QIDO: Hardware Qwerty to Dvorak converter
Review of the QIDO, a hardware Qwerty to Dvorak keyboard convertor
Interesting stuff
A few notes of interest.
1. MacUpdate Spring Bundle: Yet another bundle for $49. Standout included applications are TechTool Pro, Parallels, Circus Ponies Notebook, and NetBarrier.
2. Google Wave: What would E-mail look like if it were invented today? Check out this video preview from the Google I/O developer conference. Pretty interesting and ambitious (and it’s open [...]
On Dvorak and the future of the keyboard
1. Dvorak-Qwerty redux
I decided to test out Tweetdeck, a new Twitter application in Beta developed on the Adobe Air platform. I like it. But when I attempted to hide the app with the shortcut ?-H … it didn’t work. Then it hit me. It’s an Adobe app. Of course it doesn’t work. That’s because I [...]
Scanner Art
Here’s a project idea for the long weekend. Have you heard of scanner art? The basic idea is this: you scan things and you try to make something something artistic with it. Is it art? Is it really photography? Some say yes, some say no. I say, ‘Who cares?’
I have found that I can get [...]
Dvorak-Qwerty support for Adobe CS
So, here’s my latest Dvorak-Qwerty keyboard support rant.
I received a very odd ‘personal’ response from an Adobe customer support representative regarding my request for Dvorak-Qwerty support for Adobe’s Creative Suite applications.
My complaint: Dvorak-Qwerty does not properly work with Adobe products.
(See my previous post for background on DQ if you have no idea what I’m talking [...]
Dvorak victory! TextExpander fixed
Dvorak users of the world scored a little victory this week. The TextExpander team at SmileOnMyMac fixed the problem with the Mac OS Dvorak-Qwerty keyboard layout, detailed in an earlier View from the Dock post.
A recap of this bug: when using the Mac OS Dvorak-Qwerty option, TextExpander did not previously work. Now it does. How [...]
