{"id":129,"date":"2006-06-09T21:07:26","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T01:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/?p=129"},"modified":"2006-06-09T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T01:07:26","slug":"itos-2006-the-elusive-thumboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2006\/06\/09\/itos-2006-the-elusive-thumboard\/","title":{"rendered":"ITOS 2006 &#8211; The Elusive Thumboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you used the thumb-board (T-Board) yet? It&#8217;s tricky. The idea is that you use the pressure of your thumb or finger, say, in the chat screen and the T-board will pop up. You put in your line of text, then return to the chat screen.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the T-board:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/770b7_the_thumboard.jpg?ssl=1\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/770b7_the_thumboard.jpg','popup','width=747,height=479,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/770b7_the_thumboard-tm.jpg?resize=155%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"100\" width=\"155\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"770B7 The Thumboard\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You control the pressure to activate it in the <strong>Text Input Settings<\/strong> Control Panel:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/770b4_cp_thumboard.jpg?ssl=1\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/770b4_cp_thumboard.jpg','popup','width=754,height=509,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/770b4_cp_thumboard-tm.jpg?resize=148%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" height=\"100\" width=\"148\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"770B4 Cp Thumboard\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You have to mash the screen pretty hard, with the default settings, but it works. Now it makes more sense&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you used the thumb-board (T-Board) yet? It&#8217;s tricky. The idea is that you use the pressure of your thumb or finger, say, in the chat screen and the T-board will pop up. You put in your line of text, then return to the chat screen. Here is the T-board: You control the pressure to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nokia-770","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PE01-25","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127,"url":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2006\/06\/09\/nokia-2006-beta\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":0},"title":"Nokia 2006 Beta","author":"admin","date":"June 9, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Lots of talk on the net about this- and they are all correct- this beta is amazing. 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