Comments on: Handy Keyboard Remapper http://deannahoak.com/2006/07/29/handy-keyboard-remapper/ SF/F Copyeditor Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:44:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Southern Writer http://deannahoak.com/2006/07/29/handy-keyboard-remapper/comment-page-1/#comment-2485 Southern Writer Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:04:57 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=257#comment-2485 Those bad ergonomic positions can be worse than you think. I used to have a job where the keyboard was on one of those rollout trays under the desk, but the mouse was on the desk, itself. I worked all day in Excel, so I was constantly reaching for the mouse. The repetitive stress eventually caused two discs (is it disc or disk?) to go out in my neck. My employer didn't provide insurance and fought the workman's comp claim. I couldn't afford the surgery, seeing as how I didn't have forty thousand dollars lying around. Lucky for me, a wonderful reiki master named Christi Cavanaugh in Vail healed me in two thirty minute sessions after months of agony, and being almost completely incapacitated. Repetitive stress injuries are serious business. I love the litte wheel between my mouse buttons! What a lifesaver. Those bad ergonomic positions can be worse than you think. I used to have a job where the keyboard was on one of those rollout trays under the desk, but the mouse was on the desk, itself. I worked all day in Excel, so I was constantly reaching for the mouse. The repetitive stress eventually caused two discs (is it disc or disk?) to go out in my neck. My employer didn’t provide insurance and fought the workman’s comp claim. I couldn’t afford the surgery, seeing as how I didn’t have forty thousand dollars lying around. Lucky for me, a wonderful reiki master named Christi Cavanaugh in Vail healed me in two thirty minute sessions after months of agony, and being almost completely incapacitated. Repetitive stress injuries are serious business. I love the litte wheel between my mouse buttons! What a lifesaver.

]]> By: Deanna Hoak http://deannahoak.com/2006/07/29/handy-keyboard-remapper/comment-page-1/#comment-2484 Deanna Hoak Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:53:02 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=257#comment-2484 That's neat. I still prefer not to scroll, though. It's very difficult to keep from reading as I scroll, and it's much harder to spot typos in moving text. :-) That’s neat. I still prefer not to scroll, though. It’s very difficult to keep from reading as I scroll, and it’s much harder to spot typos in moving text. :-)

]]> By: Quasipsyco http://deannahoak.com/2006/07/29/handy-keyboard-remapper/comment-page-1/#comment-2481 Quasipsyco Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:09:13 +0000 http://deannahoak.com/?p=257#comment-2481 To avoid the hassel of page down, I got a pen tablet. It replaces the mouse and gives me a pen style, and since I am left handed that makes my life easier. It also has a scroll wheel on the tablet so that I can just thumb down a page line by line or page by page depending on how I want it set up. It has a left and right button near the scroll bar. I have the right button set up as a delete key so that I can scroll, highlight text with the pen and then hit the delete key, all with one hand. I like my tablet. You can see it here, at http://www.circuitcity.com/IMAGE/product/enlarged/wac/PC.WAC.CTE440BCCS.RT.JPG To avoid the hassel of page down, I got a pen tablet.

It replaces the mouse and gives me a pen style, and since I am left handed that makes my life easier. It also has a scroll wheel on the tablet so that I can just thumb down a page line by line or page by page depending on how I want it set up.

It has a left and right button near the scroll bar. I have the right button set up as a delete key so that I can scroll, highlight text with the pen and then hit the delete key, all with one hand.

I like my tablet. You can see it here, at http://www.circuitcity.com/IMAGE/product/enlarged/wac/PC.WAC.CTE440BCCS.RT.JPG

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