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Hi Gang!
Well, it's a slow news day, but I didn't want to neglect my favorite Pocket PC site, so instead of making up news, I thought I'd ask all you swell, good looking folks this:
Do you use a full screen keyboard? If so, which one? I'm curious, because I bought Typango last year, and now a new version is out.
<Here's the hook> - wanna read more? Click on this piece and you'll Seymor on the next post (get it - see more? I crack myself up... )
okay, here's the rest of my post so I didn't clog the front page (I'm sure this will give Brad that warm, fuzzy feeling
I bought Typango last year after reading Rick P's piece - tapa tapa tapa Typango and the digit-al keyboard - or something to that effect. BTW - I still consider that one of the best written reviews I've read. Anyway, he sold me on the puppy, I bought the keyboard, I bought the G2 screen protector because I was smudging the display - heck, I even bought the Truetip styli because he said to in his review!
Fast forward one year later - I hadn't bought a thing on Handango since - so i lost my account password and had a bear of a time getting it back. Actually, I don't even have my account password - instead I have a reference number which lets me download my past purchase - yup, Typango.
I used it a few times, never loved it, never did much with it - and didn't even reinstall it after a hard reset in February. I do have it on my storage card "just in case" but that's like when I don't clean or throw things out so I have "it."
Well, version 3.0 is out. I have tried Full Screen Keyboard (who names these things?) and I MAY have tried kilmist - i just don't remember.
So here I am now, using a different screen protector, and about to install Typango 3 (I'm presently installing a GPS application, and the maps take a long time to install, so I'm writing this rant while waiting for the 40 megs or so to migrate to my storage card).
From other sites, I have seen that Fitaly is the preferred method of text entry, absent of course the wonderful stowaway keyboard. I bought a thumboard, which I used about twice, and am sorry I threw my money away on it (that was before I was a big shot reviewer and have a 50/50 chance of getting a $40 item for free!) - anyway, I've been trying to like Fitaly. I promise. I play Fitaly-letris (boring). I write some things in Fitaly. At a painfully slow clip. Let's face it, I'm a qwerty guy - some 80 - 100 wpm worth - so that 30 wpm on Fitally is a killer for verbose moi.
Typango, if it does what Previsionary and Rick Padgett claim, will at least allow me 45 or so wpm with minimal effort. So far not, but who knows. Maybe 3.0 will be the charm. Maybe one of the other keyboard offerings will fit the bill. Or maybe I'll have to limit myself to hunt and peck on the iPAQ unless I have my trusty stowaway. Will my input always be doomed?
I tried Typango when it first came out and found like my fingers were too big to type anything without hitting more than one key at a time. Haven't tried one lately though, so maybe they are better than version 1.0?
I've been using FSB for over a year now, need to get the upgrade now as well, and I have to say, it's been great for when I've needed a keyboard-esq input method. Tho I use Transcriber almost exclusively, the FSB is excellent for ol' fashioned typing.
Bruanor
Gary, what I am really after is to be able to press the record button on the side and just speak into my PPC and then it automatically transfers this to text.
BTW, Gary, get back to the most fantastic, coolest, hippest place that you have ever made - Gadget Addict !
(free plug for you)
I have tried numerous keyboards; Fitaly, SPB, Typango, etc.
The one program I have found to be amazing it Lexony by Sunorb.
Sadly, they are gone now, but their program lives on!
It is freeware and I am attaching it to this post.
Read both the Word manual and the NFO file.
I'm sure when you try this program, you won't use anything else!
F64club
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