Some weeks ago, while reading Bit Literacy, I decided to teach myself touch typing with the Dvorak keyboard layout. Because I am 1) impatient and 2) constantly pressed for time at work (hence, my decision to switch), I’ve been taking things slow: practicing drills for an hour here and there, a few times a week, and using Qwerty the rest of the time.
Now that I’ve covered the entire alphabet in Dvorak, I’m making the switch.
Why? [click to continue…]
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My Facebook friends know all about my recent computer woes. They started when my computer started acting funny. Applications kept crashing. Restarting took several minutes, not seconds – an eternity by Mac standards. My keyboard sporadically stopped working.
At my wit’s end, I tried to wipe my hard drive and start afresh. (This was after Norton assured me that all was well on the Mac side of things.) My computer went into lockdown to protect its buggy self, and I hauled the machine to the nearest Apple store, where I described the problem.
Here’s where things went wrong. [click to continue…]
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