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At work we got talking about Dvorak a little while back. I’ve been picking through this tutorial as I get time and really enjoying it. Just google Dvorak to read up on what so different about it. The main point I like is that people claim it reduces stress on your wrists. I figure with how much I’m on a computer it’s worth a try. I haven’t found any scientific evidence that it actually helps. Maybe I’ll get to the point of using it full time one day and have my own claim.

You can reconfigure your keyboard to use this layout regardless of it’s labelling. I’ve got my fedora and mac configured so I can swap between qwerty and dvorak very easily. There’s plenty of info on google on how to set this up. Once it’s setup on a mac just select your layout from the keyboard notification icon near the date/time on your menu bar. On fedora I use L-shift+Caps-Lock and it switches in and out of dvorak. I assume you can do it on windows too, but I don’t have a windows machine to try it on.

Still on lesson 17 in the tutorial so I can’t really do anything with it other than the tutorial yet… but I’m sure I’ll post a blog post in dvorak when I get to that level

ABCD: A Basic Course in Dvorak :: http://gigliwood.com/abcd/

This entry was posted on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 11:52 am and is filed under I'm a Geek, Technology.