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The Best Ways to Share a Mouse and Keyboard Across Multiple Computers
For a lot of us, day-to-day computing involves using more than one computer — and sometimes more than one computer operating system too. That can mean a lot of wires and a lot of swapping between keyboards, mice and trackpads, but there are now multiple hardware and software options for sharing one set of input…
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This Website Can Figure Out What You’re Typing Just By Listening to Your Loud Mechanical Keyboard
Need another reason to skip the upgrade to a clackety mechanical keyboard, besides a little sympathy for your co-workers who will undoubtedly suffer from your furious typing? It turns out that all that’s needed to eavesdrop on what’s being typed on a loud keyboard is a microphone and some clever software.
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It’s Impossible to Spill on Your Keyboard When Your Drink Is Your Keyboard
Paranoid about spilling food or drinks on your computer or keyboard? You can always not eat at your desk, but back here in reality, a more complicated solution is to build yourself a cup wrapped in a working version of Google’s mobile Gboard keyboard. After all, if the keyboard is already in hand while you’re…
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Sadistic One-Handed Keypad Lets You Type on a Computer Using T9 Predictive Text Like It’s 1999
The arrival of the smartphone made mobile messaging infinitely easier, but for those who some reason still miss typing out long messages on a tiny nine-button keypad, Guy Dupont has created a compact computer keyboard alternative called the T9 Macropad that brings predictive text to the desktop.