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    Sebastien Lachance
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    I will probably get a new keyboard this week, finally ... Any advice for me ? My Blog

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      I will probably get a new keyboard this week, finally ... Any advice for me ? My Blog

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      Paul Watson
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      You could go old school[^], hardcore[^], all green peace[^] or, like me, new age[^]. The MS one that I have is a lovely keyboard. The multimedia controls on it are surprisingly useful (though the other app keys are less so and the Function Lock is annoying till you have remapped them). regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Gary Wheeler wrote: It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...

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        You could go old school[^], hardcore[^], all green peace[^] or, like me, new age[^]. The MS one that I have is a lovely keyboard. The multimedia controls on it are surprisingly useful (though the other app keys are less so and the Function Lock is annoying till you have remapped them). regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Gary Wheeler wrote: It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...

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        Marc Clifton
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        I want one that is physically separated into two pieces, so I can attach each half to armrests of my chair and lean back and type in a nice relaxed position. Mounted on a Laz-y-Boy chair would be nice. Along with a large wall mounted flat screen panel so I can see the small type while reclining, like they use on the bridge of the Enterprise. In fact, I'll just take the bridge (old generation please). Marc My website
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          I want one that is physically separated into two pieces, so I can attach each half to armrests of my chair and lean back and type in a nice relaxed position. Mounted on a Laz-y-Boy chair would be nice. Along with a large wall mounted flat screen panel so I can see the small type while reclining, like they use on the bridge of the Enterprise. In fact, I'll just take the bridge (old generation please). Marc My website
          Latest Articles: Object Comparer String Helpers

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          Graham Bradshaw
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          Marc Clifton wrote: I want one ... so I can ... lean back ... in a nice relaxed position. It's called voice recognition software ;P

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            I will probably get a new keyboard this week, finally ... Any advice for me ? My Blog

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            Douglas Troy
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            Ya know ... you're really nobody until you own one of these Keyboard[^] ... I'm still a nobody, but I'm trying to save you ... ;)


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              I want one that is physically separated into two pieces, so I can attach each half to armrests of my chair and lean back and type in a nice relaxed position. Mounted on a Laz-y-Boy chair would be nice. Along with a large wall mounted flat screen panel so I can see the small type while reclining, like they use on the bridge of the Enterprise. In fact, I'll just take the bridge (old generation please). Marc My website
              Latest Articles: Object Comparer String Helpers

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              Paul Watson
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              Sort of like this[^]? And I do distinctly remember someone making exactly the chair you describe. It was almost a full cage with the user reclining in a leather chair, the keyboards falling under each hand and the big LCD hanging in front of them. Sadly I can't find the link. Google is infallible, it must be my search terms :-> regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Gary Wheeler wrote: It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...

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                Marc Clifton wrote: I want one ... so I can ... lean back ... in a nice relaxed position. It's called voice recognition software ;P

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                El Corazon
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                Graham Bradshaw wrote: It's called voice recognition software We considered that here once.... decided against it... Tech: "hey, fred, time for lunch." Computer: "Voice command to launch. Preparing to launch." Tech: "No, abort, abort!" _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                  Lost User
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                  I just bought a Microsft keyboard, traditional layout with a few extra buttons. This was so I could get a good quality keyboard, the Compaq ones at work are rubbish. Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D

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                    Ian Darling
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                    One that is beverage proof? :) Microsoft Natural Elite keyboards aren't. (Although I still got another one, because they're otherwise bloody great).


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                    • S Sebastien Lachance

                      I will probably get a new keyboard this week, finally ... Any advice for me ? My Blog

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                      El Corazon
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                      I prefer feel and function of Logitech keyboards except that they no longer carry an ergo except in combo with mice, and I tend to upgrade mice and keyboards as improvements come rather than wait until a combo has both. I have to have the natural split keyboards because of extra wide shoulders. So I have a MS natural multimedia keyboard. which does me good. It isn't coffee proof as others have found out. but I don't know many that are. And mouse is a Logitech laser which I can't live without anymore. I loosly recommend the keyboard, highly recommend the mouse. If I find a better keyboard I am willing to jump, but this does well for me. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                        You could go old school[^], hardcore[^], all green peace[^] or, like me, new age[^]. The MS one that I have is a lovely keyboard. The multimedia controls on it are surprisingly useful (though the other app keys are less so and the Function Lock is annoying till you have remapped them). regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Gary Wheeler wrote: It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...

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                        Paul Watson wrote: all green peace[^] There is a guy in my office who’s keyboard looks very similar to the green peace keyboard. Except instead of vegetation growing out of the keys there are potato chips, bread crumbs, salami and pretty much all of his lunch time favorites X| ...we keep trying to convince him that "take a lunch break" means get up and walk away from your computer to eat lunch :wtf:

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                          I will probably get a new keyboard this week, finally ... Any advice for me ? My Blog

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                          Most keyboards sold today are crap, so expect to get a crap keyboard. You may not, but, likely you will. Sorry, that's just the way things are. That said, you can probably minimize the damage by watching for the three Signs of a Really Bad Keyboard:

                          1. L-shaped Enter/Return key
                          2. Suspiciously small spacebar
                          3. Function keys not separated into three groups of four keys

                          All three of these are Crimes Against Humanity, devised by the demon QWERTY to reduce typing speed when switching keyboards.

