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Pros and Cons of PLDT Home Prepaid WiFi

The Pros of PLDT Home Prepaid WIFI by JJD Peterson After getting PLDT Home Prepaid Wifi promo, I've been quite satisfied with their service rates, even with two bars of signal. Right now we're utilizing their 'FAMLOAD 199' promo with 24GB of data for 7 days. The normal promo is 12GB, while a 12GB bonus holiday promo carries some extra life into January, which I hope becomes permanent. However, over the last couple of weeks, I've noticed a bottleneck in the loading process that could alter the user's experience, and even possibly chase away future business. The Cons of PLDT Home Prepaid WIFI myPLDT SMART app fails to communicate with the server For the past two or more weeks of using SMART's PLDT Pre-paid Home WIFI, I've noticed that their app for checking data consumption and registering new Internet promos works half of the time. Many times the Android app gives errors such as "Invalid Phone Number", or "Cannot Reach Server....

Soft Keyboard Design Idea

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This is a soft keyboard design idea My fingers are fairly large and the use of onscreen keyboards has been a little challenging at times. Most onscreen soft keyboards have multiple equal height rows of letters, symbols, and numbers. I noticed in my typing on these soft keyboards, that my error is increased on the lower rows, while on the upper rows the error is decreased. After thinking about it a while, it dawned on me that because my thumbs are wide, the lower rows will need taller heights, while the upper rows will need wider widths. If you notice in the first picture, my thumbs over the lower rows of the keyboard are too large for the height. While in the second picture, with my thumbs in the upper rows, you can see that my thumbs are wider. This is all due to the radial angle of my thumbs, and probably most human thumbs in general. In the upper rows, the error is from side to side buttons being unintentionally tapped, while in the lower rows upper and lower...