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The Swype virtual keyboard has been updated to beta 3.25 with a couple of handy new features. The most flashy of them are new gestures that are made by tracing from the Swype key in the bottom-left. Trace up to A to select everything in the current text box, trace to C to copy it,…
SwiftKey launched a new version of its keyboard for Android last week, and as a promotional follow-up, they’re offering it for free on the Amazon Appstore for today only. The app normally retails for $3.99, so this is a sweet deal, even if you’re just casually interested. Although Swype popularized custom keyboards with its gesture-based…
Evernote for Android has just been updated with a new tablet interface, and the ability to create rich text notes. Surprisingly, many of these new features hit the Android version first, and will become available for iOS soon – it’s usually the other way around. Evernote users on the Android platform, especially for those using…
Although BlackBerry is well-known for immediate e-mail delivery, that speed comes at a cost; as any user will tell you, bigger messages are truncated, and images will generally just show placeholders until manually prompted to load more. Even then, e-mails can hit a maximum size pretty quickly, requiring a desktop computer to see the whole…
It’s a little bizarre to thing of Microsoft making cool apps for Apple products, but a few months ago Bing launched on the iPad, and it was actually pretty impressive. Today, they’ve followed up with their first update, which has a snazzy feature called Lasso. After you tap a new option in the navigation bar,…
After some extended testing and a false launch back in May, AT&T BlackBerry owners can now use Bridge with the PlayBook. Bridge, as you might have heard, is the only way you can get core PIM applications on RIM’s 7-inch tablet, including e-mail, address book, memopad, and calendar. The web browser and app store offer…
BlackBerry users reliant on Google for web search have a few improvements to look forward to today. The search giant has just updated web search for BlackBerry 6.0 WebKit-enabled handsets, so searches are faster and auto-complete populates quicker as you type. Overall, the experience should make life a little easier for BlackBerry smartphone users with…
Google has had some simple yet highly-useful features to their Sync app for iPhone and iPad. Now you can search for e-mails that are sitting on the Gmail server and no longer stored locally – particularly handy for when you’re digging for some scrap of info sent to you months ago. You can now accept,…
Typing and using your hands to do things these days is becoming overrated, and it seems Nuance is making sure we have more than one way to do fingerless input. Just today the company announced a new service for the PC and iPhone that enables a new kind of voice-based text input. For the PC,…
Google is always working overtime to bring their Android users services and features that make their lives easier, and they continue to do so with some fresh updates to Google Navigation and mobile search. The update introduced to us today includes a new feature that catapults Navigation to the level of SD-based navigation systems. There…