the invisible keyboard OJ1*

Touch typing, remember..in fourth grade or sometime around that time period when we had portable keyboards and programs where we could practice touch typing. Trying to compete with everyone in class to see who typed the fastest or who had minimal errors. I tried finding an image of the portable keyboard or the program, but there were no images to find! Shocking! To think Google would have everything..

I really do appreciate the lessons we did at school, and to think they were stupid and pointless. But it was always fun being able to use THE computer! As a journalist we need to be excellent, speedy typers - for those deadlines we have to meet, writing stories after stories, typing up a script in the last minute before air time, and trying to quote someone at a press conference. A new program/app/concept I had just came across was ASETNIOP, which has a potential of helping journalists type quicker..maybe?

What it is, is a virtual keyboard that only has eight letters A-S-E-T-N-I-O-P. Then how do we use the other 18 alphabets? We use chords, by pressing two or more letters at a time.
Being 'experimental' I gave it a kick without any prior tutorials..and here's what I came up with..

Well, apparently you get better at it with practice.. I'm not too sure how quick it'll take me to learn this new method. But what its benefits are it saves space on the screen, so you have more viewing space where usually the keyboard would take half of the screen, and it saves finger movements? Which may mean faster typing. How useful would it be for live blogging? Grabbing a quote from someone without them having to repeat it several times.

If you are really interested to learn, jump onto the website and master the Asetniop. This is probably what your kids will be learning in school. Make a start so you can keep up with your kids' tech savy-ness. Everything is getting too technical now!