The iPad’s keyboard software is probably the best input tool for touch interfaces. It is clean, responsive, and just has enough size to be a good tap target. It is not a surprise to see an experienced user type as fast on the iPad as on the keyboard. That said, the typing experience can still [...]
Try out an audio playground. AudioSauna is a lot of things – recording software, a digital synthesizer, a series of filters and a sequencer. All of this and more runs entirely from your browser, meaning anyone can have access to these tools from any computer. It’s remarkable how well this software works – set your [...]
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 [...]
One of Android Jellybean’s touted incremental features is a better predictive keyboard. And now you can get it as an app made available by Beansoft. This new keyboard lets you experience typing on a Jellybean OS without having to upgrade your Android Phone. In addition to predictive input, you also get the design modifications that [...]
People who are used to keyboard layouts of their own native languages find it extremely problematic to use keyboards of other layouts. While this problem can be easily resolved by accessing your Control Panel settings, not all users have those setting adjustment privileges. For them, an extension called “Google Input Tools” will be an excellent [...]
Using phonetic alphabets to type words is not an easy task. Finding the right alphabets to copy and then paste in your text editor can be a very time-consuming thing to do. Thankfully there is a web service, i2speak, that makes this job much easier. i2speak is a free to use web service that lets [...]
Is your keyboard not working? Are you using a public computer and not want a keylogger to store your keystrokes? In either case, you want to be able to type without actually using the keyboard. This is something that can be easily done using i2type. i2type is a product by SciWeavers. This free to use [...]
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, [...]
The Android keyboard is usually pretty efficient but if you have to type a large chunk of text then it can be tiresome. ShareKeyboard is a free app that connects your computer keyboard to your Android device via Wi-Fi. Once the app is installed on your Android phone, you will receive a web path that you can [...]
RemoteDroid is a cool app that turns your Android phone into a wireless mouse and keyboard that can be used with any computer running Windows, Mac or Linux. The app lets you use your Android screen as a mouse with a touchpad and displays two buttons that can be used as left-click and right-click mouse [...]
If your desktop mouse or laptop touchpad stops working, you are unable to move the mouse pointer on screen. You could control the mouse pointer through your keyboard by enabling the Windows native MouseKeys feature. However MouseKeys makes use of the numeric pad, something usually missing from laptops. Instead of MouseKeys, Windows users should opt [...]
If you’re living in one of European states or often communicate with people in languages other than English, chances are you often need to send someone text using foreign language characters (accents, umlauts etc). Often you need to install a language pack in order to be able to type messages in other languages. TypeIt can [...]
LifeType is a web based utility that provides with an interactive multilingual keyboard using which you can type in more than 50 foreign languages. Additionally it allows to search the typed text on Google, Wikipedia, and other resources without leaving the website. To enter the letters you can either use virtual online keyboard or your own keyboard. [...]
MagicTyper is a handy website that allows you to type text in Hebrew, Russian, Greek, Urdu, Persian and Arabic using your standard QWERTY english keyboard. MagicTyper maps the language of your choice onto your keyboard layout and provides you with a text field in your browser where you can type in the text using the [...]
Gate2Home is a website where you can view and use online keyboards in any language and layout. It allows you to type in your own language from wherever you are, regardless of the keyboard at hand. Want to type in German? Maybe Arabic ? No problem, simply choose the keyboard language you want and Gate2Home [...]
Virtual keyboard and a simple training tool to practice your touch typing skills. Go to keybr.com, select your keyboard layout and you’re good to go. Features No registration or sign up is required. See typing charts: typing speed, number of errors, top speed, average speed, etc. Supported keyboard layouts: US, US (Dvorak), and UK. Supported [...]