Nothing and More

As most of you know I have been dealing with tendinitis for a couple of months now, I have found a way of positioning my hands on my laptop keyboard that enables me to type without any pain, and so far without making the condition worst. I did not invent it, I found a post on a newsgroup, it’s quite simple for those that want to try it.

Instead of placing your fingers on the home row (asdf | jkl;) I place it like so (qwef | jiop) this puts my wrists on a angle similar to what an ergonomic keyboard has, as I said works for me, will probably not work for you, we are all different.

To avoid using the mouse, I’m using a keyboard launcher application called Deskbar, it’s quite nice. In OSX you have: Quicksilver, in Linux/Gnome you have: Deskbar, in Windows you have: Launchy.

For browsing the web I’m using FireFox with Conkeror, this is a keyboard driven FireFox interface, it uses Emacs keybindings by default, but you can customize it to use whatever keybindings you prefer.

For coding/writing/blogging/irc/IM/email I use Emacs, with quite a few elisp code I’ve written to handle repetitive tasks for me, as well as elisp code by other authors.

By no means I am advocating you use or try any of the above programs, or do I think they are the best. They are the best for my use.

Other things I’m planning to do in the shot term is buying myself one of this Aeron Chair I don’t think I need to explain why I’m going to buy one of this, but for those that need the explanation, Google is your friend :).

I hope this post can help those with the same problems I am facing, and making computer use pain and injury free.