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Michael Ducker, a Junior High student in Minnesota, takes a different look at the Stowaway keyboard: How it works in the School environment.

http://www.visorcentral.com/page/0-4-81-1-4.htm

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<B>Marcus Adolfsson</B>
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Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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Well, now that the post has been opened (I STILL DON'T HAVE THAT PRILIVIGE).. I can talk.

1) TRUST ME .. This is the LASt of ____ in school, for awhile.. You won't have to suffer any more!

2) What do oyu think.. Any experiences you want t oshare?

3)One note.. I am a teen, this IS also a learning experience for me. Please 'mail me with specific comments, that could help me grow better. (Ps. I'm always open to new products, Beta testing. .reviewws. .etc :-d hehe)( no that makes me sound pathetic..)(hey.. I"m a kid!)

4) I love e-mail.. [email protected] (Well GOOD e-mail.. I don't like having to set up filters to block junk)

more to come.. after commetns start

-miradu2000
P.S. I got my hair buzzed yesterday.. MY HAIR IS NOT LIKE THAT ANYMORE! (I look VERY different)

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good article

Keep up the good work! Very informative. Good job Mike!

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Fat's

Registered: Aug 2000
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GOOD JOB!!!

But I missed your unique spelling in the article .. It didn't seem like a miradu2000 article... Your spelling is your signature trademark!

Overall I liked the article (despite everything being spelled correctly!)

-Eric

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Originally posted by EricG

But I missed your unique spelling in the article .. It didn't seem like a miradu2000 article... Your spelling is your signature trademark!

Overall I liked the article (despite everything being spelled correctly!)

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it's a Michael Ducker article

When I write thines for real, I have ot make sure grammer, and speeling is sorrect. I mean would you like it if al lmy articles on VC look like this post? Think of how VC's reputation could jsut go down the hole instantly because of me! j/k

no.. thanks though..

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Well, I have to admit (and apologize) that the first time I read it, I thought it was kind of dis-jointed, but to be fair, I was getting interrupted a lot and did not focus on what you wrote. I have now read it two more times, and I cannot find any of the criticisms I had earlier. Good job, indeed!

The only thing I can think of, if you are interested in creative criticism and no flames, is that you did have a lot of one and two sentance paragraphs. This is fine in message boards like this, but not so much in an informative article. There are several smaller paragraphs I think would make sense if you combined them a single larger one, to help keep the flow of your thoughts together.

You certainly posess a boldness and initiative in writing and submitting this that I did not when I was your age, and I certainly commend that. Keep up the good work.

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Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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thanx..

GOD AM I POSTING BACK TO EVERYONE WHO POSTS?!?!?! NOO!! SCARY!!

I' mnot tryign to..
I just wanted to say one thing..


The photo's were taken on a camera that died after taken these phtos, and were developed at the worst place.. WALGREENS. I am shocked at how bad they are. My thanks to Jack Dickman, for taking them, and Mrs. Sandstorm, who let me use her room to take them in.

ONE DAY I will have a digital camera.. one day..

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You certainly posess a boldness and initiative in writing and submitting this that I did not when I was your age, and I certainly commend that. Keep up the good work.

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Registered: Aug 2000
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I enjoyed the article and was interested to hear how the Visor can be used in many different environments. Most people think of work uses for PDA's--I am curious whether you bought your Visor THEN figured you could use it for notes or vice versa.

Also, and I may just not be remembering this, but I wondered whether you use other software on the Visor in connection with assignments or due dates. Something like Listmaker for big projects.

Finally, last question, are you interested in journalism? Many years from now I fully expect to read an article in some tech magazine by "Ra, the Sun God," and all VisorCentral-ites will know it's you!

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: South Carolina
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Good job!

Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
Posts: 1429

Cannon,

I did buy my visor for use in school, but I did not know that it would work this well. I just like using todo, becasue than it fits right into datebook+, and works well. I see the days schedule plus todo's all at once. Click here to read the original article on my Visor in School. http://www.visorcentral.com/page/0-4-69-1-4.htm

Journalism is a hard question. I want to end up beign a comptuer engineer, (or something like that) but, Jounrlism is a great Side job, and when oyour 60, and look back at all the technology, you can do that do. As long as VC exists I will be here.

-Ra, the Sun God
ra! ra! rarara!

Registered: Aug 2000
Location: South Carolina
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Mike:
Are your parents technology oriented? I remember my Dad and I used to "work" together on my first computer--a very stylish Atari 400, with a flat keyboard and 16k (we upgraded to a cramped up "real" keyboard and 64k)...of course, we still had to load programs off of a cassette tape and it took FOREVER, until we got our Apple with it's glowing green screen letters and FAINCY disk drive....

But I digress...my point is that people who are exposed to computers younger, tend to keep some gadget/computer curiosity...given your technological bent, I was just wondering if you got it from your parents or developed it yourself.
Kelley

Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
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Somewhat..

Wtarting with Kindergarten, at school we had a DOS comptuer lab, and this reading program. I just followed instructinos and it wasn't really untill I was 8 and in 2nd grade (I htink that works?) that we loaned an old PC-AT from a friend. IT had a word proceesor and we had a printer, and soon, my brother and I were makign a cummunity newspaper (no longer in circulation). It wasn't really untill 3rd grade I really got addicted :-d . I figured out some of the hidden folders of the PCAT and found some games, but realyl it wasn't untill we got our HP (200 mhz MMX pentium.. state of the art) that I got addicted. We got the internet in 4th grade, and I just loved it.

MY dad's a doctor, my mom's my wonderful hardworking loving mom.

We just got my mom a laptop, my dad jeu got a brand new laptop from work, and I, beign fed up wit hthat old HP, built my special machine (Hydrogen, 500 Mhz AMD-K6-2, 129 MB ram, 52x CDROM, a million fans, and stuff)

Now, I'm having fun hacking my hardware, so..

I know a ton for tech support, but IT seems that I'm not as intrested to go look at every little thing in Win. 2000, as I was when I looked at every little thing in 95.

I play with linux, but I haveto admit, I need the software that Windows offers. (mainly IE!)

technicly, the mahcine I'm on has 6 different operating systems, though I only use 1, and rarely other ones. (a 30 igg hd is helpful for this)

but really, my parent's AREN'T TOO techie, my dad just uses it when he eneds to, my mom used to work on old comptuers in the Air Force, but really, it's my curiosity

I have masteredHTML and VB And know enough to make basic stuff in C++, and am workign on PHP, and XML, and etc.

that's my life

-miradu2000
I also write for VC

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Cascade, MD
Posts: 74

This is a wonderful review! If I did not already have - and love - a Stowaway I would run out and buy one now! You covered everything and obviously love your Visor and keyboard! I do hope you will review other products - I will pay attention to your opinions...and I certainly identify with your fondness for exclamation points!

Linda

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