http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/stowaway2-review.html

and

http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/stowaway-review.html

Julie

On the III/VII/m100 keyboard, aren't supposed to just let the support thing spring up, instead of pushing it down? Maybe Palm redid it a bit with the Palm Portable Keyboard for III/VII/m100 I have.

Since then, I have written my own backup script and do a backup of the entire message base every day.

The Palm III series version will work perfectly with the HandEra.

Have u found the same problem

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Originally posted by Darren B.:
Agree with reveiw. However, I find that keyboard will not to type on the net (Eg using AOL instant messenger), ie when a network connexion is active.

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What device are you using with the keyboard, and how do you have the network connection set up?

The connection is very secure and the pop-out stand holds it at the right angle. The characters appear on screen with a small lag, about 1 or 2 seconds between typing the end of a sentence and the full stop appearing on screen. But, not having seen the PalmIII version of the driver in action, I wouldn't know if that is significantly faster. It is still a vast improvement on Graffiti (at which I consider myself to be a bit of a whizz ;-) or even what I recall of a demo of the GoType I tried in 1999. I love the feel of the keyboard - the closest comparison I can think of are the old Powerbook keyboards. Nowhere near as good as my 1997-vintage ThinkPad but it feels much less fragile than those horrible iBooks. A great piece of kit, but why did they screw up the compatibility list? It's not as if they just forgot to test it before having the associated media printed as pre-PalmIII compatibility is even a question on the FAQ page of the shrink-wrapped manual!!! Fat lot of good that is when you are thinking about buying it.

One suggestion I have for anyone out there with the talent to write PalmOS software: how about a driver that uses the half keyboard concept (http://www.halfkeyboard.com/) on the left half of a folding keyboard? That might be a good emergency fix for the problem of needing a flat surface to type on.

Thanks again for your help, and for providing a very useful website :-))

This keyboard isn't as useful as I'd like, given that you can't select entries. Having to pick up and put down the stylus all the time really cuts down on efficiency, it's worse than using a mouse.

There's a new driver that will allow you to pop up a cursor you can use to select entries, menu items, etc.

i read your previous and was just going to say i have 3rd party software that provides this functionality by asigning a number to menu items but your solution is much better and a great reminder to check back regularly that you have the latest driver for ALL your hardware.

now in return may i suggest you have a look at pop! hack from http://digitalglyph.com/

if not may i suggest that you give it a try. it stores your favourite words, phrases or whole paragraphs (and perhaps most usefuly <todays date> in a choice of formats) all accessible very easily from a pop-up menu. although it takes more than one tap to select the text you want to enter it is still very quick i use it frequently to enter the names of people work with and it saves me lots of time and more impotantly irritation.

unfortunately it's utterly brilliantly useful but needs the stylus and can't be operated from the keyboard - unless you know different!! - i'm just off to look for new version that does!!

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Originally posted by mpermann:
Hooray! I was wrong!

There's a new driver that will allow you to pop up a cursor you can use to select entries, menu items, etc.

http://www.thinkoutside.com/support/index.html

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