I don't see how really fast tapping could be faster and more accurate than really fast swiping, but I totally get inertia.
Oh, wow. This place looks great. Oh, I feel like a witch in a magic shop.
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§ ita § - Sep 12, 2011 5:32:27 am PDT #17820 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gris - Sep 12, 2011 5:56:35 am PDT #17821 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Well, I can easily use two thumbs to type with a tapping keyboard. Don't think I can two-thumb swipe.
brenda m - Sep 12, 2011 5:59:43 am PDT #17822 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Lack of Swype is my biggest frustration with the iPad.
Stephanie - Sep 12, 2011 2:41:49 pm PDT #17823 of 25501
Trust my rage
I am having some serious problems that are, I think, Lion related. Seriously, my mac faith is being tested.
Anyway, I have this computer that is basically clean - new account, etc. I can't get Safari to open (it bounces three times and then does nothing) and when I try to reinstall Lion, it gets mostly done and then asks me if I'm sure I want to cancel (when I didn't touch anything).
Bottomline - without Safari I can't get to the Internet, mostly. Any ideas on how to make Safari work?
eta: I have managed to at least get Lion to reinstall which should get me on the right track.
aurelia - Sep 12, 2011 3:44:24 pm PDT #17824 of 25501
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
ita, I've noticed bad info on Flixter and I don't think it had anything to do with timezone or location. It just had wrong showtimes or showed the 3D showtimes as the 2D showtimes. It's really a bummer, because I like their interface and it doesn't crash all the time like the Fandago app did (for me anyway).
le nubian - Sep 12, 2011 4:02:01 pm PDT #17825 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Polter-Cow - Sep 13, 2011 1:11:29 pm PDT #17826 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, I can easily use two thumbs to type with a tapping keyboard. Don't think I can two-thumb swipe.
You can one-thumb Swype! I love Swype so much.
Gris - Sep 13, 2011 2:52:01 pm PDT #17827 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Sure, but is one-handed swyping really faster than good two-thumb tapping? I don't miss very much. And on the iPad (which I don't have, but my mom does) I type with four fingers, almost touch-typing. My fingers hover somewhere in the middle of the homerow, and I can reach all the keys without really moving. I'm REALLY not sure Swype would have an advantage.
I played with swype for about 20 minutes and found that I was missing the word I wanted nearly as often as I was hitting it. And since you don't know if the word you want is in the dictionary until you've already tried it, and THEN you have to tap it out, I felt like I was doing double work a lot of the time. Maybe I just don't have the patience for it.
I realize I sound like the people who refused to switch to T9 on normal phones, but so it goes.
Liese S. - Sep 13, 2011 3:40:05 pm PDT #17828 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I need to try swype, but I bought the Droid 3 specifically for the tactile keyboard. My big thing is that I don't look at the keyboard while I'm inputting, and I have yet to see a non-tactile method that can accommodate that.
§ ita § - Sep 13, 2011 4:12:08 pm PDT #17829 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have yet to see a non-tactile method that can accommodate that.
I've found I can look away when I Swype, FWIW. I know about where all the letters are, and you don't have to hit all the right ones to get the word.
I don't know what to say if you had a 50% failure rate--right off the bat I was in the high 90s. If it doesn't work for your fingers, it doesn't work. But there's been no incentive for me to learn to tap type with regularity, especially on a small keyboard. My accuracy was higher from sentence one.