                          Firefox? CodeProject? GreaseMonkey? A better Life?

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                            I will probably get a new keyboard this week, finally ... Any advice for me ? My Blog

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                            matthias s 0
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                            I second Pauls suggestion. Got as well the MS keyboard and I don't want to ever miss it. Sometime it even types the code on its own. Evinthaugh somtaims ist getd problengs speling. [This message was generated by my keyboard] /matthias

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                              I will probably get a new keyboard this week, finally ... Any advice for me ? My Blog

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                              I like traditional layout so I'm using Logitech UltraX at home. It's very stylish and surprisingly sturdy/heavy for something this small, so elegant looking and that's made in China. The only fault I can think of the force required to press buttons is too big, it gets better with time, but I still wish for a softer click. There is a keyboard similar to ultrax by BTC with much softer click, but it got stupid illumination built in and quite expensive at $60MSRP. PS all those wireless keyboards are a no go for me because of the lag. I always "overshoot", for example I try to erase something, I stop at exact moment I want my pc to stop, but it keeps going, sometimes swallowing an extra word. Most of the wireless keyboards also can't catch up with my typing so both of these issues make wireless experience mindblowingly frustrating for me.

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                                You could go old school[^], hardcore[^], all green peace[^] or, like me, new age[^]. The MS one that I have is a lovely keyboard. The multimedia controls on it are surprisingly useful (though the other app keys are less so and the Function Lock is annoying till you have remapped them). regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Gary Wheeler wrote: It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...

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                                Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                Paul Watson wrote: old school[^] That's heavy machinery, and should only be operated by trained personel. ;) Good music: In my rosary[^]

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                                  I want one that is physically separated into two pieces, so I can attach each half to armrests of my chair and lean back and type in a nice relaxed position. Mounted on a Laz-y-Boy chair would be nice. Along with a large wall mounted flat screen panel so I can see the small type while reclining, like they use on the bridge of the Enterprise. In fact, I'll just take the bridge (old generation please). Marc My website
                                  Latest Articles: Object Comparer String Helpers

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                                  Brigg Thorp
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                                  So would you use your third leg for the mouse? :) Brigg Thorp Senior Software Engineer Timex Corporation

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                                    I want one that is physically separated into two pieces, so I can attach each half to armrests of my chair and lean back and type in a nice relaxed position. Mounted on a Laz-y-Boy chair would be nice. Along with a large wall mounted flat screen panel so I can see the small type while reclining, like they use on the bridge of the Enterprise. In fact, I'll just take the bridge (old generation please). Marc My website
                                    Latest Articles: Object Comparer String Helpers

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                                    peterchen
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                                    the belly grew so large that, with a normal keyboard in fromt of you, you can't reach the function keys anymore ;P [edit]What do you think of this[^]? [/edit]


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                                      I will probably get a new keyboard this week, finally ... Any advice for me ? My Blog

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                                      There's two schools: "soft touch" and "clickety". Like most mass-typers I prefer the latter. Extra buttons are nice - but try if they fit your typing style. ex a.1: one collegue has a nice keyboard that remaps the function keys to "useful stiff", like "open document in MS Word" , "Print in MS Word" etc. With the added feature of remap being on after reboot. ex a.2 another co has a keyboard I quite like, but one of the the extra function keys (really nice) gets into my typing of "Shift".


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                                        Sort of like this[^]? And I do distinctly remember someone making exactly the chair you describe. It was almost a full cage with the user reclining in a leather chair, the keyboards falling under each hand and the big LCD hanging in front of them. Sadly I can't find the link. Google is infallible, it must be my search terms :-> regards, Paul Watson South Africa PMW Photography Gary Wheeler wrote: It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...

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                                        Marc Clifton
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                                        Paul Watson wrote: Sort of like this[^]? Yeah, exactly! Thanks for the link! Marc My website
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                                          Most keyboards sold today are crap, so expect to get a crap keyboard. You may not, but, likely you will. Sorry, that's just the way things are. That said, you can probably minimize the damage by watching for the three Signs of a Really Bad Keyboard:

                                          1. L-shaped Enter/Return key
                                          2. Suspiciously small spacebar
                                          3. Function keys not separated into three groups of four keys

                                          All three of these are Crimes Against Humanity, devised by the demon QWERTY to reduce typing speed when switching keyboards.

                                          Firefox? CodeProject? GreaseMonkey? A better Life?

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                                          David Stone
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                                          You know Josh, I was just thinking, I don't suppose we (by that, I mean you) could replace the standard textarea in the CPHog script with a Midas control, complete with all the nice control key stuff (Ctrl+I for italics, Ctrl+B for bold, Ctrl+U for underline...etc). ;)

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