Key Advantage Typing 1.0

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But Can Apple Take Advantage Of The
Advantage?

But Can Apple Take Advantage Of The
Advantage? 05/31/2004 04:12 AM
Jakob Nielsen: Companies that emphasize a good user interface can get a huge competitive advantage. Apple is really a good example of that.

Joy of Typing

Joy of Typing 08/07/2004 08:44 PM

When I was heavily into physics, I used to enjoy filling up pages after pages of rough white paper with equations using a B2 wood pencil.  I used the B2 pencil because it felt similar to chaulk on blackboard and rough paper made that nice scratching sound as you write on it.  The idea that I could be creative and productive anywhere with nothing more than some paper, a pencil, and some quiet was very attractive to me similar to the way one might feel with a powerful laptop these days.

I have similar feelings about the old IBM buckling spring keyboards, the kind that clicked loudly and pushed back sincerely to every keystroke.  It as lively as the Selectric keyboards but better because I didn't get the feeling that keyboard might bolt out the window any minute like I did while using a Seletric typewriter (maybe it was the lack of that electric 'trembling').

With today's mushy keyboards, typing feels like a chore and boring with my palms never leaving the palm rest.  But with old IBM keyboards, typing felt more exciting, as if I was playing a piano, with my palms bouncing up and down with my fingers coming up for air and diving down again for another bout with the feisty keys.

I missed that feeling so googled and found PCKeyboard .com.  Nice.

Improve your typing with KAT

Improve your typing with KAT 12/02/2003 12:29 AM
Do your fingers trip over themselves when typing e-mails or do they tie into knots when you're in iChat? Mac users suffering from poor typing skills might want to check out Key Advantage Typing from Programming Art.

Typing Trainer

Typing Trainer 08/28/2004 03:12 PM
Unicode

Through the Typing Glass

Through the Typing Glass 07/01/2004 12:22 PM

So you thought the upcoming enhancements to iChat AV sounded cool? Wait until you see Facetop:

Facetop superimposes transparent images of a computer's desktop over video images of the user to allow the user to look at the video and desktop at the same time.

The video shows a ghostly mirror image of the user so that when he points, his video reflection appears to touch objects on the screen. The system tracks fingertip position in the video to allow the user to control the mouse pointer.

Essentially it looks like two users are working with a pane of glass containing the desktop between them. UNC is developing this technology as part of their research into software to aid in pair programming over a distance. Pretty cool. This is possible on OSX right now, but Windows folks will apparently need to wait for Longhorn for the neccesary support.

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Is Typing a Necessary Skill?

Is Typing a Necessary Skill? 08/04/2004 05:17 PM

Speed Typing Test

Speed Typing Test 02/06/2005 03:24 AM
Speed Typing Test v0.5: Initial Release

What is the future of typing in public?

What is the future of typing in public? 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

ETCon is a conference like no other. This is not because of the quality of the speakers but because of the type of audience it gets and the culture that has self-generated around it. One of the most notable features of the ETCon culture is in the near-permanent and overt use of the laptop during sessions. It is not an exaggeration to say that half the people in the auditoria will have a computer open during a keynote. It's not an exaggeration to say that a significant proportion of those people will be multi-tasking enormously - finding a massive variety of ways of interacting with each other around the main topic of discussion.

There will be an IRC channel - co-occupied by (1) the kind of attendees who can't work at home without having fifty windows open on their computer, the TV on with the sound off and loud trance music pounding into their frontal lobes and (2) those poor unfortunate long-distance virtual hecklers who couldn't get out of work or couldn't afford to participate in person who spend half their time trying to work out what's going on and the other half of their time trying to get someone to ask questions on their behalf.

There will be the SubEthaEdit gang (a group I fear I belong to), whose mission will be to attempt to get the clearest transcription of the event in question and who may or may not require the discipline of writing to help them keep everything in their heads. There are a variety of sub-types of SubEthaEditors, including the blind transcribers, the commenters and the newbies. This year I fell into the role of blind transcriber, by dint of being able to type faster than most people. I hoped that other people would amend the notes around the place, and fix any errors I created, but - on the whole - SubEthaEdit this year for me became more of a broadcast experience.

Then there are the people who are surfing the net, or posting direct to their weblogs, or throwing files between each other over iChat or AIM or who are playing with the subject of the talk in question (cf. Ludicorp's piece on Flickr, are actually trying to finish off their own papers or (as I often think might be the case with Cory Doctorow) paying their bills, organising their next speaking gig and knocking out a draft of their latest novel.

All in all then, the experience of ETCon is of a place in which a hell of a lot of people do a hell of a lot of typing.

At ETCon this year, Cory Doctorow did a piece on e-books that I've talked about before. His argument is that e-books can't compete with paper at what paper does best. The DRM'd versions of novels that only allow you to read in a linear fashion - well these aspire to be 'proper' books, but they can't hope to reach that level because of the absence of viscera. E-books simply aren't attractive, engaging, smelly, textural or beautiful objects. This kind of e-book may be portable, but you still can't take it into the bath with you.

