Chorded Input and the Japanese Language: An Introduction and Invitation
Those of us who use languages written in the Latin alphabet likely don’t think much about how we input text.…
Category: Hardware
Returning to Denshi Jisho: The Ongoing Benefits of Electronic Dictionaries
In 2021, I wrote a short piece for the Digital Orientalist entitled “Denshi Jisho: Are they still worth your time?”…
Denshi Jisho: Are they still worth your time?
With the rise of smartphone technology, the market for electronic dictionaries (J. Denshi jisho 電子辞書) has gradually shrunk. When I…
Book and Document Scanning with the CZUR Aura X Pro
I recently purchased a CZUR Aura X Pro to scan documents and books in my office, home, and at libraries…
Running Windows software on Mac
Many people in universities have a Mac. Yet, the world still for the most part runs on Windows. This can…
Varmilo VB87M bluetooth keyboard
Back to mechanical keyboards. If you are a writer and have not tried these out yet, you are missing out!…
IBM Model M: the mother of all keyboards
This is one of those geekier posts. Mechanical keyboards. Again. And this time I had the opportunity to test the…
Reading on a Phone
Carrying a smartphone has made my tablet obsolete. Digital reading has two main modes; plain text or PDF. Plain text…
How Important Is Your Monitor?
Next to your keyboard, your monitor is the part of the computer you encounter most often. In fact, many people…
Mechanical Keyboard (3)
I have recently switched to a different keyboard. I now use a Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. As long as the…