Over at Baron Bob are a set of keyboard stickers going for nearly $10. The benefits? Once the lights go out, the letters glow, a process better known as “glowing in the dark”. This should make the snottiness of those who can afford illuminated keyboards—like the fancy-shmancyLuxeed Dynamic Pixel LED keyboard—obsolete.

Really now? Personally, I think the trouble of washing a keyboard (incidentally you can actually wash many keyboards with soap and water, so long as you wait for them to dry before plugging them back in) and applying stickers to each key sounds like too much trouble. Also, pay a …read more

So someone wanted to replace his eMac keyboard with another keyboard, sans the Eject Key. And he thoughtfully asks “Is there a keyboard sequence, hot key, whatever that will open the drive”? Guess what the solution was!
blockquote>Go to the root of your hard drive (double-click on it) and open System: Library: CoreServices: Menu Extras. Inside that window, double-click on the icon called Eject.menu. You may want to hold down the OPTION key and drag it to the desktop to make a copy there, but once you start the application, it will put an eject symbol in the right …read more

Remember the Luxeed Dynamic Pixel LED Keyboard? Turns out that totally playful yet useful peripheral—apparently available in the US only through ThinkGeek—has a newer cousin back in the home Korea. The Luxeed U5 adds support for Mac and Linux, meaning the utility that allows you to control the color for each individual key now works for both OSes, instead of being Windows-only.

Technabob, who were apparently able to decipher the Korean on the product site, reported many other changes: reduction of the “ghosting” caused by the lighting LEDs, addition of a firmware update utility, and improved key responsiveness. That last promised …read more

Aside from “Would you pay $130 for a wired keyboard with an iPod dock built-in?”, the other question we have for the Razer Pro|Type Keyboard is “Why does it only come in white?”
Razer’s probably assuming that future owners will probably hook this baby up to their iMac. But where does that leave the Mac Pro owners, not to mention those who use non-white iPods and computers—like a PC?
Full details here.