http://www.lovesummertrue.com/touchmousepointer/en-us/index.html turns your screen into a touch pad. You should change the settings into for full screen mode.
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Next gen reader for RSS feeds
For chrome download touch mouse pointer.. it turns your screen into a touch pad. http://www.lovesummertrue.com/touchmousepointer/en-us/index.html change the settings to full screen mode, then its awesome.
Hey, just following up on my post since you requested an update. You might have already found this when you Googled, but this was the best I could find: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/create-a-shortcut-or-hotkey-to-turn-off-the-monitor/
It seems to work on my Venue 11. Turns off the monitor but allows everything else to run in the background; so no standby. Its a slightly annoying way to do it but it gets the job done.
You can get the Kindle eBook reader for PC at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000426311
Or the Nook eBook reader for PC at
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nook-for-pc/379003591/
These are both regular desktop app, but will still work just fine.
For Kindle: There is also a web-based reader you can access by going to Amazon.com, going to your account, choosing "Manage my kindle", finding your content, and say read now.
I know this is a 27 day old post, but why the fuck did no one tell you about the reset function in Windows 8? That's been in there since the beta...
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-restore-refresh-or-reset-your-windows-8-installation/
Have you tried using TouchMousePointer?
I started using it for situations where I needed to position the cursor accurately, now I have it enabled 90% of the time. I find fullscreen mode to be the best.
no update yet. UEFI seems to be the problem. I am gathering that it is very difficult to bypass the UEFI 32 bit boot options, as there are none, and the device will always boot to windows 8.1 32bit. you can create a virtual machine on a flash drive and run it inside of windows 8.1.
to do it, download this. it will take you through the setup of installing the portable (unofficial!) version of vmware. you just create a new machine and point it to an iso (I have mine stored in the same drive as the portable vmware program)
if you have any trouble, just ask.
Here's the one I bought Dell Active Pen PN556W (N1DNK)
It says right on it "Venue 8 Pro". If it's not compatible, they lied.
Edits: formatting