Thoughts

Anyone that says money can’t buy happiness doesn’t know where to shop.

Or, worse still, wind itself around the little rollers that the mouse-ball turns.

Solution - buy an optical mouse (or sell the dog!)

Have you noticed how difficult it's become to dismantle the keyboard to clean out all the crumbs, staples, spilt tea/coffee, etc.? Then playing Scrabble with the keys when trying to put them all back where they came from by memory?

QWERTY be damned!! What was wrong with good old ABC???

GG

"The Gods made Heavy Metal"

GG, you actually take the key pads off???

You often have to Mrs. M. If there are no screws on the bottom it means they've hidden several plastic clips under the keys as well as around the perimeter(they might have done so in any case), at least that's how it's been on most of the keyboards I've dealt with. They usually lever off quite easily and push-fit back on (even in the wrong places).

Anyway, I like to give the keys a good scrub with soapy water along with all the other parts ('cept for the PCB of course).

GG

"The Gods made Heavy Metal"

Mine had little black plastic clips and they were miserable to seat back in place! I don't think I'll attempt it again, GG.

I have one of those plastic covers that fits over the keyboard. It works great.

Dog hair can find its way into the opening where the little light is on an optical mouse too. Nothing could make me get rid of the dog, so I guess I just keep cleaning the mouse.

I have a laptop so when it is closed,(not often) it is protected. I usually turn it over and gently shake it once in a while. I blow it out with the air can and I use a cosmetic brush to clean it.

If you agree with everything, then you agree with nothing.

Oops. My mistake. Off of “thoughts”. (Lol)

Like everything else "they" are gradually making keyboards so cheap and nasty that it won't be worth trying to keep them clean - just chuck 'em out when they get too grotty. I cut my typing teeth on WWII-designed teleprinters, hence I am a nine-fingered typist.

I just got a catalogue in which there's a keyboard you can roll up when not in use, just two or three plastic membranes with conductive print. Far cry from my oldest keyboard in which each key depressed a little magnet that in turn caused a reed-switch to close and send the character. Weighed a ton but a superb piece of engineering.

I bet in another ten years (or less) keyboards will be in computer museums along with DVD's and mobile-phone cameras. Voice control is still a long way from perfect but it'll come, of that I have no doubt (I wonder how you'd enter your passwords???).

GG

"The Gods made Heavy Metal"

I only know of one person who never eats in front of his computer. For the rest of us normal mortals those disposable keyboards will probably catch on. This keyboard cover has more than paid for itself. Without it I'd probably have had to replace several keyboards.

My bank uses some sort of voice technology. The machine uses a voice that talks to you and responds to what you ask provided you say the right words. This morning I coughed and the thing started doing all sorts of weird things so I had to start over. Apparently voice technology still has a few bugs. I'd be happier talking to a person. The passwords still have to be keyed in using the phone.

GG, your password will be entered by just thinking it, of course!

Falcon, I am one of those weird people that do not eat anything even near my keyboard! My daughter, however, has fryed two computers spilling drinks through her keyboard into her laptops! I worry about just airborne things getting into mine!

PC stuff is so cheap - every now and then I bang my keyboard upside down to get the detritus out - when that fails - buy a new one.

R2

R2, that makes me cringe! I do turn mine upside down and shake it very gently! Of course, mine is a laptop, but I am afraid I treated my desktop computer the same!