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8/19/2004

Spastic Finger

I got both my palm and my trackball yesterday. I've realised that not having used a trackball in a while has meant I've lost finer control over my finger, therefore giving me a (cue James Bond music) spastic finger. It'll probably be a while before I'm comfortable in the good old days of lazy right arm and finger RSI. I have to say that being cordless doesn't seem to slow the response rate by much, plus the sheer useless novelty of having a cordless device that doesn't ever move is great.

I've realised that I can use my finger on the Palm, instead of the stylus. This is a bad idea, since it puts crap on the screen, but I've done it sometimes when I'm too lazy to pull the stylus out. I guess you can say I have a (cue James Bond music) spastic finger.

I've been writing stuff on my Palm to get used to the Graffiti 2 writing system. It's pretty much like normal, except the o's don't tend to work all the time, and I keep getting my lines too short, so it puts a '.' instead of a space, or an 'l', or whatever. 'h' sometimes becomes 'n', and other simple problems like that, but practising is making me better. In fact, to start with, I'd say I had a (cue James Bond music) spastic... stylus.

damn.
 Comments (2)
Which Palm device do you have? I have the IIIc and a Pocket PC (Toshiba e310). For both I have screen protectors, but you do need to change them from time to time.
 
I have a Tungsten T3. You can probably get a screen protector for it, But if it stops the gliding of the pen, then there's little point.

I'm kinda worried that the ROM isn't writable, and there aren't enough connectors(Just SD and bluetooth, as well as the palm cradle thingy), but it seems like a good choice. It is a sexy, sexy little beast :)
 

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