zCover TypeOn Keyboard Skin for Apple Keyboards and laptops

By Ricky Buchanan • April 26, 2007

Made of flexible silicone, the TypeOn skin is washable and durable; it helps protect the keyboard from spills, dust and crumbs.

The website lists skins for the desktop keyboards, bluetooth keyboards, and for the PowerBook, iBook, MacBook, and MacBook Pro laptops.

There are skins printed with the default US keyboard layout in regular or large print, the Dvorak layout used by OS X, or with keyboard shortcuts for common programs including Adobe Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, as well as blank translucent skins in many different colours.

Website: zCover TypeOn Keyboard Skin for Apple Keyboards and laptops

- Ricky Buchanan

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 33 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websitse she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

5 Responses to “ zCover TypeOn Keyboard Skin for Apple Keyboards and laptops ”

Wrinkles Sep 30th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

Does the Typeon skin make the whole keyboard entirely waterproof - or is it just splash proof.
Ricky Buchanan Sep 30th, 2008 at 9:19 pm

@Wrinkles: You’d have to ask the zCover people to be absolutely sure, but I’d assume it’s just splashproof. Underwater keyboarding is usuallly a fairly rare event!
Jeff Dec 9th, 2008 at 4:23 am

No it does not make the keyboard waterproof. it is a skin that is placed on top of the key board so it keeps dust, dirt and spills out of the keyboard if you submerge the keyboard underwater the skin will not do anything to help.
Ricky Buchanan Dec 10th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

@Jeff: Thanks for the clarification. I spent ages digging cat hair out of my Kinesis keyboard this week, so I am suddenly wishing there were skins that fit the Kinesis keyboards too!
Gigneeper Dec 20th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

Thanks the author!

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