As you all know, BlinkFeed displays a nice background image on every RSS item. I've been trying to replicate this with my custom feed (I fuse feeds I follow on my server and try to insert an image into the RSS description tag) and succesfully been able to make it display an image. However, it doesn't fill the field completely like in the stock version.
I'm not all that privy to RSS standard so I've no idea how to make the image to fill the BlinkFeed box and display the RSS item title over it, or if it's possible at all. Would be helpful if I had an actual URL the BlinkFeed uses when it refreshes an image and then look over the XML.
Anyone have an idea how to make this work? It works 'alright' now, but I would like to replicate the functionality in stock BlinkFeed.
Thanks!
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does anyone know of a webcam feed program. Ive searched and all I can find is webcam-holmes, but cant find a good link for it.
maybe this is not exactly practical, but if you use weather panel and your camera output is a image file that gets updated periodically, you can use weather panel's radar image area for that purpose.
Hey all,
Does anyone have any recommendations for an offline news reader of some sort?
The RSS hub that's included on the diamond only seems to be able to download headlines. When I click the link for a full article, it opens up the link in opera and requires a data connection of some sort. It'd be great to have something that downloads the headlines and the articles as well.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
You could use outlook 2007 and sync the RSS feeds through Outlook 2007 folder and your Touch Diamond? i.e then you have the feeds already downloaded onto your Diamond. You can then have it so it only syncs the last 3 days etc? That is the way I would do it.....
Good Luck,
Will
Thanks, Will. Unfortunately, that seems to do the same thing as RSS Hub. i.e. it'll only download the headline plus a little blurb. Is there anyway to make it download the linked article as well?
When you add the RSS feed i.e right click RSS feed folder and see document attached . add the RSS feed, press add, press advanced, in the download section, highlight what you want. i.e "automatically download enclosures" etc. Click Yes. I have uploaded screen shots.... I hope this helps....
Will
Will, that's brilliant!! Thanks for taking the time to explain the procedure. It works a treat =D
Hi, I am looking for an application which simply shows HTML pages(local or remote) on home-screen(widget) and refreshes itself in specific time intervals.
It would be great for people, who knows how to work with javascript but doesnt know java and it would be very useful and simpler to create RSS-like widgets with it.
Any suggestion? Thank you.
I'm looking for something similar that will pull this image into a widget on my homescreen:
EYE EM GEE ESARESEE="http_//spc_noaa_gov/products/outlook/day1otlk_0100.gif" alt="SPC Day1 0100Z Outlook Categorical" width="582" height="408"
I had to edit the html a bit due to me being a noob
Success! Use "Webcam Widget" in the Android Market.
Then, you can copy the URL and resize the widget with LauncherPro!
Now I have Day 1 Convective Outlooks, Day 1 Storm Reports, Day 1 Watches/Warnings and the local news live Doppler Screen grab (added the widget four times) on one my homescreens!
i am looking for something which can handle HTML, Javascript and CSS
not only image files...
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?
goog64 said:
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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Finally! I found it! Check this out everyone, I might fork this to make it work a bit better for my plans but it's pretty incredible already. I have it running on Maxathon browser in fullscreen and it looks very good!
I'm not sure about how it's going to update, etc; throughout the day but this could also be fixed.
https://github.com/matopeto/kindle-weather-dashboard
The page to use it is http://kindle.hrincar.eu/weather/ and it's open-source! So sweet.
Possible improvements:
1. Icons for me are showing ??? so it's not loading something (Maxathon Browser)
2. I'd like to modify the layout or have another layout with a large time (perhaps only 1,2, or 5 minute updates or something)
3. Ability to use a chart for the weather instead of 3 hour blocks (3 day chart taking the whole horizontal section, perhaps a smaller option too)
4. SOLVED, It's refreshing every 30 minutes. Perhaps this could be selectable (I'm not sure if it's refreshing, so perhaps a partial refresh somehow)
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Finally! I found it! Check this out everyone, I might fork this to make it work a bit better for my plans but it's pretty incredible already. I have it running on Maxathon browser in fullscreen and it looks very good!
