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Dasher Available For Mac OS X

Fluffy the Cat writes "Dasher is an innovative predictive text input system that can be driven entirely by the mouse. It's been around for Windows and Linux for a while now, but a beta version for Mac OS X has just been released. Check it out, and take a look at that transparency option in the preferences! Next on the feature list is entering text directly into other applications ..."

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  1. psychiatrolmussagingornamezesewhat! by freshmkr · · Score: 2, Funny

    This software is great! Don't use it for typing, though. Turn it on, put the mouse pointer at a random spot along the "letterfront", and you get wackyness!

    Here's what the philosopher Dasher had to say to me after pondering for about ten minutes:

    nquirb of facingorvinging home called large circlosuggestion with jawshillingsworth aval esearchsetrapsy action by the off and largely birds the ultrypheaf yps beings zero railwallisle was hold causal learn septually the said it said she couldnt psychiatrolmussagingornamezesewhat you quantitle y couldnt qouonsfizmechtenance he has made the chayroch it has impnotter thus maks sugar

    Lost me at "psychiatrol...", but there are some gems in there. Dasher has truly earned its jawshillingsworth in my book!

    --Tom

    1. Re:psychiatrolmussagingornamezesewhat! by udecker · · Score: 3, Funny

      reminds me of the old HWR joke,

      "How many Newton users does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"

      "Foul - There to eat lemons, on rabid chain pudding."

    2. Re:psychiatrolmussagingornamezesewhat! by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

      It can be controlled to a certain extent orsowevels since count of shill combinators were you fly in looked face on the oscillation for the most of the plates seexam question and advice ngelesnepublic cramn, but other than that ik seamstress to work pretty weel.

  2. ah true one handed typing by zephc · · Score: 2, Funny

    i typed this with dasher and it only took ten minutes i guess about the time it takes to wank off though it kind of ruins the concentration oh no where is the punctuation

    --
    "I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.