Comments on: tejpWriter 3.0 review

By: Tam Hanna

Tam Hanna — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:23:00 +0000

Hi Anson,
please contact thr author of the program, not me!

I just reviewed it, but the author is the one deserving the donation IMHO!

Best regards
Tam Hanna

By: Anson Reynolds

Anson Reynolds — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:25:05 +0000

I have searched long and hard for a fully usable text editor for Treo 650. This is it! Works with SD card flawlessly, unlike my former favorite QED. Capable of inverting by use of _text_ and _background_ color changes, highly usable font changes, a cursor which can be seen at all times. It is surely an improvement over every competitor, including the highly touted word processing programs.

Thank you for your outstanding work. Will you accept a paypal contribution? You deserve it.

Anson Reynolds

By: John DeBay

John DeBay — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:04:04 +0000

Yes, to making tapboard or thumbboard GLOBAL for all applications and replacement to built keyboard…

By: admin

admin — Sat, 06 May 2006 07:40:46 +0000

Now I tested TapeWriter. But I have a problem, when I’m creating a new file and the “New File” dialogue appears, I can’t type a file name. I’m using a TungstenC with built-in keyboard.

Alex

By: Peter Thorstenson

Peter Thorstenson — Mon, 01 May 2006 13:08:08 +0000

It is integrated with tejpWriter. It is not a DA or anything like that. Maybe one day when I have a lot of time.
There exist a thumbboard that you can use. It works on T3 an T3 only it seems. I think the name of the app is “Thumboard” with one “b” although I’m not sure.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 01 May 2006 12:36:21 +0000

So, do I understand that the thumbboard is built in to this software, or is it a separate piece of software that is downloadable? I have been looking for a thumbboard app to try on my T3.

Thanks!

By: Peter Thorstenson

Peter Thorstenson — Mon, 01 May 2006 12:05:20 +0000

I type much faster myself with the thumbboard than with Graffiti, but not as fast as with the external keyboard. It was never meant to substitute the external keyboard, but rather to be a complement. You don’t have to carry your external keyboard with you, and you don’t have to connect it if there isn’t any place to do so. With the thumbboard, you can write anywhere: in the bus, on the train, or on the airplane. Another big advantage is that you can write in complete darkness. I designed it with as few keys as possible, but still with maximum usability. It is possible to type most special characters with combination of two keypresses made within half a second (three keypresses for uppercase). It does, however only have qwerty layout. Maybe I can adapt it to the German and French layouts, but being German or French, you should still be able to use the standard qwerty layout. I hope you will find it useful.

By: Alexander Gratz

Alexander Gratz — Mon, 01 May 2006 11:08:06 +0000

I know several plain-text editors for PalmOS:

SiEd
CardTXT
TexT

TxtMemo
- and TejpWriter.

SiEd was the best one, but then the Ben Roe stopped developing. CardTXT did’t have as much features as SiEd, but later it hat other features like Memo import / export, HiRes+ , …

Now there is TejpWriter. I couldn’t test it yet but the new features look exciting… Tam, could you tell something about the on-screen thumbbard? There is such an app for Zodiac, but this feature looks better. So can you type fast? Does it work, has it all letters, numbers, etc.?

Alex