Comments on: A Week with NOOKcolor: 3rd Party Apps and Final Wrap-Up http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Wed, 16 May 2012 20:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Artful1 http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74690 Artful1 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:54:26 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74690 Handbrake also comes with preset settings for different apple devices. I use the preset one for the iPhone and it looks great. If you have widescreen movies, just select that and convert away. If you’re like me, though, and you don’t like the horizontal black bars and you want to fill the entire Nook Color screen, I suggest going into video settings and increasing the vertical dimensions to 720. It does give the picture a bit of a strectched look, but the full screen looks great.

]]> By: Maran http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74665 Maran Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:25:48 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74665 Yeah, I just discovered Handbrake myself. There are specific settings you need to use in order for it to work. More info here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107650

]]> By: Artful1 http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74656 Artful1 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:26:47 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74656 Hmmm…I’ve had no problems loading movies. In fact, I have 6 movies on my 16gb microsd card. I have a Mac and used the free Handbrake software to convert my movies into mp4. They look and sound great.

]]> By: Chris Burns http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74596 Chris Burns Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:47:05 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74596 looks like you might be in luck http://www.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/singaporeshippingfornookcolor.jpg this came up when I just did a test run for buying direct from Barnes and Noble

]]> By: Chris Burns http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74527 Chris Burns Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:22:36 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74527 here ye go! http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-the-missing-link-viewing-manually-loaded-books-and-what-a-root-means-for-the-future-29116784/

]]> By: Chris Burns http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74525 Chris Burns Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:11:52 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74525 Amazon. Looks like that’s a fail place to buy – man!

]]> By: TJ http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74523 TJ Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:10:29 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74523 Where are you getting your prices for the original nook? Barnes and Noble sells it for $190.

]]> By: cindy http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74519 cindy Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:29:42 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74519 will it be shipping internationally? like to Singapore?

]]> By: Maran http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74509 Maran Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:52:13 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74509 That’s just awesome! :) By the way, people have already started jailbreaking the NC, just saw the news elsewhere. Pretty soon, it’ll be able to do more stuff I guess.

]]> By: Maran http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74508 Maran Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:50:59 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74508 Yeah – these are some questions I had in mind as well. Looking forward to your reply Chris. My NC is on the way, and your review makes it feel like it can’t come soon enough :)

]]> By: Dave http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74502 Dave Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:31:55 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74502 What is the experience like reading a e-book you’ve loaded manually (that is, form a source other than B&N)? Do they have to be opened from the ‘My Files” area, or do they show up in the book library? Do they show up in the most recently read items in the bar at the bottom of the home screen? Can you place shortcuts for them on the home screen like a normal, B&N e-book?

Thanks!

]]> By: Chris Burns http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74501 Chris Burns Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:09:33 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74501 YouTube works straight outta the box.

]]> By: Maran http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74495 Maran Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:09:30 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74495 Wait…did you say YouTube works? I thought NC doesn’t support Flash (yet).

]]> By: Chris Burns http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74483 Chris Burns Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:40:11 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74483 Already corrected. Thanks for looking out!

]]> By: Bobby http://www.slashgear.com/a-week-with-nookcolor-3rd-party-apps-and-final-wrap-up-29116711/#comment-74463 Bobby Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:54:16 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=116711#comment-74463 B&N is selling it for 250 not 300…

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