Xah Keyboard Blog Archive 2018-07
not sure what this is. if you have info, comment please.
intro to Chinese Input Methods
more update. on its own page.
very nice design!
the scroll wheel can be used as arrows.
- left/right arrow
- move cursor left/right by word
- prev/next window
and for the other hand:
- up/down arrow
- move cursor up/down by paragraph
- page up/down
emacs keyboard used in 70s and 80s
keyboald layout travel graph, interactive app
very interesting.
head tracker
TrackIr 5 Premium Head Tracking for Gaming Buy at amazon
This is a head tracker, for gaming. A new type of input device that's becoming popular. It's very significant for programer as well. Replaces mouse. Use together with OS's “dwell” (autoclick) feature
See also: Ergonomic Mouse
minor update
top keyboard experts
top keyboard experts i know of (no order):
- • Marcin Wichary [2018-07-12 https://twitter.com/mwichary ]
- • ripster ( https://www.reddit.com/user/ripster55)
- • webwit (on deskthority.net or geekhack.org )
- • Thomas Ran https://twitter.com/chyrosran22
- • Jesse Vincent https://twitter.com/obra (keyboardio)
they usually have ~100+ keyboards, historical or otherwise. Done research on various keyboard tech etc.
major update. more photos.
major update. more photos.
Workman Keyboard Layout still going strong
Elecom DEFT Pro Trackball News. Works in linux. plug and play, all buttons detected understand latest kernel. thanks to t184756
best keyboard site. Marcin Wichary, JavaScript expert, and segmented display
of all keyboard sites on the web, if there's only one best one, this is perhaps the one.
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens
you don't want to miss it.
its by Marcin Wichary [2018-07-03 https://twitter.com/mwichary ] he's writing a book on history of keyboards. He research, have tens of books on the subject, and travels the world to dig info. and often, he take high quality photos of ancient keyboards that you would not find anywhere.
i've mentioned him a few times here. example: he gave me answer to why space bar was a bar. see Typewriter Spacebar History
by the way, he's also a coder. He used to work for Google, and he wrote the google packman doodle. He's a top expert of JavaScript.
segmented display
he recently wrote this fastastic app, on segmented display. https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/