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firekat · 11-15-2006, 08:51 PM

Commander,

You would be very disappointed with the ghosting. It can be very strong on some documents. I tried opening one of the books that came on iLiad and the ghosting was not too bad. With my technical documents it was very noticeable. The re-write is kind of strange when you first see it, and like scotty said you can get a little weird vertigo watching it. Still I overwhelmingly applaud everyone's effort on all of this. The independent people working on this device seem to be moving very rapidly in increasing the functionality of the device.

The thing that I find interesting and intriguing is that after installing the shell and running the ipdf it seemed that everything ran faster. Navigation through directories with the arrow buttons seemed to be much more responsive, the whole device seemed to be running a little quicker. I don't know if this is fact or just a wishful expectation.

The biggest factor in all of this is that it seems that this device has the potential to live up to our expectations, it is just a matter of time, patience, skill and, cooperation (hint - iRex).

I don't know what iRex's true intention is for this device. For all we know it could already be launched, widely distributed and fully functional in an arena that we have no knowledge of whatsoever.

On a side note: I just installed Firefox 2.0 I am not sure if it is this bulletin board or Firefox, but now these message reply boxes have spell check in them. The suspect word will be red underlined, right clicking on it brings up different alternatives. Cool!

11-15-2006, 08:51 PM	#29
firekat Groupie Posts: 157 Karma: 314 Join Date: May 2006	Commander, You would be very disappointed with the ghosting. It can be very strong on some documents. I tried opening one of the books that came on iLiad and the ghosting was not too bad. With my technical documents it was very noticeable. The re-write is kind of strange when you first see it, and like scotty said you can get a little weird vertigo watching it. Still I overwhelmingly applaud everyone's effort on all of this. The independent people working on this device seem to be moving very rapidly in increasing the functionality of the device. The thing that I find interesting and intriguing is that after installing the shell and running the ipdf it seemed that everything ran faster. Navigation through directories with the arrow buttons seemed to be much more responsive, the whole device seemed to be running a little quicker. I don't know if this is fact or just a wishful expectation. The biggest factor in all of this is that it seems that this device has the potential to live up to our expectations, it is just a matter of time, patience, skill and, cooperation (hint - iRex). I don't know what iRex's true intention is for this device. For all we know it could already be launched, widely distributed and fully functional in an arena that we have no knowledge of whatsoever. On a side note: I just installed Firefox 2.0 I am not sure if it is this bulletin board or Firefox, but now these message reply boxes have spell check in them. The suspect word will be red underlined, right clicking on it brings up different alternatives. Cool! Last edited by firekat; 11-15-2006 at 08:55 PM.