Belkin Ergoboard Pro USB

*Model*: F8E887-BLK *Switch Type*: Silent Rubber Dome *Cost*: $32.99 off of “buy.com”:http://www.buy.com *Connector Type*: USB A co-worker of mine swears by the PS/2 version of the Belkin Ergoboard, so I decided to try out the USB version. I used it for a good two months or so, and here are my impressions. h3. Oddness The […]

WRT54GL

I finally got back on the wrt54g bandwagon. I was sort of on it before (I had the GS, but it was unsupported at the time, so I gave it to a friend). This time I got the 54GL, solely for the purpose of running 3rd party firmware. For now, I’m running “DD-WRT”:http://www.dd-wrt.com. It seems […]

Mac Pro at the Apple Store

After Ultimate Frisbee at work today, we stopped by the Apple Store real quick because a co-worker needed to buy an iPod. So I checked out the Mac Pro. Except that there was _no Pro-level software installed!_ What is the point of showing off your Pro level machine if people can’t test the software they’d […]

Cost and Worth

When I ask myself, “Is this item worth the price?” how am I supposed to answer that question? An even harder question: “Will this item be worth the price in the future?” or “How will I feel about this purchase after I’ve made it?” I can’t decide on how to decide whether a MacPro is […]

Mac Pro, and other thoughts

Well, it’s over, and to be honest, it wasn’t very surprising. I’m not sure what to make of the Mac Pro’s yet. On the one hand, they seem very well designed and more importantly, a product that I’d be happy with. On the flipside, the cheapest one is $2200 (dual dual 2.0ghz). It’s not a […]

WWDC Predictions

Well, I guess all the blogs are making their own guesses, so I might as well join the fray. I’ll divide things into likeliness levels, L1 being the most likely, through L3 being the most unlikely: * L1: Mac Pro (desktop), some kind of expanded iTunes service, Leopard announcements * L2: iPhone, MBP or MB […]

F-keys on a mac

I guess this might be pretty obvious to long time mac users, but it’s a recent realization of mine, so I’ll write it down in case anyone chances upon it. On a Powerbook (as well as MacBooks and MacBook Pro’s), the F-keys double as functional keys that control hardware features like brightness, volume, and keyboard […]

Dual keyboard

Looking at the Kinesis Evolution got me thinking, what prevents someone from using two ‘mini’ keyboards hooked up to the same computer to simulate the same effect? You’d pretty much have one full keyboard for each hand, but you could position them in any orientation that you want. Would there be weird timing issues between […]