TouchPal lets you swipe away at your keyboard on your Windows 8 machine

You might be interested in checking out TouchPal if you're running Windows 8 on an Intel based auto. TouchPal is a brand new keyboard for your touchscreen monitors that adds a petty variety to your onscreen keyboard options.

Some old you lot old timers might call back Swype, it came with the Samsung i8000 running Windows Mobile and afterwards jumped over to Android. TouchPal works fairly similar to Swype in that you lot slide and swipe your finger around the screen to spell words. You're constantly gliding and just need to lift your finger from the screen to select a discussion or offset a new one. TouchPal also uses its ain form of contextual prediction algorithms to assist get an thought of what word you lot're attempting to spell when gliding around the screen. Check out the video below to get an idea of TouchPal in action.

The all-time part nearly this little keyboard? How inexpensive it is for yous to play with on your Surface Pro or other Windows 8 x86 device. Free. Unfortunately for myself, I don't have a touchscreen on whatsoever Windows 8 device yet (Surface RT, but that tin't run this), then feel free to tell us how you like information technology in the comments below.

You tin check out TouchPaul for Windows 8 here.

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