I manage the colon by drawing a quick short vertical lines one under another. Frankly. drawing actualy 2 dots don'd seem to work for me at all.
Von meinem iPhone gesendet > Am 23.09.2013 um 09:00 schrieb Cara Quinn <modelc...@gmail.com>: > > Hi Sieghard, > > when I swipe down from a period, I get the number series: > > 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 > > Oh, sorry that was after I drew a circle! lol! Oops… :) > > Anyway, I just figured out that I can get a colon consistently by doing the > following: > > • Do a very small swipe (I did left to right) > > • Do a single tap some distance above it > > YOu can also alternate the very small swipe and tap as to which one you do > first. > > I do mean very small. For some reason this seems to really make a difference > and to me at least, is very helpful in consistently getting the colon. > > Hope this helps! > > Smiles, > > Cara :) > On Sep 22, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > > Hi Cara, > > OK, here is the trick: > > Make sure you hold the phone behind your back, face in a northwesterly > direction and then lift up one leg. Now tap the screen simultaneously with > both pinky fingers 1 and a quarter inches apart and at the same time spin > around in a circle on the one leg you are standing on. It doesn’t even matter > if you stand on your left or right leg, “it just works” *smile*. > > OK, joking aside, following Barbara’s instructions regarding the comma that > is pretty easy now, do a period, a quick swipe down with 2 fingers to select > the comma which is next in the list and then a 2-finger swipe right for a > space. > > Now, one would think a colon is easy and when I practiced in the email body > field and tried various symbols, I was able to do a colon a few times > successfully just by very quickly tapping the screen once, one tap towards > the top and a second tap towards the bottom. I experimented more with this > now and it seems that it is slightly more successful when the two taps are > farther apart, but then again other times I tapped fairly far apart and got a > period every time. > > A Quotation mark seems to be somewhat more consistent, just draw a vertical > line and then once again very quickly draw a second one a bit further to one > side, I don’t think it matters if you draw one and then move right for the > next or vice versa. > > I thought also one should be able to pick the colon from a list just like the > comma. The comma is consistently there if I do a period and then swipe down > once with 2 fingers. However, there are only 5 symbols in this list if I do a > single tap for a period: > > Period > Comma > Semicolon > Apostrophe > Quotation Mark > > I thought Apple did what Fleksy did and grouped similar symbols into groups > so basically you draw one symbol and depending on what you draw you get a > group of 5 or 6 other symbols, for example, draw a Question Mark and get an > exclamation mark, a hyphen, underscore etc. Draw a Dollar sign and get other > currency signs and so on. > > At first it does appear it is like this, but if I repeat something like > writing a word and then drawing a question mark which I can do pretty > consistently, I can swipe down and each time it seems I do this or erase and > type another word followed by a question mark I swipe down to find different > symbols. Only one where there is consistency is with the period, comma, > semicolon, apostrophe and quotation marks. > > Another interesting observation is that if you go to numbers and write a > number, for example a 1, if you then do a 2-finger swipe down you get > seemingly random but repeating numbers and it appears there are always 8 > numbers. For example, I wrote a 1, then I swipe down with 2 fingers > repeatedly and I get this: > > 19587630 > > If I keep on swiping it repeats over and over. Now type a 2 and you get > another 8 digit number, but if you do this on different occasions it appears > you get a different number, e.g. type a 1 and you may not get 19587630 next > time but another 8 digits. > > I wonder if they do offer selections with a 2-finger swipe down, then why not > make it consistent, e.g. you type a 1 and then you swipe down and get 2, 3, > 4,5 etc. > > I think this handwriting feature has great potential and I will inform Rob > from the Today in iOS Podcast about this feature since it does not appear to > be available for sighted users. I think this could and should become > mainstream and Apple needs to develop this into the best and most efficient > handwriting recognition application out there. I bet there might be jailbreak > apps which allow people to use handwriting. > > I am normally fairly good at recognizing patterns and methods behind the > application of stuff, but this does leave me a bit baffled and wondering if > this is something that was implemented but is just not fully thought through > or if I am totally missing something. If Apple can do this, I wonder how long > it will be before braille input on the touch screen is something they adopt > as well, hopefully they approach developers of some of the apps people use > now and like instead of doing it themselves, taking it away from these people > and possibly do it not as good. Same goes for something like Fleksy. > > When you look at all of these apps and technologies like SIRI/voice > recognition or handwriting and then try to see the big picture, there is just > so much potential for super cool stuff and I think there is room for more > “revolutionary” break-through and not only “evolutionary” upgrades. I wonder > what we will discuss in 3 years, 5 years or 10 years. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailingviph...@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by > visitinghttp://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by > emailingviphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailingviphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by > visitinghttp://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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