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Eee Top ET16 Series

SoftStylus

SoftStylus is a finger-writing recognition application that enables you to write down messages, 
e-mails, and other notes with your finger or the supplied stylus pen. There is also a virtual 
keyboard available for you to type.

Getting started

1.  Open the application you are going to write into, StarSuite Writer in the following 

examples.

2.  Launch SoftStylus by clicking 

Start

 > 

All Programs

 > 

SoftStylus

 > 

SoftStylus

. �ou can 

also launch the program from 

Eee Bar

.

3.  The SoftStylus toolbar appears.

Select to show 

virtual keyboard

Select to shift 

recognition language

Select to configure 

properties

Select to register 

the software

Select for 

help

Select to 

minimize

If you minimize the toolbar, double-click the SoftStylus tray icon 

 to restore it. To close the 

application, right-click the tray icon and select 

Exit

.

Typing the text

1.  Ensure that the StarSuite Writer application is in focus by clicking in the document 

window.

2.  Select the 

Show virtual keyboard

 icon 

 to open the keyboard and begin entering 

text.

Summary of Contents for EeeTop ET16 Series

Page 1: ...English Software Manual ET16 Series ...

Page 2: ...n permission of ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC ASUS Products and corporate names mentioned in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies and are used for identification purposes only All trademarks are the property of their respective owners Every effort has been made to ensure that the contents of this manual are correct and up to date However the manufa...

Page 3: ...rSuite 8 12 Initializing StarSuite 8 12 Using StarSuite 14 StarSuite Impress 14 StarSuite Writer 16 StarSuite Calc 16 StarSuite Math 16 StarSuite Draw 16 StarSuite Base 16 SoftStylus 18 Getting started 18 Typing the text 18 Using the virtual keyboard 19 Finger writing recognition 19 Configuring properties 20 General 20 Supported languages 20 Recognition 21 Appearance 21 Opera 22 Browsing web pages...

Page 4: ...eos 30 Capture 30 Timed Recording 30 Sharing documents 31 Other functions 31 Eee Cam settings 31 Eee Memo 32 Launching Eee Memo 32 Shifting between Eee Clock and Eee Memo 32 Writing a note 33 Managing the deleted notes 35 Eee Cinema 36 Music 36 Browsing for music 37 Playing music 37 During playback 38 Recent Music 38 Photos 39 Browsing for photos 39 Viewing photos 40 Fixing photos 41 Videos 41 ...

Page 5: ...os 42 Watching videos 42 Movies 43 Settings 43 Eee Splendid 44 Experimenting with Eee Splendid 44 Testing a mode 44 Creating a profile 45 ASUS AI Direct Link 46 Enabling the incoming folder 46 Connecting to another computer 47 ...

Page 6: ...StarSuite 8 SoftStylus Web Opera To perform an action in any software tool use your finger the stylus pen the keyboard or the mouse Communication Eee Cam Eee Memo Fun Eee Cinema Eee Splendid Sharing ASUS AI Direct Link All illustrations and screenshots in this manual are for reference only Actual product specifications and software screen images may vary with territories Visit the ASUS website www...

Page 7: ...ically launched when the OS starts and by default it is hidden Click an empty space on the desktop to display Eee Bar Using Eee Bar Click any of the Application SoftStylus ASHE and LED icons to display more options Click the Eee Manager icon to switch to its main window mode Click Click Double click to configure preference settings Minimize Click to select an application to launch Click to select ...

Page 8: ...formance and Power Saving Click Yes to the confirmation box Eee Manager Application Allows you to launch applications by clicking the respective icons LED Allows you to turn on off the front LED light or adjust its brightness SoftStylus Allows you to launch SoftStylus a finger writing recognition application with virtual keyboard ...

Page 9: ...er Easy Mode If you choose not to for now you can launch Easy Mode any time by clicking the Easy Mode icon on Eee bar Click a function tab on the top to switch to that function and display pertinent items Function tab Minimize Returning to Windows or shutting down Click the Shut down tray icon to display the following panel Click Quit Easy Mode to return to Windows click Shutdown to turn off the s...

