Palm Pilot Graffiti
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Palm Pilot Graffiti
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Re: Palm Pilot Graffiti
#2Sure bring back old memories, as a former Palm TX user.
I predict that in ten years from now, someone will write something similar concerning gestures in WebOS :)
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Several models of seismic digitizer from a certain manufacturer can be configured by Palm OS devices through their RS-232 connectors. When we received several such digitizers and a Sony CLIÉ, I was surprised to find I still remembered almost all of the Graffiti characters/strokes, despite having not touched my Palm IIIxe in almost a decade.
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#5This is a good example of why software patents are ridiculous. Graffiti is perfectly useful technology - it would be wonderful to have Graffiti on the iPad, in my opinion.
But alas, it cannot be done, because: patents and 'intellectual property'.
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#6I wonder what % of HN readers are totally confused by this? 50%? 75%?
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#7on android you can get graffiti as a keyboard, I wish this was possible on ios
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#8Graffiti was very much a good hack for the time; when you consider how badly Apple screwed up with the handwriting recognition in the first Newton PDAs, it was a neat innovation to sidestep the problem.
I wouldn't like to return to it though; these days, I run Swype (http://www.swype.com/) on my Android phone, which I find to be incredibly quick and easy to enter text with.
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#9This is a good example of why software patents are ridiculous. Graffiti is perfectly useful technology - it would be wonderful to have Graffiti on the iPad, in my opinion. But alas, it cannot be done, because: patents and 'intellectual property'.
There's an Android app that perfectly recreates a Graffiti keyboard as an Android keyboard. Works quite well, you just need a capacitive stylus with most phones now.
I actually loved Graffiti - much faster with it than Swype which is bundled with my Samsung Galaxy SII. Partly that's because I hate the predictive nature - being quite bilingual it's a pain to keep switching languages.
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#10Sure bring back old memories, as a former Palm TX user. I predict that in ten years from now, someone will write something similar concerning gestures in WebOS :)
Sure does. Graffiti destroyed my handwriting totally.