And there are probably other handwriting keyboards out there
If you find one, can you tell me? My searches have been fruitless--or keep ending up with Asian languages.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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§ ita § - Oct 25, 2013 5:05:58 pm PDT #23213 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
aurelia - Oct 25, 2013 7:59:03 pm PDT #23214 of 25496
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
They should drop the s in Mavericks and do a run of James Garner character names.
Gris - Oct 26, 2013 2:48:45 pm PDT #23215 of 25496
Hey. New board.
I also came up empty on handwriting keyboards. Shame. The graffiti keyboard has potential though -I did like graffiti back in my palm days.
Theodosia - Oct 26, 2013 3:06:26 pm PDT #23216 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I love my Grafiti on my Android. I am less error-prone than with the keyboard virtual or real.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2013 3:31:47 pm PDT #23217 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If the handwriting keyboard did two things, I would love it above rubies--if you could back up to any word and get the options you were given the first time (some times you don't see the error right away, and what you wanted would have been RIGHT THERE), and also if they privileged real words a little higher. If it offers a phrase with five correct words and one garbage, it's often hard to find an option with all six right, even though the sixth word is correct in other choices, they don't have an option where all six are dictionary words.
It does what swiping on any keyboard can't really do--it tries less hard to mush everything into a word, so you have to tap out things not in the dictionary. Which is fair enough.
-t - Oct 27, 2013 5:47:46 am PDT #23218 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Two unrelated questions:
1) Kindle users - is the Paperwhite screen much better than the E-ink? Reading the descriptions on Amazon I'm not sure i get what the difference is, besides price.
2) Anyone have any idea how I can get my Time capsule to back up my laptop again? It keeps saying "An error occurred while creating the backup folder." I tried googling troubleshooting that and nothing I found helped. Perhaps notably, I can't seem to compact the sparsebundle.
My Mini backs up to the same Time Capsule just fine.
javachik - Oct 27, 2013 8:36:28 am PDT #23219 of 25496
Our wings are not tired.
-t, regarding the Paperwhite: yes the screens are different. I found the original kindle great to read on, as e-ink is as easy on my eyes as words on a paper page. The Paperwhite brings its own light source, but it's not backlit the way a computer or iPad is. It's front lit, with adjustable brightness. What it means is that I can read it on an airplane or in restaurants or at the beach or in bed without ever worrying about glare or a reading light source or bothering a bed partner with light being on. I love it.
-t - Oct 27, 2013 8:50:39 am PDT #23220 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ah, thank you!
Jessica - Oct 27, 2013 9:22:44 am PDT #23221 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The Paperwhite screen is awesome - much better contrast than the e-ink Kindles.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2013 10:49:23 am PDT #23222 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I used NFC file transfer yesterday! Not for anything useful, just a test. It required two taps, which I don't know the normality of, and then boom! I had sent pie.
Android Beam is just bluetooth substituting for the pairing? And there's no ongoing relationship between the devices?
I bought Samsung TecTiles because I can't wait for the stuff I mail ordered to come in. These are the sort that stores the commands in the tag, and I don't know if that's why I can't get it working with Tasker. But the default NFC Task Launcher is Tasker-lite. I hope Tasker can read the ones I have coming in.
So far, all I've done is programmed an "I need to drive" program. So I should order that mount....