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Use This Keyboard App When Sliding Is Faster Than Typing

One of the great things about the Android system is that it allows you to install a third-party keyboard app so that you can choose the one you like than the default keyboard.

Among the third-party apps, Swiftkey Keyboard stands out to become one of the most popular and excellent keyboards enjoyed by many users.

Whats more, SwiftKey used to charge $3.99 in the Google Play store, but it has come out
with a freemium model that you can now use it for free, with some in-app purchases to get the extras if you ever need.

SwiftKey has many amazing features, especially the SwiftKey Flow. It allows you to input a word by sliding your finger across the keys—just press your finger on the key that starts your word and drag from letter to letter, let go and it magically inputs your word.

                                                              

Imaging if you want to type the word simultaneously, you just need to slide through the keys s, i, m, u and l then lift your finger to complete the word.

Even better, you can also input words or phrases without lifting your finger—do this by sliding down to the space bar between words. You will love this when you feel sliding across the keyboard is at any rate faster than touch-typing.

Using this app, you can also press and hold the comma key to briefly switch over to the Google Voice input before turning back.

SwiftKey is equipped with various customization tools including keyboard themes, language selection, keyboard layout, input methods, emoji prediction and more.

With the SwiftKey Cloud built in, you can backup and sync your settings between devices, teach SwiftKey your writing style from other social applications and add trending phrases to your dictionary too.

Give this outstanding keyboard app a try if speed matters to you.

Tips on using this app: After installation, this app guides you to enable SwiftKey in Language and Input settings. When you do so, the Android system will prompt you this message: "This input method may be able to collect all the text you type, including personal data like passwords and credit card numbers. It comes from the app SwiftKey..." This is a standard message from the system to caution you whenever you enable any third party keyboard app. If you decide to switch back to your default keyboard after enabling it, go to Settings > Language & input, then uncheck the third-party keyboard from the list.

SwiftKey Keyboard — Free Mobile App

For Android
Size: 32 MB (varies with device)
Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchtype.swiftkey

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When to Use Protect Tab vs Lock Tab in Firefox

One of the best extensions for Firefox is Tab Mix Plus because of the enhancements to the tab browsing that can’t be found elsewhere. There is also another extension called tab browser extensions that provides similar functionality.

There are two options that provide similar but possibly confusing functionality. You can see in the screenshot below the Protect Tab and Lock Tab on the menu.

Here’s when you should use each feature:

Protect Tab

• If you want to make sure that a tab cannot be closed. This is useful to make certain you don’t accidentally close a tab.

Lock Tab

• A lock tab cannot navigate to a new URL. This means that it is “locked” on the current URL. If you have this tab selected and you click a bookmark link, history, or a link on the page, the link will open in a new tab.

You can also combine the two on a single tab. For instance, I both lock and protect my Google Reader tab, which I always keep as the first tab so I can quickly switch back to it.

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