Irish serial entrepreneur Pat Phelan has hit another home run with his Twitterfone service, which allows users to record a voice mail, have it converted to text and posted to their Twitter accounts. Pat kindly offered to set up a phone number for me to call in NZ, and while it took about a week for his technicians to work out a caller-ID glitch, but it now seems to work beautifully. Here is the first Twitterfone call from Aotearoa, and how it showed up on Twitter about 2 minutes later. If you’re on Facebook, consider joining the Twitterfone group. If…
“Why Two Hawaiian Keyboards?”
I frequently get asked the questions, “Why do we need two different Hawaiian keyboards?” and “What is the difference between the Papa Pihi HI and Hawaiian keyboards on the Mac?”. Good questions. There are two different ways to represent the ?okina and kahak? on your computer, and they use two different font technologies. Therefore, we have created two different keyboard layouts. The first keyboard, the Papa Pihi HI uses the “HI” fonts standard developed by Hale Kuamo?o in the early 1990s. Until the development of the Unicode standard and its implementation by software vendors the only way to have the…