Saving Bookmarks In Stock Browser - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

Anyone else out there finding that there is no way to save bookmarks in the stock browser? I am using quick controls and it used to be on the first transformer that you could hit the bookmark key and it would bring up a screen asking you to save/rename/etc. but on this current version it just takes you to bookmarks you already had saved. No option to save new ones...
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You're not the only one. But since the quick access is an experimental feature little attention is given to it.
The only way you can save a bookmark in the current stock browser version, and with quick controls activated, is by retyping the URL, wait till the page starts loading and before the URL bar disappears tap the "star" symbol to save bookmark.
As you have already noticed bringing back the URL bar does not give you the option to save a bookmark - the "star" symbol is replaced with an "X" to cancel the whole URL string. At least this is the only way I have found to save bookmarks ...

Wow how inconvenient! Thanks so much for the tip!
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Ok ok what's the ****ing trick to bookmarking a page your on in the stock browser... I admit I've never figured it out.
Only cryptic way I have found is to visit your History and hit the star next to the url... is this really how they want it done or am I missing a faster way that is 10x more logical & quick

Lock-N-Load said:
Ok ok what's the ****ing trick to bookmarking a page your on in the stock browser... I admit I've never figured it out.
Only cryptic way I have found is to visit your History and hit the star next to the url... is this really how they want it done or am I missing a faster way that is 10x more logical & quick
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When a website is open, hit the star on the right side...it will open a drop down panel, allowing you to change the label, and on the bottom line allow you to bookmark it to "home screen"/bookmarks/other folder.
To active a saved bookmark, click on the right most "banner". It will open a page with all your saved bookmarks.
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full version of web page?

I'm new to android and I can't figure out how to view the full version of a web page and not the mobile version. Can someone please help me out, i'd appreciate it.
clivo360 said:
I'm new to android and I can't figure out how to view the full version of a web page and not the mobile version. Can someone please help me out, i'd appreciate it.
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Usually you can type about:debug into the address bar and hit enter. This opens up several new options in settings. Scroll near the bottom, choose uastring or something similar (not looking at the phone atm) and you should have the option to choose "Desktop".
Oddly, everytime I have attempted this on the stock browser in the Vibrant it will force close everytime it starts. Not sure if it's unique to the Vibrant in general or mine specifically so maybe wait and see if anyone has had better luck before giving it a shot.
Download the "Skyfire" from the market, and at set it to "Desktop" mode, which can be found at the menu at the top of the browser.
Works for me...
Dolphin Browser
Dolphin Browser HD shows full desktop by default and allows you to view pages in mobile format. It's an excellent tabbed browser with gesture support.
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/communication/dolphin-browser-hd_gskf.html

How to edit the stage UI Widgets ?

