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Ability to actually write characters- like with a stylus

George Miller   May 14th, 2010 3:23p.m.

Hey,

This looks like an awesome program! I really want to forward it to my old Chinese department and a bunch of friends in China. I'm curious though if there's anyway to do this without a mouse in hand?

Iphone app? Ipad app?

Good work changing the world,

George

jww1066   May 14th, 2010 4:20p.m.

The iPhone/iPad don't support Flash, so it's unlikely they'll support Skritter any time soon. Android is supposed to support Flash sometime this year, so that's much more of a possibility.

As for an alternative to a mouse, I assume you saw http://www.skritter.com/wacoms ?

James

Byzanti   May 14th, 2010 4:33p.m.

Wacoms are fantastic.

JanVanderdam   May 15th, 2010 11:38a.m.

I bought the Wacom Bamboo fun here at the Skritter Wacom store and it is awesome! I can use it for other things like marking up docs, touching up photos etc., ...but the most fun is Skritter :) !

马来利   May 22nd, 2010 2:45a.m.

I was reading the post in the topic about really writing Chinese characters - like with a pen, and had not seen the reference mentioned by jww1066.

When I click on the link, I am sent to site to sign up, but I want to see what's in the link before I sign up. Can you help me.

http://www.skritter.com/wacoms

Byzanti   May 22nd, 2010 3:58a.m.

That's just a link to a small Skritter shop with Wacom tablets, eg these things:

http://www.wacom.eu/index2.asp?pid=294&lang=en&spid=1

nick   May 22nd, 2010 9:29a.m.

We aren't allowed to advertise these prices, so that's why you have to have an account to see it--sorry!

Maybe we should just make it so that you can see the page but not the prices if you're not logged in.

podster   May 23rd, 2010 3:19a.m.

I would say that one should have a tablet to get the optimal experience out of Skritter, but I think that would be quite an understatement. I would not even use Skritter if I did not have my Wacom tablet, which I bought for the express purpose of using Skritter.

Lurks   May 25th, 2010 3:21a.m.

Agree. I'd use pen and paper if not for a wacom.

Bosmon   May 29th, 2010 3:46a.m.

On the other hand, you could just get one of THESE -

http://www.studentbuyingguide.com/2007/09/thinkpad-x61-tablet/

It's been an amazing experience today... just in a few hours I have become Scritter-obsessed... and watching my character strokes morph under my fingers :P
My handwriting still looks atrocious when I try to use some real paper, but I think the direct link between pen and image is fighting atrociousness faster :P

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