Celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day With Your Very Own Pirate-Speak Keyboard

September 16, 2011

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Celebrate Talk Like A Pirate Day With Your Very Own Pirate-Speak Keyboard 3

For only one week, SwiftKey is embracing piracy. International Talk Like A Pirate Day is on Monday, Sept. 19th, and SwiftKey will be helping you celebrate with and special little keyboard called PirateX. PirateX will help translate your normal keyboard typing into pirate-speak. OK, this is a little gimmick app, but it's part of the SwiftKey Community Relaunch. You can grab the app from the source link after the break as well as the full press release.

Ahoy there SwiftKey VIP-ers,

We are very excited to announce the brand-new VIP community. We’re really looking forward to seeing you all on there, and to kick things off we’ve created something special and fun just for you. Read on to find out more.

New VIP community
We’ve been listening to your requests and the forum is now nicer-looking and easier to use. New features include:

Easier downloads of APKs to Android phones (no need for 3rd party software)
Improved mobile-optimised site and overall design
Facebook and Twitter integration
Log in to the VIP community using Facebook or Twitter so you never need to remember your VIP password
Sync your profile information and status updates with Facebook and Twitter so you can tell your friends how great being a Swiftkey VIP is!
Something fun – for VIPs only
Arr, as ye may know, it be Talk Like A Pirate Day on Monday. We be celebratin’ by releasin’ PirateKey X, so ye can Type Like a Pirate too! Get yer PirateKey quick, it be walking’ the plank on Thursday.

PirateKey X is a special standalone version of SwiftKey that suggests words in a Piratey kind of lingo. You can find it under “Fun stuff”. We hope you’ll have fun using it; if it’s a success we may make other seasonal or fun SwiftKeys in future. The Devs may also have sneaked a few more features into PirateKey that will not be in SwiftKey X until the next release, so keep your eyes peeled! We’ll also be Tweeting Like Pirates with the hashtag #TweetLikeAPirate, so remember to follow us on Twitter.

Looking forward to seeing you all in the forum,

Evan Tapper (Reppate)

VIP Community Manager

[via swiftkey]

Harold Williams Author

Harold was born and raised in Whitehall, NY (supposedly the birthplace of the US Navy). His first real smartphone experience belonged to Nokia and Symbian. Following came years of being a happy BlackBerry follower with a brief moment on Windows Mobile. Once a Droid X landed in his hands, he was forever converted to the dark side of the force. Memories of a Star Tac filled his head with happiness and once again joining Motorola in a new revolution. When not playing guitar he's following the tech world via Twitter and the mobile web trying to fill his need to have and know about the latest and greatest tech. Being grateful for all the free tools Google has provided, he is now sold on Google for life. In the real world he is filling his dorky needs as a project manager for a medical technology company.