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Dvořák is a common Czech surname (the feminine form is Dvořáková). It is sometimes spelt without diacritics: Dvorak.

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ABCD: A Basic Course in Dvorak - Dan Wood's original typing course

500 Bob Ranger's Dvorak Keyboard Observations - Interesting narrative of Bob's observations about switching layouts and the psycho-epistemology of keyboarding

Dvorak Assistant (DVAssist) - A 32-bit Windows tray utility to toggle between QWERTY and Dvorak keyboard layouts.
Meta Description: [ DVAssist / Dvorak Assistant. Win 9x/NT tray toggler for Dvorak keyboard layout ]

Dvorak in X-Windows - How to remap the keyboard to a Dvorak layout using X-Windows under Unix.

Dvorak Keyboard and You, The - Information on the Dvorak Keyboard and how to start using it.
Meta Description: [ Information, tips, and links about the Dvorak keyboard layout. This layout was designed to make typing faster, easier, and more comfortable than the standard QWERTY keyboard. ]

Dvorak Keyboard: Efficient Typing for the Computer Age, The - Brief comparison of Dvorak and Sholes (QWERTY) layouts and some background

Fable of the Fable, The - Marcus Brooks refutes Liebowitz and Margolis's The Fable of the Keys. A postscript addresses Typing Errors

Fable of the Keys, The - Academic article opposing Paul David's use of QWERTY as an example of market failure, by economists S. J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis. [Journal of Law Economics]

Jeff Bigler's Dvorak Keyboard page - Includes instructions for remapping your keyboard for Windows, Mac, and XWindows

Let Your Fingers Do Less Walking - Article by Sander Rubin including instructions for using the Dvorak layout in Windows. [Mensa Bulletin]

Programmer Dvorak Keyboard Layout - Variant Dvorak layout relocating symbols to make it easier to write source code in C, C#, Java, Pascal, LISP, CSS and XML. Device drivers for Windows and Linux.

QWERTY vs Dvorak tool - A tool which compares the efficiency of the QWERTY and Dvorak keyboard layouts.
Meta Description: [ The Dvorak Keyboard Layout is a more efficient layout than Qwerty. Paste some text into this tool and see for yourself just how bad Qwerty really is. ]

Standard and Dvorak Keyboards Revisited: Direct Measures of Speed, The - Santa Fe Institute study measuring speed on the two keyboards by the same persons, finding 4% superiority for the Dvorak keyboard, by Leonard J. West. Downloadable in PostScript format.
Meta Description: [ Downloadable ! Author(s): Leonard J. West. 1998 Abstract: The Dvorak keyboard has been claimed to be greatly superior to the standard typwriter keyboard. However, none of the earlier research on the relative merits of the two keyboards provided unconfounded measures, ones permitting attributrion ... ]

This is True - Overview of the Dvorak layout. Sells books on Dvorak and copies of studies of DSK's effectiveness.
Meta Description: [ Information on the Dvorak 'Simplified' Keyboard -- an alternative to the common 'Qwerty' layout. ]

Typing Errors - Article opposing QWERTY's use as a false example of lock-in of inferior technology (as a case against free markets). Less detailed than their 1990 article. By Stan Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis [Reason]

Typing for Nonconformists - The Dvorak alternative keyboard is a boon for the aching hand. By Alex Marshall. [Salon]
Meta Description: [ Typing for nonconformists: By Alex Marshall. The Dvorak alternative keyboard is a boon for the aching hand. ]

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