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pI don’t think my fingers are fat, but I have a tough time with the iPhone keypad. I estimate my success rate with it is roughly 1%; ninety-nine times out of 100 I have multiple typos that I need to backspace over to and fix. It feels like I’m trying to repair a watch using two sausages./p

pFor digitally-challenged users like me, help is on the way from Cliff Kushler, the guy who invented the brilliant T9 predictive text system. Kushler’s latest invention, called A HREF=”http://www.swypeinc.com/” Swype/A, is a predictive text system specifically designed for touchscreens, so a user can swipe their finger on a particular sequence of letters, like connect-the-dots, and the program spits out the word you’re looking for. A demo:/p

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pThe Swype Beta is currently open and downloadble A HREF=”http://beta.swype.com/” here/A if you’re an Android user; us iPhone guys will have to wait a few months.br /
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