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Wow! Looks pretty good although I, too, get no icons. I'll need to look at the HTML and the documentation to try and sort that out. Would also prefer am/pm time. What is really needed is to localize the entire thing before it disappears. I like my weather widget app, but this is a different thing altogether.
With Opera Mobile the URL for the weather display (as opposed to the dashboard) can be added to speed dial or the homescreen.
Now for some tinkering
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Wow! Looks pretty good although I, too, get no icons. I'll need to look at the HTML and the documentation to try and sort that out. Would also prefer am/pm time. What is really needed is to localize the entire thing before it disappears. I like my weather widget app, but this is a different thing altogether.
With Opera Mobile the URL for the weather display (as opposed to the dashboard) can be added to speed dial or the homescreen.
Now for some tinkering
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Awesome, someone else is still around! Ya, with this awesome start we can make these Nooks look really good. I am good at expanding code, not so much writing from scratch...so this is perfect I'm imagining like a bunch of options etc. AND it can be self hosted
The maintainer emailed me after my issue, and it appears like the css is calling a custom font, so perhaps our Nooks can't load the custom font. If we could put the font on the device directly, and then use that; perhaps it might work...
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Awesome, someone else is still around! Ya, with this awesome start we can make these Nooks look really good. I am good at expanding code, not so much writing from scratch...so this is perfect I'm imagining like a bunch of options etc. AND it can be self hosted
The maintainer emailed me after my issue, and it appears like the css is calling a custom font, so perhaps our Nooks can't load the custom font. If we could put the font on the device directly, and then use that; perhaps it might work...
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Yeah, my heart sank a little when I saw all the css in the page. When I was working with HTML on a regular basis, I sort of pre-dated the big push to css, so never learned much except tinkering on the margins by trial and error. Firefox can resolve the css url for the font on my PC and Opera Mobile is generally pretty good at css, but it's not clear where the info is coming from. If it's an actual font call, then we are SOL, I think. The only way to add a font to the NST, according to my understanding, is replace one of the existing fonts with the new font renamed as the old font (gee...that syntax is awful...).
The font he is using is the same one I use for the NST Weather Widget app so I already have it on my device, but its not with the rest of the fonts and is not seen by the system. It's called by Minimalistic Text to create the widget condition icons (since it is actually a font). Not sure if the css could be adapted to a situation like that.
Hmm...looks harder than I had hoped.
Edit: so here's a quote from the weather icon font creator on implementing:
To use the Weather Icons, place the main CSS files in your CSS directory, and the font files in a "font" directory on the same folder level as the CSS director. Once you've done that, all you need to do to reference an icon in your HTML is type <i class="wi wi-night-sleet"></i>
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Therefore, if the HTML page were to be localized, and hence the css references changed, perhaps it would be possible to simply point to a local folder containing the font.
Figured it out! I just have to map each reference to the specific icon in the folder here https://github.com/manifestinteractive/weather-underground-icons/tree/master/dist/icons
So, I'll have to test it, and then send him a pull request for 'Nook mode', however I have to learn how to do a pull request and how to use git lol. Here's the relevant information:
Image Usage Instructions
If you just want to use the image files directly, and not use the CSS file you can just copy over the images directly from the dist/icons folder. See the Icon Key below to see which icons will be used.
nmyshkin said:
Yeah, my heart sank a little when I saw all the css in the page. When I was working with HTML on a regular basis, I sort of pre-dated the big push to css, so never learned much except tinkering on the margins by trial and error. Firefox can resolve the css url for the font on my PC and Opera Mobile is generally pretty good at css, but it's not clear where the info is coming from. If it's an actual font call, then we are SOL, I think. The only way to add a font to the NST, according to my understanding, is replace one of the existing fonts with the new font renamed as the old font (gee...that syntax is awful...).
The font he is using is the same one I use for the NST Weather Widget app so I already have it on my device, but its not with the rest of the fonts and is not seen by the system. It's called by Minimalistic Text to create the widget condition icons (since it is actually a font). Not sure if the css could be adapted to a situation like that.
Hmm...looks harder than I had hoped.
Edit: so here's a quote from the weather icon font creator on implementing:
Therefore, if the HTML page were to be localized, and hence the css references changed, perhaps it would be possible to simply point to a local folder containing the font.
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