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` Backtick Character on iPhone / iPad

By grok2 | June 9, 2010

` The iPhone and the iPad (as also the Motorola Droid and all the other Smartphones with their fancy virtual keyboards on the touch screen) do not support all possible keys in their virtual keyboards. A case in point is the backtick character. This makes it a problem when you need to enter the character [...]

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Problem Using Vim on the Motorola Droid

By grok2 | May 13, 2010

I use the excellent ConnectBot SSH client on my Motorola Droid to SSH into Linux/Unix boxen. Subsequently, I make the mistake of using Vim. Once I enter insert mode in Vim, I realize that the Droid keyboard (and probably every other smartphone keyboard) doesn’t have any key representing the Escape key (that is used in [...]

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Smartphones suck when used as phones….

By grok2 | November 9, 2009

Today I bought the Motorola Droid phone and after a few hours of playing around with it, realized that SmartPhones suck at being used as a phone . They have fancy features and Internet access and what have you, but with my old (not-so-smart) phone, I could dial a number that I was used to [...]

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