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« on: June 05, 2013, 09:21:52 AM »
I have an Eye-Fi http://www.eye.fi/ SD card in my Nikon camera and have an app on my Nexus 7 that communicates via wifi directly with the SD card. When I take a picture with my camera, it is instantly transferred to my Nexus 7 for storage or viewing. Not all cameras support the Eye-Fi but many do. You can check on the website to see if your camera is supported. I have an OTG cable and can use Nexus Media Importer app to move my pictures to an external hdd or flash drive. I have also offloaded pics from my N7 to Dropbox but that requires an internet connection. I also have a Seagate Wireless Plus 1TB external drive that allows me to move pics to/from the N7 via a wifi connection. The drive is battery powered and requires no power from the N7. The last item you asked about is GPS. Yes, the N7 has built-in GPS and does NOT require a data connection for the GPS to work. However, you need to find a navigation app that can store it's map data locally on the N7. CoPilot Live is one such app. I use and like it. The Google Navigation app that comes with the N7 requires a data connection to constantly update the map data. It has the ability to cache a limited amount of data but there is no option to store all of it's map data locally. Of course storing map data locally requires using some of your N7's storage. I have an 8G N7 and haven't found it to be an issue. If you have a 16 or 32G model it certaqinly won't be a problem.
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« on: May 28, 2013, 10:35:13 AM »
Music player - I use and like Poweramp
MS Word/Excel - I use the free Kingsoft Office suite
Pairing app for HTC - I'm not 100% sure what you mean with this. Are you wanting to use the phone to tether to the N7 for a data connection? I have a Droid Razr and use PDANet for tethering and FoxFi to enable my phone's wifi hotspot.
Can't say what works for your HTC.
Time killers - Games, there are plenty of games out there, bound to be some you like.
I don't have a case, I just have a screen protector.
Don't use a battery app on my N7.
An app that is very useful that you didn't ask about is some sort of file manager. I use ES File Explorer for that.
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« on: May 19, 2013, 07:12:22 AM »
Unless we are dealing with very long cables, the wire gauge of the cable is probably not a significant factor in whether it charges or not. If a particular cable cannot provide enough current for charging, my guess would be that it would be due to other factors such as poorly soldered connections and such which would have a greater impact than the size of the wire in a short cable.
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« on: May 17, 2013, 09:21:09 AM »
The kindle only requires 0.5A or 500mA. This is a quarter of what the Nexus charger supplies. The charger will work, but I would be afraid of overheating the circuits. The cord will be interchangeable, but the wall adapter is not.
First a disclaimer - I don't have my N7 yet so I cannot confirm.
My understanding about current flow is that the Kindle will draw what it needs - as long as the power supply can provide it all is good. The fact that the power supply is rated for a higher current load is immaterial - the Kindle will not be "force fed" too much current. I'm hoping this is true anyway because I have a Kindle and intend to use it on the same cord as my N7.
Regards,
-Dennis
Yes, as long as the wall adapter is rated to supply at least 500ma it will work as ANY device draws only as much current as it requires. The Kindle's charger can't be used to charge the N7 due to insufficient current but having more current available is OK. The N7's charger will work fine. It is the voltage that is critical but USB uses 5VDC so that is not an issue. As far as the cable itself, I have used a cheap generic USB to micro USB cable and it charges fine, no need to buy a specific cable made specially for an N7.
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« on: May 15, 2013, 12:05:35 PM »
Don't know about using a 64G thumb drive but I use a 64G SD card in a card reader with my N7 with OTG cable with no issues.
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« on: May 14, 2013, 10:36:47 AM »
If you can do a backup of the Google Play app on your N7 so that you now have the apk file, you can then copy it to your other device. However, Google Play requires some other Google components in order for it to work so you need to find out what those are and get them as well. As said earlier, you need to find the gapps.zip file that is floating around in order to get Google Play working. Good luck!
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« on: April 14, 2013, 07:58:51 PM »
You're talking 2 different things. First of all, you can unplug the USB cable from the charger module and plug it into your laptop to transfer files to/from your Nexus 7. The Nexus 7 should show up as an additional drive in Windows Explorer.
The OTG cable is to allow you to plug in certain USB peripherals such as a USB thumb drive, mouse or keyboard. The OTG cable is more than just a cable with a female USB socket on one end, there is a slight difference in the wiring (2 pins connected together) that allow it to work. For the Nexus 7 to be able to read/write from/to a USB thumb drive or SD card you also need an app such as the Nexus Media Importer as well as the OTG cable.
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« on: April 05, 2013, 07:02:14 AM »
If youre gonna buy a Wi-Drive, why not just setup a shared folder on your pc and connect to it through the Wifi at home?
(If you've got a PC of course)
That will work fine at home but what about when you're out and about? The wi-drive is small enough to slip into your pocket so it's much easier to take with you than your PC.
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« on: March 31, 2013, 10:30:26 AM »
If you turn on both location services and gps, then the gps coordinates could be used to update the location services database for your wife's wifi 802.11g-spot.
I don't know about anyone else but I wouldn't want the location of my wife's g-spot available in a database somewhere. 
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« on: March 23, 2013, 11:46:14 AM »
I have several of these: http://www.amazon.com/Genuine-Dell-Bluetooth-Wireless-Android/dp/B002G9J3MO which I have used with my Droid Razr phone, N7, desktops, laptops, netbooks and Android mini-PCs. Anything with any kind of Bluetooth whether it is built-in or one of those cheapo Bluetooth dongles. You only need to pair it with any device once, after that the mouse works fine as long as the battery is good. Depending on how much they're used, the batteries are good for a couple of months. Even when the batteries are replaced, the mouse doesn't need to be paired again, just turn it on and it connects, no problem.
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« on: March 22, 2013, 06:48:12 AM »
Unfortunately, it can't be done with the N7. There are other tablets out there that have an HDMI port that will allow you to do this such as the N10. Many phones also have HDMI out. For instance, my Droid Razr phone has HDMI out so I could hook it up to my TV, pair it up with Bluetooth mouse & keyboard and pretty much have a mini-PC such as birdastrompgman mentioned.
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« on: March 08, 2013, 08:09:29 AM »
Here's a pretty good website that helps you select what parts you need: http://pcpartpicker.com/. They don't actually sell anything but will show the prices for the selected items at different websites where you can buy the parts. It's handy because once you select the processor you want, it only shows you compatible motherboards, RAM, etc... Same with other components.
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« on: March 07, 2013, 08:10:08 AM »
Already out of stock.  I'm glad they dropped the price by $10 though, hope it comes back in stock at that price.
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« on: February 28, 2013, 05:29:53 AM »
I would look up Open Garden.Might give you some options.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk HD
Open Garden doesn't have an iOS app.
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