Keyboard usage
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My keyboard has a lot of multimedia keys, internet navigation keys, calc, etc... I think what I use just the Calculator button and sound volume up/down. Do you use some these keys?
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My keyboard has a lot of multimedia keys, internet navigation keys, calc, etc... I think what I use just the Calculator button and sound volume up/down. Do you use some these keys?
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Nope, they dont offer them on the keyboards that go clickity clack. I had to rummage just to get a keyboard that sounded just right, in the back of the supply closet!!!
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My keyboard has a lot of multimedia keys, internet navigation keys, calc, etc... I think what I use just the Calculator button and sound volume up/down. Do you use some these keys?
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:
I pop off all of the extra keys cause I hit them on accident and it ruins my day. Nothing like accidently hitting F1 and having to wait five minutes for help to load.
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My keyboard has a lot of multimedia keys, internet navigation keys, calc, etc... I think what I use just the Calculator button and sound volume up/down. Do you use some these keys?
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Yep, in addition to the ones you listed I use Back Forward Mail Mute
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My keyboard has a lot of multimedia keys, internet navigation keys, calc, etc... I think what I use just the Calculator button and sound volume up/down. Do you use some these keys?
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I've used the volume controls on my parents PC since their cheap speakers don't have a nob. My home keyboard is a 101key AT model used via a PS2 adapter. MY work keyboard is a 104 key model but I almost never use the windows keys.
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My keyboard has a lot of multimedia keys, internet navigation keys, calc, etc... I think what I use just the Calculator button and sound volume up/down. Do you use some these keys?
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Oh wow. Look at that! :-D Marc
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My keyboard has a lot of multimedia keys, internet navigation keys, calc, etc... I think what I use just the Calculator button and sound volume up/down. Do you use some these keys?
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I miss my old keyboard at my old job (the ONLY thing I miss). I did use the keys a lot especially for media player. I used it to start my outlook, internet, print...man I need to get another one of those.
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My keyboard has a lot of multimedia keys, internet navigation keys, calc, etc... I think what I use just the Calculator button and sound volume up/down. Do you use some these keys?
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} € On the modern keyboards, the right alt key is way too small. Why does the Windows key have to exist on both sides of the space bar?? Ctrl+Esc is fine for me. And the context menu key is superficial, too - normal users are mouse-focused anyway, and power users would have no problem remembering Shift-F10. -
My keyboard has a lot of multimedia keys, internet navigation keys, calc, etc... I think what I use just the Calculator button and sound volume up/down. Do you use some these keys?
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I have no problems because I've been using one of these[^] for so long now I've literally worn the letters off some of the keys. I don't understand why developers use the huge clunky cheap ass keyboards designed to sell in a store or be optimal for data entry (i.e. a person who types in numbers all day off paperwork). The keyboard is too important to use the junk that comes with a computer or the junk that is 90% marketing and 10% practicality.
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} € On the modern keyboards, the right alt key is way too small. Why does the Windows key have to exist on both sides of the space bar?? Ctrl+Esc is fine for me. And the context menu key is superficial, too - normal users are mouse-focused anyway, and power users would have no problem remembering Shift-F10.
I just reprogram the keys to whatever I want, for example I've made the left winkey a control key. There's a great utility on the 'net that does this for free sharp keys[^] You don't have to accept whatever label is printed on the key. Mines remapped all over the place for optimal programming.
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My keyboard has a lot of multimedia keys, internet navigation keys, calc, etc... I think what I use just the Calculator button and sound volume up/down. Do you use some these keys?
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My laptop keyboard and one of my keyboards at work has volume buttons on it - those are handy, much easier than targeting that tiny little icon on the tray. Of course, my old laptop had an actual volume wheel - that was much nicer. My desktop at home has none of these: i use an old IBM Model-M keyboard. But i have a remote for controlling the volume on that machine, so it doesn't matter.
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I have no problems because I've been using one of these[^] for so long now I've literally worn the letters off some of the keys. I don't understand why developers use the huge clunky cheap ass keyboards designed to sell in a store or be optimal for data entry (i.e. a person who types in numbers all day off paperwork). The keyboard is too important to use the junk that comes with a computer or the junk that is 90% marketing and 10% practicality.
Couldn't live without the numbers pad.
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Couldn't live without the numbers pad.
