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I like orange soda…

Is it true?

Uh huh. I do I do I do I do-ooh

So, I’m trying out wp2go on my android phone so I can see if posting from my phone is usable. So far it seems to be going well. I honestly don’t understand why people have this thing against on screen keyboards. my old Samsung F-700 “smartphone” had a proper slide out qwerty keyboard and I’m here to tell you that that keyboard was a pain in the arse, it was cramped, the keys swung from unresponsive to hyper responsive, with no happy medium, and getting to unusual characters, say square brackets or less than signs required going through several layers of menues, heaven forbid you want to use a european character say ñ or ø. The android keyboard on the other hand is fast, obviously not as fast as a full sized keyboard, but it’s only 3 inches across, and accuracy is definitely a strong point. I’ve got nice big fat thumbs (easily covering a quarter of the screen) and yet it just works™, with just the occasional typo, and thanks to the T9esque word prediction, even they are caught. Long live the android platform and long live well implemented on screen keyboards.

(Typed on on screen keyboard on HTC Magic)

In the summer of 2007 the Beeb released iPlayer into the wild for those souls (un)lucky enough to be using a Windows OS, this caused quite a stir amongst those people who use a different OS (i.e. Mac or Linux) and so around this time last year auntie gave the rest of us the iPlayer website. Whilst this was a step in the right direction, and a very polished and extremely usable step at that, it always felt as though we (non windows users) were being fobbed off with the web 2.0 equivalent of a hand me down. Read the rest of this entry »