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Thread ID: 74306	2006-11-17 21:53:00	Portable Keyboard Word Processing?	Winston001 (3612)	PC World Chat

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500091	2006-11-17 21:53:00	Just returned from India and it was a wonderful experience. While there I used cyber cafes (not easy to find) to email home. On at least one occassion I lost an hour's painful hunt and peck of careful writing, because a server went down. From then on I composed in Notepad which saved a lot of frustration, and also caused some puzzlement from Indians who wondered why I was sitting at a terminal - offline! Anyway, it occurred to me that it would be a lot quicker to sit in a hotel room, compose email etc, and simply upload it at the cyber cafe later. Can anyone think of a simple device which would do this?	Winston001 (3612)
500092	2006-11-17 22:02:00	Ho Win. No technical advice, but a warm welcome home.	Scouse (83)
500093	2006-11-17 22:06:00	Since you're writing it in notepad, you could just save a text file to a USB flash drive, then take that to the cybercafe and grab it off that.	somebody (208)
500094	2006-11-17 22:26:00	Just returned from India ... .... and simply upload it at the cyber cafe later. Can anyone think of a simple device which would do this? That would depend on the value allocated to "simple", but one of those laser keyboards and a PDA might be portable enough. Something like this sort of thing (http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/).	R2x1 (4628)
500095	2006-11-17 22:51:00	That would depend on the value allocated to "simple", but one of those laser keyboards and a PDA might be portable enough. Something like this sort of thing (http://www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com/). :D :D Very cool and funnily enough I did think about that - but kinda high tech at present for travel.	Winston001 (3612)
500096	2006-11-17 23:00:00	Since you're writing it in notepad, you could just save a text file to a USB flash drive, then take that to the cybercafe and grab it off that . Good suggestion but I didn't have a laptop with me . Had enough weight problems as it was, let alone not having the right plug adaptors for parts of India . Did you know that Indian hotel rooms often only have one plug (TV) and what's more, the power goes off as soon as you leave the room . Trying to charge a camera, cellphone, and camcorder with a borrowed adaptor (which the owner also needed) was just one of many interesting challenges - but lots of fun too . So I used Notepad on the cybercafe PC . I agree with your suggestion - some form of PDA with a fold-out keyboard and USB, plus a flash drive would be ideal .	Winston001 (3612)
500097	2006-11-18 00:01:00	Had a look this morning, my local cyber-cafe does not permit any use of the USB or floppy drives for fear of strange downloads.	Scouse (83)
500098	2006-11-18 00:05:00	Looks like India and Nelson will just have to get a service upgrade. :)	R2x1 (4628)
500099	2006-11-18 00:17:00	Had a look this morning, my local cyber-cafe does not permit any use of the USB or floppy drives for fear of strange downloads . Interesting . One cybercafe was the same - they downloaded my pics from the SD card to a server and networked it to the PC I was using . And then lost the card!!!! But it turned up after a few minutes . Other places had USB on the PCs which I just used without asking .	Winston001 (3612)
500100	2006-11-18 01:07:00	Welcome back, Winston . Naturally we assume there will be pix posted here later - once you're completely unpacked & have told enough traveller's tales to satisfy initial home requests? . For starters - what kind of houses were you building for Indian families? Where? Differences from our styles/materials? Cost compared with here? How big a team? From which countries? I guess that'll do for now . . . Edit: A new thread for it would probably be better . Keyboards don't really convey much exoticism - or not to me, anyway .	Laura (43)
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