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Four Alternative Keyboards For iOS 8
iOS users can finally tap into alternative keyboard software. Although you’d be forgiven for not changing from the stock Apple keyboard (pictured left) — given that Cupertino has buried the switch for enabling alternatives deep within settings. It has also given the stock iOS keyboard some TLC, adding a word prediction feature called Quick Type. This draws inspiration from various third party keyboard software makers by offering a trio of next-word suggestions above the Qwerty keyboard to speed up typing. So now you can just tap on a suggested word to type it…