02-15-2013, 12:47 AM | #886 |
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02-15-2013, 12:50 AM | #887 |
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Yes. I saw that this morning. Let's see what we can do
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02-15-2013, 03:32 AM | #888 |
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Not to hijack the thread too much, but the Dropbox sort by Date Modified is way overdue and extremely welcome. Finding files that you knew you worked on recently but can't remember the name is now possible!
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02-15-2013, 03:43 AM | #889 |
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There were ways around that -- for example, the excellent, free Documents by Readdle app makes it possible to sort your cloud (Dropbox, SugarSync, etc.) files using "Name" or "Date" or "Size". It's a superb, multi-cloud manager: all of your cloud services in one place.
Dropbox is going the way of all corporations. It almost seems like natural law: the bigger corporation you become, the poorer the software you produce. Just like, to get the most out of an iPad or iPhone, you need to use non-Apple, 3rd-party software, similarly, to get the most out of Dropbox, it will likely soon be seen as obvious to want to avoid Dropbox's native app, due to its being so feature-poor. (For example, I have now switched off Dropbox's "Camera Upload" feature, which I found to be extremely buggy and unreliable. Instead, I bought the indie app CameraSync for a couple of bucks, which accomplishes the same task of uploading pictures and videos to Dropbox in a much more sophisticated way, giving the users lots of customizable options while doing so.) |
02-15-2013, 04:44 AM | #890 |
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I didn't know that Documents did that! Will have to investigate. Thanks for the tip.
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Faterson: I just noticed that the Kindle app doesn't use hardware brightness. I can't use the same trick to restore brightness from sleep.
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02-15-2013, 06:11 AM | #892 |
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Never mind, then. Just another "bad apple" from Cupertino.
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02-16-2013, 06:31 AM | #894 |
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The more I've been thinking about textured backgrounds, the more convinced I become it would be simplest and smartest for Kris not to lose too much time over implementing this functionality -- although I consider it crucial for improving Marvin.
My suggestion to Kris: just make a a modest sample (say, 15 or 20 pictures) of textured backgrounds available in Marvin. This would simply demonstrate to the Marvin user how nice textured backgrounds can be. So, the small sample of 15-20 textured backgrounds should be well-chosen, representative. Other than that, just give us a button, please, to upload our custom textured backgrounds for use in Marvin. Why? Because it's infinitely easy, using Google Images search, to find just the right textured background for you. Why should Kris even attempt to oblige each of our different tastes and preferences in terms of textured backgrounds? Just let every Marvin user find their own preferred textured backgrounds using Google Images search, and that's it. I tested yesterday how incredibly easy this is. For Day Mode, I prefer a "wood" theme as my textured background, so I entered "wood texture" (without the quotes) into Google Images search. And here is what you get: https://www.google.com/images?q=wood...D4vRsgaD0oGwBA That's enough wood textures of all sorts of varieties to make your head spin for 3 days. Similarly, I prefer a black-and-red textured background for my Night Mode reading, so all I had to do was to enter "black red texture" into Google Images search... ... and the engine immediately spewed forth: https://www.google.com/images?q=blac...SsFsaytAasuoEw Isn't that wonderful and eye-popping? Why should Kris even try and compete with Google Images search? It's pointless. Not to mention that there are entire online catalogs of textured backgrounds, neatly and logically organized and categorized, like these two: Further, if Kris wanted to distribute any of these textures directly inside Marvin, he would first need to clear the copyright issue for every single such image, and I'm sure he has more important things to do. Whereas if users can just use their own, custom background textures/images, then their use, after locating any nice picture via (for example) Google Images search, conforms with "fair use for personal need only", on one's own personal iDevice only. To conclude, below are 2 screenshots with "wood" and "black/red" textures I was able to collect using Google Images search engine yesterday within only a few minutes, for potential future use in Marvin. Looking forward to that day, because solid-colour backgrounds definitely are dreary (for me) to behold! |
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Book images
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I would also like to see images expand to the limits of the screen. I've converted some .cbr comics of mine through Calibre and, although all images are 1024x768 (iPad mini resolution), Marvin are showing them half their size at least. It would be very nice if you could fix it. |
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Getting around the Dropbox 1000 limit with Calibre2OPDS
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I have nearly 5000 books in my Calibre library which I store in Dropbox. I have created a catalog with Calibre2OPDS which is also stored in Dropbox. I have put this catalog into the list of OPDS catalogs in my Marvin app and I now have access to all of my books (at least up to the last update of my catalog) wherever I have wifi access. I update my catalog every couple of weeks, but could do it more regularly. I always can resort to the Dropbox app for anything I know I downloaded since the last catalog update. Calibre2OPDS is much more helpful in finding books than the Dropbox app itself as books can be found under Authors, Tags, Series, Recent additions, Rating, All books (I don't use this, but is a list of titles). Each of these is sub-divide alphabetically or by date as appropriate. Brilliant - not only can I find a specific book I am looking for, but I can also browse my library for a book to suit my fancy at that particular time! Last edited by Rachel; 02-16-2013 at 08:36 AM. |
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The bulk feature in Calibre is iffy. I did a bulk metdata download and that was a huge mistake. Books ended up with the info being in Spanish and German, parts of anthologies, and other weirdness.
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ProfCrash, the Calibre feature is fine. It just needs proper configuration and knowledge about what it does. I strongly suspect the latter being the problem here.
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humler, Noted.
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