Seriously trivial thoughts
Not a whole lot of progress. It is becoming more comfortable and natural. However, it is still a little frustrating at times if I have to do a lot of mousing, like with graphics or web development. An unforeseen issue is now having to learn to drink coffee using my right hand…yes I drink liquids …
I’ve been trying to talk myself out of a Kindle or Sony Reader for a long time. I know it doesn’t make any sense for me, but they are just cool. Well, I was on my annual walk-down-every-aisle-of-Fry’s trip (my birthday is Weds) and I came across the Sony in THREE different locations. IS SOMEONE …
I’ve been seriously trying to decide between the Kindle and the Sony Reader, but I’ve just discovered that you can’t beat a slate-style tabletPC-I’ve got the Motion Computing LE1700. Digital media consumers, like me, have long moved way beyond the one-dimensional black and white mediums and onto color-intensive things like magazines, websites, etc. Even newspapers …
I absolutely love little utilities that make life a little easier and Nuance’s T9 Nav is exactly that. It basically puts nearly everything on your N95 just a few keypresses away. No more hunting through menus to find the application, contact, appointment, etc. you are looking for. When you first start T9 Nav up, it …
Well, it’s been a week since I switched to using my left hand to operate my mouse. I’m still not even close as accurate as using my right, but I think the switch in my head has flipped. I say this because yesterday, when I was reaching for the mouse on a PC I don’t …
Ok, so using an upside-down mouse was kinda silly. My new solution is to learn to mouse with my left hand. A quick Google search shows that it has been done successfully and at least one said that they became amidexerous and could mouse with either hand. Seems like this is somewhat akin to being …
Unfortunately, the excitement over my newly constructed mouse-click foot pedal has quickly faded as I find it a little uncomfortable to use continuously. I find that over long periods, keeping my foot angled up (i.e., off the pedal) can cause its own type of pain. I was thinking that there must be a utility that …
How to build a mouse button foot pedal for $20.
I don’t run into it alot, but everyonce in a while I’d like to click on an email link to send an email. You know, something like doug@notmail.com. Well, unfortunately, I use gMail which is a web-based email client. Since you can’t set a web-based email service as the default Windows email client, Outlook will …
I often come across websites that I want to read later, but they don’t truly warrant adding formal bookmark. I used to use a special Temp folder for these, but it tended to grow and grow, and was a pain to maintain. Well, I chanced upon this cool Firefox extension called Read It Later (RIT). …