Thursday, August 14, 2014

I wrote this post on Tom Hanks' new typewriter app


The first thing you learn upon beginning to type in Tom Hanks' new typewriter app, Hanx Writer, is how reliant you've secretly always been on autocorrect. The second thing is that the sound your iPad is making is going to annoy a lot of people. (Sorry Dieter.)


Tom Hanks is somewhat famous for his love of typewriters. He even wrote about his love in The New York Times. (Wait I'm supposed to italicize that but I can't figure out how in this app.) In an effort to bring his passion into the digital age, he launched an app called Hanx Writer. Hanx Writer is, essentially, a typewriter on your iPad. Kind of. Mostly it's just an old-timey keyboard that makes a sound that is sort of but not really like that of a typewriter. It's shallow and...


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