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Hi all,

I am starting a series of videos that will look at every aspect of the Surface RT tablet. I do reviews on different aspects of the device, basic tutorials to learn how to use the device and app reviews on the best, most useful and free apps.

I have previously done very successful videos on the Asus Transformer Prime (150 videos) and the Nexus 7 (100 videos) but I see this as being my biggest project to date since Windows 8 is such a radical departure from previous version that I'll be posting many videos as I learn new and interesting things. Here are a few videos just to give you a flavour of my work.




I am literally scratching the surface (every pun intended) of this device and will be kicking out a couple of videos everyday for a good few weeks. I'll be updating this thread regularly. I hope you find them useful, entertaining and informative.

Thanks in advance,

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Cool - Couple of comments.

On the Tile Screen, if you drag one app way to the bottom, it will also shrink the size of the start screen overall, making it easier to drag long distances accross many groups. I am finding this crucial, since my start screen is getting really long - over 70 apps. Which brings me to my next comment - Hopefully MS or a 3rd party developer will come up with an option to group tiles into folders as you can do on Ipads and Android, as app management is going to be an issue with the current layout and no ability to group into folders

Regarding the charging cable - I am surprised you made no comment how tough it is sometimes to get the magnetic connection to seat properly and start charging even though it appears to be connected - I think MS failed on the design. Apparent in your video when you are using 2 hands to get it seated correctly. I had heard this can be fixed by filing the sharp edges of the connector but have not been brave enough to do it yet.

Other than that - Good job - Keep them coming . .
 
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guitar1969 said:
Cool - Couple of comments.

On the Tile Screen, if you drag one app way to the bottom, it will also shrink the size of the start screen overall, making it easier to drag long distances accross many groups. I am finding this crucial, since my start screen is getting really long - over 70 apps. Which brings me to my next comment - Hopefully MS or a 3rd party developer will come up with an option to group tiles into folders as you can do on Ipads and Android, as app management is going to be an issue with the current layout and no ability to group into folders

Regarding the charging cable - I am surprised you made no comment how tough it is sometimes to get the magnetic connection to seat properly and start charging even though it appears to be connected - I think MS failed on the design. Apparent in your video when you are using 2 hands to get it seated correctly. I had heard this can be fixed by filing the sharp edges of the connector but have not been brave enough to do it yet.

Other than that - Good job - Keep them coming . .
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Thanks for the comment. Thanks for the app drag tip. I am learning just like everyone else at the moment so whenever someone tells me something like this I think 'this needs a video' so I'll probably do one about it.

I have noticed since doing the plug review that is it a little tricky to connect up the charger. I might bring this up in a later video.

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Two more videos here.

First of all I know this review is completely out of number sequence, I just wanted to put this one up as soon as I did because this topic is important to me.

Font sizes. Once again another tablet fails to deliver when it comes to giving us the freedom to set font sizes how we would like. That's what we do a lot of the time with tablets, and you can always resize fonts in books readers. So why doesn't this extend to apps and the tablet (and I'm talking about tablets in general here) eco system as a whole. Well one app in this video proves it is possible with a brilliant feature.


And the second one: here begins my App-Snack videos. First one is a simple live clock and date tile:


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If you use the legacy (non-Metro) control panel, you can adjust the DPI to enlarge text and everything in the screen. However, this may push the display below the minimum resolution to use metro-style apps.
 
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Today is a quick look at an odd problem with the youtube reply button on the browser.

 
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This is a video about some of my first impressions tile arrangement on the start screen:

 
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This one is a quick look at the lack of uniformity when changing settings. Why is the same option accessed by different methods.

 
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Another quick look, this time at frustrating experiences of the App store search function (am I really doing something wrong?):

 
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As I start to get a grip on this operating system, more and more Basics tutorial videos will start to come out. In this one I look at the offscreen swipe gestures (on the startscreen).

 
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So the Surface RT is seriously telling me that it won't support the resolution of my television so I can't watch movies on it? Very disgruntled! Help someone!

 
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    Hi all,

    I am starting a series of videos that will look at every aspect of the Surface RT tablet. I do reviews on different aspects of the device, basic tutorials to learn how to use the device and app reviews on the best, most useful and free apps.

    I have previously done very successful videos on the Asus Transformer Prime (150 videos) and the Nexus 7 (100 videos) but I see this as being my biggest project to date since Windows 8 is such a radical departure from previous version that I'll be posting many videos as I learn new and interesting things. Here are a few videos just to give you a flavour of my work.




    I am literally scratching the surface (every pun intended) of this device and will be kicking out a couple of videos everyday for a good few weeks. I'll be updating this thread regularly. I hope you find them useful, entertaining and informative.

    Thanks in advance,

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    This one is a quick look at the lack of uniformity when changing settings. Why is the same option accessed by different methods.

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    So the Surface RT is seriously telling me that it won't support the resolution of my television so I can't watch movies on it? Very disgruntled! Help someone!

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    This is a quick look at two features of the internet explorer browser: Flip Ahead and Browser Favourites

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    Answer below

    1. From your YouTube video, it looks like it stretches the square TV picture onto the monitor. Is this true? It's a pet peave of mine to see $1000's of "high resolution" new tech with better picture quality, blah blah blah and then we are all forced to watch videos and pictures with people's faces stretched giving us the impression that every show is an off-shoot of "The Biggest Loser". Is this how the HDMI out on the Surface shows pics, vids, etc?

    It was definitely stretching the images because you could see on the table I had massive borders because of the 1024x768 resolution. However, on the TV which is 1360x768 it was stretching the image to fit (so probably by about 30%). I'm not that knowledgeable with monitors and resolutions to be honest; I've only just got it working for one thing. There probably will be some settings to fix this (maybe use a VGA cable, better TV than mine, quick registry edit hack) but for now I'm just glad I have it working. I will be doing more videos about this in the future when I find out more


    2. Does the Surface recognize and work with ad-hoc networks? Specifically for WiFi tethering with a smart phone?

    I think so yes. I am going to do a video on this soon

    3. Does the Surface's IE notify smartphone networks when tethering to bring up the "You must pay $$$ for HotSpot" window? Or are there other options for browsing the internet with Windows RT?

    Don't know to be honest. I would say very unlikely. It will probably treat it like any other wifi network. The key really is to limit the data usage at the source (i.e. the smartphone) so, for android, something like 3gwatchdog will watch how much data you are using.

    Also be aware that I'm from the UK where I think data tariffs on phones seem to be difficult. We usually get a data allowance and we can use it however we want, tether or not.
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