Re: Layout for Hidden Country Bluetooth Mini-Keyboard [was Re: bluetooth miny keyboard]
Esther, thank you so much! I really appreciate it! Jenifer Gilley email claudas...@gmail.com MSN: claudas...@cox.net - Original Message - From: "Esther" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 6:05 PM Subject: Layout for Hidden Country Bluetooth Mini-Keyboard [was Re: bluetooth miny keyboard] Hi Jenifer, Your question about the layout of the Hidden Country Bluetooth Mini-Keyboard prompted me to search the viphone list archives, since I recall that Geoff Waaler posted the layout for this keyboard. You did, indeed, order a Hidden Country keyboard, since I found that post first. First, I'll just state that if you've managed to pair your Bluetooth keyboard, you can always find out what the keys are by turning on keyboard help mode. Even if you don't know where your Control and Option (or Alt) keys are located, in order to press Control-Option-K to enter this mode, where you'll be told each key and its action by VoiceOver when you press that key or key combination, or even if your keyboard does not have a Control or Option key, it is possible to enter this mode by using the touch screen to navigate to the VoiceOver Practice gestures area in Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver while the keyboard is paired. This has the same effect as entering keyboard help mode with Control-Option-K, and you can leave keyboard help mode by navigating away from the VoiceOver Practice area using touch screen gestures instead of pressing the "escape" key to end this mode. I'll paste in Geoff's post giving the layout of the Bear Motion Bluetooth Mini-Keyboard, which I've copied from the Google Groups web page for the viphone list. I believe this is the brand that you ordered from Hidden Country (or shop.hidcountry,com) at the time, because they were also supplying this keyboard through Amazon. According to my hazy recollection, Geoff ordered this from Amazon, and Andrea ordered hers from Hidden Country, but the layout was the same. I also recall that Ricardo Walker much later did a podcast on the Bear Motion Bluetooth Mini-Keyboard, which turned out to be similar to the layout of the ThinkGeek TK-421 mini-keyboard that I reviewed. If Geoff's description is relevant for your keyboard, which I believe it is, then in order to access the arrow keys you need to press the Fn key together with the a, s, d, or w key. Hopefully, any future searchers will be able to quickly find this information through a Mail Archive search, now that the viphone list has a secondary archive page at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ Geoff's post with the keyboard info appears below my signature. He actually describes the physical layout of the keyboard and where you can switch it on, so this should be better than just giving you a map of keyboard function combinations. Geoff uses "F" to indicate the Fn key in key press combinations. There is both a left Fn key and a right Fn key on the bottom row, so you can use either one in these combinations. HTH. Cheers, Esther From: Geoff Waaler Subject: Bear motion mini BT keyboard helpful hints. Date: Sep 10 2010, 6:52 am Greetings, Esther's recent reference to the escape key reminded me that maybe I can spare a few people the modicum of frustration I experienced locating this. Its great that so many are generous with their time creating podcasts and tutorials, but I'm sure there are many others who abhor time consuming podcasts as much as I when concise instructions will suffice -- honestly reading lists such as this one I often wonder how blind people ever managed to use the bath room, pick their noses or put on clothing before the days of podcasts lasting hours describing every solitary detail, but I digress. I don't know about any other mini keyboards, so the following is only necessarily applicable for the Bare Motion Mini bt keyboard. The link for this product at the US Amazon site is: http://www.amazon.com/Exclusive-offer-Bear-Motion-Smartphone/dp/B003T... Assuming the space bar is toward you, the USB port (used for charging only) is in front of the 3 and the power switch is in front of the 5. The left position (toward the USB port) is power on. The paring button is just above the 8 -- you'll notice a tiny recessed place where you can put a finger nail if you don't bite them. To pair you'd power the keyboard on and go into settings -> general -> bluetooth, and verify that bluetooth is turned on. Remain in that window, and hold down the pair button on the keyboard for a couple seconds. After a few moments the mini keyboard will appear in your Bluetooth settings area. When you double tap, a prompt is presented instructing you to enter a four digit number on the keyboard, followed by the return key. I observed that if I enter control+option+k I hear an announcement such
Layout for Hidden Country Bluetooth Mini-Keyboard [was Re: bluetooth miny keyboard]
