23 July 2010

Blogging to go

Posted by BaBa under: Geek Stuff - Technology .

Well this is a geek post. I am using WordPress Mobile on the iPhone and am using a new iPhone 4. I just got mine today. I am typing this using a new Palm folding bluetooth keyboard. It is so much more user friendly than the onscreen keyboard.

The palm keyboard is not technology. It came out right at the end of the palm pda phase of palm’s business. It works great with the iPhone. They are hard to find and can be pricey. The price has more than doubled since the fall. I got mine for less than $50 when the going rate is close to $100.

I used to use the Palm PDA and an infrared keyboard back in the day as they now say. It was my constant travel companion. I used it to write posts about our travels throughout China. Because of weight restrictions on that flight, I did not even take a laptop. The year before, I remember using it to write as I bumped along in a bus all over Morocco. When my last Palm died, I got my first iPhone. I could do almost everything with the iPhone that I could with my old Palm. This began a Love/Hate relationship with my iPhone. I loved what I could do and the apps and tools. I hated the onscreen keyboard as I knew that there was a much better solution. I waited and waited for Apple to free the iPhone of this onscreen input. The onscreen keyboard was great for texting (something I don’t do). It was also OK for short two sentence replies to email, but for anything more it was just frustrating.

I am really glad to have my keyboard back. It will make blogging easier and allow me to shoot off a quick email now and again. I can now really love my phone as I can do all the tasks with it that I previously did. I am looking forward to using some of the new phone features as well including a zoom feature in the onboard camera and a much higher resolution 5 mega pixels. I find more and more that I reach for the phone to catch that quick shot when I don’t have MaMa’s little camera with us.

It only takes a few little things to make this geek happy when technology actually saves you time and makes task easier

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