Page 10: ...lish 10 Eee Top ET16 Series Easy Mode desktop The Easy Mode desktop is organized into the following function tabs Communication Fun Work and Tools Click a function tab to display the applications you need ...

Page 11: ...t BIOS drivers and applications for your Eee Top 2 Select Schedule to set how often you want to update your system 3 Select Update to activate the update 1 From the Windows notification area right click the ASUS Easy Update icon 4 Click OK to display the items you can download 5 Check the item s you want to download and then click OK ...

Page 12: ...ersion to StarOffice In areas other than East Asia you will have StarOffice 8 instead of StarSuite 8 installed on your computer 2 Double click the desired application and the Welcome to StarSuite 8 dialog box appears Click Next 3 Scroll down to read the license agreement and click Accept to continue The Accept button is unavailable until you finish scrolling down the license agreement Initializing...

Page 13: ...x to get the online update and click Next to continue 6 Click an option to registrate and click Finish to complete the initialization The registration is voluntary After you initialize StarSuite 8 the StarSuite 8 Quickstarter icon will appear in the notification area You can right click this icon to open StarSuite 8 applications ...

Page 14: ...ck Empty presentation to create a new presentation slide or From template to create a new presentation slide with a template To edit an existing file click Open existing presentation Click Next to continue 3 If you want to create a presentation with a template click Form template For first time usage it takes time to initialize the templates Click Next to continue You can click Create to skip all ...

Page 15: ...slide design and click Next Click the Preview check box to preview the slide design 5 Select a slide transition and the presentation type Click Create to start StarSuite Impress 6 Prepare your presentation slides in the StarSuite Impress window ...

Page 16: ...te Calc StarSuite Math StarSuite Math hekps you create formulas Click Start All Programs StarSuite 8 StarSuite Math to start StarSuite Math StarSuite Draw StarSuite Draw is an illustration tool that allows you to export drawings in several image formats Click Start All Programs StarSuite 8 StarSuite Draw to start StarSuite Draw StarSuite Base StarSuite Base helps you create your own database To st...

Page 17: ...English 17 Eee Top ET16 Series 3 Select an action to proceed after saving the database and click Finish 4 Select a location to save the database file 5 Build your database in the StarSuite Base window ...

Page 18: ...Programs SoftStylus SoftStylus You can also launch the program from Eee Bar 3 The SoftStylus toolbar appears Select to show virtual keyboard Select to shift recognition language Select to configure properties Select to register the software Select for help Select to minimize If you minimize the toolbar double click the SoftStylus tray icon to restore it To close the application right click the tra...

Page 19: ... 4 To shift back to finger writing mode select the Show virtual keyboard icon Finger writing recognition 1 To shift to finger writing mode select the Finger writing mode icon on the virtual keyboard to open the recognition window 2 Write with your finger or the supplied stylus pen in the recognition window Using the virtual keyboard Backspace Enter Uppercase Lowercase Tab Uppercase Lowercase Finge...

Page 20: ...scribes the software title build number and copyright information Clicking the Launch SoftStylus when Windows Starts check box will launch SoftStylus automatically when the OS starts Supported languages The Supported languages tab allows you to select recognition languages or keyboard type Input recognized as Alternatives Show virtual keyboard ...

Page 21: ...lternate Choices the maximum number of alternatives shown in the window To enable Chinese text input recognition click the Word Prediction for Chinese Character check box Appearance The Appearance tab allows you to adjust Transparency of Window and Pen Width by moving the respective sliders and then click OK when done You can also select an Ink Color Transparency of Window modifies the transparenc...

Page 22: ... and live on your desktop There are widgets for just about any purpose weather forecasts games clocks dictionaries etc To launch Opera click the Opera icon on Eee Bar Browsing web pages You can scroll up down the web page by moving your fingertip up down on any space of the page Note that Text Selection must be Off in the status bar Click the Panels icon to open the Bookmarks Widgets Notes Transfe...

