![]() As with books, the most recent app items stack to the left, and scroll to the right. On the Nook Color’s home screen, app icons will behave just as book and periodical icons do today: They’ll appear in the active shelf at the bottom, and you can pull them out to rest on the home screen itself. Installed apps will be accessible via the Apps folder, but those apps that are interactive books will also end up in the Nook Color’s library, and organized on shelves. At the storefront, you can shop for apps separately–or, if the item you’re looking for is a book app, you’ll find it interspersed with e-book offerings.īuy an app in a single click, and it will download and install onto the Nook Color. The new apps sold via the B&N storefront will range in price, with half the collection available at launch costing $3 or less. These apps join the other stock offerings on the Nook Color, which include Chess, Contacts, Crossword Puzzle, Gallery, Pandora Internet Radio, and Sudoku apps. Calendar and note-taking apps also come with the free update. In the new OS, users get e-mail, with presets for AOL Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail already in place no Exchange server support is built-in, but an app is available for that. Seuss, Epicurious, Lonely Planet (which starts with its Phrasebooks series), More Brain Exercises, My-Cast, Pulse, and Uno. (And, of course, POP3 e-mail and better Web browsing.) The apps are separated into sections, labeled Play, Organize, Learn, Explore, Lifestyle, News, and Kids. Games ranked high, as did education, reference, learning, and children’s apps. In adding apps as well as tablet features, B&N focused on the types of things that users requested. Already the company has requests for submission of hundreds of apps over 125 will be available at launch. The company says that over 5000 developers have registered in the program, and just two weeks ago B&N deployed tools and services for the developers to submit their apps. Apps can be books or other supplemental content, or favorites such as games and productivity tools. Instead, you’ll buy apps via B&N’s online bookstore. You still won’t have access to the Google Android Market or Google services. Also, the Lend Me app merges into the new Nook Friends social app, which facilitates sharing passages via Facebook or Twitter, for example.ī&N’s app strategy is curated and targeted. No dice it just didn’t work for me.First off, the ‘Extras’ menu is renamed ‘Apps’–which makes sense, given that the whole update is app-focused. But none of the apps I tried did very well, and the stylus I tried out didn’t keep good contact with the screen, so even being able to write a word well enough for an application to decipher it was well-nigh impossible (that may be due to the screen protector I have on the device I’m not certain). The Nooks Highlights and Notes feature is accessed through the Nook menu, allowing you to highlight or take notes in a few simple steps. ![]() Hoping to use handwriting recognition, I tried a stylus. ![]() Once the Nook Color’s running an alternate version of Android, the possibilities opened up. That’s all the more reason to root the Nook Color and install a different version of Android (or at least set the device up to dual boot), as both I and others have done. Here’s the catch: doing much writing with the Nook Color’s onscreen keyboard is, frankly, a pain-and as far as I’ve been able to determine, there’s simply no good replacement keyboard available for the device.Īt least, there’s not a good replacement keyboard available if you’re using the stock software. ProfHacker favorite Evernote is also available for the Nook Color. Though they can’t easily be copied within the software itself, they can easily be exported to Word or plain text format, so it’s fairly easy to make use of those notes when writing. Provided the wifi is on, it will sync those notes and highlights with NookStudy or Nook software on a PC or Mac. The stock Nook Color software lets users easily highlight passages as they read, and make notes on them. Among the things I wanted to use it for (besides reading, of course!) were accessing class notes, and, equally if not more importantly, taking notes of various sorts. In a recent post, I mentioned that I’m a new Nook Color user.
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