Is speed reading for real?
Old techniques and new apps promise to help you read at phenomenal speeds, but do they really help? How can you become a better reader?
Linguist Daniel Midgley goes cover to cover on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Show notes
xkcd’s take on Apple iOS 8’s Quick Text
http://xkcd.com/1427/
How Apple’s QuickType works
http://www.imore.com/quicktype-keyboards-ios-8-explained
QuickType adjusts for whom you’re writing to
http://www.tuaw.com/2014/09/17/a-look-at-ios-8s-new-quicktype-feature/
Don’t let it take over your phone, though.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/17/6337105/breaking-apples-quicktype-keyboard
It may cause havoc in your personal relationships.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/09/25/apple_quicktype_fail_ios8_predictive_texting_feature_sends_mixed_messages.html
It may suggest parts of your passwords. Oops.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2014/09/29/ios-8-quicktype-suggests-passwords/
http://qz.com/270885/apples-new-ios-will-predict-what-you-type-including-it-seems-your-passwords/
More fun with predictive text.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/29/6868521/predictive-wrext
Test your own speed reading speed.
http://projects.wsj.com/speedread/
Great episode of Skeptoid on this topic
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4229
The Skepdic entry
http://www.skepdic.com/speedreading.html
Cecil Adams of the Straight Dope
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/863/does-speed-reading-really-work
A list of apps you can try
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/667-best-speed-reading-apps.html
Computers can be borked
http://gizmodo.com/apple-releases-ios-8-update-to-fix-borked-iphones-1639333610
http://www.macworld.com/article/2687955/apple-offers-workaround-for-iphones-borked-by-ios-8-0-1.html
http://readwrite.com/2014/09/25/apple-ios-8-bugs-fix-iphone-6-iphone-6-plus-borked
http://www.zdnet.com/apple-releases-ios-8-0-2-fixes-borked-update-7000034074/
But Robert Bork came before that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork#Bork_as_verb
