Archive for May 24, 2007

My dream keyboard and no its not the Logitech G15

Its the Optimus Maximus. I read about these a while back and when they were estimating a street price of $200 and I was all for it. Even $300 wouldn’t have seemed absurd, but $1564.37? That’s outta my league unless I start a business and write it off for taxes.

Dell wearing green boots?

In an interesting and environmentally friendly move Dell is apparently selling trees to offset the pollution caused by the production of electricity to power their products.

For those of you non-Windows weenies, try a day without X and see if you go crying home to mama

I haven’t tried it myself yet, and the writer of the original article apparently hasn’t either, but I know a few people that probably wouldn’t die if they didn’t see the light of X for 24 hours. Do you think you could be productive without a full and rich GUI? Judging from this article I think I could make an attempt, although I might miss some of the annoying ads when browsing the web.

3D Mouse - the latest in computer geek bling

Trolling Digg today I found a nifty little hardware article. Apparently some students at WPI have created a mouse that’s worn on your finger. It works similarly to GPS by using multiple receivers to track the position of the mouse on your finger. Check out the full article here.

OpenOffice not immune to old school macros hacks?

Judging from this article just because its free doesn’t always make it better.

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