But why should e-books be operating only at the level of what paper does best? Why shouldn't they concentrate more on what they can add to the experience. If you give out a plain text version of your novel, then so much more becomes possible that wasn't before - grepping / cutting / selective printing / copy & pasting / running simple scripts against / reading in any platform in any place and at any time / distributing and redistributing. If viewed in this perspective, then the gestalt of the paper book and the e-book is enormously potent. And if you take away the e-book, then the paper book might seem - well, broken.

At ETCon, that's how those of us who are continually backchannelling think the experience of the conference for those without backchannel wifi-enabled social access to the concurrently written-into-existence e-conference must be. Those people who don't engage in the larger conference are having a truncated experience of the event. It's as if they'd decided to walk into a paper with a blindfold on.

I say all of this because I'm aware how odd it can sound. Since my return to the UK I've been to two events - one was ConCon, and there simply weren't enough power-points to allow people to be engaged in any signicant degree of back-channelling. But then the papers were summaries, they were truncations, densely-packed contextualisers that served little purpose other than to inspire questions. ConCon was of a scale where the size and social dynamics of the group meant that back-channelling was simply less necessary. And even here typing went on here and there, unremarked upon, normal.

The other event I've attended was the AIGA UK event at the Design Council where representatives of the BBC spoke. And there a very different dynamic was in place. I was pretty much the only person in the room with an open laptop - trying to take very sparse and occasional notes (given the paucity of power-supplies) - and it became very clear to me very quickly that in a room of roughly 100/150 people, the muffled noise of my very occasional typing was considered to be rude and intrusive. The assumption was that I was doing stuff that was not related to the event concerned, that I was demonstrably not engaging with what was going on and that the open laptop was a direct affront to the spirit of the event. And in the meantime, I wanted to follow up some of the points online, I wanted to explore the issues more fully, I found myself passing my laptop to a neighbour so that he could see what I was thinking about. Much like a book without an e-book, the event seemed a little broken without a backchannel, without wifi. And I seemed to be the only one who noticed.

A couple of years ago I wouldn't have been surprised by this attitude, but after two ETCons it seems vaguely archaic - particularly when surrounded by an apparent fraternity of highly web-literate Londoners. But it's not limited to London - Stewa rt reports going to Infest in Vancouver and discovering an environment in which large numbers of geeks go to a conference and feel absolutely no need to backchannel, no need to have their laptops open, no need to note-take or collaborate or discuss in parallel.

So I wonder to myself which way are we moving. Are we moving more towards a ubiquitous computing presence where laptop note-taking at events and back-channelling are more common than now, where it breaks out of the individual contexts of ETCon and spreads more widely into other geek conferences, discussion-based events or even into work or conversational meetings. Or is this kind of overt back-channelling going to remain the provenance of a very particular clump of conference cultures - perhaps only percolating elsewhere in a more backgrounded, perpetual but less overtly lean-forward kind of way.

In essence what I'm asking is: What is the future of typing in public?

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TypeFaster Typing Tutor

TypeFaster Typing Tutor 04/10/2004 02:05 PM
TypeFaster 0.3 includes a 3d game

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 3.0

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 3.0 05/11/2004 06:23 AM
A touch-typing tutor.

Typing Trainer 1.0rc3

Typing Trainer 1.0rc3 09/06/2004 11:19 PM
Software to exercise typing skills.

Arcade Typing Tutor 1.0

Arcade Typing Tutor 1.0 08/04/2004 04:44 PM
OpenGL arcade typing tutor based on the classic arcade game missile defender.

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 3.0.3

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 3.0.3 03/25/2005 09:38 PM
Makes learning to type easy, with step-by-step instruction.

Cat's Clicks: Tip-Top Typing

Cat's Clicks: Tip-Top Typing 08/03/2004 04:11 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 3 2004 8:19AM GMT

Mac 911: Slowing down typing toddler

Mac 911: Slowing down typing toddler 06/17/2005 04:34 PM
Have a small child who loves to bang on your laptop? Make his access a little less universal with this trick.

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2.4 released

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2.4 released 10/29/2003 12:09 AM
Runtime Revolution today announced that Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2.4 is now available...

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 3.0.3 released

Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 3.0.3 released 03/30/2005 07:38 AM
Runtime Revolution today announced the release of Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 3.0.3, the latest version of its software that helps users learn to touch type...