Page 23: ...rks drag an item from the Bookmarks panel and drop it onto any of the thumbnails To open a page click the corresponding thumbnail To delete a Speed Dial entry click the cross on the upper right corner of the thumbnail Selecting text If you toggle Text Selection On you can highlight any words on the web page to look them up in the dictionary or translate them into other languages by right clicking ...

Page 24: ... of the nine thumbnails A dialog box appears 2 Select a web page from the list or type a new address and then click OK Widgets To add a widget 1 In the Widgets panel click Add and the Opera Widgets web page is opened 2 Select a widget you want to have and click Launch Opera will download and install it automatically ...

Page 25: ... Widgets panel You can also rearrange your widget collection or delete widgets you no longer want 3 You can drag and place widgets anywhere you want on your desktop Each widget has individual settings Opera widgets run within Opera When you close Opera the widgets will also be closed ...

Page 26: ... recording of webcam video or start a motion detection recording Upload a webcam video to YouTube E mail webcam photos and videos from Eee Cam to your friends Print out your webcam photos Share and view PowerPoint files and images files during a webcam session Enabling Eee Cam Before using Eee Cam with an instant messaging program you need to enable Eee Cam and the built in webcam and microphone w...

Page 27: ...eeds first to be enabled Eee Cam modes Eee Cam has the following two modes depending on the way you launch this program Certain functions are available only under a specific mode Stand Alone Mode When Eee Cam is launched by clicking the desktop icon it will be opened in the larger screened Stand Alone Mode IM Instant Messaging Mode When Eee Cam is started with an instant messaging program it will ...

Page 28: ...bcam videos Webcam image Emotion effects From left to right Frames Filters Distortions Drawing tools Emotion effects select to apply to your webcam image The effect will disappear after a few seconds Frames select to apply to your webcam image The effect will not disappear until you select another effect or click the Clear effect button This rule equally applies to the following three effects Filt...

Page 29: ...to snapshot of the current web cam video Burst Take consecutive webcam photos To switch between the two functions click the arrow to select the function you want The Burst feature is available only in Stand Alone Mode To take photos click the Snapshot Burst button and the photo s will be displayed in the captured content pane and saved by default to My Documents Eee Cam When taking photos or recor...

Page 30: ...ure button 2 Eee Cam starts recording the current webcam video You can add effects to the video 3 To stop recording click the Stop button 4 Your video will be displayed in the captured content pane and saved by default to My Documents Eee Cam Timed Recording 1 Click the Timed Recording button 2 Select Continuous recording Time lapse recording or Motion detection recording and configure the related...

Page 31: ... button to display the shared document s in your webcam window 4 Select a viewing mode 5 Click the Clear effect button to end the shared document viewing and return to the normal webcam session Other functions You can upload your videos to YouTube e mail videos photos to friends print out your webcam photos and delete the captured videos photos Eee Cam settings Click the Settings icon to configure...

Page 32: ...tem time You can turn over the clock between hand clock and electronic clock by moving your finger leftwards or rightwards near the center of the screen Shifting between Eee Clock and Eee Memo To launch the Eee Memo board touch the yellow Eee Memo icon on the bottom center of the screen and move your finger to the left To go back to Eee Clock touch the white Eee Clock icon on the bottom center of ...

Page 33: ...mo board 2 Touch a colored post it note paper to begin writing your note 3 Select a Pen Color from black red blue and green by touching the respective icon and write on the note paper 4 You can select the Eraser icon Yellow to clear what you wrote When done select OK ...

Page 34: ...g a note to anywhere you want over the board 6 To delete a note on the board simply drag it to the wastebasket on the bottom right corner of the screen Dragging notes to the wastebasket does not destroy them completely Notes in the wastebasket can still be recycled Refer to the next section for details ...

