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How To Type Multiple Languages In Android At Once

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Smartphones have taken a major lead over our lives and have made us very much dependable on them. Smartphones have become a major part of our lives and we are very much dependant on them for even simple things that we do in our day to day activities. With the Android smartphones getting more and more new features that make us feel more convenient, today’s smartphone keyboards have also taken a major upgrade. The smartphone keyboards these days have a lot of customizable options and multiple word predictions which will help us a lot. Having the ability or the feature to type multiple languages in a single keyboard is definitely one of the best things we can have that helps us in making our life much easier and better.

Swiftkey Keyboard For Typing Multiple Languages

While the stock Google keyboard is a great way to type, but there are various other alternative applications that are available in the Play store. Swiftkey is one of the most useful and powerful applications that help to type multiple languages easily.

To avail these multiple languages on your smartphone, just start using this app. Just download the app from the Play store and then open the app and go to Languages and you will already be having your device’s primary language showing up there, now you just have to download the various languages that you wish to have your phone for typing.

Swiftkey is very much smart enough to auto-correct various words in either of the languages that you have been typing at the same time.

So, its now time to stop switching between the keyboards for typing multiple languages as this Swiftkey app offers this facility of typing more than one languages at once.

So, do give this Swiftkey keyboard a try and make your life much easier.

Here Is A Guide About How To Use Various Function Keys

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Computers have come through a lot of evolutions to stand in a place where they are today. They are not very easy to use or as user-friendly as they are now. Computer’s keyboard has also gone through various modulations to finally set in the format which we are using now which is called the QWERTY keyboard. Usually, the keyboard has various types of keys and function keys are one among them. Function keys are the keys which can be found on the top of the keyboard starting from F1 – F12.

Now very few people know the uses of these keys. So, today in this article, I am going to share you the uses of all the function keys one by one.

The F1 Key
  • Use this key to open the help page of the working program.
  • Press this key along with the Windows key to open the home page of the Microsoft Windows Help and Support Centre,
The F2 Key
  • Use this to rename the selected file.
  • Press this key along with Alt and Ctrl to open the selected document in MS Word.
  • Press this key with Ctrl to view the preview window in MS Word.
The F3 Key
  • Use this key to open the search feature in many programs like browsers, MS Word.
  • Use this key along with Shift to change the case of the sentences in MS Word like upper, lower, sentence case.
  • Use this key with the combination of windows key to open the advanced find window in Outlook.
The F4 Key
  • Use this key to repeat the last action performed while typing in MS Word.
  • Use Alt + F4 to close all the active windows and Ctrl + F4 for closing the top most active window.
The F5 Key
  • For refreshing pages in web browsers and other programs.
  • Use this key for refreshing the contents of the folder.
  • This key can be used to start the slideshow in PowerPoint.
The F6 Key
  • This key helps to move the cursor to the address bar in the web browsers.
The F7 Key
  • It helps to open the spelling and grammar check in the programs like MS Word.
  • The combination of Shift and F7 keys will start a thesaurus check on the word highlighted.
The F8 Key
  • Hold it continuously or keep pressing this key to open the option to run the system on safe Mode while the system is turning on.
  • In Mac OS this key shows the thumbnail images of the workspaces.
The F9 Key
  • Use thi9s to refresh an MS Word document.
  • This key can be used for sending an email in Microsoft Outlook.
The F10 Key
  • This key activates the menu bar of an open application in Windows.
  • Instead of right-clicking use this key with the Shift combination.
The F11 Key
  • Use this key to enter or exit full-screen mode in all the modern internet browsers.
The F12 Key
  • Use this key to open the developer tools window in most of the browsers.

How to add the keys that are missing on your keyboard

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There might be some keys in all of our keyboards that remain untouched for years. Normal users don’t feel the necessity to use the keys like scroll lock, pause/break. And some users don’t even use the Function keys. Who doesn’t wish to have shortcut keys for some functions? Everyone right!!!! Now, we are going to accomplish that thing.

Browser/App shortcut key:

You can actually turn your caps lock key into a key for opening the browser or any other specific app that you want. There is an app called Sharp keys which come to your rescue by letting you remap the keys.

Download and install the Sharp keys application on your system and open it by searching it in the start menu. Then in the program window, you can see add option, click on it and then if you wish to add a quick shortcut, then you can hit the tap key option on the left side and select the key that you want replace and do the same on the right or you can just scroll through the options and select. After you are done with the selection, hit Ok and then click write to registry. Restart the Windows to solidify the changes.

Shortcut for clipboard manager:

Clipboard manager is one among the missing keys that should be in all of our keyboards and many users feel it useful. Windows may find this need and may add the shortcut really, but as of now, we manually need to do this.

You can create a shortcut for many of the clipboard managers, and in this case, let us consider taking the Ditto clipboard manager. In the keyboard settings of the application, you can set the shortcut key for opening the app and make it easy for you to open and manage the clipboard.

Try adding these missing keys and stay more productive.

App for doing undo and redo in your android phone

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Undo and Redo are the two most used keyboard shortcuts by the computer users. And even the users who don’t have any idea about any other keyboard shortcuts, definitely know these two shortcuts undo and redo.

All those computer users who use these shortcuts wish to have them on their smart phones as well. Yes you can have these shortcuts on your android phone keyboard to undo and redo your actions on your android keyboard.

All you need to do is just install an application on your android phone. The app that you need to install is Inputting Plus.

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Once you installed the app on your device, it will run in the background, and it silently tracks the text that you enter using your keyboard. It adds a floating bubble icon to your keyboard, you can use that bubble to access various actions like Undo, Redo and more.

This application works with most of the android keyboards.

After installing the application it asks you for permission to grant it the android accessibility settings, but right here you may be worried about your data security, don’t worry it will not have access to internet and there is no such chance of it sending your data over the internet and it’s a local app that works just offline.

It even won’t remember your passwords by default, so your personal data will also be safe and secure.

Emoji prediction app that makes your texting process easy

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With the growth of smart phones since the last couple of years, many people are depending a lot on texting for both formal and informal type of conversations. While texting, if you don’t want the conversation to be bored, you just try adding some emoticons which adds beauty to the text and pepper to the conversation. There is an all new emoji prediction application that predicts the right suited emojis to the words that you have just typed, which saves your time of searching for the correct emoji that you want.

If you are a user of the swift keyboard and you like it, then you will definitely like this too. Swiftmoji is the application that predicts the suitable emojis to the text that you enter using the keyboard and offers you to choose among the various options.

As of now this swiftmoji application is available for ios and android devices where you can download them for free and add some fun to your conversations. Now it will be more fun to talk with your dear and loved ones as there is an application that helps you in getting the correct emojis for your typed texts. So do try downloading this application in your android device, or an ios device and have fun while texting.

Swiftmoji keyboard for ios version is available as an emoji keyboard where you have to shift to that keyboard for typing the emojis, while the android keyboard is not like that and is a keyboard itself which shows you the predicted emojis on the top while you type.

So do download the switmoji app on your smartphone now and add pepper to your WhatsApp, Facebook, snapchat, instagram conversations.