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I couldn't live *with* it, I use the mouse far more than I type numbers and having that stupid "appendix" on the side of my keyboard forced my mousing arm to be at a wierd angle all day stretched out a bit. Now with the narrow keyboard my mouse is right in close and I don't get shoulder pain like I used to all the time.
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I couldn't live *with* it, I use the mouse far more than I type numbers and having that stupid "appendix" on the side of my keyboard forced my mousing arm to be at a wierd angle all day stretched out a bit. Now with the narrow keyboard my mouse is right in close and I don't get shoulder pain like I used to all the time.
Get one of These and learn how to use it. The number pad's location will never be a problem again. I've also seen keyboards with detachable number pads that you could place on the left if you prefer.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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} € On the modern keyboards, the right alt key is way too small. Why does the Windows key have to exist on both sides of the space bar?? Ctrl+Esc is fine for me. And the context menu key is superficial, too - normal users are mouse-focused anyway, and power users would have no problem remembering Shift-F10.
Psychologically, I still use the 'numeric' keypad for the arrow keys, since the original 84 key keyboards did not have the 'extra' section there. I guess my formative years were spent on the wrong keyboard :->
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Psychologically, I still use the 'numeric' keypad for the arrow keys, since the original 84 key keyboards did not have the 'extra' section there. I guess my formative years were spent on the wrong keyboard :->
My formative years were spent on all manner of keyboards of wide variety, maybe that's why I'm open to trying something new. I just can't understand programmers using keyboards designed for "joe six pack" to surf the web. The arrow key layout on the keyboard I linked to is really nice.
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I just reprogram the keys to whatever I want, for example I've made the left winkey a control key. There's a great utility on the 'net that does this for free sharp keys[^] You don't have to accept whatever label is printed on the key. Mines remapped all over the place for optimal programming.
The idea of Sharp Keys looks good, but appears what the website is off-line?
John Cardinal wrote:
You don't have to accept whatever label is printed on the key.
Really! do you have checked this[^]?
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Get one of These and learn how to use it. The number pad's location will never be a problem again. I've also seen keyboards with detachable number pads that you could place on the left if you prefer.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
Speaking as someone who used to do data entry for a year what in the world are programmers doing with a freaking number pad. It's crazy, un-ergonomic and just plain senseless. A keyboard is to a programmer what a guitar is to a virtuoso or a wood carvers tools, those people wouldn't fathom for an instant not assesing whether their tools are adequate or not, but many programmers apprently literally sit down like neanderthals at whatever keyboard *happens* to be in front of them and pound away on it. I just wish I had started on a dvorak keyboard all those years ago, I wonder how many people realize they are working on a keyboard layout that was deliberately designed to be slow and hard to type on to stop mechanical typewriters from jamming up.
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The idea of Sharp Keys looks good, but appears what the website is off-line?
John Cardinal wrote:
You don't have to accept whatever label is printed on the key.
Really! do you have checked this[^]?
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.(John 3:16) :badger:
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Speaking as someone who used to do data entry for a year what in the world are programmers doing with a freaking number pad. It's crazy, un-ergonomic and just plain senseless. A keyboard is to a programmer what a guitar is to a virtuoso or a wood carvers tools, those people wouldn't fathom for an instant not assesing whether their tools are adequate or not, but many programmers apprently literally sit down like neanderthals at whatever keyboard *happens* to be in front of them and pound away on it. I just wish I had started on a dvorak keyboard all those years ago, I wonder how many people realize they are working on a keyboard layout that was deliberately designed to be slow and hard to type on to stop mechanical typewriters from jamming up.
John Cardinal wrote:
I just wish I had started on a dvorak keyboard all those years ago, I wonder how many people realize they are working on a keyboard layout that was deliberately designed to be slow and hard to type on to stop mechanical typewriters from jamming up.
I've considered going dvorak before, the biggest thing that's holding me back is having to use PCs that aren't mine and which are configured for QWERTY. Just going from a standard to reversed button mouse for normal use has forced me to use my right hand when using a 'normal' mouse elsewhere, and that's only 2 items changed not ~60. The same issue with other people's hardware caused the two people I know who used Dvorak for a while to eventually revert. Are you actually using dvorak, or just wanting to? IIRC it also has problems from a developer standpoint in that it shuffled some of the delimiter characters needed for C style languages into awkward locations to type.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.