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le nubian - Aug 30, 2013 9:40:15 am PDT #22957 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Jessica,

I love my Roku! I don't use the headphone jack often, but note: when I did use it, the batteries in the remote ran down kind of quickly. I have (3) Rokus I think. Each and upgrade because of a feature I needed in the Roku. I got the 3 because I needed the HD and the new menus are the BOMB.


Connie Neil - Aug 30, 2013 10:17:11 am PDT #22958 of 25496
brillig

I'm wanting a tablet for reading ebooks as my old faithful Palm's screen is just getting too small for my agining eyes. I'd rather not get a Kindle, so I'm looking for something that could handle basic text, or epubs if that format is supportable on a non-dedicated ereader. Net access is not a priority, I just want something a little bigger than the Palm for reading, and the file management on ereaders is annoying.


Jessica - Aug 30, 2013 10:18:28 am PDT #22959 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

when I did use it, the batteries in the remote ran down kind of quickly.

I'm assuming it takes regular AAs, which I can just recharge, though, right? As long as I can get through a whole movie on one set of batteries I think I'm good.


Gris - Aug 30, 2013 4:07:07 pm PDT #22960 of 25496
Hey. New board.

I have a Roku 2and it is great. I feel zero need to upgrade and expect the interface is basically identical to the Roku 3 - it is upgraded regularly. But the remote feature is cool if you will use it.


le nubian - Aug 30, 2013 8:15:02 pm PDT #22961 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I think my Roku 2 didn't have the interface upgrade. when I got the Roku 3. There was something I couldn't do that I really wanted to do - and it wasn't remote audio.


DebetEsse - Aug 31, 2013 2:29:23 am PDT #22962 of 25496
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Meara, late to the conversation, but I got my mini for my Europe trip. I like the smaller size because I can fit it into my purse, and I was trying to travel as light as possible. I've never had any problem with the screen being too small for what I wanted to do, and I find it much easier to use and handle when i dont have a table (including when navigating on foot using Google maps). However, I have relatively small hands and generally set font sizes pretty small.


§ ita § - Sep 02, 2013 6:44:10 pm PDT #22963 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The tablet is an absolute art win for me so far. Nothing complex, but I've been able to pull off more in a week with the Note than I have in five years with a large Intuos.

Which makes me realise--I would be able to use a Cintiq...shit. Don't even want to think about saving up for one of those. I'd been thinking I was a complete tablet fail, but it seems to be an hand-screen thing. Still, I'm happy to see what I can achieve with a 10.1" screen and Android apps. So far Autodesk Sketchbook Pro is best suited to my monochrome stylings. I've also tried PS Touch, S-Vermeer, and Infinite Painter, with the verdicts photo retoucher, limited painting tools, and too complex & therefore laggy respectively.


Gudanov - Sep 03, 2013 5:20:43 am PDT #22964 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping

Wow, you can seriously draw. Nice work!


Tom Scola - Sep 03, 2013 5:31:09 am PDT #22965 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

ita: Monoprice.


§ ita § - Sep 03, 2013 5:58:41 am PDT #22966 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks, Gud! I admit-I felt a bit frivolous spending extra money on a tablet I could draw on, but...I can draw on it! It's like magic...

Tom, does Monoprice have a Cintiq equivalent? I don't see one in that list, unless I'm missing something. My problem isn't that I don't have a graphics tablet--I have a 12" Intuos, which is very good. It's that I can't draw on a graphics tablet since the results are over there, and the drawing is happening over here. The Cintiq is a monitor/tablet, so the experience would be like the Note 10.1, but with the software I'm used to, higher powered stuff like the PS range.