Solutions for hand injury from computer use
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From: Emile van Sebille on 1 Jul 2010 14:17 On 7/1/2010 10:46 AM Brian Victor said... > Emile van Sebille wrote: >> When I started having trouble about ten years ago, I switched to a >> keyboard with integrated mouse pad. No problems since... > > Where did you find that? I've been looking for one. (Assuming you mean > a trackpad, and not a mouse pad.) Actually, I guess it's called a touchpad? And they are hard to find with the ergonomic split keyboard and touchpad placement I prefer. I have three systems I do most of my work on, so when I spot the kind I like I buy four or more so I can update all the keyboards at once and still have a spare. A quick check on cdw.com doesn't show any at the moment. Froogle shows some, but none that match the layout I like. Emile
From: Aahz on 1 Jul 2010 14:35 In article <20100701190033.15ceaeea(a)geekmail.INVALID>, Andreas Waldenburger <usenot(a)geekmail.INVALID> wrote: > >Since we're on the subject: I find the best solution for "lots of >typing with a little mousing" to be a keyboard with a pointing stick >(or track point or nav stick or whatever people call it). I'm not quite >sure why they haven't become standard issue on keyboards. Shame, is >what that is. My solution is to simply use the pointing device as little as possible. Keyboards rule! -- Aahz (aahz(a)pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra
From: Cameron Simpson on 1 Jul 2010 15:58 On 01Jul2010 19:00, Andreas Waldenburger <usenot(a)geekmail.INVALID> wrote: | On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:35:31 -0700 Ethan Furman <ethan(a)stoneleaf.us> | wrote: | > I'll have to give the left-handed mouse a try... hmmm -- not too bad | > so far. | | Since we're on the subject: I find the best solution for "lots of | typing with a little mousing" to be a keyboard with a pointing stick | (or track point or nav stick or whatever people call it). I'm not quite | sure why they haven't become standard issue on keyboards. Shame, is | what that is. I like the pointing stick too ("trackpoint" in IBM land), yea, even to the point of specially buying an IBM trackpoint keyboard several years ago for our computer room. I used to strongly favour ThinkPads for the same reason (they are/were decent in other ways too, but it was the trackpoint that was their killer feature for me). I've been pushed to a MacBook of late (changed jobs and death/tiredness of the thinkpads) and am getting by with the touchpad, whcih works fairly well; I used to always turn touchpads off in the past, so maybe my stance has changed slightly - I used to brush them all the time, and many systems doubled up a transient brush as a mouse click:-( The Mac's click-to-focus model may also be helping me here - my thinkpad desktop would be UNIX X11 in focus-follows-mouse mode, which is far more sensitive to trouble from accidental mouse movement. But yes, the trackpoint _greatly_ reduced my need to move my arms to reach for a mouse. Loved it. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ "I'm a lawyer." "Honest?" "No, the usual kind."
From: Chris Rebert on 1 Jul 2010 19:07
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Andreas Waldenburger <usenot(a)geekmail.invalid> wrote: > On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:35:31 -0700 Ethan Furman <ethan(a)stoneleaf.us> > wrote: > >> I'll have to give the left-handed mouse a try... hmmm -- not too bad >> so far. > > Since we're on the subject: I find the best solution for "lots of > typing with a little mousing" to be a keyboard with a pointing stick > (or track point or nav stick or whatever people call it). The appropriate term varies: http://xkcd.com/243/ Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com |