12-23-2003, 09:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Decuma: Handwriting SIP, Now For Pocket PCs
"Decuma OnSpot is a new concept for handwritten input, modeled closely to actual writing with pen on paper. A single input area is used for writing and presenting recognized letters and for editing the text. This makes input natural and fast, and allows you to focus on the content rather than the writing. You don't have to learn or adjust to a certain writing style or learn a special alphabet. Uppercase and lowercase characters, digits, punctuation marks and special symbols, as well as accented characters, can be mixed in the same input mode."
We talked about this technology over a year ago, but it came out for Pocket PCs just last week. I've never played with it before, but the above image makes it look like a very promising form of input. You can get more information on their homepage. They're also offering a $5 discount special until the end of this year. [Affiliate link]
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12-23-2003, 09:17 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 797
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Initial impression:
IT'S ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!
I'll play with it more tonight and give a more, er, unbiased review of it later, but so far it's absolutley amazing...
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12-23-2003, 09:19 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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Very neat  but I'm getting an internal server error on that Handango page...anyone find the right url?
Code:
HTTP 500 - Internal server error
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12-23-2003, 09:21 PM
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12-23-2003, 09:24 PM
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12-23-2003, 09:37 PM
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Editor Emeritus
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OK, I tweaked the URL -- hopefully that fixes it. Strangely enough, the original URL works just fine for me...
--janak
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12-23-2003, 09:41 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
OK, I tweaked the URL -- hopefully that fixes it. Strangely enough, the original URL works just fine for me... |
Yeah, very strange...I was IMing a friend who visits this site and he could visit it fine too...things like that have happened a lot recently lol, good thing I'm building a new compter on Thursday
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12-23-2003, 10:06 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 22
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I have to agree with the consensus so far. Decuma OnThe Spot is a very unique and effective SIP. I have finally put my (2-yr) Block Recognizer (and 6-yr Graffiti) habit to rest :lol:
If only they could develop Greek Alphabet input in addition to Latin (since I'm Greek) I'd be ecstatic 8O
Worth the price of admission IMHO
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12-23-2003, 10:09 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 601
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I was very intrigued by Decuma when I tried it on the Sony UX-50. My only knock on it was that it took up too much screen real estate. Have to give it a test drive on the PPC!
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12-23-2003, 10:10 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 6
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from a Clie user
When I was using my Clie NX80 as my main PDA, Decuma (which is natively installed) has become my favorite text input tool. Now that I am using a UX, I'm using the keyboard more often. I still use decuma once in a while when in tablet mode.
It's good to know that it's now on PPC. I hope you guys enjoy Decuma as much as I do.
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