Sign Puddle on Mobile Phones

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March 2, 2009

Hello Bill!
Thank you for this message. I should be more educated to hand-held  
devices!

I do not know how SignPuddle works on other hand-helds...Adam, do you  
have a better experience than Bill had with the Sidekick?

In time, these problems will be solved I am sure...Steve has just  
completed a new version of our PocketPuddle and PersonalPuddle  
software that lets us use SignPuddle offline...I wonder if that  
software might be adapted someday to a hand-held? But I have no idea...

We are sooo so fortunate to have this new software that Steve just  
finished and I am updating the manuals now and will announce the new  
product later this week...

Thanks for your message Bill, and for telling people about  
SignWriting...yes...I know that people have not heard of it, but it is  
my hope that when Steve has the MediaWiki Plugin completed for  
SignWriting...that a Wikipedia in ASL might start spreading the word a  
bit more...

We are working toward that goal!

Val ;-)

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On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:12 AM, Bill Reese wrote:

> Valerie,
> My apologies, I almost forgot to answer your question in your  
> email.   You asked if the Sidekick is a hand-held device.  Yes it  
> is.  At one time it was about the only cell device that the deaf  
> used.  Many continue to use them as they are excellent phones for  
> communication - having a superb keyboard and access to instant  
> messages and texting through a data-only plan.   The significant  
> draw-back, though, is they are only available on T-Mobile.
>
> At my monthly coffee socials, students from the local colleges will  
> show up to fulfill contact hours needed for their sign language  
> classes.  I'm often mentioning SignWriting.  They almost always have  
> never heard of it, despite my mentioning it for years now.  Seems  
> the message never gets back to the teachers or they ignore it.   I  
> keep trying and would like to impress them with Signpuddle's  
> dictionary lookup feature - making it applicable to their studies.    
> However, as Signpuddle doesn't fully work on the Sidekick, it's an  
> exercise in futility.
>
> I'd be curious if other devices have the same problem.  Are people  
> with Blackberry phones able to use Signpuddle?
>
> Bill
>
>
> Valerie Sutton wrote:
>> SignWriting List
>> February 28, 2009
>>
>> On Feb 28, 2009, at 6:51 AM, Bill Reese wrote:
>>> I was trying to show someone Sign Puddle on my Sidekick,  
>>> specifically inputting a word in the dictionary lookup to show the  
>>> sign.  When the search concluded, it showed the box for the sign  
>>> and the spelling for the sign, but no sign.   I was curious what  
>>> the difference was between showing the spelling for the sign and  
>>> the sign itself so that one would show but the other wouldn't.
>>
>> Bill -
>> That is not a feature...it sounds like something didn't work well  
>> at that moment and the sign should have shown up and didn't for  
>> some reason...
>>
>> A Sidekick is a hand-held device, is that right? I have never seen  
>> one, but I have heard of them...
>>
>> Somehow the sign did not load into the box...on a desktop computer  
>> I would say that could happen if you are using Internet Explorer,  
>> or if you have a poor internet connection and it didn't load for  
>> some reason...
>>
>> Can you try searching for some more signs to see if the problem  
>> continues with all searches?
>>
>> As far as the SignSpelling Sequence data goes...that is when you  
>> want to sort an entire dictionary, or a vocabulary list, and sort  
>> the list by the symbols in SignWriting....what I call the Sign- 
>> Symbol-Sequence, or the alphabetical order for the SignWriting  
>> Alphabet....When we put in that SignSpelling Sequence data, the  
>> software knows how to sort that one sign within a long list of  
>> signs...
>>
>> You can see sorted signs in SignPuddle, by clicking on the "Search  
>> by Symbol" button and searching for all of the signs in the  
>> dictionary that use a certain symbol...Or click on Symbol Frequency  
>> to get such a listing too...when the list of signs appears from the  
>> search, those signs in that list are sorted by the alphabetical  
>> order of the SignWriting Alphabet ;-))
>>
>> Anyway, regarding the fact that your Sidekick did not display the  
>> sign you searched for...let's ask Steve -
>>
>> Steve - can you inform us what you think happened?...
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
>>
>>
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