Is TextAmerica good enough for a desktop contest?

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Published Thursday, April 01, 2004 5:57 PM by RoyOsherove
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Thursday, April 01, 2004 2:37 PM by Darrell

# re: Is TextAmerica good enough for a desktop contest?

Can the description include a link? If people really wanted to show off something that you can't see well, maybe they could post a link to their blog or somewhere that will host a full-size image?
Thursday, April 01, 2004 3:11 PM by AndrewSeven

# re: Is TextAmerica good enough for a desktop contest?

Just to confirm, does your friend really type like that?
Is it query or some Dvorak layout?


http://weblogs.asp.net/andrewseven/articles/Ramblings.aspx
Thursday, April 01, 2004 3:31 PM by Roy Osherove

# re: Is TextAmerica good enough for a desktop contest?

Darrell: yes, it can.
Andrew: yes he actually types pretty fast on that sucker. in 2 languages!
Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:20 PM by Avner Kashtan

# re: Is TextAmerica good enough for a desktop contest?

Andrew: It's a normal Qwerty-layout keyboard, only with most of the keys removed, and some strategically misplaced. :)

I've grown a somewhat symbiotic relationship with that keyboard. It doesn't have any of those new-fangled Windows keys, but hey - when you can load the task manager (CTRL-SHIFT-ESC) using a single karate-chop on the side of the keyboard, you know you've found the keyboard for you. :)
Thursday, April 01, 2004 7:52 PM by Damian

# re: Is TextAmerica good enough for a desktop contest?

Here is a thought, why not use nGallery ? It's developed by people in the weblogs.asp.net community so it might be a nice way to showcase it to a few more people.
Friday, April 02, 2004 10:25 AM by TA

# re: Is TextAmerica good enough for a desktop contest?

http://mydesk.textamerica.com
Monday, May 03, 2004 12:25 PM by Concerned

# re: Is TextAmerica good enough for a desktop contest?

Another thing to keep in mind is their TOS :

http://www.firepile.com/log/archives/000065.html

If you want to keep the option of having any commercial ownership of the work after the contest is over, textamerica will not allow that.
Saturday, May 08, 2004 5:39 PM by Shawn Honnick

# re: Is TextAmerica good enough for a desktop contest?

Wow, that last most is simply not true. I can't help but wonder if people only read blogs or actually research what is published on them. Our TOS was modified like six months ago on this. One post on "boingboing" has created some kind of virtual army of anti-commercial blog nazi's / textamerica.com haters. Anyway, TA claims no commercial ownership over YOUR pictures (contrary to the virtual propaganda).