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OriginalPlus Extended Keyboard for T3, T5 & LifeDrive DIA Skin (English/German/French layout)
OriginalPlus Extended Keyboard for T3, T5 & LifeDrive DIA Skin (English/German/French layout) 1.1

OriginalPlus Extended Keyboard for T3, T5 & LifeDrive DIA Skin (English/German/French layout)
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  Category: Utilities » Launcher Skins, Backdrops & Icons » Tungsten T|3 DIA (Dynamic Input Area) Skins

Date Submitted: February 27, 2004
Last Updated: March 9, 2004

Summary: Enhanced extended keyboard and keypads for T3, T5 & LifeDrive DIA (Dynamic Input Area) skin. And virtual graffiti input area enhancement with additional keypad.
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Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars | Review this application

Features:
 Color Enabled Hi-Res OS5 Compatible


RAM Used:
  • 177KB
  • Minimum Requirements:
  • Palm: Tungsten T|3
  • Palm OS 5.2
  • Resolutions Supported:
  • Palm Hi-Res (320x480)
  • Palm Hi-Res Landscape (320x480)
  • Application Description
    Numeric Keys and Keypad enhancement in keyboards and virtual graffiti input area. It is installed as a DIA (Dynamic Input Area) skin. However, unlike most other skins, this design retains the original look and it is mainly for functional enhancement. It is provided as freeware.

    Requires mySkin (T3, T5 & LifeDrive) or T3AgendaBG (T3) to install and use.

    Features:

    • Numeric Keys and Keypads enhancements for keyboards and virtual graffiti input area.
    • This is not a hack, it is loaded in priority over the original DIA resource file in the ROM. It should be compatible and work seamlessly with most programs.
    • Choice of English (US), German and French Keyboard Layout.
    • Most of the supported character sets/symbols now accessible.
    • Two Tone Keyboard color
    • An area of numeric graffiti input area is maintained next to the keypad to facilitate foreign characters accent and symbol graffiti input.
    • "CTL" command key added in all keyboards and keypads.
    • Status bar dark background removed for a cleaner look.
    • Consistent key buttons position for German and French layout when switching between normal and international keyboards.

    Screen capture from Simulator which does not display the BlueTooth icon.
    The icon is present when installed in your Palm.

    Freeware:
    This is provided as a freeware. But if you like it, you may donate to your favourite charity and drop me a note about it :-)

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    Updated Description:

    • 2005-09-28
      Instruction changes only, for T5 & LifeDrive compatibility using mySkin.
      Programs unchanged.
    • 2004-03-09 v1.1
      Added German and French Layout
      Removed foreign characters from English_US layout
      Added many more symbols from supported character sets
      Added two tone keyboard
      Fixed "ABC" "abc" and "123" icons position to be consistent between all the keyboards.
    • 2004-02-26 v1.01
      Forgot to put in "(" ")" brackets in main portrait keyboard.
      1/4 and 1/2 symbols moved to special "int." keyboard.
      Reduce duplicate characters in special keyboard.
    • 2004-02-25 v1.0

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    Total number of reviews: 6 | See all Customer Reviews
    779 of 1589 people found this review helpful:
     
    21-Nov-05 by Christophe Gai
    I like the French keyboard, found it nowhere else, thanks ! Work well with Palm TX.

    Just one request to the developper : too bad you do not have the @ and . (dot) on the abc keyboard, it would be useful to surf on the internet (I know, Frenc keyboards are this way, but they were designed before the internet). Would it be possible to add these keys (. swapping with ; and @ swapping with "#") ?
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    09-Jun-04 by Dania Olsen
    I´ve using the German Version since three months, and it makes the entering of serial numbers as easy as normal writing on paper. No more switching between numeric- and abc-keyboard, thank god. It´s the most usefull app on my tungsten t3. And it is freeware. This is unbelieveable. So don´t wait, download it!
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    09-May-04 by Tom Alperin
    Just what I was looking for. It would be nice if it also moved Capital letters to the left of lowercase on the 3 zone grafitti area. It's quite difficult to use international characters for lowercase the way Palm set this up and it's more likely that you will enter lower case international characters than uppercase.
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    18-Mar-04 by Benny Crawford
    Excellent addition for my T3! I can now enter many symbols which would otherwise be impossible using the standard Graffiti2 (it does not support many symbol graffiti writing included in the full version of Jot). The numeric keypad in the keyboard makes so much more sense and saves me a lot of tapping. And it is not just a 2 extra tap for switching between keyboards, it is also the change in key button position in different keyboards which takes you an extra second to adapt and slow you down. Now, most commonly used keys are in one keyboard and within reach within a tap or two. This really should be the standard T3 keyboard. The CTL key is also very convenient. I have not experienced any reliability issue, no problem in switching keyboards. I would have paid for this software, and now it's free... what more could I ask for? Highly Recommended.
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    02-Mar-04 by John Mann
    What a terrific add-on for my T3. I always wanted better access to the extended characters. Don't understand why the international characters were added to shift when there is an international button. It would have been better to have shift access to the bullet and the cents sign to name just two and move some of the international stuff to the international keyboard to make room. Too bad it wouldn't be possible to let users customize their own keyboards.
    Also, the alternate keyboards don't always work reliably. For example, pressing the upper or lower case alpha keyboard or numeric keyboard icons at the bottom of the graffiti area doesn't always pop up the keyboards even though the icon does change darkness indicating it was pressed properly.
    But hard to downgrade the app when it is free and does so much. When fixed it will be six star!
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