Dasher is a new input mechanism that doesn't involve a keyboard or clicking a mouse. By positioning the mouse left, right, up or down, various letters scroll by ordered by their frequency in the language, so if t scrolls by then h and e are easy to get to as well. Here's an animated gif of it in use.
I saw this from the
Red Sweater Blog and Daniel Jalkut has a
flash movie of him using it.
Seems pretty interesting for words, but I'm not sure how well it deals with non-words (scotus is short for Supreme Court of the United States) or technical words.
2 comments:
The Dasher website says you can train the software using your own example text and that it learns as it is used. I see enough examples of SCOTUS in your posts that it would be well trained once you starting using it.
yeah makes sense, like add your own dictionary entries. I guess it all depends on the frequency of the new words you use.
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