THE animated turning of pages in a digital magazine, the whir of a camera shutter when you snap a smartphone picture.
Not exact matches
Any kid who ever
paged through The Magic School Bus at their school's book fair or watched the
animated show on TV in the Nineties definitely fantasized about diving into the cells
of the human body, just like Miss Frizzle and the gang did in the classic episode where Arnold
turned orange.
Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a
turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on
Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one
of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End
of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End
of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the
animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).
It is very likely Onyx will be running all
of their optimized apps, such as Kindle that eliminates
animated page turns.
That's really handy for showing moving images — you can
animate page turning and buttons, that sort
of thing.
One
of the big problems is that the vast majority
of Android apps have
animated page turns and were not designed for an e-ink screen.
If we're lucky that roundhouse kick will also take care
of the addiction to perfectly
animated page turns.
Samsung obviously could not let Apple get away with monopolizing the
animated page turn and filed its own patent for a different way
of handling it.
This will allow you to download thousands
of apps that are compatible with an e-ink screen, but don't expect to use any e-reading apps that have
animated page turns, because the entire experience is disjointing.
Sadly, all
of these apps were designed for smartphones and tablets and had lots
of animated page turns that really struggled with e-ink screens.
Hardware dithering will increase the performance
of Android apps because it will be able to render
animated page turns.
So there are no
animated page turns or wooden shelves or photos
of butterflies.
While I didn't get
animated page turns on the copy
of Men's Journal I downloaded, the
pages and images looked stunning.
«All Settings» gives you a bunch
of options, you can
turn publisher defaults on / off,
page theme (four options),
animated page turns on / off, lock
page orientation, hide status bar, two
page mode, margins, line spacing, justification, adjust brightness, remove ePub on archive.
Turning pages sometimes is hit or miss, with lots
of black flashing, and doesn't seem to work if the
page is zoomed in, and there's no option to
turn off
animated page turns.
Tango for
Page Turning is a single channel video by William Kentridge (b. 1955), best known for his
animated films that confront the brutalities
of apartheid.
The star
of the show is the S Pen stylus, which offers new features like the ability to translate full sentences,
turn notes into
animated GIFs or take up to 100
pages of Screen Off memos.