Google introduced the text completion service Google Scribe in September of 2010. Back then it was only available for English texts. The Google labs service Google Scribe analyses the text that has been written by the user to give real-time word and phrase auto-suggestions. Scribe displays suggestions as soon as you start typing the first [...]

Categories: Google, Google Chrome

Auto complete is a semi-automated typing aid that usually is added by software developer’s to their programs. They usually match words in a dictionary against the first few chars that are typed by the user. The user can then activate the auto completion of the word or continue typing to finish the word or reduce [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Whenever a Microsoft Outlook user fills in an email address in the email client it will be saved by the software so that it can be auto completed the next time part of the address is entered in the to, cc or bcc form. NK2View is a Nirsoft application that can be used to manage [...]

Categories: Email, Software, Windows

Firefox analyzes the text that has been entered by the user in the Firefox address bar when the user sends it to the browser. Depending on the configuration of Firefox one out of two possible actions are performed. The default way of handling text that is not an url is to send it to Google’s [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Firefox by default has a so called auto complete feature which searches for urls that have been typed in or accessed in the past when the user begins to type a url. While this feature is mostly a time safer it nevertheless begins to pile up a large amount of urls which make the process rather messy.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox