June 6, 2007

X-Keys Give You Shortcut Buttons on Your Monitor June 6, 2007

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X-Keys are a strip of shortcut buttons that you stick on your monitor and assign macros to using software, allowing you to quickly do tasks you do frequently with the push of a single button.

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It's pretty neat for people who use programs like Photoshop all day and do macroable things, but my repetitive tasks are harder to program one-button macros for. I mean, I can't get it to IM Chen to talk about video games in the middle of the afternoon, nor can I get it to go poke around in the fridge even though I know I have no food. But hey, when they figure out how to make one of those, I'll be the first in line to buy one. I'm all about efficiency, after all. –Adam Frucci

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Comments

That's ugly!

posted-by Gordon | June 7, 2007 10:18 AM

looks very cheap also

posted-by Andrew | June 7, 2007 12:08 PM

Does look like a nice idea done badly!

I seem to remember a better concept a while back which was a keyboard that could change it's buttons by downloading/switching layouts. The keyboard was dynamic and suited different types of people i.e. designers using Photoshop shortcuts.

That's a better use of shortcuts than a stupid stick on strip!

posted-by John | June 7, 2007 4:27 PM