John Messeder wrote: << The idea of having whole web pages stored is handy for a paper-less kind of guy wanting to save the "print this receipt for your records" page from online orders >>
When you need to keep a copy of a web page (or anything else on the Pre's screen), you can capture a screen shot by simultaneously pressing the OPTION-SYM-P keys. The screenshot gets saved in a folder called Screen Captures, accessible from the Photos app. If it's a long scrolling page, you may have to take several screenshots to get the whole thing, but in a pinch, it works. George -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Messeder Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 6:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] My Dad & His MemoPad Dilemma (webOS) There seems to be a selection of note apps for the Pre. I'm going to have to look at some of them, I guess. I love EN, where it works. The idea of having whole web pages stored is handy for a paper-less kind of guy wanting to save the "print this receipt for your records" page from online orders, then have that page available on both my computers or wherever I can get online access from any machine. I like - when I have Internet access - the ability to write a column on the Pre - but without Internet access, I can't work with stuff already written. A couple of times I've tried writing a new note, hoping it would upload when I had access. I've ended up losing the data. OTOH, I have written columns and news stories on the Pre (the keyboard is not the best, but it can be done) in EN, then sat at a desktop/laptop and prepped the material for upload or, from the Pre, emailed it to my editor. Not having the past 10 years of my calendar in the Pre is not a big deal. It was handy sometimes, when I used Treos and earlier Palm devices, but mostly I don't even know I don't have it. And when I get to a fixed machine, there it is, so I can live with that. But not having those notes is a real pain, especially given the memory available for storage on today's smartphones. Then there's another, related problem Levi touched on - development. Watch the advertising and new apps are for iPhone or Android. I've never seen an ad on TV for a Pre app. And it's not an oversight, or a calculation that the Pre audience is too small to spend the money. Check the app catalog and the app that grabbed my interest is not there. But then, the Pre is a couple years old and it's still the same old Pre. Nothing new to brag about. No brag, no advertising, no customers buying it, no customers for new apps - I don't blame EN for not putting out the effort to develop for Pre. I blame Pre, and it could have a bearing on whether I'm a Pre or Android user when it's time for upgrade.
