Jolla, Keyboards and Apps

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I’ve been using this Nokia E7 for years and years and years.
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Because it has a physical keyboard. I despise on-screen keyboards, but nobody’s making a modern phone with a physical keyboard. But this year, somebody created a keyboard for the Jolla phone.
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I’ve been testing various apps on various phones the last few weeks, and this is my main testing phone at work — a Samsung Android thing.
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I’m also using an Iphone 5S for testing purposes…
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This is the Jolla phone with the keyboard attached.
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Yes. It’s about the same thickness as three of the Samsung phones.
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But it does run Android apps. Here it’s running the CSID app that I’ve put on Aptoide for easier installation.
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Unfortunately, the keyboard doesn’t really work that well. It drops about a fifth of all the keystrokes, which means that it’s about as bad as an on-screen keyboard.
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So elegant.

Oh, well. The search continues. Meanwhile I’ll just have to keep using my non-smart phone.

My New Concert Blog

I got a new camera!  The Blackmagick one was just too pro for me — no white balance detection, and a 40 minute battery life.  So I got a Panasonic GH4, which is less pro and has a longer battery life:

DSC01901So what does Mir look like with this camera?

The Wild Mans Band @ Mir September 8th 2015

Mir is still as yellow as ever.  I feel tempted to climb up to the roof and swap out some of those filters.

(And the battery ran out, anyway, because I sat like an hour and fiddled with the menus before the concert started…)

Couture: The End

I’m done experimenting with printing t-shirts for this year, at least.  Certain rooms of the apt. are kinda chaotic while I’m printing, so it gets kinda frustrating as the months pass…  And I’ve been busy with other stuff this time, so it’s taken quite a while.

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(MST3K is very important when printing t-shirts.)

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Cheese, too.

Anyway, for the final shirt I wanted to revisit the first design I did this year, but try to do it successfully.  In my previous attempt, I didn’t wash the screen properly, so I got unclear edges.  I think I’ve figured out the solution to that problem now (washing the screen, letting it dry, and wash it again), so I wanted to print a good shirt.

Again, this fine figure of a zebra/man is by Lisa Hanwalt:

DSC01897Gah!  I got some wash-out.

Fine lines are hard.

But I’ve got screen filler and a brush!  Perhaps I can re-draw the lines, even though I’m exceedingly drunk at this point… DSC01898Draw draw and dry dry..

DSC01899That’s a kinda punk rock right arm and a very elegant left arm.  Oh, well.

That’s it.  Time to pack up.