http://touchcursor.com/blog Musings on TouchCursor Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:36:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been a keyboard Luddite ever since the Windows key was invented and have held onto my faithful old beige model for about ten years, afraid of having to retrain my fingers. In spite of this, I discovered that I quite liked the feel of the keyboard on ... http://touchcursor.com/blog/archive/9/a4-tech-x-slim-keyboard-review/ As well as affecting my productivity in the expected way -- more efficient and comfortable typing and editing -- TouchCursor seems to have tipped a balance for me towards using the keyboard instead of the mouse wherever possible. The first piece of mouse-driven interface I discarded was the Windows Start Menu, ... http://touchcursor.com/blog/archive/8/keyboard-synergy-with-touchcursor/ Something that surprised me when I started getting user feedback about TouchCursor was how many people use virtual machines, such as VirtualPC or VMware: Judging by the small, self-selecting sample of users who have contacted me, it looks like everyone uses them. This prompted me to focus on a problem with ... http://touchcursor.com/blog/archive/7/more-like-hardware/ What's wrong with the ordinary cursor keys? Why would anyone go to the trouble of writing a program like TouchCursor? I had been getting increasingly irritated by the effect that using the cursor keys was having on my typing. I touch type, after a fashion, so I don't look at the ... http://touchcursor.com/blog/archive/6/why-i-wrote-touchcursor/