I've found a couple issues where I should be in input mode with a keyboard, but the keyboard does not appear.
The first instance is when I use Citrix to get at my MS Outlook account. When trying to create a new email or reply to an email, the text box appears but the keyboard will not.
The second instance is when trying to create or reply to a posted message on a college message forum. No keyboard appears.
Kind of maddening.
Searching on the Kindle technical forums, this appears to be a known problem.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
A Favorable Review
The Kindle Fire has received a favorable review from Consumer Reports.
Looks like the price has come down but they charge you extra for the charger. You absolutely need this if you don't have a micro-USB cable to charge from your PC. However, I've seen that charging via a USB cable can be painfully slow. Just sayin'
Here's the article:
Looks like the price has come down but they charge you extra for the charger. You absolutely need this if you don't have a micro-USB cable to charge from your PC. However, I've seen that charging via a USB cable can be painfully slow. Just sayin'
Here's the article:
Friday, February 17, 2012
Apps - Terminal Emulator
I was pretty fired up when I found this Better Terminal Emulator Pro.
A terminal emulator allows you to use Linux commands from command line using the bash shell
Seems that it was modified from the android store but does a pretty decent job.
Some comments:
Keyboard
A lot of standard keys are not available on the Fire, like the control key, pipe | , arrows, etc. There are some workarounds:
You tap once on the screen for the [Ctrl] key. The keyboard must be invoked for this to work.
"pipe" | is control-6
A terminal emulator allows you to use Linux commands from command line using the bash shell
Seems that it was modified from the android store but does a pretty decent job.
Some comments:
Keyboard
A lot of standard keys are not available on the Fire, like the control key, pipe | , arrows, etc. There are some workarounds:
You tap once on the screen for the [Ctrl] key. The keyboard must be invoked for this to work.
"pipe" | is control-6
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tip - A workaround
Sometimes the scroll function doesn't work on a web page.
I've noticed this with yahoo.com repeatedly.
To get around this, expand the screen size and scrolling will work
I've noticed this with yahoo.com repeatedly.
To get around this, expand the screen size and scrolling will work
Friday, January 6, 2012
Opinion
I've been reading TechRepublic.com stuff for about 20 years.
It's original focus was to consolidate grass roots technical information from a variety of contributors in the technical community. It provided value with some pretty good technical information from the diverse group of folks that followed the site.
Tech Republic has migrated to having a couple editors publishing online articles and selling some aggregated technical info, but access remains free. They still allow contributions from the community, but are structured more along the lines of the editorial contributions.
I've found that the Tech Republic editors that write the articles, although they are adequate journalists, are pretty light on practical and technical experience.
A recent article proclaiming that Android tablets are dead in the marketplace seems to be so far from reality that I thought a comment was worthwhile.
As is often the case, the readers commenting on the article offer much better insight on what's happening than the author, in this case, Jason Hiner.
Hiner is obviously an Apple bigot. Apple buyers are fiercely loyal to the apple brand, so much so that they're willing to spend hundreds of dollars more than they would for other products.
Apple has good stuff, don't get me wrong. But in the iPad vs. Fire analysis I conducted, I decided to keep the extra $300 in my own wallet, thank you.
Here's Hiner's article. Again, the user comments at the end provide better insight and rip on Hiner for his perverse lack of insight and analytical skills.
Why Android tablets failed: A postmortem
In this case, I'm happy to observe that "The people have spoken".
It's original focus was to consolidate grass roots technical information from a variety of contributors in the technical community. It provided value with some pretty good technical information from the diverse group of folks that followed the site.
Tech Republic has migrated to having a couple editors publishing online articles and selling some aggregated technical info, but access remains free. They still allow contributions from the community, but are structured more along the lines of the editorial contributions.
I've found that the Tech Republic editors that write the articles, although they are adequate journalists, are pretty light on practical and technical experience.
A recent article proclaiming that Android tablets are dead in the marketplace seems to be so far from reality that I thought a comment was worthwhile.
As is often the case, the readers commenting on the article offer much better insight on what's happening than the author, in this case, Jason Hiner.
Hiner is obviously an Apple bigot. Apple buyers are fiercely loyal to the apple brand, so much so that they're willing to spend hundreds of dollars more than they would for other products.
Apple has good stuff, don't get me wrong. But in the iPad vs. Fire analysis I conducted, I decided to keep the extra $300 in my own wallet, thank you.
Here's Hiner's article. Again, the user comments at the end provide better insight and rip on Hiner for his perverse lack of insight and analytical skills.
Why Android tablets failed: A postmortem
In this case, I'm happy to observe that "The people have spoken".
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