deskthority

There is nothing worse than being horny and having to go to the bathroom at the same time.

scottc wrote:Since it seems that you're a Mac person, it probably won't bother you that Ctrl-Esc is a Windows shortcut for Winkey.

Ha. I didn't know that. I guess you could do a similar thing with shift and do Shift/Esc instead of Ctrl/Esc.

Interesting! A bit more ambitious than my own ideas, but looks very cool regardless. Is the blue button on the right side a space ordoyouplantotalklikethisforever? :P And is Nm a Function key? It seems a little daunting to me, but that's probably partially due to never having used Dvorak before ...

Reading through the workshop posts and experimenting with KeyRemap4Macbook has got me thinking about building my own compact keyboard. Some of the 40% keyboards seem a little daunting to me, so I started thinking about a layout that would be smaller than a 60% layout, but would reduce the amount of ...

I think there are two separate questions here.

1. How much does the cost structure for producing Topre capacitive switches play into pricing? In other words, is the pricing driven by the cost of production or simply by what the market is willing to pay for the product?

To this question, I have no ...

Wow. Great to see Keyboard Co. supporting the site.

A Filco sounds like just the thing to replace the DSI Mac Modular I'm lukewarm on.

Looks great! I wonder what they have in store for North American distribution.

Would you really want to take hits off something was used as a dildo? Really?

The origin of Apple gestures, they bought the Fingerworks company and the patents:


Interesting. I did not know about the Fingerworks company. What's it like to type on such a keyboard? One of the things I guess I don't like about the trackpad is that tapping can be jarring since there is no give ...

webwit wrote:I won't mention the syringe, but is that a bong, a light saber or a dildo between the monitors?

Heh. The syringe is from when I had to clean off an open wound from surgery twice a day with peroxide.

The thing between the monitors is the support column for the Ergotron arms.

I feel like typing on my new RealForce, so I've decided to write some reviews.

Last month, I had surgery on a finger on my right hand. This made it difficult/impossible to effectively use a standard mouse. Rather than gimping along or taking sick leave, I decided to purchase some pointing devices ...

OK. Here are some quick and dirty photos of messy desks.

The RF 103U-UW in its intended habitat: my office desk
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The RF 103U-UW in its temporary habitat, my desk at home. Here, you can see it plugged in via the USB hub of a DSI Mac Modular keyboard.
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The RF and DSI ...

keyboardlover wrote:Pics or it didn't happen!

What?! And clean up my desk?!

One additional brief comment on the keyboard ... The keypuller and keylocks provided with the 'board were top-notch. With a keylock in place, the key feels like it's just a part of the keyboard structure. The keypuller was fairly easy to use and effective.

No doubt, its still one of the best keyboards you can get. Leaving out the build quality and going entirely by the keyfeel the Topre just was not "mechanical" enough for my taste. A $15 keytronic is not much worse than a $250 Topre if you ignore the look and build quality.


I think the ...

I found the blue LED lights way too bright on my 103ub, and ended up having to cover them with a movie ticket. Are the ones on the UW different?

Maybe the black color provides that much more contrast that it's annoying? The blue LEDs on the 103U-UW don't seem any brighter than, say, the green LED ...

Things have been fairly rough at work and my personal life, so coming home to a new keyboard was something of a refresher. After using a Cherry MX brown keyboard at home for a few weeks, I decided that I really needed to get a new keyboard to use at the office. Since I work in an open plan office ...

This has me thinking about hunting down a MacIvory setup or a real Symbolics system.

Hm. Looks like a cross between pour-over and cold-brew? Not sure about this one.

I like to read what I call "character novel." Books that are more about the characters than for any unusual thing happening. If they were movies, they would be indie films. Margaret Atwood and Robert Olen Butler are some of my favorite fiction authors.

I also like to read science history. There's ...

sixty wrote:I have the big version of the Galant too actually. But its currently on carpet, so thats not optimal.

Sounds like a chance to do some Ikea-hacking. Carpet piercing spikes, anyone?

I use an Ergotron LX Dual Stacking arm. Received it a week or so ago and it has become one of the best purchases I've made so far. I use it to support an NEC LCD2470WNX and a Macbook.

It is relatively easy to setup. Has some decent cable management features, and looks great. Being desk mount ...