and the first time you click it, it may do nothing. Also I found that because of the delay between moving the camera and getting the picture on the screen it was difficult to frame your shot.
So I went looking for something else and found AMCap, whilst I am only using the freebie at the moment it seems to me to be much better than the Acer Webcam. The refresh rate is much quicker than the Acer Webcam, works with both the front and rear webcams. It is neat because you can tell it to put the image directly into the clipboard.
I found I could not take a picture by pressing enter until I changed the Video mode, then it worked well Capture->setup->options->Video select VMR7 Windowed
some of the shortcuts from Help
F11 toggles the menu bar
F12 toggles always on top
Enter takes a picture ( no delay )
I think that it would be nicer if it could be tabletized, some icons for snap,start,stop,play,pause etc but I can live with out them, just need to have the online keyboard up.
If you don't purchase a licence, you get an orange box with diagonal stripe across your image but it works really well, $29 US, I will probably put my hand in my pocket eventually.
Using Am Cap with one note
Launch OneNote open your note
Launch AmCap
Bring up the keyboard
Press Enter (AmCap must be the selected current window ), that takes the picture and drops it into the clipboard
Touch OneNote and select the character cursor
touch the note where you want the picture placed
Select from the keyboard Ctrl then C
Picture is pasted . Geez its almost like the Microsoft Courier videos.
So I went looking for something else and found AMCap, whilst I am only using the freebie at the moment it seems to me to be much better than the Acer Webcam. The refresh rate is much quicker than the Acer Webcam, works with both the front and rear webcams. It is neat because you can tell it to put the image directly into the clipboard.
I found I could not take a picture by pressing enter until I changed the Video mode, then it worked well Capture->setup->options->Video select VMR7 Windowed
some of the shortcuts from Help
F11 toggles the menu bar
F12 toggles always on top
Enter takes a picture ( no delay )
I think that it would be nicer if it could be tabletized, some icons for snap,start,stop,play,pause etc but I can live with out them, just need to have the online keyboard up.
If you don't purchase a licence, you get an orange box with diagonal stripe across your image but it works really well, $29 US, I will probably put my hand in my pocket eventually.
Using Am Cap with one note
Launch OneNote open your note
Launch AmCap
Bring up the keyboard
Press Enter (AmCap must be the selected current window ), that takes the picture and drops it into the clipboard
Touch OneNote and select the character cursor
touch the note where you want the picture placed
Select from the keyboard Ctrl then C
Picture is pasted . Geez its almost like the Microsoft Courier videos.
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