Doing something with the numeric keypad
I, like most people, don't use the numeric keypad on my keyboard much and they seem to me to be a complete waste of otherwise perfectly good eighteen keys.
I was wondering if there was something cool that could be done with them - I've heard of some people con开发者_StackOverflow社区trolling their mouse pointer using the 2, 4, 6 and 8 keys, but that does seem very practical to me.
Any ideas?
Low tech solution:
Remove the keys (easy with a pencil) so the key won't exceed the border, then you could glue a piece of wood over it and get a cup holder.
I use my keypad keys for adding, subtracting, multiplication, division, numerical data entry, etc. Now I'm going to use my CTRL, SHIFT, and W keys together to try and figure out what this has to do with programming...
Why not create a custom keyboard layout?
Real languages often have special characters you could put there.
Alternately if you use APL you could put their 'unique' characters in there.
Try using AutoHotKey http://www.autohotkey.com/, and setting up some hotkeys for common tasks that you perform, for example:
- Opening my computer
- Opening your data folders
- Opening web browser
- Copying as plain text
- Sleeping the computer
- Etc.
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