Hi Jenifer, Your question about the layout of the Hidden Country Bluetooth Mini-Keyboard prompted me to search the viphone list archives, since I recall that Geoff Waaler posted the layout for this keyboard. You did, indeed, order a Hidden Country keyboard, since I found that post first. First, I'll just state that if you've managed to pair your Bluetooth keyboard, you can always find out what the keys are by turning on keyboard help mode. Even if you don't know where your Control and Option (or Alt) keys are located, in order to press Control-Option-K to enter this mode, where you'll be told each key and its action by VoiceOver when you press that key or key combination, or even if your keyboard does not have a Control or Option key, it is possible to enter this mode by using the touch screen to navigate to the VoiceOver Practice gestures area in Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver while the keyboard is paired. This has the same effect as entering keyboard help mode with Control-Option-K, and you can leave keyboard help mode by navigating away from the VoiceOver Practice area using touch screen gestures instead of pressing the "escape" key to end this mode. I'll paste in Geoff's post giving the layout of the Bear Motion Bluetooth Mini-Keyboard, which I've copied from the Google Groups web page for the viphone list. I believe this is the brand that you ordered from Hidden Country (or shop.hidcountry,com) at the time, because they were also supplying this keyboard through Amazon. According to my hazy recollection, Geoff ordered this from Amazon, and Andrea ordered hers from Hidden Country, but the layout was the same. I also recall that Ricardo Walker much later did a podcast on the Bear Motion Bluetooth Mini-Keyboard, which turned out to be similar to the layout of the ThinkGeek TK-421 mini-keyboard that I reviewed. If Geoff's description is relevant for your keyboard, which I believe it is, then in order to access the arrow keys you need to press the Fn key together with the a, s, d, or w key. Hopefully, any future searchers will be able to quickly find this information through a Mail Archive search, now that the viphone list has a secondary archive page at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ Geoff's post with the keyboard info appears below my signature. He actually describes the physical layout of the keyboard and where you can switch it on, so this should be better than just giving you a map of keyboard function combinations. Geoff uses "F" to indicate the Fn key in key press combinations. There is both a left Fn key and a right Fn key on the bottom row, so you can use either one in these combinations. HTH. Cheers, Esther From: Geoff Waaler Subject: Bear motion mini BT keyboard helpful hints. Date: Sep 10 2010, 6:52 am Greetings, Esther's recent reference to the escape key reminded me that maybe I can spare a few people the modicum of frustration I experienced locating this. Its great that so many are generous with their time creating podcasts and tutorials, but I'm sure there are many others who abhor time consuming podcasts as much as I when concise instructions will suffice -- honestly reading lists such as this one I often wonder how blind people ever managed to use the bath room, pick their noses or put on clothing before the days of podcasts lasting hours describing every solitary detail, but I digress. I don't know about any other mini keyboards, so the following is only necessarily applicable for the Bare Motion Mini bt keyboard. The link for this product at the US Amazon site is: http://www.amazon.com/Exclusive-offer-Bear-Motion-Smartphone/dp/B003T... Assuming the space bar is toward you, the USB port (used for charging only) is in front of the 3 and the power switch is in front of the 5. The left position (toward the USB port) is power on. The paring button is just above the 8 -- you'll notice a tiny recessed place where you can put a finger nail if you don't bite them. To pair you'd power the keyboard on and go into settings -> general -> bluetooth, and verify that bluetooth is turned on. Remain in that window, and hold down the pair button on the keyboard for a couple seconds. After a few moments the mini keyboard will appear in your Bluetooth settings area. When you double tap, a prompt is presented instructing you to enter a four digit number on the keyboard, followed by the return key. I observed that if I enter control+option+k I hear an announcement such as "control", which verifies that keyboard help is indeed turned on. To have VO recognize that I pressed the left and right arrow keys simultaneously I must lock down the function key (function+return) -- I.E function+a+d does not work. There are 49 keys -- four rows of ten and the fifth row consists of only nine keys because the space bar is double width. the layout is as follows. Note: the shifted states of ke
bluetooth miny keyboard
hi all, i have a blue tooth mimmy keyboard i think its from hidden country, but if anyone knows what keyboard this is and can help i would appreciate it. this keyboard does not have marks on the f and j, and is the same size as the i phone. i cant figure out how to use the arrows. anyone knowing what keyboard this is, please kind of give me some assistance with the keys. sorry cant figure out where the qquestion mark or the apostrophe is. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
