Swype text entry

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Published on: March 23, 2010

A couple of weeks ago I signed up to beta test a new soft-keyboard for my Android phone.  It looked intriguing as it doesn’t use the standard tap method to enter text.  What you do it swipe across all the letters in the word and it will figure out what you are trying to say.  After a couple of weeks of using it there is no way I’ll go back.  It is fast and accurate.  Here’s a video demonstrating it’s speed.

Windows 7 Fail and Linux OggCamp ad

by ian
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Published on: February 26, 2010

Coolest unboxing ever!!

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Published on: January 6, 2010

I listen to the Linux Outlaws podcast and on a recent episode, Dan was discussing the Nokia n900 that he received for review.  He talked about the cool packaging it came in.  It sounded so cool I had to look it up on youtube.  So here it is.  You can stop at about 3 minutes in.

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