{"id":1847,"date":"2013-09-08T02:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T07:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2013-09-08T02:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T07:30:51","slug":"plexible-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2013\/09\/08\/plexible-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Plexible Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/en-us\/surface-with-windows-rt\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1848\" alt=\"2013.09.08.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013.09.08.a.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plexapp.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1849\" alt=\"2013.09.08.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013.09.08.b.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Thanks again to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slickdeals.net\">Slickdeals<\/a>, I ended a 2-year affair with my Android-enabled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/u\/nook\/379003208\/\">Nook Color<\/a> and welcomed the new Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/en-us\/surface-with-windows-rt\/\">Surface RT<\/a> into my life. The $200 refurbished deal which included the touch cover was too good to pass up, especially since I was able to unload the old Nook on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigslist.com\">Craigslist<\/a> for a good price also. My first week with the tablet has been a positive experience, with native support for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skydrive.com\">Skydrive<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/home-and-business\/\">Office 2013<\/a>, which will also include <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/outlook\/\">Outlook<\/a> with the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/en-us\/support\/getting-started\/windows-8-preview-on-surface\">8.1<\/a> upgrade due later this year. The app store is somewhat meager, but does include some good ones like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\">Netflix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zinio.com\/\">Zinio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skype.com\">Skype<\/a>, and recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plexapp.com\/\">Plex<\/a>. This program provides a beautiful media front end with a 10-foot user interface along with a back end media server on my PC, which will likely replace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playon.tv\/playon\">PlayOn<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps3mediaserver.org\/\">PS3 Media Server<\/a>. My only gripe with Windows RT is with the absence of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\">Google<\/a> integration (for obvious reasons) such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">Chrome<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\">Maps<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/drive\">Drive<\/a>. Fortunately, my weekend call has been quiet, and gave me a chance to play around with the new toy, and even kick back with my co-fellows for Friday night <a href=\"http:\/\/g2b-restaurant.com\/\">dinner<\/a>. I&#8217;ll give it a few weeks to see how well it works, then decide to either keep it or flip it for a profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks again to Slickdeals, I ended a 2-year affair with my Android-enabled Nook Color and welcomed the new Microsoft Surface RT into my life. The $200 refurbished deal which included the touch cover was too good to pass up, especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2013\/09\/08\/plexible-surface\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}