So, Vista 'did' serve her purpose, right? as an example of being 'wrong', uh?

Anyhow, I cannot help but keep on stressing that if one is NOT using the shortcuts, you are missing a bunch! I guess this is a computer thing, the shortcuts is very very forgiving, an order of magnitude more forgiving than writing a letter. Partly because the more complicated the pattern (your shortcut graph), the least choice the computer comes up to, so even if it is only remotely similar to the shortcut pattern, it comes up with the correct phrase.

In order to use all 32 shortcuts without forgetting about the patern, one has to come up with some system. Here is how I use it and is very effective.

Say, you are browsing on your pc on iTT and would like to download a link or software to your tablet.

I have a shortcut for,
"http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=".
On the tablet, I open a browser page, script my shortcut and enter the 6 digits for the thread from the PC, i will be right on the page where I want.

How do I remember all 32 shortcuts? I made all my shortcuts using the 1st two digits of the shortcut goals and use script writing to combine them into a pattern. As in the above example, I would script writing "it", as a patern. Script i or script t has been taken, but the combo is not. A couple of more examples,

Fix app manager corruption,
am: dpkg --configure -a

Flexible delay screen shot,
ds: /bin/sh -c 'stamp=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M`; i=1; while [ -f /media/mmc1/shot-$stamp-`printf %02d $i`.png ]; do i=$((i+1)); done; sleep 25; osso-screenshot-tool /media/mmc1/shot-$stamp-`printf %02d $i`.png'
Flexible in a sense, one change the sleeping time to capture the delay shots.

check battery status and output as battery.log text file on mmc1
bs: battery-status -d 30 > /media/mmc1/battery.log &

USB host
uh: echo host > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode

USB unhost/OTG
uu: echo otg > /sys/devices/platform/musb_hdrc/mode

iTT forums,
it: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...wthread.php?t=

To get xmms back after minimize
xm: xmmsctrl main 0 main 1

Remember the computer only has pattern for one alphabet, you should be able to use any combo of 2 or 3 aphabets using script writing as a patern to tie to the shortcuts. The more complicate the patern, the more accurate the shortcuts come up and faster, very counter intuitive. I would have guessed, the more complicate the patern the more difficult for you to reproduce the patern, the more likely it fail. No, aint that interesting?

You got the idea.

Making 32 shortcuts is one thing, to remember all of them without having resort to a list, you need to be systematic.

To summary, as Benson put it nicely, its a mixed bag. There is a learning curve, but I thing it is very rewardable. It is almost like typing on a typrewriter, once you learned it, you have a skill that other tablet user dont have. For me? I am completely sold on HWR, both in programming, xterm, websurf and intense data-entry on gnumeric on a daily basis (I used to do it on PC with x11vnc, not any more ).


bun