This time last year the ErgoSolo company launched its first Typing Contest with prizes and awards. Since then it has become a regular event supplemented with extra fun activities. Everyone is welcome to take part in New Year championships free! Regular participation and impressive results will be awarded.

If you buy Assolo alla Tastiera before December 25, 2007, we will send you a MultiSolo on the Keyboard CD as your Christmas gift. We like small pleasantries and hope you do too!

One thing that can be hardly found among thousands of typing tutors all over the world is the method. If you type ‘typing tutors’ in Google, it will return 33,300 links! Even if 1/10 of these links are not duplicates or trash, we will still have an impressive number to deal with. Do they all teach touch typing? Yes, they do. What is the method used in each program? This is the question which thrills me.

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The work on the French typing tutor starts in a few weeks! All the features of SOLO on the Keyboard for the AZETRY layout.

I was tempted to see the new Deluxe version of a classical typing tutor mainly because I looked through the list of features modern typing tutors should boast of and found that the first place is still with the classics.

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It's fun to read reviews like this:
http://typing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
Do you know why? Because loads of users who download YESolo on the Keyboard have already tried these top ten and... are still searching for THE typing tutor.
I am actually impressed with the number of features listed. All of them are really useful and cute. Obviously, the success of touch typing training is hidden somewhere else.
However, the choice is left for the users.

Computer programmers, office workers, college students and Internet addicts everywhere can now breathe a sigh of relief: there is better evidence that genetics rather than hand use is the cause of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). A new study presented today at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons indicates that the causal link between CTS and repetitive use of the hands is much weaker than has been assumed.

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Keyboard manufacturers are seeking for the ways to make the life of typists more comfortable. VisiKey keyboards care for the visually impaired or just those who haven't bothered to learn touch typing and still look at the keyboard while typing.

So, VisiKey keyboards claim to reduce eye strain of "lazy" typists with the help of 430% larger print of the keys on the keyboard. Moreover, "high contrast (white on black) lettering is generally easier for most people to distinguish at a glance".



VisiKey website

Are you still hesitating between Dvorak and QWERTY? Are you still searching for a more ergonomic layout? Stop.
Now you have a chance to design a keyboard of your own. With the help of a customizable computer keyboard called DX1 keyboard.

“These keys are like blank tapes,” said Pankaj Garg, a software architect at Mountain View, Calif.-based Ergodex, which developed the product. “You can make them whatever you want them to be.”

You can, for example, assign the keys sets of macros for complex and repetitive software commands in any application that uses a keyboard for input. That includes video editing, word processing and graphics packages, as well as games, e-mail programs and Web browsers. What’s more, you can easily juggle from macros in one application to macros in another. Toggle between Photoshop, Excel and “Counter-Strike.”



http://www.compkeyboard.com

In the study, which was conducted at Insurance Office of America's headquarters in Orlando, Fla., each of nine workstations was equipped with a miniature personal environment-sensor for sampling air temperature every 15 minutes. The researchers recorded the amount of time that employees keyboarded and the amount of time they spent making error corrections. Hedge used a new research approach employing software that can synchronize a specific indoor environmental variable, in this case temperature, with productivity.

When the office temperature in a month-long study increased from 68 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit, typing errors fell by 44 percent and typing output jumped 150 percent. Hedge's study was exploring the link between changes in the physical environment and work performance.

"At 77 (25C) degrees Fahrenheit, the workers were keyboarding 100 percent of the time with a 10 percent error rate, but at 68 (20C)degrees, their keying rate went down to 54 percent of the time with a 25 percent error rate," Hedge says. "Temperature is certainly a key variable that can impact performance."

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct04/temp.productivity.ssl.html