{"id":740875,"date":"2013-03-07T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=617954"},"modified":"2013-03-07T14:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T19:04:21","slug":"touchpal-a-windows-8-keyboard-that-predicts-swipes-and-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740875","title":{"rendered":"TouchPal: A Windows 8 keyboard that predicts, swipes and types"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TouchPal, a versatile software keyboard long available for Android and iOS devices is now on the big screen: Microsoft Windows 8 computers. On Thursday, CooTek, the company behind the software announced its new Windows 8 touchscreen support.<\/p> <p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchpal.com\/en\/features.html\">free keyboard software is meant to speed up input while also making it easier to type<\/a>, doing so with an on-screen keyboard that can be configured and resized. Word prediction is also a feature. And fans of the Swype keyboard interface used by many mobile keyboards will be happy to see gesture-based typing. You can trace out words by sliding your finger from letter to letter using the TouchPal Curve function:<\/p> <span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='604' height='370' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X2rcVjtUaYE?version=3&#038;rel=1&%23038;fs=1&%23038;showsearch=0&%23038;showinfo=1&%23038;iv_load_policy=1&%23038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/span> <p>There&#8217;s certainly nothing wrong with the default software keyboard that Microsoft includes with Windows 8, but it&#8217;s nice to see some third-party options in the market. 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