Widgets in Belle better ? other things?

Hi,
some of nice widgets are in Belle as one can see on some sites.
What I am riddle is, how one can have more favorite persons
than four with the widget "Contacts,favorites"?
It shows four, but when inserted another widget,
it shows the same four twice and not eight different.
Email Widget looks nice but is a lot space consuming.
When in previous releases was place for five Email account on one Homescreen, whereas now it uses so much space just for two email accounts.
To check five to six accounts it wastes three homescreens out of six,
thats two wasted of the three more homescreens.
If other things are also going to waste space on the small display
the increase from three to six homescreens is no better, but loosing overview.
As it is very nice to hace on/off widgets for WLAN,NFC,VPN
I miss the Bluetooth and the 3G/GSM switch!
Where displays are for WLAN, VPN, 3G/GSM
I miss the display for NFC on a NFC Smartphone.
Another point, shouldn't VoIP Service and VPN not be better
directly included in the OS because of the all purpose use?
It would be better than the Microsoft Communicator
which is limited to company use and not every company like to use it.
Will be the very neccessary integration of Navigation commands over Bluetooth finally come with Belle Updates?
This is a live saving function, because the driver doesnt have to handle between Radio, Phone Call and navigation like today, but simply follow the navigation while watching the traffic.

Contacts -
There are 2 types of widgets,
1) This is a single contact widget for an individual favourite contact.
This is a square widget, larger than....
2) There is the rectangular contact bar. Basically if you scroll left to right you can access the other contacts, the same as in Anna.
Email -
They are big but they are a massive improvement because you can scroll up and down within the widget. You can view and launch up to 20 (I think) emails.
Connectivity -
You can turn on/off bluetooth, WLAN and data connections from the pull down menu.
There is also the option of widgets controlling these features being present on the homescreen.
There is also a widget for turning off/on the FM transmitter which is very easy to use and a big improvement over the Anna widget.
The widgets on Belle are, in general, a vast improvement over the Widgets in Anna.
Other notable widgets -
1) Music Player - Massive improvement of the Anna Widget in terms of looks. There is a larger widget as well as a compact one which takes up the same amount of space as the Anna widget.
2) Social - The updated Social App v1.5 come with a number of new widgets for belle, the best being an interactive widget the size of the new email widget. This allows you to scroll down and view the last 10-15 posts as well as update your status directly from the widget. I think Twitter posts are also included as well. You can also sync your FB contacts with your phonebook.
3) Bookmark - You can have direct access to your bookmarks from the native browser. These are square widgets which show the home screen of each bookmark.
4) Large Calendar - This is the same size as the new email widget but, again, is interactive and shows a number of events per day. You can also create events directly from the widget and view the next 7 days without opening up the calendar.
5) RSS feeds - These again are the size of the email widget. You can view the last 10 story titles from the widgets and again it is interactive so you can scroll up and down without ever leaving the homescreen.
6) Weather - There is a new weather widget which shows the weather conditions based on locations. Quite handy.
There are lots of other new widgets that come with Belle and can be installed as add ons.
They are generally bigger but not as restrictive as the Anna widgets, the main positive is that they are generally interactive within the home screen. They can be moved about the screen to fit where YOU want them and they can be positioned differently depending on whether you are in landscape or portrait mode.
I have been using Belle for around 2 months now and it is a vast improvement over Anna.
I'm not sure that the navigation commands can be sent via BT (haven't tried), however as a bit of an aside, there is a new app called Nokia Car Mode . This basically creates large buttons to make it easier to access call/music and sat maps whilst driving. There is an option to pair the device via bluetooth on start up which may allow audio navigation via bluetooth.
Check it out,
http://store.ovi.com/content/232236?clickSource=search&pos=3
Hope this is of some help.

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Thanks for any help.

My performance is very slow when I run graphs. How do I increase the speed at which I can do other things while the data is being updated and displayed on the graphs?

I am doing an an aquisition and displaying the data on graphs. When I run the program it is slow. I think because I have the number of scans to read associated with my scan rate. It takes the number of seconds I want to display on the chart times the scan rate and feeds that into the number of samples to read at a time from the AI read. The problem is that it stalls until the data points are aquired and displayed so I cannot click or change values on the front panel until the updates occur on the graph. What can I do to be able to help this?

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:55:03 -0500 (CDT), HAL wrote:
>My performance is very slow when I run graphs. How do I increase the
>speed at which I can do other things while the data is being updated
>and displayed on the graphs?
>
>I am doing an an aquisition and displaying the data on graphs. When I
>run the program it is slow. I think because I have the number of
>scans to read associated with my scan rate. It takes the number of
>seconds I want to display on the chart times the scan rate and feeds
>that into the number of samples to read at a time from the AI read.
>The problem is that it stalls until the data points are aquired and
>displayed so I cannot click or change values on the front panel until
>the updates occur on the graph. What can I do to be a
ble to help
>this?
It may also be your graphics card. LabVIEW can max the CPU and you
screen may not be refreshing very fast.
--Ray
"There are very few problems that cannot be solved by
orders ending with 'or die.' " -Alistair J.R Young

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