{"id":841,"date":"2013-04-11T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/?p=841"},"modified":"2013-04-11T08:13:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T22:13:42","slug":"touchpal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2013\/04\/touchpal\/","title":{"rendered":"TouchPal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the <a href=\"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/2013\/04\/round-two-keyboards-for-ios\/\">two keyboards<\/a> noted yesterday, one costs $5 and the other $0, so you can guess which I&#8217;m testing first\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>TouchPal is a well-regarded alternative keyboard for iOS &amp; Android that features two big improvements over both the stock iOS keyboard and iswipe from what I can see: <\/p>\n<p>1. Curve:<br \/>\n<Img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130411-074117.jpg?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20130411-074117.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nBasically Swype but with the ability to auto-complete words mid-swipe.<\/p>\n<p>2. Prediction:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130411-074421.jpg?w=750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"20130411-074421.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><br \/>\nOnce you start typing, a list of likely-next-words hovers above the keyboard, allowing you to skip typing all together for common phrases.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Curve is proving to be remarkably accurate as far as text entry goes. But after being burned by iswipe, I&#8217;m not yet willing to give it a tick of approval. We&#8217;ll see how it stands up to a week of use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the two keyboards noted yesterday, one costs $5 and the other $0, so you can guess which I&#8217;m testing first\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,40,39,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ios","category-keyboards","category-swype","category-tech","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1RxuW-touchpal","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gearfamily.net\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}