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Thursday, July 04, 2002

Giant-thumbed Mutant

Okay, maybe I'm just into change for the sake of change. (Not that there's anything wrong with that...) Despite the fact that I stopped using my hp pocket keyboard shortly after writing a glowing review back in February, I'm back to thumbing away.

What changed? First off, I finally got Stellarmetric's HPHotKey app to work properly. This little $5 gem adds many of the navigational features I missed before, like access to the Start Menu, Today screen and hardware buttons without using the stylus.

Second, I think I decided, "I own the dang thing, so why not use it?" So far, it's been far more useful to me than earlier in the year, and my typing has been more accurate. Who knows, maybe this will convince me to invest in a SnapNType if I spring for an iPAQ 3900 down the road...