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 [...]
There are a number of non-Microsoft tools out there that will help you rearrange keyboard keys. Mostly these apps come in handy when you are bugged by the Caps Lock key and want to disable it somehow. However these apps accomplish their purpose by making changes to the Windows registry ““ you do not want [...]
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 [...]
Keitor is an interesting site that offers a useful way to type and search Google in your native language. The homepage of the site lets you activate virtual keyboards for different languages around the world. The list is big and includes languages like Mongolian, Slovenian, Greek etc apart from the other widely spoken languages. Click [...]
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 [...]