I started typing in Dvorak some 2 years ago. I've been curious over the years and I read a post by a friend that made me finally make the jump. Stop Typing Like a Spider by Dave South.
I bought stickers to put on my keyboard and convinced my wife to switch as well. It took about a month before I felt comfortable typing in Dvorak and for the most part I think it was a really good switch. My fingers don't get as tired typing as they once did. My biggest gripe was the cut/copy/paste keys moved. I recently looked into Colemak, which looks actually better and keeps the placement of the shortcut keys. I'm not sure I want to switch right now, but perhaps soon in the future. See Wikipedia and http://colemak.com/ for more information.
That brings me to the reason for the title of this post:
I recently got a mac book pro and put an OWC Solid state drive in it with a data doubler insert. (this lets me have two drives in my macbook a SSD, which is fast, and a normal HD for space.) It works like a charm. There are a few downsides, I don't have a disk drive internally and Mac DVD Player does not like that. And my Eject key is now worthless. So as a good keyboard hacker, I wanted to re-purpose that key. Along with the fact that I wanted to remap a few other keys. I ran into a little tool for Macs called KeyRemap4MacBook. It works on all macs. It let me remap my eject key to a forward delete key, which I use all the time. It also re-maps a slew of other key combinations. I took the Colemak layout design and got rid of my caps lock key and now have delete there. It's still not habit, but the tool to remap keys was very cool and rather complete as far as I'm concerned.
I've had problems with parallels and the Dvorak keyboard layout and looked into remapping them with something different than the system preferences layout.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Logitech Revolution MX
So, I love hardware and get all sorts of excited when I gen new stuff.
Anyway, a year ago, I bought a Logitech Revolution MX Laser mouse. It was awesome, fit my hand well. I programmed two of the thumb buttons to be copy and paste so that I could move text around with only my mouse. It was very nice.
The last few months I had my left mouse clicker fail on me. Turns out that it's a common problem. The clicker would do a double click action when I only clicked it once. For the most part this isn't a problem, but in my email program it would open a new window with my email instead of just showing me the preview and open files instead of just selecting them in explorer. It was annoying and got worse as I kept using the mouse.
So, I did the normal trouble shooting, tested it on other computers, did a web search etc. Logitech has good reviews for customer support, so I called in about it and was very pleased. The person on the other end of the phone was knowledgeable and very polite. After talking to me about the trouble shooting steps and having me try a few things I hadn't previously done, he said he would initiate an RMA.
A week later I got the label in an email, printed it out, taped it on a box with the mouse inside and sent it off. Another week later, I got the newer Performance MX. I have extra mice so I just used a backup while I waited for it to come. It didn't have the thumb buttons I was used to, which was disappointing, but it did come with the unifying micro USB receiver, nice. The speed scroll wheel is better designed with a mechanical switch instead of a software based switch. It also has the newer "Dark Field" technology for better tracking. I haven't noticed a big improvement, but I don't mouse on glass either.
Overall, I'm very pleased with the feel of the mouse. It is shaped a little differently than the older one, but still nice in my hand and it glides very nicely. I haven't figured out how to do the copy paste thing yet how I like it. There are extra buttons on the mouse I could use. Maybe, I'll make a post when I get that figured out. Logitech's control panel has gotten better as well with better configuration settings.
Overall a great mouse, and especially as a "free" upgrade. Thank you Logitech for an awesome warranty.
Anyway, a year ago, I bought a Logitech Revolution MX Laser mouse. It was awesome, fit my hand well. I programmed two of the thumb buttons to be copy and paste so that I could move text around with only my mouse. It was very nice.
The last few months I had my left mouse clicker fail on me. Turns out that it's a common problem. The clicker would do a double click action when I only clicked it once. For the most part this isn't a problem, but in my email program it would open a new window with my email instead of just showing me the preview and open files instead of just selecting them in explorer. It was annoying and got worse as I kept using the mouse.
So, I did the normal trouble shooting, tested it on other computers, did a web search etc. Logitech has good reviews for customer support, so I called in about it and was very pleased. The person on the other end of the phone was knowledgeable and very polite. After talking to me about the trouble shooting steps and having me try a few things I hadn't previously done, he said he would initiate an RMA.
A week later I got the label in an email, printed it out, taped it on a box with the mouse inside and sent it off. Another week later, I got the newer Performance MX. I have extra mice so I just used a backup while I waited for it to come. It didn't have the thumb buttons I was used to, which was disappointing, but it did come with the unifying micro USB receiver, nice. The speed scroll wheel is better designed with a mechanical switch instead of a software based switch. It also has the newer "Dark Field" technology for better tracking. I haven't noticed a big improvement, but I don't mouse on glass either.
Overall, I'm very pleased with the feel of the mouse. It is shaped a little differently than the older one, but still nice in my hand and it glides very nicely. I haven't figured out how to do the copy paste thing yet how I like it. There are extra buttons on the mouse I could use. Maybe, I'll make a post when I get that figured out. Logitech's control panel has gotten better as well with better configuration settings.
Overall a great mouse, and especially as a "free" upgrade. Thank you Logitech for an awesome warranty.
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