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T-Mobile clarifies G1 Android pre-order availability and text messaging question
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:14:18 -0700
I was lucky enough to attend the T-Mobile G1 product announcement in New York a couple of weeks ago and actually pre-ordered my own G1 that day on the train back to the airport for my flight home and it turns out it was a good thing I did. I...
The quad-core laptops are here . . . sort of
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:59:43 -0700
Back in August Dell, HP and Lenovo all announced mobile workstations that offer Intel's first quad-core chip for laptops. Those systems are now available for order and reviews of at least one model--the Lenovo ThinkPad W700--are giving a glimpse of the performance you can expect from these 17-inch powerhouses. ...
HP to jump into smartphones. Why?
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:46:16 -0700
Hewlett Packard is jumping deeper into the crowded smartphone market, announcing plans for an iPaq smartphone that will be marketed toward consumers to be released first in Europe before the end of the year and later worldwide, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. In...
Sony announces new Reader eBook device with integrated LED and touch screen
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:10:10 -0700
iRex announced new ebooks with touch screen functionality last week and now Sony just announced the Sony Reader PRS-700 with touch screen functionality. I still have and enjoy using my PRS-505 and this newest model looks to have about the same form factor. Even more impressive to me than the...
Weekend Gadget Guidance: Find speed traps online
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:01:35 -0700
User-generated Google maps of police speed traps are easy to find with Trapster, a site that offers just that: a way to alert other drivers of speed traps in your area. The concept is simple: download the Trapster app for your mobile phone, and use it to...
Mac ready for the enterprise?
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:47:32 -0700
Larry Dignan makes a spirited argument as to why Apple should be working much harder on getting Mac kit into the enterprise. I know it's a Friday afternoon for me and we've already had one false alarm earlier today that got everyone a-Twitter. Only the other day I managed to...

 

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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. ]