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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. victory is mine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    see subject

  2. not fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is not a fp, repeat, not a fp!

  3. I'd rather have this than a palmtop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How can BSD be dying when it has girls like this supporting it? The best Linux can come up with is an obese penguin. What are those Linux people smoking?

    What we need are more free software babes like her. This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. Even this old Unix guru looks like he's having trouble keeping his wang under control when close to such an amazing babe. This girl has to be one of the hottest ever! I can tell you that I'll be installing BSD after catching sight of her!

    Linux will never be able to compete until it ditches the fat arctic birdlife and gets itself a mascot like this little hottie. Let's face it: there's just no way Tux is ever going to compete with the divine Ceren. She is surely the woman of every computer geek's dreams. Wouldn't you kill to get just this close to her.

    Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

  4. Palm pilot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There's one thing I like to do speedily with my palm, and its not entering text.

  5. 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...