If I am going to carry around a mandbag it has to be a full-sized laptop. The thing that does truly amaze me is the movement from a keyboard with a conventional spellchecker to this ghastly thing called predictive text. In other words the computer guesses the word you want to write and writes it, making you look a total plonkner.
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Sunday 1 January 2012
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If I am going to carry around a mandbag it has to be a full-sized laptop. The thing that does truly amaze me is the movement from a keyboard with a conventional spellchecker to this ghastly thing called predictive text. In other words the computer guesses the word you want to write and writes it, making you look a total plonkner.
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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
Up from 52 to 21 in a month!
ReplyDeleteOnly ever used predictive text once with my mobile phone where it was the default setting. Never again...
James with 72 comments on your last post I am surprised you haven’t gone right off the scale.
ReplyDeleteWith the predictive text and all that, the irritating thing is my old Windows Mobile operating system phone handled text better than any other I have come across. Think it was 6.1 the later versions are not so good.
The folding keyboard is definitely the way to go if you touch type and have large fingers, finding the right app and configuring it to Android is a bit of a nightmare.
I think the best thing about android is that it’s a free for all and the worst thing about android is that it’s a free for all.