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The new keyboard...
Sep. 5th, 2013 12:56 pmCurrently typing on the new Fellowes split keyboard! It seems much better than the one I returned; hey-ho, the space bar actually presses without having to pound it. What a concept!
The keys are quieter than my old one, but pretty much feel the same in almost every way.
I think we have a winner!
About the row of Sooper Speshul Keys: There's one marked WWW that, not surprisingly, opens up Mozilla (or if Mozilla is already open, apparently defaults it to the home page. *makes note not to press that key when in the middle of an email or LJ post*). Another one is marked E-mail and it opens up Windows Mail, which I don't use and don't plan to, so that one's useless. Another is labelled "Search" and so far as I can tell, it does nothing, though I may have by pressing the button released a bunch of St. Bernards into the Alps. Another says "Sleep"... and as advertised, puts my 'puter to sleep (oh how I wish it would put my teenager to sleep). And there are volume controls which also seem to work as advertised.
It doesn't look like I can reprogram them, so alas, no button for a calculator,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_winterwitch!
And another good thing... the layout is just like my old keyboard so I'm happily typing away as easily as before the old one deteriorated, and there's a tiny little ridge on the J and F keys. I was forever putting my hand in the wrong spot on that temporary keyboard, which had no handy little ridges, so everything I typed looked like some sort of Tolkien knock-off, made-up fantasy language. You know: tje rogjt jamd ;etters were a;; pff bu pme/ ("the right hand letters were all off by one.") And praise be, the delete/insert keys are where they should be, arranged vertically instead of horizontally like on the temporary keyboard. I was forever trying to hit "home" and getting "insert" instead.
So yay! It appears I'm back in business.
The keys are quieter than my old one, but pretty much feel the same in almost every way.
I think we have a winner!
About the row of Sooper Speshul Keys: There's one marked WWW that, not surprisingly, opens up Mozilla (or if Mozilla is already open, apparently defaults it to the home page. *makes note not to press that key when in the middle of an email or LJ post*). Another one is marked E-mail and it opens up Windows Mail, which I don't use and don't plan to, so that one's useless. Another is labelled "Search" and so far as I can tell, it does nothing, though I may have by pressing the button released a bunch of St. Bernards into the Alps. Another says "Sleep"... and as advertised, puts my 'puter to sleep (oh how I wish it would put my teenager to sleep). And there are volume controls which also seem to work as advertised.
It doesn't look like I can reprogram them, so alas, no button for a calculator,
the_winterwitch!And another good thing... the layout is just like my old keyboard so I'm happily typing away as easily as before the old one deteriorated, and there's a tiny little ridge on the J and F keys. I was forever putting my hand in the wrong spot on that temporary keyboard, which had no handy little ridges, so everything I typed looked like some sort of Tolkien knock-off, made-up fantasy language. You know: tje rogjt jamd ;etters were a;; pff bu pme/ ("the right hand letters were all off by one.") And praise be, the delete/insert keys are where they should be, arranged vertically instead of horizontally like on the temporary keyboard. I was forever trying to hit "home" and getting "insert" instead.
So yay! It appears I'm back in business.
