Posts Tagged: pc


19
Nov 07

Predictive text input for PCs

What’s new is old. Cre8txt has made a keyboard for PCs that uses a Bell Keypad-based predictive text input system that is “designed to capture the texting skills that so many young people have and allow those skills to be used to input words onto a computer”.

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Link: cre8txt (creatxt.com, via)


1
Jun 05

Of mobiles and desktops

I see so many articles that talk about the strong-specific vs weak-general device design. Is this really something that’s an interesting question? Or is it just idle talk to fill in the time because people don’t actually know what mobile devices are useful for?

“Tweak the question, though, to ask whether mobile phones will ever eclipse, or replace, the PC, and the issue suddenly becomes controversial. PC proponents say phones are too small and connect too sluggishly to the Internet to become effective at tasks now performed on the luxuriously large screens and keyboards of today’s computers. Fans of the phone respond: just wait.”

Link: Your Next Computer