Rest of the Day: New SwiftKey Keyboard Converts Text to Shakespeare’s Text
But soft, what kind of light is shining that app store? This is a new keyboard from SwiftKey that will help you type as if you were playing a Shakespeare play. But when you type, remember first and foremost: your own selfie will be true.
- In honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, SwiftKey released a keyboard with a library of Shakespearean Common Language, so the autocorrect algorithm directs your texts to Elizabethan eloquence. Now instead of “did you get up?” you can try “Love is smoke made from the smoke of sighs … are you?” [SwiftKey]
- Facebook Messenger is getting some new features , including unique user URLs that allow you to connect with people through a link, and visual QR-style codes that you can scan to connect with someone. (While I would say the advantage of using Facebook Messenger is that you just find your contacts through Facebook, making usernames redundant! But that’s just me.) [ Facebook via The Next Web ]
- Verizon is going to bid on Yahoo’s purchase , Bloomberg reports. The rest of the companies, including Google, are also spinning. [Bloomberg]
- iOS 9.3.2 is now available as a public beta . As you might expect, the latest update primarily fixes bugs in the original 9.3 release. [9to5Mac]
- Microsoft joins the victory over Flash abandonment . As part of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Edge browser will now intelligently pause any Flash content that is not “web-centric”. [Windows Blog]