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for nearly four decades the actor Tom Hanks has had a love of Ferris typewriters that's why I teamed up with a tech company to produce a beautiful type writing app for the iPad Hank's writer basically turns the keys of your tablet into typewriter keys delivering that satisfying click click click when you type the font has been specially designed to mimic a true typewriter font all to make the experience very authentic gilang once you finish your note you can share it through modern technology like text or email the app is free to download but there are in app purchases for other models of typewriters each with their own styles sounds and sets of features the $2 iPad app typing writer also replicates the old-fashioned typewriter experience but also includes first drafts from famous authors typewritten manuscripts for inspiration and if you're looking for a good typewriter app for your phone try typewriter for Androids in the amazing typewriter for iPhones both a dollar and 99 cents in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News