Thursday, June 04, 2009

Writing a thesis; learn to touch type

One of the best things I did before writing my thesis, was to take two weeks of free time, and learn to touch type. This will help you to write quicker and more accurately since you can read as you type.


I used a program for Mac called Ten Thumbs, I saw in Life Hacker a link to a free online program to teach you called typing web. When I learnt I recalled hearing that there was a different keyboard layout called Dvorak. In the apple keyboard menu I can set a shortcut to switch between QWERTY and Dvorak (QWERTY); the brackets note that pressing the apple key uses the QWERTY settings. This helped me to learn because looking at the keys didn't help you at all, so I couldn't cheat.


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