Comments on: #81: Learn To Text With Your Thumbs https://hownottoactold.com/2008/07/28/81-learn-to-type-with-your-thumbs/ Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Learning To Type. Again. | Lisa Rivero https://hownottoactold.com/2008/07/28/81-learn-to-type-with-your-thumbs/comment-page-1/#comment-320324 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:00:32 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=387#comment-320324 […] iPhone faster than I do. Currently, I definitely show my age, as Pamela Redmond Satran, author of How Not to Act Old, explains: “Old people behavior of which I am guilty: Holding your phone at arm’s length […]

]]> By: Heloise jr https://hownottoactold.com/2008/07/28/81-learn-to-type-with-your-thumbs/comment-page-1/#comment-5966 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:22:53 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=387#comment-5966 As someone who’s not yet totally old, I can share how to get your fucking iphone to type the fucking word you want rather than autofilling with “duck” or “shiv” or what have you:

Enter the forbidden word in your address book as the name of a(n imaginary) contact. Your text predictor will recognize the “name” and allow it.

I have it on authority this works for txting; I don’t know how it works for other apps, as I still use one of those old-fangled phones that flips open. I will probably get a smartphone around the same time all the young folks start twittering to each other via neural implants.

]]> By: Nicson https://hownottoactold.com/2008/07/28/81-learn-to-type-with-your-thumbs/comment-page-1/#comment-5054 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:32:24 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=387#comment-5054 hey there, I can’t find your contact information but your layout design looked rearranged on firefox and opera. Anyways, i just suscribd to your rss.

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