Tag: TYPING

Finding a really good free text replacement/expander app for Windows isn't an easy task. Yes, AutoHotKey is an excellent program, but it's not a good fit for people who don't enjoy hacking plain text configuration files. Breevy is an extremely nice GUI app, but it's shareware. Auspex -- developed as part of NANY 2011 at Donationcoder -- might be the free program we've been waiting for. The ...

Text entry on a small screen is a formidable problem; as can be expected, there are a ton of competing solutions, with Swype (and Swype-like keyboards, such as SlideIT) getting a lot of attention. 8pen takes a completely different tack to the keyboard problem, by eliminating it altogether. To paraphrase Bob Marley, "no keyboard, no cry." According to 8pen, by drawing "natural" gestures on your ...

Ever finished firing off a lengthy email and wondered, "Dang, I wish I knew how many WPM that was"? No, me either. But still, as a guy who writes a lot and often gets asked by people how fast I can type I just may give Typing Speed Monitor for Google Chrome a try and see what it tells me. Install the extension and it takes residence in your browser actions area. As you type, it'll record your ...

Ever wish you could leverage the power of Google Suggest anywhere? I'm going to guess no, but still -- autocompletion is a thing of beauty when it works well. It can be a real time saver, too, especially for computer users whose keyboarding speed is less-than-blinding. Those users might want to check out Google Scribe, a slick new Labs offering that brings Google's suggestion magic to any ...

If you're a fan of life hacks of any kind and you can't touch-type, you're wasting your time. Just like the best current upgrade you can give your computer in terms of overall speed improvement is a solid-state drive, the best overall speed improvement you can give yourself when it comes to the time you spend on a computer is the ability to touch-type. I'm not kidding, and if you're skeptical I ...

Key Hero is an online typing test implemented in Flash. It's very, very good, and very addictive. You'll be given an assortment of texts -- all from known books or films, and all quite nice to read. You hit Start, and it then waits for your first keystroke. Once you start typing, the timer kicks in. When you make a mistake, it beeps and turns red. You fix it, and continue. At the end your overall ...

Typing on the iPhone is one of those things that even the most die-hard of Apple fans will often admit to hating. It may be the most accurate out there in terms of touchscreen performance, but it's still a tiny touchscreen. That's where textRace comes in. As the newest app from textPlus, it might actually help some iPhone owners -- new and experienced alike -- to build their touch-typing ...

If you do a lot of typing on your computer, you owe it to yourself to install a good text expander. You type a couple of characters, and you get a whole phrase. It's a fantastic way to increase your productivity and reduce repetitive typing (except for your abbreviations, of course). For those of you using Google Chrome, there's a slick new extension which puts a text expander right inside your ...

If you're looking or an easy way to increase your touch-typing speed, head over to Klava. Klava's a free, online touch-typing tester that delivers a never-ending stream of words in patterns that help you focus on the most troublesome letter combinations, increasing your overall typing speed. The tool offers a few different word sets including standard and advanced English, and even a few ...

Do you remember how great it felt to switch from T9 to a full qwerty keyboard on your phone? No more laborious multiple taps just to get one letter! Well, the developers of an app called Swype are hoping you'll get the same feeling when you compare their product to the software keyboard on your Android device. Swype brings a new way of typing to Android phones: instead of tapping each letter, you ...

One thing about laptops that drives a lot of my customers nuts is the touchpad. If I had a nickel for every time someone brought a laptop in complaining that their mouse pointer suddenly jumped somewhere else on the screen and messed up their typing, I'd have at least $10.15. Hey, I'm in a small town - that would nearly count as an epidemic. TouchFreeze is a tiny, open source program ...

So you think you can type fast, eh? Not soooooooo fast. Here comes Fast140. What is it you ask? Well, it recycles tweets from Twitter and turns them into a speed typing game. No longer will you be testing your speed to mundane and correctly spelled sentences like "The dog ran quickly.", now you get stuck with winners like the one pictured above. Uhhh, I'm sorry what? I have to ...

Few things are as frustrating as having to repeat yourself over, and over, and over - like typing the same thing all the time. It's a pain in the butt. Fortunately, KA Type In is the hemorrhoid relief you've been looking for! Here's what we like about it: 1) it's under 1MB to download 2) it has a portable mode 3) it's free 4) it's easy to use...and last, but certainly not least, 5) it's a ...

You probably think you're hot stuff because you can type 90+ words per minute. But how well do you perform when you've got a couple of other speed typists hot on your heels? While competitive typing isn't likely to hit the Olympics, or even ESPN2 anytime soon, TypeRacer is an online game that makes typing speed tests a bit more interesting by letting you see how your skills stack up against ...

Have you ever wished for a way to practice typing so that you may become a more efficient and capable keyboard jockey? Typing at the "speed of thought," perhaps? Well so did we, but we also didn't want to bother downloading anything so that we could achieve this fickle daydream of ours. Enter Keybr, the flash based type instructor you've been waiting for. Keybr is very straight-forward, and ...