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From: Wes Groleau on 30 Jan 2010 23:12 Barry Margolin wrote: > Apple is promoting this as a great device for email. Unless Twitter has > reduced your attention span so that you have to say everything in 140 > characters, that requires a decent amount of typing. At the risk of bringing the hammer out of the woodwork, I note that Nuance already offers a limited version of Dragon for the iPhone. -- Wes Groleau Lingua Franca Ain?t French? http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=68
From: James Leo Ryan on 30 Jan 2010 23:14 On 2010-01-30 21:57:57 -0600, Wes Groleau said: > I'll believe it when I see it. Isn't the thing less then ten inches > wide? Every keyboard I use is almost twelve inches from Tab to Return. The keyboard on my 17" MacBook Pro is 10 3/4 inches wide, reasuring from the left of the leftmost key to the right of the rightmost key. -- James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com Nothing smells like a bloodhound, especially when wet!
From: Wes Groleau on 30 Jan 2010 23:22 Tom Harrington wrote: > Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote: > >> Right, as pointed out by a poster on Macintouch, a mouse doesn't fit the >> nearly cursorless paradigm of the iPad, though I do hold out hope for a >> pen to use with drawing or handwriting apps. > > Wait no longer: <http://tenonedesign.com/stylus.php> I'm puzzled about what the tip is made of, and why a similarly shaped pencil eraser won't work. -- Wes Groleau Change is inevitable. Conservatives should learn that "inevitable" is not a synonym for "bad." Liberals need to learn that "inevitable" is not a synonym for "good." -- WWG
From: nospam on 30 Jan 2010 23:27 In article <hk30hh$t3t$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote: > I'm puzzled about what the tip is made of, and why a > similarly shaped pencil eraser won't work. it's conductive.
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Per_R=F8nne?= on 31 Jan 2010 00:49
Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <1jd08vl.1nz72n994iki7N%per(a)RQNNE.invalid>, > per(a)RQNNE.invalid (Per R�nne) wrote: > > > > yeah, but I think that the software keyboard would suffice for that. It's > > > large enough that you can touch type on it. > > > > I write a fast 10-finger touch-type on my keyboards. On my iPhone I have > > even got some problems with the two-finger system. > > So you shouldn't have any problems with the on-screen keyboard of the iPad. Oh, I think I will, but I should be able to write on it with at least two fingers. Since I will not be able to 'feel' the keyboard, physically, I will have to keep a close look at it while writing. On my MacBook I don't have that kind of problems. But I don't complain; with a physical keyboard there would be a problem with international keyboards [Kindle does have those problems; for a Dane no '�', '�' and '�'] - and in most situations the keyboard would in the way. An iPad is namely not a laptop end the idea of a dock with a physical keyboard is redicous. Use the laptop or desktop for that, and if necesary sync the information over WiFi. -- Per Erik R�nne http://www.RQNNE.dk Errare humanum est, sed in errore perseverare turpe |