Mobile Tip: Be a T9 Ninja
For those of us without phones with qwerty keyboards typing is sloooow, but if you use predictive text entry, like T9, you can use it to your advantage in wild and crazy new ways. When you are surfing the web on a T9-enabled device, you have to login to a lot of websites, why not make your username a word in the T9 dictionary? Here’s an example:
Let’s say that my username on a site is davidgiesberg, I can enter that as two separate words (assuming I’ve entered my last name into the dictionary) or I can do it as one whole word into the dictionary. The way I can do that on my phone is by entering the first couple of letters, then going to the context menu and say that I want to spell the word - then I enter the whole phrase exactly the way that I want it. Then, next time, all I have to do is start typing my name and one of the automatic suggestions is davidgiesberg.
You can take this and apply it to other places where you might not use regular words that are in the dictionary in your phone, like tags on websites (toread, toblog, etc), common phrases, web addresses.? Anywhere you can think of a place to do this is more content per keystroke, and you’ll be a T9 Ninja!
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