Comments on: RapidoWrite: Accelerate your typing

By: Ricola

Ricola — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:55:31 +0000

Well, I am using RapidoWrite for quite a while, and I’ve never seen a nag screen popup … Nice piece of Software.

By: app4mac

app4mac — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:53:18 +0000

Hi Greg, I’m sure that this window was not coming from our software ! Just try again ! Only an overlay window appears when you write an abbrevation! The overlay window allows you to choose the text to add with the ‘enter’ key! Nothing else! Maybe you were confuse on this point! There is really no messages for donation or adverstising ! Try it again!

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:10:38 +0000

sorry app4mac but i am not lying and i am not mistaken. i downloaded and installed RapidoWrite from this website – http://www.app4mac.com/freewares.html and immediately afterwards i was getting a nagware reminder message every 5 seconds whenever i typed. it would not go away until i deleted the app.

i’d like to say using your software was a good experience but it was not.

i swear this is true. i am not imagining things… now tell me why.

i am reluctant to try it again.

By: app4mac

app4mac — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:28:48 +0000

We confirm Eric post : there is no window asking you to donate ! Greg talk about another utility! RapidoWrite is completely free and there is no messages for donation.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:35:31 +0000

nope – i am talking about this utility. i downloaded it from the link above, installed it, used it for a while and a little window popped up every 5 seconds or so while i was typing, asking me to donate. so i deleted the utility and all its library files and preferences.

i can;t unerstand why it only does this for me.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:10:13 +0000

This is a wonderful utility! where is the annoying subscribe message ??? There is no message like that! I think that you talk about another utility !

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:29:22 +0000

i would class this one as nag-ware. once installed an extremely annoying little “subscribe” message flashes on your screen every 5 seconds or so whenever yu are typing.

not freeware at all. avoid it

By: John Davis

John Davis — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:40:05 +0000

I use TypeIt4Me. It’s been around since System 7, doesn’t require “Enable Access for Assistive Devices” – or at least Version 3 doesn’t – and works in anything – Word, Mail, the Finder whatever. It doesn’t do images, but I don’t know why anyone would want this. It speeds up typing fantastically. It isn’t freeware, but at just over 20 bucks, it’s not expensive. David Pogue tipped me off to this, more years ago than I care to think, and I use this, and the “shorthand” system I’ve made with it to fast almost at the speed of speech.

I don’t work for Riccardo – the developer – or sell his products, but I have the greatest respect for TypeIt4Me. This is the original. This was the first one – even before Word copied it with AutoType.

Yours sincerely,

John Davis

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:47:49 +0000

It doesn’t require it to be checked, but does require the app to be Cocoa–so no luck if you want to use it in Word, TextWrangler, or other such apps.

By: mithras

mithras — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:03:29 +0000

I wonder whether it requires the Universal Access option ‘Enable access for assistive devices’ to be enabled? Parallels Desktop has problems with that enabled, yet Textpander requires it, which is a frustrating conflict between two of my favorite apps.