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Using Dvorak Keyboard Layouts In OS X Snow Leopard
Switching to the Dvorak keyboard layout doesn’t cost anything and can help you type more easily once you learn to use the layout. Here’s how to go about it using Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
7 Ways To Stop Your Arms Hurting
Are you like many people in this keyboarding age whose arms, wrists, or hands hurt from typing or mousing too much? Even if you don’t have full blown RSI or carpal tunnel, pain after using the computer too much can be disabling, and a signal that you may be in store for worse if you don’t change things. So what can you do?
BBAutoComplete – Typing Enhancer
BBAutoComplete adds word auto-completion to scriptable applications. You type the start of a word, press a key, and BBAutoComplete types the letters to complete the word. If BBAutoComplete guessed wrong, you can keep pressing the key to cycle through other possible completions.
Accented Words and Text Expansion Tools
Text expansion tools are exactly suited to automatically add the accents, graves, and acutes to words as you type. TextExpander offers a free expansion pack to add a list of accented English words automatically, but you could add them to any text expansion tool yourself.
Text Expansion Tools
“Text Expansion: Wasting Time Trying to Save Time” tells of Dustin’s travails as he trys several tools to improve his typing speed. He recently added an addendum, “Text Expanders Revisited”.
Using The Dvorak Keyboard Layout With Leopard
So you’ve decided you want to learn to type using the Dvorak layout but aren’t sure how to set your computer up? Here’s how to do it in Mac OS X Leopard.
Dvorak Keyboard Layout – Switching
Switching to the Dvorak keyboard layout doesn’t cost anything but it does take time and effort. Here’s how to go about it, and why it’s worth the energy to do so.
Text Expansion
I already wrote about TextExpander, but here’s a little more information from Lifehacker about what text expansion is and why it can save keyboard users time and energy: Save Time With Text Substitution is a general introduction which mentions both Mac and Windows programs for text substitution. TextExpander Gets Even Better is an in-depth look [...]
TextExpander
TextExpander is a great program for those who use a keyboard but want to save typing effort or keystrokes. It takes a bit of setting up to get it to work with you, but once you’re up and running it can be very useful.
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