MessagEaseKB is the keyboard extension version of MessagEase application. It optionally replaces your Palm keyboard, so that you can enter text much faster than with Palm's QWERTY keyboard or Palm's Graffiti.It'll take you a few minutes to become familiar with it. spend about 15 minutes and you'll enter text faster than you do with Graffiti. If you use it for about 30-45 minutes, you'll enter text 2-3 times faster than Graffiti, much more accurately too.

Based on MessagEase's Patent protected technology, MessagEaseKB empowers you to enter all letters, numbers and special characters with a single tap or drag of a stylus. You can also reprogram your keyboard to enter other accented special characters with a single drag. At any rate, you'll have access to the full ASCII character set. Additionally, you can save and recall 80 pieces of text of any length; it¿s like having 80 large clipboards at your disposals!

MessagEase¿s keyboard only has 12 keys, making each key much larger than the keys on a QWERTY keyboard. As a result, tapping on these keys is fast and accurate. In addition, MessagEase¿s keyboard is designed based on letter frequency information so most of the time (71%) you¿ll be only tapping.

In a very short time since its introduction, MessagEaseKB and MessagEase have grown a sizeable number of followers (Visit our web page: http://www.exideas.com or go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MessagEase for the latest updates and info.)

MessagEaseKB is a freeware, with nothing disabled in it. Please look for our next product, MessagEase Stamp which will include MessagEase printed on a label to be placed on your Palm Graffiti area.

If you have not done so already, please download MessagEase application, which will includes a learning game, and a very large buffer, enabling you to compose sizable amount of text on the go. MessagEase technology is also applicable to other languages and alphabets. To demonstrate that, MessagEase application includes Japanese Katakana support!

Update Description:
v4.0 (3/15/04):
- Has full color support now Works on Tungsten T3

*** [Apr 14, 2004] by Marcus Lee
Cool idea. But, it is hard for me to grasp the logic in selecting the alphabets using a variety of different directional strokes.

***** [Jan 6, 2003] by Clymmer
MEKB is pretty impressive so far. One note about switching versions: if you're punctuation starts acting weird (i.e. you input a period, but get some other character), make sure you go in using FileZ or some other file manager and delete your MeData-DBME file. According to the newsgroup, all the versions use the same database file and sometimes they can get out of sync. I really like this so far and the MessagEase training game is pretty helpful (a-la-fitaly-letris). Great app.

***** [Nov 15, 2002] by Lavos
I must-have keyboard hack for any Palm OS. Genius! Quite usable, and functional - even beginners will notice a difference in speed and functionality.

***** [Oct 15, 2002] by moog
The latest incarnation (v2.6) works great on the m515 and Palm V -- still the best keyboard hack out there. =)

***** [Jun 11, 2002] by Steve Gilham
I've been using this for a couple of months now and just wouldn't go back to other keyboard hacks.

***** [May 1, 2002] by moog
Love it! version 1.8 works great on an m515, Palm OS v4.1. I have weird returns on wordsmith but that's a messageaseKB problem I guess? Messagease is worth learning (not *too* steep of a learning curve) and you can enter long words much faster when you have a rhythm going.

***** [Mar 28, 2002] by Alvin
This is an amazing application. The learning curve is steep -- it took me about several weeks to reach my previous top Graffiti speed -- but the novel design of MessagEaseKB now allows me to enter text nearly twice as fast with significantly less errors. I think this app would be especially handy if you do a lot of writing on your Palm. Furthermore, the software developers are very responsive to user feedback and seem genuinely committed to providing a quality and useful product.

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