This is a place where Kevin "IQ" McGrew and his lovely wife Diane ("Lady Di") make mobile posts from their iPhones. Thus, it is a micro or mobile-blog. The purpose is personal and informational. This blog will allow family and friends to keep in touch with things going on our life together.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Coffee computer
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Over a year ago I spilled a cup of coffee on the keyboard of my Sony Vaio laptop computer. The computer worked fine, but the keyboard was useless. So...what to do? I simply took a cheap external keyboard and mouse and plugged them into the USB ports. I attached the external keyboard on top of the laptops keyboard with Velcro. The above picture is the result. Although no longer my primary computer, and also not a mobile computer, my "coffee computer" now sits on my desk as a secondary computer devoted to certain functions.
I use the hard drive of the coffee computer as a place to back-up files from my primary working notebook computer. I also have my high-speed scanner hooked to this machine so I can have it scanning documents while I'm working on my primary computer. I also use it for email when my primary computer is in the middle of other tasks and I don't want to exit the tasks/programs.
Kind of geek-ish...but effective.
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