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How Do I Use a Mobile Device Purely as Camera/Presentation Tool-No Internet?

posted by janrinok on Tuesday July 15 2014, @02:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the any-suggestions? dept.

number6 writes:

I am interested in buying an 'iPad' type of device to use for only one specific purpose:

- Format the device and setup some kind of bare-bones operating system which allows me to...
- Copy 'Faststone Screen Capture' and 'Faststone Image Viewer' (x86 software) from my Windows XP computer into the device.
- Take photos using the built-in camera of the device and then edit/annotate/draw using 'Faststone Screen Capture' inside the device.
- Connect the device to my Windows XP desktop computer when I get home and copy out the images via USB cable.

That's it! ...I basically want something resembling a USB stick with a huge screen and some input/output controls ...or to put it another way, a mobile extension of my Windows XP desktop set up to run one single-minded task and all other functions removed/hacked/stripped out.

Does anybody have any tips, thanks.

P.S. :: I don't own any mobile devices, no tablet, no phone, nothing! ...I also have zero interest in Social Media, Cloud Computing, AppStores and anything else related to mobile internet connectivity.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by dryriver on Tuesday July 15 2014, @02:00PM

    by dryriver (3970) on Tuesday July 15 2014, @02:00PM (#69286)

    The easiest solution would be to buy a Microsoft Surface tablet + keyboard. You'll be able to run your Windows software on it fine (Surface runs on Core i5 CPUs... just don't buy the RT version, which is not X86 based). The only bad thing about surface is that it runs Windows 8.1, rather than Windows 7. So it presents you with the Metro interface by default, and has no "Windows Start Button", which is annoying. Formatting a Surface? You'll probably loose functionality like the touchscreen and pressure sensitive pen it comes with. But if it needs to be small, mobile and Windows compatible, Surface or a similar core i3/i5 Windows 8 tablet should do the trick.