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2005-08-12
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This made me wonder about three things:
1) How easy will it be to install apps? Will each app come with an installer, or will this site be filled with repeating "How do I install X?" posts?
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2005-08-12
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2) Won't we need a backup program? Sure I trust the OS -- as much as any other OS! I need to know I can keep ready-to-reinstall versions of all my apps on that mini-MMC. Is anyone working on a backup program?
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2005-08-18
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2005-08-18
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2005-08-19
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2005-08-19
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This made me wonder about three things:
1) How easy will it be to install apps? Will each app come with an installer, or will this site be filled with repeating "How do I install X?" posts?
2) Won't we need a backup program? Sure I trust the OS -- as much as any other OS! I need to know I can keep ready-to-reinstall versions of all my apps on that mini-MMC. Is anyone working on a backup program?
3) How is text selecting handled? I neglected to try this when I fondled the 770. Now I regret it deeply. This question also applies specifically to the AbiWord WP program too.
This is what I wrote about selecting text under PalmOS vs. PPC at http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=5730 --
3) Selecting Text is Hell!!!
Yes, that deserves three !s, as you will see. This item requires audience participation -- I've been shocked and awed to learn that not every PalmOS device owner knows of this feature.
1) Open Memo Pad.
2) Create a New Memo.
3) Enter this sentence of four words: These are four words.
4) Now, I want you to double-tap on the word "are" to select it -- but do not lift your stylus after the second tap.
5) Now, again without lifting your stylus, slowly slide towards the word "These." Well before you even reach the "e," the entire word "These" should be selected.
6) Now, again without lifting your stylus, slowly slide back over the word "are" and towards "four" and then towards "words." If you did it correctly, those entire words should be selected.
Isn't this how text-handling on any PDA should work -- simply double-tap/drag? With PPC, that doesn't work at all! You have to slideslideslide the stylus across letters, not only praying that you selected what you intended (you usually don't) -- but also hoping that the damned Tap-and-Hold prompt doesn't pop up to interrupt!
And that double-tap/drag text selecting feature you just used in Memo Pad? -- it's built-into PalmOS and works in virtually all applications (ironic exceptions noted here)! In fact, such word selecting, via a keyboard, goes back to the days of dedicated word processors -- well before Microsoft even existed. So how could something so elementary -- so historical and traditional -- have been omitted from Pocket PC? There was even PalmOS to show Microsoft how it's properly done! Didn't they look?
(BTW, I did go on to buy a PPC; that GENIO, for about $60 used off ebay. It sucked. And then it died. The sole thing I liked about it was reading free public-domain ebooks with MS Reader. Plucker and that other reader on the 770 will be better, I'm sure. As well as the ability to read PDF files.)