The Anonymous Widower

A Better Keyboard

I’ve just installed a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 5000, which I bought from PC-World in Cambridge for £49.99 as it was on special offer and also because a guy called Simon took the trouble to sympathise with my needs.

It’s a lot better, as the keys have a good feel and the mouse seems properly bal\nced with the keyboard.  I’ve also started to use my left hand to do other than shift and control.  Now that I’ve installed the special software, I’ve also been able to disable the caps lock key.  It’s a pity I can’t do this for control and Windows. So at least one of my problems has been mitigated.

I do hope the next version of the software allows disabling most of control, but retaining those like control-C that I want.

It certainly a lot better than anything else I’ve tried.  All the driver needs is a little bit of thought and we would have a stroke-friendly keyboard.

For some reason this post attracts a large amount of spam comments in Russian.  Whoever is posting these, could they please Foxtrot Oscar and get back to their vodka. If they are comatose, Isuspect they can’t post.  I delete all the comments which WordPress marks as spam, so they are not getting any gain, but I’m getting a bit of pain.

On July 14th I deleted 23 of these comments. On the 16th, 34 hit the dust. 2 so far on the 17th.

June 29, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Computing | Keyboard