I am new owner of the Unlocked Streak. It came with the 2.2 and I am kinda loving it. Have already applied the performance pack and the quadrant scores have kind of doubled from stock ~800 to ~1450 with the performance pack.
Overall I am really loving this device.
Just need a little help in few lousy areas (have already tried searching the forum/web)
1) How do you edit stage UI widgets ? I need to bookmark my webpages on the Web widget but I dont see any option to add my own pages.
2) There seems to be some kind of issue with my Contact widget as well. I have like 150 contacts on my SIM card and I tried importing them to my phone. I could do that but when I get into the Contacts Widget/application, I am just not seeing anything there. Instead it tells me to do the same thing that I just did, that is to import contacts.
I used some other contacts application from the appstore and the other app can see those 150 contacts but again I am unsure if that app is seeing the SIM contacts or not.
3) On the same lines, can I bookmark my favorite music albums in the Music Widget ? Currently everything seems to be random in that widget.
I know I might look like a noob but for a while I am with this new possession of mine.
Looking forward for the help from you guys.
vasishta.sushant said:
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1) How do you edit stage UI widgets ? I need to bookmark my webpages on the Web widget but I dont see any option to add my own pages.
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The widget reflects the favorites that you have saved in the browser. Edit and/or save favorites in the browser and they are reflected in the widget.
vasishta.sushant said:
2) There seems to be some kind of issue with my Contact widget as well. I have like 150 contacts on my SIM card and I tried importing them to my phone. I could do that but when I get into the Contacts Widget/application, I am just not seeing anything there. Instead it tells me to do the same thing that I just did, that is to import contacts.
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The contact widget displays the favorites you have set in your contacts list. When in the contacts app hit the menu key and select display options. My contacts all are from my Google account, you may have to select something there to show contacts that are only on the phone. Once you can see your contacts in the contact app tap one to display details and then tap the start in the upper right corner to add it to your favorites (and to the widget).
vasishta.sushant said:
3) On the same lines, can I bookmark my favorite music albums in the Music Widget ? Currently everything seems to be random in that widget.
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I don't see any way to create shortcuts on or customize the music widget. You can create shortcuts to a playlist. Hold you finger on an empty area of the screen until the menu pops up.Select Shortcuts and then scroll down to Music Playlist. Tap on that and you will get a list of your playlists to choose from. The shortcut created will open the music player with that playlist. You can put the shortcuts in a folder to keep from hitting them when you don't intend to.
Edit: I also see that the widget displays a quick link to all of your playlists.
Thanks brother. Finally i was able to make the desired changes.
vasishta.sushant said:
Thanks brother. Finally i was able to make the desired changes.
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Glad you sorted it out.
FYI - there's a thanks button on posts. Click it when you get a helpful answer.
Oops. Will take care of that next time. Thanks again.
vasishta.sushant said:
Oops. Will take care of that next time. Thanks again.
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The thanks button helps make the forum better.
It keeps a bunch of thank you posts from showing up in long threads. Sometimes the thanks post comes so far after the post it thanked you have no clue who the person is thanking.
A post with a LOT of thanks shows that it was useful and therefore the content might be given more weight.
A user with a lot of thanks show that the content they post is valued by others.
Users who use the thanks button contribute to the forum by making it known which posts are useful, which users are helpful and keeping threads shorter.
It's a very good system. And you're welcome - enjoy the Streak.

Any way to get B&N app access from 3rd party launcher?

When I first rooted my 1.4.0 NT a couple of months ago. I used Indirect's original method. I noticed after rooting that I had access to a couple of the original B&N apps from my new launcher. There were icons for Library & Shop that took me to these B&N apps without having to drop all the way back to the B&N Home. So far, Indirect's methods are the only root methods that I've seen that do this. For various reasons, I prefer Albert's newer SD card method that allows me to root 1.4.2. But, as most root methods don't seem to allow, I don't have these icons.
Is anyone aware of a way to set these up manually?
Thanks.
- Byron Followell
Look in development section I have posted a rebloat package containing B&N apps. That might work for you.
~ Veronica
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lavero.burgos said:
Look in development section I have posted a rebloat package containing B&N apps. That might work for you.
~ Veronica
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I'll check. Thanks Veronica.
I didn't debloat though, so it's really strange. I can still get to all the apps. I thought I had to go back to the B&N Home to do it.
That's the part that's really strange though. My little B&N Dock Menu or whatever it's called works now. Before, using Indirect's methods, I had those icons on my new launcher but the little bottom menu never worked from there. It would only work from the B&N Home. Now, using Albert's new SD card method, I don't get the icons in Go Launcher but the bottom menu so works so I really don't need them.
I'll still look and play around though. It might be neat or useful to have them there if I can get them to work.
Thanks again.
- Byron
I have used an app called "Any Cut" to create shortcuts to B&N apps like, Shop, Library, App Management, Apps, etc. It should work as long as the apps are still installed on your Nook.
William
ncguy68 said:
I have used an app called "Any Cut" to create shortcuts to B&N apps like, Shop, Library, App Management, Apps, etc. It should work as long as the apps are still installed on your Nook.
William
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I was wondering about Any Cut myself but, since I can find no documentation or help whatsoever, I may be out of luck. It's not exactly what I would call intuitive or user friendly.
Thanks for the info though. I really appreciate it.
- Byron
Any Cut is not too difficult to use. When it starts:
Tap New Shortcut
Tap Activity
Scroll through the list till you find the app you want a shortcut too... Some have multiple entries and it's and hit or miss till you find the right one.
A few of the B&N apps: Apps, Shop, Library, Reader, Home
Once you select the app you will see "Edit Shortcut" where you can enter a custom name for the shortcut or use the default name. To finish press OK.
The new shortcut should appear on your Home Screen (it does with Go Launcher).
Hope this helps.
William
Thank you VERY much!
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Any Cut is not too difficult to use. When it starts:
Tap New Shortcut
Tap Activity
Scroll through the list till you find the app you want a shortcut too... Some have multiple entries and it's and hit or miss till you find the right one.
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I guess this is where my problem's coming in then and why it doesn't seem very intuitive to me. There is no list! I've not seen a list anywhere in the app and have no idea what list you're talking about.
ahhhh!
I feel sooo stupid!
I just came back from checking out Anycut and don't see how it could've been more obvious. I'd looked at Activity before but missed the tiny little scroll indicator and, being black on black, it wasn't quite as obvious that this was a scroll list.
Talk about feeling like an idiot!
Thanks for your help guys. This did exactly what I'd wanted perfectly.
- Byron
Your Welcome. Glad it worked out.

