The Fitaly Keyboard for the Newton


50 Words Per Minute On Your Newton!

The FITALY One-Finger Keyboard for the Newton is a stand-alone utility usable as an ergonomic replacement for the standard QWERTY on-screen keyboard.

The FITALY key arrangement minimizes pen travel: 84% of the text-entry keystrokes are placed in a very tight pattern, with the remaining keystrokes never more than two keys away. In addition, each key is placed near the keys most likely to follow it in English text.

The effect is to minimize pen travel. In addition, the layout practically eliminates hand movement when typing text. This means that you can type with your hand rested on the lower area, moving only the fingers holding the pen.

Try a standard test: Tap "Now is the time for all good men to come" and you will see that the 10 words can be typed in less than 15 seconds on a Newton 130 and 12 seconds or less on the faster MessagePad 2000. This is 50 words per minute on a Newton! - faster than most people ever achieve on the tiny ten-finger keyboards available on PDAs (and certainly faster than anybody can write even on paper).
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Another significant benefit is accuracy. You will find that you do very few mistakes when using the Fitaly. This is a direct consequence of having eliminated hand movements: pen taps that do not require moving the hand are much more precise. And of course, better accuracy means less time editing and correcting. Doing tasks that require text becomes very comfortable on the Newton: Preparing faxes, answering email, and typing memos become very realistic tasks.

You can use the toggle to configure the Fitaly keyboard with or without the number pad. You can use either a calculator or telephone-style layout for the number pad.

The FITALY keyboard is compatible with Newton OS version 2.0 and above.

The Newton FITALY is licensed for $20 per copy and a fully functional time-limited demo is available.

For more information, you can download the Newton Fitaly demo, or view the section on the One-Finger Keyboard, or call Textware Solutions.

 
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