Comments on: ControllerMate and automatic fingers

By: Ackbell

Ackbell — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:21:48 +0000

I used the game pad for photoshop, dreamweaver and flash and it rocked, until i got a MacBook Pro and it didn't work other then controller mate... kinda a disaster compared to the software that came with it.

BUt i still use it in windows for gaming and will eventually spend a whole day reprogramming it in controllermate.

By: S. W. Vaughn

S. W. Vaughn — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:32:42 +0000

Oh my! How in the world do you type on that thing? I'm fascinated -- I must get me to the nearest computer store and try one out.

Are you sure it isn't a Klingon model? :-)

By: brock

brock — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:21:39 +0000

Just discovered this link (via andreaharner.com) for the coolest chair ever made…

http://poetictech.com/aura/index.html

That might trump your keyboard in the “weirdest thing ever” category.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:21:57 +0000

John,

In the hope of saving you (and any intel Mac users) a potential headache if you print to a Canon imageRunner with a multi PDL board...

The "PS Helper" that comes conjoined with the PS driver seems to crash the intel Mac. Delete it and youâ€™ll have your Mac back. The PPD will work fine.

Peace -- Jess

By: Steven Levy

Steven Levy — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:09:44 +0000

Hey John,

I remember a while ago you said something about wanting to do podcasts under a geek post and well I found a pretty cool site that is free if you want to try it out. Its called http://www.wildvoice.com the only problem is they dont have mac recording software, but if you already have software then you should try it out. It would be pretty cool.

By: jess

jess — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:51:20 +0000

is that really a picture of your keyboard?! That space age NASA thing??

...do you have seven arms?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:24:45 +0000

you hollywood people are strange, you can't even use a normal freakin! keyboard!

i am jealous of your macbook pro and and mac pro. and VERY envious of the 30 inch monitor.

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:21:19 +0000

Whooo! 121WPM with no mistakes on my first try! How exciting! And here I thought I was still floating around the 80WPM swamp.

By: S. A. Petrich

S. A. Petrich — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:15:13 +0000

I’m not sure that “shyly” was supposed to be italicized. Oh well…

By: S. A. Petrich

S. A. Petrich — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:13:50 +0000

Blimey.

That's all I can say. Blimey

I'm embarassed now.

Next time I'll be writing my meesly 72 wpm I'll cover my thick-as-a-brick Acer laptop with a brown paper bag. Especially when I type away in my... my... my... shyly Microsoft Word.

There, I said it. I'm the low-point of the screenwriting art. I'm that basement kid from that Ursula Le Guin's story -- what was it called again, Ofelas, Ogilvy, Omeini, O something -- my misery serves as an antipode to your awesomness.

That is, untill I save some money and buy myself some new stuff.

By: Vlad Tepes

Vlad Tepes — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:57:21 +0000

QWERTY wasn’t designed to slow anyone down. That’s an old urban legend. It was designed to prevent the keys from jamming, yes, but not by making people type more slowly. It was by spacing out the most commonly used keys so the typebars wouldn’t get in each others’ way.