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Peripherals
Lenovo On The Slow, Painful Evolution Of Keyboards
8:36PM John Herrman | The Lenovo T400 series, aside from its occasional tussles with heavy machinery, doesn’t immediately stand out in the mid-size, high-end laptop crowd. That is, until you try to type on one. More »
Entertainment
Cinema’s Most Dramatic Typing Scenes
6:40AM Mark Wilson | Are you telling me that no one has thought to combine the inherent suspense of a typing scene with the added drama of slow motion? I smell a low-hanging Oscar, Hollywood visual effects artists. More »
Peripherals
KeyRight’s Look & Learning Typing Solution = If Colouring Books and Twister Had a Tech Baby
11:47AM Gizmodo US Edition | Right-pinky to red, left-pointer to sky blue: KeyRight’s Look & Learn Typing Solution takes us back to old-school learning by assigning each of your fingers to a certain set of keys distinguished by colour. This QWERTY keyboard comes with a typing tutor, which helps you become a touch typist through muscle memory, although the rainbow keyboard’s intuitiveness makes this software unnecessary. Plus, dont’cha think learning to type on this keyboard would be a lot more effective than simply being forced to type “a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” a million times over and over and over and over again? Yeah, we do too. [KeyRight via cNet] More »
Software
TouchType Allows for Landscape Writing in iPhone Mail
7:15AM Jesus Diaz | If you are like me and prefer to write in landscape mode in the iPhone, go and download TouchType for just 99 cents at the iTunes App Store. This program will allow you to write your emails faster and with more accuracy than with the smaller portrait keyboard. When are you are done, click a button to send the text to the Mail application, where a new message will be created with your message text. Fill the To and Subject fields and you will be ready to go. [iTunes via TechCrunch] More »
Software
Blindingly Fast Touchscreen Text Entry System Gets a Push By Creator of T9
11:45PM John Mahoney | Everyone who has owned a mobile phone over the last 10 years should at some point pour one out in thanks to Cliff Kushler, one of the inventors of the T9 text entry system that knows you mean “DONKEY” when you type 366539 in an SMS. Now Cliff is smartly shifting his focus on touchscreens with Swype–a way to type blindingly fast on a touchscreen by tracing your finger or stylus over the letters you want without lifting up, connect-the-dots style. It looks frankly amazing in a demo–so amazing that we remembered we’ve seen it somewhere before. Thankfully, it could be heading to the iPhone and Android really, really soon. More »
QOTD
Question of the Day: How Fast Can You Type? (Test Yourself)
7:00AM Sean Fallon | With all of that time spent on the computer, I would imagine that most of you can type at a pretty good clip. Back in elementary school I managed a personal best of 88 WPM (Not that great, but I still had to cheat by working over the same paragraph for an hour or so *shhhhh*). Anyway, I’m curious to know what the average is, so pick the closest figure to your WPM score in the poll after the break. If you don’t know your WPM, take this typing test to find out (set on default: 1 min, Zebra, WPM). Make sure to enter in your net speed figure. More »
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