On 02/07/2011 04:57 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 05:21, Chris Jones<[email protected]> wrote:
I took a file to the F, J, 4, 8, F4, and F8 keys on the keyboard to
help find them faster.
Interesting.. But shouldn't it be 4& 7 rather than 4& 8..?
No, it might be personal preference but I like my right index finger
on the 8. Furthermore, this keyboard happens to have the 6 on the
left-side of the split, so if I were to rest the index finger on the 7
it would be at the edge.
Then I painted the whole keyboard black!
Like so..?
http://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-ultimate/
Yes, quite like that. That keyboard is where I also got the idea to
cut the rubber domes in a staggered fashion so that the pinkies
encounter less resistance then the index fingers.
Although painting may be a bit extreme, I do recommend filing a notch
into the aforementioned keys. Years later and it still saves me
precious seconds tens of times per day.
If you really want to go wild on the keyboard, you can cut the silicon
domes inside to make the keys easier to press.
No sure about that.. I usually find keyboards way too soft out of the
box..
No! I've yet to find one soft enough!
That is the third thing that I do to any new keyboard now (while the
paint on the key caps is drying, after filing notches).
Keyboard pictures upon request.
I for one would be interested.
I cc'ed you so that if the list strips attachments, at least you
should get it. Some other interesting things on this keyboard are the
silicon cushions for the palms, the tiny Enter key (purloined from the
Scroll Lock key) so that it won't bind when pressed off-center, the
notches filed into the top of the board to find the volume and
Cut/Copy/Paste keys (xmodmap), and some channels carved into the
plastic to assist in finding some other keys (the slanted one near
Delete is obvious in the photo). Of course, the silicon domes inside
have all been sliced to reduce the pressure needed to compress them,
and the keyboard sits on a reverse tilt.
My current mod is to put the Ctrl, Alt, and Shift keys on the floor.
I'm using spring-back light switches (like those in stairwells)
mounted in a wooden board, but the tricky part is to connect the wires
to the inside of the keyboard. There is no place to solder them, so I
put a staple through the plastic circuit matrix membrane, use silver
paint to connect the staple to the matrix, and then solder the wires
to the staple. I've got the Control key working but it's buggy, I want
to perfect it before going for Shift and Alt.
The rest of the house (and the computers, and the car, and the mobile
phone, and even the kids!) suffers from the same mods. There is
nothing conventional here!
Did you ever try ibm "clicky" m-model?
-rainyday
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