[6/20] Awesome apps

1: App Picker Classic
I don't know about you guys but most of the time when I open a link, I use one app. As such I select it as my default app because having to select the app, press just once and then pressing ok to the message about removing default app status is a pain. But often times I want to use a different app to open it.for example opening a url in browser or pop up browser.
So this app just makes it so you only have to press the app once to open the link with it. Awesome.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.anyro.picker
2: Disk Usage
Having two storage devices, with a fairly overpopulated filing system, can be pretty hard to manage. Even with a large sd card, it can get full pretty quick. Especially when you're downloading big files and doing nandroid backups.
This app graphically lays out your entire file system by size so you can easily see which directories and which files are hogging your storage capacity and exactly where they are all at the same time. A really easy to use and a convenient tool. Awesome.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage
3: Helium (previously carbon)
Whether you're a crack flasher or you just want to play it safe, making backups is a good idea. With helium you can backup up the state of your apps. For example your sms's, a particular apps settings or log in info, to name a few. This is an invaluable tool you should always have in your app drawer. Awesome.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup
I also recommend getting the premium version to support the dev and for the features
4: Swipe pad
Multitasking can be a bit cumbersome on devices with a screen smaller than that of a computer. I mean among the smallest laptops are laptops under 13" and there are some who argue those are too small to be manageable. Yes our phone is huge relative to other phones, but relative to a computer it's tiny.
I don't know about you guys but I use a small collection of apps frequently, and I have some apps which I want immediate access to. Fortunately there are developers with answers, and the product delivers.
Swipe pad is the solution. It allows you to map apps to little slots on a grid that is available when swiping from a desired edge of the screen. Simply lift your finger from the app you're touching and it gets launched. But it's not only for apps. I'll let you discover the rest, but being able to add nova launcher activities is just awesome.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.conduction.swipepad.android
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eboodnero said:
I don't know about you guys but most of the time when I open a link, I use one app. As such I select it as my default app because having to select the app, press just once and then pressing ok to the message about removing default app status is a pain. But often times I want to use a different app to open it.for example opening a url in browser or pop up browser.
So this app just makes it so you only have to press the app once to open the link with it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.anyro.picker
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Thanks for the heads up...going to try it today. I definitely find times where I don't want to use the default app and this saves clicking the "just once" every time.
thank you for this
sofakingdom said:
thank you for this
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This was da hits.

