Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Typing made easy with DSK!

Yesterday, i was thinking about the amount of typing i do, whether it is Documentation/Coding, and the impact on hands. That is when i stumbled upon this Dvorak Simplified Keyboard.

There are 2 ways to use it, one go for new Dvorak Keyboards, (where the keys are arranged in the Dvorak layout). Second one is free, software implementation.
Most of the Operating Systems (Windows, MAC or *nix) support Dvorák Layout.

So its just a matter of changing the input layout to US-Dvorak!.
You get good amount of information here and here.

I have just started to learn it. Will post my finding after some days, when i will really start using it.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Music and Musings.

Today, when i am traveling to office, i took my brother's handy music set (Sony NetMD along with Bose headsets). The travel takes approximately 1.5 hours.

I am amazed with the quality of sound and song on a MiniDisc, when compared to new Age Memory based MP3 players! I am not crazy about music and sound, but surely i love to listen good music. Well i can tell the impedence and power impacts on a speaker output quality. But, if you ask my brother, he will tell all about, how 2.1 is different from 5.1, and if you need a reciever to listen 5.1 encoded DVD, how to improve quality of sound of normal FM stations or Satellite Radio etc. etc.

My brother has done really good job in bringing in this combination of NetMD and Bose headsets.

Thanks Harsha! You have really nice collection of songs.