STEP ONE – CONNECT THE GBOARD
[Apple users please close/cancel keyboard set-up assistant]
STEP TWO – ENABLE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS WITHIN GMAIL
STEP THREE – BEGIN USING THE GBOARD!

AMPLIFIED INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Connect the Gboard to any free USB port on your laptop or desktop computer. PC computers should automatically detect and activate the keyboard in just a few seconds. Apple computers may launch Keyboard Setup Assistant to try to identify the keyboard. You must close this assistant (hit the red button on the top right of the dialog box).

2) If you have not already done so, you must ENABLE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS within your GMAIL SETTINGS. This option is found under the GENERAL tab within your settings. This is a critical step, and the Gboard will not work without shortcuts enabled.

3) The Gboard will now activate the desired shortcuts. Please read the usage tips below for some common errors and ideas for how to best use the Gboard.

USAGE TIPS:

a) The Gboard works by sending the same keystrokes as a traditional keyboard. This means that whenever you have the cursor focused in an input field, hitting the keys on the Gboard will result in standard characters being generated. That’s why we included an “ESC” key. Use the ESC key whenever you’d like to exit an input field to use a shortcut command.

b) You’ll notice there is no “SEND” shortcut on the Gboard because it can cause undesired results if used in the wrong context. So here’s a tip for sending an email without using your mouse. To send an email, after finishing composition, hit , on your main keyboard. Using the main keyboard and Gboard keyboard together in this way to use Gmail even faster!

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What does this mean? On Black Friday, anyone who calls 888-376-4336 and does a Google Search by voice, will see their results displayed on either the Reuters sign or the NASDAQ sign in Times Square. So, if you say something like “new Jonas Brothers CD,” the display will come up with a giant Google Map complete with signs showing you where you can find that. Also included is the embarrassment that everyone in Times Square has just seen what ridiculous thing you are searching for.

This is all a big promotion for Droid, the new Android phone built by Verizon and being heavily pushed by Google. And the promotion has actually been going on for the past couple of weeks in New York, but it previously has only run during 90 minutes timeslots in the afternoon or night. On Black Friday, it will be running for 20 hours straight. I would love to know how much that advertisement cost.

Here’s a site with the countdown to the event complete with the message: “Droid will do Times Square for 20 hours…” Minds out of the gutter, folks.

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