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{ Monthly Archives } June 2006

Typing URLs on a phone keypad

Typing text on a phone’s “12key” keypad has a different metric than typing on a normal computer keyboard. Typing on a phone comes in two flavors: using predictive input (T9), where you only hit each key corresponding to a letter once, and the word is disambiguated based on a dictionary using repeated key presses to [...]

www-less

Let’s suppose that all the domain names start with “www.”, like “www.name.com”. This means that the leading “www.” doesn’t apport any information (because, as we supposed, every domain has it). You could just as well trasmit your name as “name.com”, knowing that the receiver will automatically add the necessary leading “www.”. I mean that the [...]

Domain Name

After some lenghty deliberation, I settled for the name “javia”. I hope it sounds acceptable in English. The name may come from ‘java’ and ‘via’; anyway, it’s important to be nice-sounding, memorable, and short. I would have liked to get the domain name in the .com TLD. Unfortunately, javia.com is not available, as it is [...]