QIDO: Hardware Qwerty to Dvorak converter
Review of the QIDO, a hardware Qwerty to Dvorak keyboard convertor
Hidden Opera
This may be old news to many, but I just learned that Opera is installed by Adobe as part of the Creative Suite.
Turns out Adobe has been using Opera for years as a rendering engine. I’ve read that it’s used in all kinds of places: to display Adobe Help files, in Device Central (to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Never share a user account, but if you do…
There’s an ongoing struggle in my household. I don’t want to use any names…but if it weren’t for my tireless, unrelenting efforts to keep my iMac (which is shared by one other person) free of desktop clutter, there would now be a virtual sea of files cluttering our desktop. You might never guess I was [...]
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 [...]
