Comments on: SureType: Do More with Less Typing

By: DarkBlue

DarkBlue — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:14:12 +0000

The expansion key (”\” by default) can be configured to be whatever you want it to be. So, obviously, you choose a character that you don’t use in day-to-day operations.

By: milbertus

milbertus — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 01:35:56 +0000

While this seems like a good idea, what if I want to type one of the special “hot words” that I’ve configured SureType to look for as normal text? Perhaps that there is an Excel folder on my hard drive which I want to open, so I type “c:\program files\excel\” (for example), and Excel starts up, even though that isn’t want I wanted.

Personally, I use WinKey for this sort of thing. Sure, it has some (minor) issues when running as non-admin, but other than that I haven’t had any problems with it whatsoever.

By: DarkBlue

DarkBlue — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:34:03 +0000

With SureType you can type anywhere, regardless of the foreground application.

I haven’t bought SureType yet (still within the trial period) so I’ll check SlickRun out (thanks for the pointer).

By: feather

feather — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 22:10:57 +0000

Sounds pretty promising. I’ve also been meaning to try out SlickRun as well, but haven’t had a chance to really try it.

Sounds like similar technology for keyboard only types – although the SureType docs imply you can type pretty much anywhere, whereas with SlickRun you have to type in its little box. Oh, SlickRun is free as far as I know.