Your standard English keyboard displays English alphabets, numbers, and various non-alphanumeric characters. But these do not cover that special ‘e’ used in Café or various other symbols that are used in mathematical notation. To type these characters you could change the layout of your keyboard from the Control Panel on a Windows computer. But why [...]
In order to make tablets and smartphones more useful, developers are working on improving keyboards for these devices. Fleksy is the newest player in town and was originally designed for visually impaired people. When typing with Fleksy, words will be suggested to you. If you want to use one of those words, simply click on [...]
If you are a web programmer, you know that every programming language has it own language syntax including weird characters and spacing. Now, thanks to Typing.io you can practice typing based on the programming language(s) you use. It includes typing lessons for 14 most popular web programming languages including Ruby on Rails, Javascript jQuery, Scala [...]
If your job involves typing on your computer for any length of time and if you are curious about finding the best app, then you have probably tried out a plethora of text editing applications. You also have learned, by experience, that most text editors that offer a distraction-free interface deliver their promise only to [...]
These days, in order to ensure security for your online accounts, it is normally recommended that you have a very long password, consisting of lower case characters, upper case characters, and special characters including numbers. But how on earth are you supposed to remember all of these passwords without accidently mistyping some of them when [...]
Have you ever started typing, only to find that your mouse cursor has decided to park itself directly over the text you are trying to work with? It always seems to line up perfectly so that you cannot tell if you made a typo, and you have to go back and move it to a [...]
If writing is one of your hobbies then you probably often type up your work on your computer. But the various notifications and distractions from computer applications make it difficult to focus on your writing. PenZen aims to solve that issue. PenZen is a free to use web service that lets you type in a [...]
One area in which the iPad needs to improve is how it lets its users type. People cannot reach all the keys of the virtual keyboard holding the iPad with both hands, so they hold the device with one hand and type with the other ““ a rather slow way to type. Here to solve [...]
Many people find it problematic to type on their touchscreen smartphones. Despite features like auto-completion, error corrections, and predictions, phone owners still spend considerable time typing. 8pen is an app that brings a highly creative solution to Android phone owners. Instead of creating a virtual keyboard that is identical in shape to a physical keyboard, [...]
Normally people have to spend a lot of time with their computers before they can type text quickly and accurately. Even after spending hours typing, some people never get the speed and accuracy they desire. To help you type faster and more accurately, A.I.type uses a different approach than practice. A.I.type is an installable application [...]
We type hundreds or thousands of words each day. TypingSpeedMonitor is a tool that lets you monitor that daily typing and provide intelligent keyboard typing statistics that can not only tell you more about your typing but also help you improve on it. The most basic information this Chrome extension provides is your typing speed. [...]
If you think you are good at typing, put your skills to test with this tool. TypingTest gives you a small piece of text from a popular movie or book and asks you to type it. As you type, the text you have typed accurately turns green but if you make any mistake, the text [...]
Anybody whose work involves computers and meeting deadlines needs to have an above-average typing speed. There are many factors contributing to a fast typing speed. These include correct hand placement, correct finger placement, remembering where all the keys are, and so on. Learning all these things yourself can be quite difficult; instead, you should pay [...]
Touch typing is fast becoming a required skill anywhere you go. It is also a skill that is quickly achieved and can easily increase one’s productivity in front of a computer. Klava is a simple website that lets you test touch typing speed and accuracy online. Unlike other typing tests, this website does not have [...]
LiveTyping is an interesting text recorder that can record text as you type. It records absolutely everything you enter, typos, deleted letters, new versions… etc. When finished typing you can replay and view how exactly you wrote that text. You can also share you text recordings with others by forwarding a link or embedding on [...]