Introduction to Static and Dynamic
Typing

Introduction to Static and Dynamic
Typing 06/17/2004 11:59 PM
WebmasterBase Jun 18 2004 4:37AM GMT

Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor

Klavaro Touch Typing Tutor 04/12/2005 11:06 PM
First release

"Java?s implementation of static typing
is stupid"

"Java?s implementation of static typing
is stupid" 05/19/2004 12:05 AM

"Adding Optional Static Typing to
Python"

"Adding Optional Static Typing to
Python" 12/25/2004 05:03 PM

Adding Optional Static Typing to Python

Adding Optional Static Typing to Python 12/24/2004 01:09 PM
Adding Optional Static Typing to Python .. written an article

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ProTouch XT protects keyboard but
maintains typing feel

ProTouch XT protects keyboard but
maintains typing feel 07/12/2004 07:13 AM
iSkin Inc. introduced a keyboard protector called ProTouch XT on Friday. ProTouch XT was designed to fit Apple's regular and wireless keyboards in a form-fitting manner that keeps out debris while maintaining the typing feel, in addition to dampening keystroke noise. It can be removed and washed off whenever necessary. The ProTouch XT retails for US$29.99 and comes in blue and transparent colors, with more on the way, according to iSkin. The company also notes that the cover doesn't fit Apple's older Pro keyboard nor its USB keyboard.

Typing tabs and carriage returns into
text areas

Typing tabs and carriage returns into
text areas 12/09/2003 11:00 AM
klieb2000's tip about importing CSV data into AppleWorks mentioned a workaround for typing a tab into a textarea (rather than tabbing to the next control). Instead of copy pasting a tab into the find and replace fields, just ...

Business card scanner can save time,
typing

Business card scanner can save time,
typing 12/18/2003 08:02 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 18 2003 7:44AM ET

Zipkeys, One-click Typing, Released by
Doolicity Innovations

Zipkeys, One-click Typing, Released by
Doolicity Innovations 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
Zipkeys lets users quickly, easily and cost-effectively respond to e-mails, customer service requests, and any other repetitive or redundant task. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2005]

Wi-Fi + 3G = big advantage?

Wi-Fi + 3G = big advantage? 05/05/2004 04:55 PM
Computer Times Asia May 5 2004 9:19PM GMT

- Wi-Fi + 3G = big advantage?

- Wi-Fi + 3G = big advantage? 05/04/2004 09:14 PM
Computer Times Asia May 5 2004 1:20AM GMT

Google's Ph.D. Advantage

Google's Ph.D. Advantage 06/07/2004 10:30 AM

Boeing's Non-Advantage

Boeing's Non-Advantage 04/11/2005 03:00 PM
Boeing won't win any advantages if the WTO decides the current aircraft subsidy dispute between the U.S. and EU.

Apple's Advantage

Apple's Advantage 03/17/2005 03:08 AM

The Mac mini's price may have spurred interest in a Mac, but what really made the Mac a contender was a change in how it is viewed: not as a PC, for working with word processors and databases, but as an appliance for managing all the digital photos and music. By Jason Snell, Macworld

First-mover advantage

First-mover advantage 09/10/2004 01:32 AM
TechTree Sep 10 2004 5:48AM GMT

Use Usability to Best Advantage

Use Usability to Best Advantage 09/13/2002 03:25 AM

HOMEPOD ADVANTAGE (SiliconValley.com)

HOMEPOD ADVANTAGE (SiliconValley.com) 07/07/2004 06:34 AM
SiliconValley.com - The HomePod, the brainchild of Palo Alto's GlooLabs, started off as yet another wireless networking device that allows people to access digital music files on their computers and play them somewhere else in their home.

RSS: Real advantage for marketing and PR

RSS: Real advantage for marketing and PR 08/20/2004 08:18 AM

Neville Hobson on RSS and marketing:

"The new reality is that blogs and RSS present a phenomenal opportunity to any organization to embrace these new communication channels and engage quickly, directly and effectively with customers, investors, partners and other audiences. If you can't start a blog yet, the one thing you should do is RSS-enable the corporate PR and marketing information on your website - and get your press releases out via webfeeds as well as by traditional means."

The advantage that a company gains by

The advantage that a company gains by 09/10/2004 01:32 AM
TechTree Sep 10 2004 5:48AM GMT

Kerry Seeks to Further His Advantage
With N.A.A.C.P.

Kerry Seeks to Further His Advantage
With N.A.A.C.P. 07/15/2004 03:44 PM
Senator John Kerry sought to take political advantage today of President Bush's absence from the N.A.A.C.P. convention.

IT for sustainable competitive advantage

IT for sustainable competitive advantage 04/02/2005 08:32 PM
Express Computer India Apr 3 2005 12:20AM GMT

Taking advantage of those who died on
9/11

Taking advantage of those who died on
9/11 09/03/2004 12:19 PM
Boy, Gov. George Pataki and President Bush sure talked a lot about 9/11 Thursday night. I mean, a lot. A disturbing lot. At some point, for me -- and I think it was when Pataki was still talking -- the whole parading of the Twin Towers attack stopped being about "Look how America rose to the occasion" and started being a kind of porn.
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