Page 35: ...et and three options appear Delete All Red Select to empty the wastebasket Recycle Blue Select to display all the deleted notes to perform further actions Cancel Green Select to return to the Eee Memo board To render each of the deleted note press the Recycle Blue button and select a note Three options are available You can Recycle Blue the note Delete Red the note or Cancel Green the action ...

Page 36: ...videos and movies To launch the program click the Eee Cinema icon on Eee Bar Music The Music function allows you to listen to music files in MP3 WAV and WMA formats or audio CDs an external USB optical drive is required with visualizations and create playlists in wpl format for your favorite songs Select Music to display menu options ...

Page 37: ...ugh your music files Playing music To play music simply select a folder song artist album etc to begin playback You can also select Menu to display more options If you want to play a music CD you will need to connect a USB optical drive to the computer When you insert a music CD into the optical drive it will begin to play automatically You may use the playlists you create in Windows Media Player ...

Page 38: ...it press Esc or Backspace on the keyboard Recent Music From the Eee Cinema main menu select Music Recent Music to view the music you recently listened to To remove an item from the list select the item and then select Clear History Selecting Clear History without selecting any item to remove will clear all of the music in your history The logic or method described above equally applies to Recent P...

Page 39: ... in a slideshow or apply minor fixes to your photos Select My Photos to display menu options Browsing for photos Select Browse By to browse for photos by Folder Date date taken or last modified or Rating the ratings you gave Use the Zoom in and Zoom out buttons to change the size of the folder photo thumbnails ...

Page 40: ...ected folder will be included in the slideshow To view certain photos in a slideshow select the individual photos before selecting the Slideshow button Use the playback control bar to control the slideshow Individual photo To view an individual photo select the photo and it will display in a paused slideshow Use the buttons on the bottom of the screen to Zoom In Zoom out or Rotate the photo or sel...

Page 41: ... do so select the photo you want to fix and then select Menu Fix You can also select Auto Fix for Eee Cinema to automatically fix a photo s properties such as overly lit or dark photos Videos The Videos function allows you to play your videos in ASF WMV MPEG 1 2 DVR MS AVI and DivX formats Select My Videos to display menu options ...

Page 42: ...Zoom out buttons to change the size of the folder video thumbnails Watching videos To play a video simply select the video to start playing it You can also select Menu to display more options Use the playback control bar to control the playback You can select the Take a snapshot button to take a snapshot in JPG format and save it to the Pictures folder on your computer ...

Page 43: ...e optical drive it will begin to play automatically Settings The Settings function allows you to configure Audio Display DVD and Photos settings Select an option and follow the onscreen instructions to perform actions You can also select About to view software information and select Help to know more about the Eee Cinema functions The supported disc formats are DVD SVCD VCD and MiniDVD ...

Page 44: ...id Eee Splendid The left pane shows what a sample image is like on your screen while the right pane shows what the image is going to be like after you apply an Eee Splendid mode Testing a mode 1 Click the Open File button to open an image file on your computer 2 Select a mode to see the difference 3 Click the Apply button to enable Eee Splendid on your computer You have to click Apply to effect th...

Page 45: ...le You can create your own settings by clicking the My Profile button and adjust Colorfulness and Color Temperature by moving the respective sliders You can also base your settings on a preset mode When done click the Save button to save the results ...

Page 46: ...ming folder 1 Right click the AI Direct Link tray icon and select Incoming folder Enable incoming folder For Windows XP users click Steps of enabling file sharing on the dialog box and follow the instructions to enable the incoming folder 2 If you want to verify the incoming user select Use my account and set your user name and password Otherwise select Use public account For security s sake we re...

Page 47: ...nd password Click OK to log in and have full access to this shared folder 4 Right click the AI Direct Link tray icon and select Incoming folder Open incoming folder The AIDirectLinkIncoming folder opens Put the files you want to share into this folder The authorized user has full access to this folder 3 The name of the computer found is listed Click Open to open its shared folder Connecting to ano...

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