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I love all the new features of OS 2, but there is always room for improvement. Here is a list of things I would like to see in a future upgrade.
For the next version of the calendar app, it would be great if you could add a new feature that allows you to add short forms and symbols to the upper right quadrant of each calendar day in the month view. This feature could be called 'At-a-Glance'. The purpose would be to quickly indicate recurrent items or other items of interest. For instance displaying pay day every 2 weeks (or whatever interval you set) by displaying a '$' symbol. My wife does shift work, so it would be helpful to display N12 (i.e. night 12 hour shift) or D8 (i.e. day 8 hour shift). This could be set for an interval of a given numbers of days in a row. The font size and colour should be something that is light enough to not make the calendar look to busy. This is the reason my wife has not been able to find a calendar that she could find useful... other than the old fashioned paper kind. She needs to be able to see this kind of info without having to click on each day to see all events for that particular day.
You could also have it automatically place symbols for observed holidays (i.e. Christmas, Easter, St. Patrick’s Day, etc), birthdays and especially anniversaries (would help keep us out of the proverbial dog house) in the bottom right corner. You would have the choice of a particular religion or all religions and country specific holidays. Currently these holidays are synched with my Hotmail account and are displayed as an all day event. This info could be pulled from an existing account or generated on the PlayBook itself.
These options could be turned off or on in the settings section.
I have attached a screenshot of the calendar that has been doctored to show what I mean.
Other things I would like to see:
1) Ability to organize videos into folders like you can in the Pictures app (although currently you can only organize picture folders through your PC)... should be the same look as well (large icons with first four images displayed). Would be great if you could do this on the PlayBook itself like you can for apps on your home screen.
2) The Videos app should remember the last spot you were at for each viewed video.
3) Ability to organize and edit the names of websites for your saved links in the browser... should be the same drag and drop principle for creating folders.
4) Should be able to keep only the docked apps section visible unless you request to see the other apps and folders. I like to keep a clean looking desktop. This should be a setting option. I am tired of constantly having to hide the other folders and apps on my main screen.
5) Would be nice to be able to have more than 6 apps in the icon dock... you could simply swipe left or right to see other apps in this section. Page 70 of the OS 2.0 user guide says this is possible but I have not been able to do this.Last edited by Reaver68; 03-18-12 at 08:26 PM.
03-18-12 03:06 PM - Your math is poor. Or perhaps just you calculator-fu is weak.
On all calculators, using the % function is a bit tricky. 100 - 10% is the same as 100 - .1. That because that's what 10% is: .1. Therefore, 100 - 10% = 99.9. What is implied here, is that this is 100 - (10% of 1), which is indeed 99.9.
If one wanted to calculate 100 less 10% of 100, that would be either:
100 - 10% x 100 = 90 or
90% x 100 = 90.
When using the percent key, think of it as, for example "50% of what" The "of" is multiplication, just like saying 1/2 of 50 is 25 is the same as 1/2 x 50=25.
This is pretty standard, and a %� could be added, I suppose, but should not replace the % key.04-30-12 02:21 AM
