For many people, memories of typing class dredge up images of monotonous drills and endless repetition of nonsense words. But then, Mavis Beacon wasn`t the teacher. The tutorial software program ...

When it comes to using your voice to dictate your content to a computer rather than typing, there are a bunch of apps out there already. Dragon Naturally Speaking is one such voice instead of typing ...

Q: I’m terrible at typing. It’s slow and painful. But I can talk up a storm. Is there any way I can talk or dictate content to my computer rather than struggle with the keyboard? A: Yes! There are ...

Q: How effective is Windows voice typing? A: If you’ve become accustomed to talking to your smartphone to generate text or email messages, you can do the same thing on your PC with a tool built into ...

The 7-year-olds in Natalie May’s class have to stretch their fingers across the keyboards to reach “ASDF” and “JKL;” as they listen to the animated characters on their computer screens talk about ...

Once, typing was a class largely reserved for college-bound high school students, who needed the skill to turn out term papers at the university level. But that was before the dawn of the computer age ...

In the early ‘90s, I was an elementary school librarian and an adjacent computer lab was part of my domain. Wanting to prepare our fifth graders to become more fluent writers, we ran them through a ...

Facebook's annual F8 conference in San Jose, California ended yesterday. The event included two days of interactive demos, announcements, and developer advice to get the best from Facebook. Among the ...

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