Ten Foot Product Features
I have designed the products to be useable even though they run on television screens viewed from several feet away. They all use simple screens using high contrast colours. Each screen automatically resizes to match the available screen size.
All the products come with tailorable online help.
The products work with media centre remotes. They use a variety of techniques to minimise the number of button presses you have to make to use them. The settings files we provide are based on Microsoft MCE remotes. You can use these remotes - or any others that emulate MCE remotes - to operate the products. They also work well with remote mice and keyboards. All the remote buttons are defined through the product settings files, so you can:
- Change button assignments; and
- Reconfigure the products to use different remotes.
The products also make good use of remotes that implement the teletext colour buttons.
You can also use the settings files to:
- Modify the way the products work; and
- Change any of the text displayed by the products.
To start with, the products come in two languages: English and US English.
If people log on with different ids, each person can maintain their own separate preferences.
You can use the products in multi-user environments and in security regimes where not all users are systems administrators.
There are separate feature pages for each of the Ten Foot products:
- Ten Foot Browser
- Ten Foot Email Reader
- Ten Foot BitTorrent client
- Ten Foot Launcher
- Ten Foot File Manager
- Ten Foot Program Manager
You can also download a user manual and a guide to tailoring and regionalising the products.
If you would like to see what the products look like, I have published a set of screenshots.
The latest version is Version 3.2, you can find out what has changed since version 3.1.
Download the Ten Foot Products and access the quick start guides.
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