Dictating to Your Mac

Here’s a neat trick that I am sure many of you have figured out, but that I just discovered Friday night. If you have [TouchPad](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchpad/id297623931?mt=8) on your iOS device (probably other apps allow this as well) you can use the `dictation` key in iOS to dictate text into your Mac. If that sounds really easy,…

Here’s a neat trick that I am sure many of you have figured out, but that I just discovered Friday night. If you have [TouchPad](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/touchpad/id297623931?mt=8) on your iOS device (probably other apps allow this as well) you can use the `dictation` key in iOS to dictate text into your Mac.

If that sounds really easy, that’s because it is. I use this now when I am trying to type things out on our “media center” Mac mini that is hooked up to a TV without a keyboard — works surprisingly well. I for one am pretty happy with this little trick.

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