S-Notes versus LectureNotes

So I noticed on my note 3 that S-Notes is way better than it was on the Galaxy note 10.1 and Galaxy Note II. There are more useful templates and more useful features (mainly, syncing with more services like dropbox and evernote).
As people get more experience, can anyone tell me which service they prefer? I'm split because I prefer LectureNotes for its power and the Cornell Note-taking template. But the S-note app is better integrated into touchwiz and has more powerful options now with automatic evernote and dropbox syncing.
For me i think it will be down to the S-note's ability to flawlessly import pdf's and annotate it
demz92 said:
For me i think it will be down to the S-note's ability to flawlessly import pdf's and annotate it
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For that purpose I think EzPdf is way better than S-Note, at least if you want to make a workflow of annotated pdf's.
demz92 said:
For me i think it will be down to the S-note's ability to flawlessly import pdf's and annotate it
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what do you mean when you say annotate, because honestly lecturenotes does it flawlessly. you can import and then write on it, type on it, draw on it, insert pictures on it, basically everything you can do on a normal blank paper.
dteg said:
what do you mean when you say annotate, because honestly lecturenotes does it flawlessly. you can import and then write on it, type on it, draw on it, insert pictures on it, basically everything you can do on a normal blank paper.
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yea, i've heard but im not sure what the widget looks like, the looks of the s note's widget looks pretty nice, like something i'd dedicated a whole home screen to
demz92 said:
yea, i've heard but im not sure what the widget looks like, the looks of the s note's widget looks pretty nice, like something i'd dedicated a whole home screen to
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i've never used the widget before, but i'm going to fix that right now and fill you in.
ok:
i'm just assuming here but still; i'm gonna assume that S-note has a widget where if placed on a homescreen you can simply type in without opening the app itself. lecturenotes from the few tests i just made can't do that. you can either have a "widget" (really an app icon) that can open to a particular page that you specify or you can have one that just opens lecturenotes, i see nothing that would allow you to edit without opening the app itself. definitely not something worth dedicating a homescreen to....
dteg said:
what do you mean when you say annotate, because honestly lecturenotes does it flawlessly. you can import and then write on it, type on it, draw on it, insert pictures on it, basically everything you can do on a normal blank paper.
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Can you highlight and add sticky notes?
Han Solo 1 said:
Can you highlight and add sticky notes?
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You can use the pen to highlight or underline, but no sticky notes. You can however create a text box and write in any notes, but that's as close as you can get.
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You can use the pen to highlight or underline, but no sticky notes. You can however create a text box and write in any notes, but that's as close as you can get.
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How do you highlight?
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I got frustrated with S Note and ditched it. I'm using Lecture notes now and really like it. The main thing that killed S Note for me was the way the notes were organized. Felt very cumbersome and non-intuitive. I wish they had left the UI for browsing folders and notebooks the same. Or maybe I just had too much trouble transferring my old notes into it.
Anyways I was wondering if anyone knew how to quickly expend a single page in lecture notes. I know I can go into the settings and change it that way, but I'd like to be able to do it on the fly and on a page by page basis instead of a global modification of the page length.
ChrisNee1988 said:
How do you highlight?
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I'd imagine you just select the marker tip with whatever color, then change the opacity between 10% and 40%. Whatever you're comfortable with. At least that's how I had done it in the old 10.1 model.
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How do you highlight?
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gina nailed it, on how to highlight.
gina$zanboti said:
I got frustrated with S Note and ditched it. I'm using Lecture notes now and really like it. The main thing that killed S Note for me was the way the notes were organized. Felt very cumbersome and non-intuitive. I wish they had left the UI for browsing folders and notebooks the same. Or maybe I just had too much trouble transferring my old notes into it.
Anyways I was wondering if anyone knew how to quickly expend a single page in lecture notes. I know I can go into the settings and change it that way, but I'd like to be able to do it on the fly and on a page by page basis instead of a global modification of the page length.
I'd imagine you just select the marker tip with whatever color, then change the opacity between 10% and 40%. Whatever you're comfortable with. At least that's how I had done it in the old 10.1 model.
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to expend a page? you wanna know how to quickly use up a page? don't understand what you're asking but i'll cover a few bases.
to quickly add a page click the "+" on the top right or if you're using a keyboard just press the down arrow.
to delete a page you click onto the page and open menu and delete it from there. deleting isn't as simple as adding unfortunately..
@ChrisNee1988: There is no built-in highlighter, as tastes concerning highlighters differ widely. As described by gina$zanboti, you can make one of the custom pencils to act as a highlighter, choose your favorite color and width, an intermediate alpha, and enable `draws behind other colors´. To quickly change to the highlighter, you can show the pencil toolbox (select `Show pencil toolbox´ in the `pencil´ menu, can be moved around by click-and-hold and setup in the app's tools settings; a single click on a pencil sets the pencil and a double-click on a custom pencil brings up the custom pencil settings) or assign it to your stylus button (in case your stylus has a button).
@gina$zanboti: I am not entirely sure whether I understand correctly. LectureNotes' pages have a fixed size.
Does LectureNotes have handwriting to text conversion? I have been using MyScript Notes Mobile which does do this but it begins to get laggy after 2-3 pages in terms of the screen delay from writing to on screen. When I used LN, it's near instant which is awesome and I really like it overall but converting to text is really big as I export QC scripts a lot.
My problem with snote is that importing removes searchable test which is a big no-no for me. Otherwise I'd probably use it. I am using it for free hand notes and like it for that.
@TheBigSaxon: There is no handwriting recognition in LectureNotes, but there are several soft keyboards that provide this functionality (meaning that you write with stylus and the keyboard app does as if you typed it).
tstsubi the
So, if your main storage for notes is Evernote, what is recommended as the front end for capture of notes, including handwriting recognition. Don't want to get locked into s note or lecture notes for the actual storage - just looking for advice on the best way to recognise handwriting, capture info etc, and sync seemlessly into Evernote.
any thoughts?
Is there any way in S Note to do a vertical page to imitate a sheet of paper like lecture notes can?
ChrisNee1988 said:
Is there any way in S Note to do a vertical page to imitate a sheet of paper like lecture notes can?
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Yes, there is a portrait template of ruled paper. Or you can use the default landscape ruled paper template, and then just rotate the tablet into portrait mode and it should rotate the page as well.
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Here is my 2 cents in using snotes and others working with pdfs
Things I like about snote:
Keeps the use of pressure sensitivity. This is something very special about our spens and I like the feel. I want to keep it when I'm writing.
This might sound stupid but this makes the writing feel the most realistic and not so machine like.
Once I'm in the editing mode I stay in the editing mode. Unlike ezpdf and lecturenotes where I have to hit the pen to start writing again and hand/back to scroll. I found this really annoying. For people annotating it may not be an issue but if you're actually taking notes and such it's a pain.
All the other special tricks with spen work in snotes well because it was made for it.
Negatives:
It has to import pdfs...This was the worst. It can't just open it as a pdf and start editing. Probably creating image type files. Not sure how lecturenotes imports pdfs because it's not available for the trial version. I imported a 200+ page pdf and it took longer than expected but now that
I have an expected time frame I may be able to deal with it.
Since it's not keeping the integrity of the pdf it can screw up some things while importing.
I'm a math guy and it screwed up a few notations here and there.
Scrolling...call me lazy but continuous scrolling is beautiful. Although I didn't like the fact that you can't be in between pages in ezpdf. While scrolling and you let go the page will automatically place itself so you see either the previous page or next page on the screen (depending on how far you let the split go past the screen).
Snote's scrolling is swipe or hit arrow right at bottom of screen. Swipe right is too slow. Animations are nice but unnecessary when turning the page. I usually like keeping the writing area in the middle of the screen. Also a reason why I want to be able to put the bottom of the page in the middle. But my hand being in the middle i think its annoying to go down to hit the right arrow. Just me being an annoying *****.
Hope this helps someone out there. =)
Edit: realized I was missing the add on to import pdfs for lecturenotes.
With short use it has a lot that I wanted. Now I dont know what I should use...
Edit 2 played with settings and im purchasing it now
@aznxkpx88: There is no need to alternate between `pencil´ and `hand´ mode in LectureNotes: You can scroll/zoom outside the `hand´ mode if you enable `allow two fingers scrolling/zooming´ in the app's input settings. Since you seem to use an S-pen (in which case you should enable `use stylus (hardware detection)´), you can also enable `allow one finger scrolling´ and scroll with one finger.
The constrain on the maximal number of pages per notebook in the trial version applies also to PDF imports.

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