Re: QIDO Dvorak Converter

It costs a few pennies more that my new Typematrix did. Nevertheless an
interesting concept.


> I'm surprised that I have been unable to find any reference to this product at all on this list, so I thought I'd bring it up. (Maybe I missed something while reading through the recent archives.)
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> It's a USB dongle that plugs in between an ordinary keyboard and computer and converts all your keystrokes to Dvorak. You can switch layouts by pressing NumLock twice. (The website is at http://www.keyghost.com/qido/). Obviously, this is easier than a dedicated hard-wired keyboard since you can easily fit it in your pocket. I still personally prefer the keyboard because I regularly work with some keyboards that use PS/2, such as at my school, where people already get confused and complain if I do so much as reach behind the computer to shove in the power cord if the system won't turn on (so I don't want to additionally muck around with a PS/2-to-USB adapter). Besides that, of course, you get to type on your own keyboard as well as your own keyboard layout. (I have purchased a TypeMatrix,
  but it hasn't arrived yet.) Nevertheless, this seems like a very useful product (just maybe the GRE folks would be a little bit more kindly disposed toward it than a whole keyboard?)
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> Since this is my first post, I'll mention: I just started using Dvorak seriously a little over a week ago, before which I tried once and became so frustrated by losing my typing speed that I gave up. This actually helped me this time, since I already knew where most of the keys were (even after a year and a half, interestingly) and could go right into speed training. I'm already up to about 50 wpm (my qwerty speed was 60-70) and I don't expect myself to be looking back--the temptation to switch to qwerty to type higher speeds is already completely gone.