Tag: Texting
Teenager’s emoji-filled text read out by voice assistant goes viral
Chinese cinemas post text messages on-screen during movies
One handed texting to get easier with Windows Phone 8 curved keyboard?
A leaked image has popped up online today that could prove interesting for those like to try their hand (note the singluar) at mobile texting. Windows Phone 8 may be about to get a special curved keyboard setting that will…
Twitter and texting spells end to long and fancy words, boffin warns
Or at least it's making us lazy, opting for shorter words instead of long ones. 73% of us believe that Twitter and text messaging is changing the use of the English language, according to a survey presented in a…
72% of Brits social network in bed, instead of doing…other things…
So it's official: us Brits are more jacked-into the network than a stony faced Keanu Reeves in The Matrix. According to a new survey from hotel-chain Travelodge, 72% of UK surfers can't sleep without checking up on social networks like…
Texting record broken by Swype-using Brit
How quickly do you think you could text "the razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human"? Granted, it's not the sort of thing…
Texting on the Tube made possible? Teenage inventor builds low-frequency radio for underground communications
We've all been there; on the phone, on the verge of breaking the meaning of life during the daily commute when your train hits a tunnel and your signal cuts out. We can send a man to the moon, but…
Vodafone customers get free texts this Friday
To ease the onslaught of winter, Vodafone UK will be offering its customers an hours worth of free texts, just before the clocks go back.
Textecution – an extremely clever mobile app that stops you texting while you're driving
So, go on then, guess how a mobile phone app can tell if you’re driving or not? Speed of texting? Pauses while texting? More errors than usual? Drastic directional adjustments detected by the iPhone’s accelerometer as you hastily steer away from the bus stop, off the pavement and back onto the road?
Nope – Texecution uses GPS to locate the position of your phone, and therefore you, deactivating the phone’s SMS features when you seem to be moving at more than 10mph.
There is, of course, an override function for when you’re a passenger, on buses and trains, or running really fast…
Mail Goggles for Gmail – preventing email disasters since 2008
Gmail’s “Labs” functionality has been underutilized a little, of late. Since the big fanfare when it was released, there haven’t been too many new plugins released. That’s why I’m delighted to reveal that Google has enabled a “Mail Googles” feature, designed to stop you sending emails when drunk…
