Re: Touchscreen based keyboard for laptop

We must all know about the difficulty of humankind to do any re- 
learning. Dvorakists know better than anyone. Specially if you have to  
stop an activity that you do and rely on everyday or almost.

Speaking of touch screens - I just procured a 3G iPhone from one of my  
friends. I bought the Dvorak keylayout for it but it only works when  
the app is open, which means you basically cannot use it.     I have  
the software 4.1 & noticed that Dvorak is listed in the Keyboard area.  
I found this actually right away. But it says "hardware Dvorak" I  
don't even know why or what they mean but it doesn't do anything. Does  
anyone know how to use dvorak exclusively, on the iPhone? It seems  
foolish to be listed there but unable to do anything.

I also will use this phone out of the country, India. So I am only  
going to use it "unlocked" or jailbroken. Did anyone have success with  
this. Especially in iOS 4.1? Even when I return to the USA I'm not  
going to sign any contracts or pay for unlimited service. I need a  
plan that allows me to turn off or on the service as I like. I already  
have plans for that avenue but first it will have to be unlocked.

I know if anyone out there knows how to do these things the people on  
this forum will know too.

Paul jj Alix




On Sep 1, 2010, at 7:18 PM, Felipe Barros Corrêa de Oliveira wrote:

> I believe it is just a matter of time Chuck. Technology is evolving  
> toward
> that way, and since screens are becoming more and more the future of
> technology, eventually this alternative options will become available.
>
> What I really think is that we, input devices "thinkers", we should
> concentrate our minds in developing better alternatives to this  
> analogic
> keyboard for data input. Everything they are doing is copying  
> something old
> to something new, and we Dvorak typists know in our own skin the  
> price for
> this decisions humanity takes and how difficult it is to convince  
> someone to
> take a step towards evolution when it requires him to "re-learn"  
> something,
> to face a learning curve. We are in the "border of evolution" in this
> matters, and if we don't come up with something now, probably people  
> will be
> stuck with that same thing (like they are with qwerty).
>
> My best regards,
>
> Felipe
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Chuck Esterbrook <[email protected]
>> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I was just thinking about something like this the other day:
>>
>> Toshiba's dual-touch-screen libretto W100
>> http://yfrog.com/4w9h1xj
>>
>> Now if they can make it totally configurable so I can get dvorak,
>> column based, custom key locations, etc., that would be sweet!
>>
>> Linux compatibility would be nice too.
>>
>> -Chuck
>> --
>> http://chuckesterbrook.com/
>>
>>
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