Learning to type has come a long way from banging out rows of f-f-f and j-j-j. So has the intended audience, which has moved from middle schoolers to include children as young as kindergarten. There's ...

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Typing is becoming more important than writing as we use devices more often than pens. If you take too long to respond to DMs, you may need to up your typing game. A quick reply to online messages can ...

Quick: What are the most important apps on your phone when it comes to getting stuff done? If you’re like most people I’ve asked, “the keyboard” probably wasn’t one of the first things that came to ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Swipe it, type it, set a shortcut, grab a dictionary perfect for texting from your favorite sporting event: Typing on new Apple gadgets gets a lot easier with iOS 8. In addition to ...

Typing rarely announces itself, yet it shadows almost everything you do on a screen. It shows up during rushed replies, careful edits, and moments when ideas race ahead of your fingers. Most habits ...

Before Apple opened up its keyboard platform, apps like Swype and SwiftKey already gained quite a bit of traction on Android. And when Apple opened up its keyboard platform to third-party developers ...

There are apps that I don’t want to like, but do. Then there are apps I do want to like, but don’t. The 8pen keyboard, unfortunately, belongs in this latter category. I’m a big fan of innovation and ...

Back in 2014, as part of the iOS 8 software update, Apple gave iPhone owners two related benefits: a greatly improved standard system keyboard featuring QuickType, and the ability to install keyboard ...