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A Better Way to Enter Text On a Palmtop

Posted by timothy on from the cuneiform dept.

DippyOz writes: "Ever wanted to speedily enter text into your palm and hate those 'look ahead' features? Dasher is a research project from Cambridge that presents an innovative way to speed up text entering by predicting and allowing you to choose from a number of choices by flying over them with your stylus (or mouse). There's Linux, Windows and PocketPC versions to download and try."

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  1. Here is the result of trying to write "f@@k" ... by edo-01 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ... in dasher:

    "computerstood seemed to preventury thorough the queen x rays that the poor of cupwells. if one of myfucks believe great for the universiolz"

    I got there in the end but as you can see I had to veer though some backroads to do it...