Ergonomic keyboard for the Mac

The keyboards that come with Macs look really nice, the quality seems pretty good, but I just cannot use a flat keyboard, after a few days my wrists and hands started complaining big time.

After some searching I came across the Kinesis Freestyle keyboard, they make one with Windows layout and another with Mac layout. They are not cheap, however I use a keyboard all day, every day so for me it is worth the money.

If you get the Freestyle you also need to get the Freestyle VIP - Keyboard accessories kit, otherwise you basically just have a flat keyboard again

• Kinesis Freestyle Solo™ Mac USB Keyboard
• Kinesis Freestyle VIP - Keyboard accessories kit

The VIP accessory kit will give you 10 and 15 degree angles, they also have some other accessory kits that will give you up to 90 degree angle, I believe that kit is very expensive, the 15 degree works fine for me, but the Ascent kit looks interesting.

• Kinesis keyboards
• Ascent kit - up to 90 degree 

Some pics

Eight inches of cable between each side of the keyboard, put them where you want

pivot point if you want them close and asymmetrical

10 degree

15 degree

Ubuntu really is easy

Just installed Ubuntu Desktop on my 'old' (not that old really) Dell Dimension 2400 Celeron. Don't use this computer much anymore and have been wanting to check out Ubuntu.

well the install was way too easy.
- downloaded the iso image from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
- burned it to a cd using InfraRecorder
- put that in the old 2400 and selected boot from CD-ROM
- Ubuntu OS booted from the CD and I was up and running at that point; but only from disc
- Had to click the install short cut on the desk top and wait a short while

That was it - no driver issues at all!!!
I was on my network and downloading the Ubuntu updates immediately, browing the internet with FireFox and watching avi files with Totem ...

One really cool thing with Ubuntu (maybe Linux in general?) with out any additional installs I could navigate to my other Windows machines and pull files off the File Shares; simple as going to 'Places' -> 'Network' -> 'Windows Network' -> selecting the machine to browse to

Later I might look into setting up Samba so I can share from Windows to the Linux machine

Definitly going to install the Ubuntu Server Edition on my laptop soon and create a simple web site using Ruby on Rails, just need to find that 'extra' time

Thanks to my Dad for turning me on to Ubuntu!