well? ok, I'm new at this, do you know a better way? maybe that is what is slowing me down.
Give me a hand. Chris. ? ????? t?? Te?? 畫 sa?. ----- Original Message ----- From: "May McDonald" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 12:28 PM Subject: Re: Is the navigation of items on the IPhone as efficient and speedy as everyone says? > Boy that's a lot of work, smile. > On 2009-12-08, at 9:11 AM, Mark Gilland wrote: > >> You are Jes. You need to really learn the jestures. I had the same >> problem >> at first. it's gonna be a beast to type any way you look at it, but, >> don't >> just! flick. that is part of your problem right there. Remember: you >> don't have! to flick. mix flicking with sliding your finger around the >> screen. >> >> Let me give you an example of how you could have sped up the word hello. >> >> You after a while learn where things on the screen are. You know thus, >> that >> the shift key's near the bottom left, not the total bottom left, but near >> the bottom left. You put your finter down there and here a bwoop? bwoop? >> so you move it slightly up. you hear x. ok, well, I know that the shift >> key is two keys to the left of that, so >> >> one finger flick left: Z. >> >> One finger flick left: Shift. >> >> Double tap. >> >> Then I move my finger to the right and a bit up. I hear d. I slide my >> finger to the right a bit. I hear j. Oops? leetle? too far. flick >> left >> one time, one finger. h. perfect! double tap. >> >> now go up and to the left a bit. e. aa, perfect, we landed right onnit. >> double tap. >> >> Now move down and to the right. j. oops, ok, slide my fintger a bit to >> the >> right without picking it up off the screen. k, l. there ya go. double >> tap. then double tap again for a second l. >> >> move on the keyboard near the top and you hear, y. >> >> well we got a ways to go so let's slide to make it quicker. >> u, i, wo wo slow down, we're nearly there. flick once finger right once? >> o. >> >> perfect. >> >> double tap. >> >> There you go. >> >> Done! You just typed hello. >> >> I'm gonna say compared to a qwerty it can take getting used to. I've had >> my >> IPod Touch sense last Saturday, which escentially is an IPhone minus the >> phone and camera, and I only now! am just barely starting to get the hang >> of >> typing. It's gonna take time. One Apple Store visit is not! gonna do >> the >> trick, putting it bluntly. >> >> Don't give up, man, it's gonna take time, but it will come, believe me. >> I'm >> kind of at the point now where it's called I can type fine, but it's like >> arg! I hate this! This is such a pain in the behaunkis. >> >> Chris. >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
