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!

So much just to emulate this?

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 side of the white menu bar above the desktop. When you click on it, you just have to choose Open SuperDrive/DVD Drive/CD etc. or Close SuperDrive… It also gives you the choice of F12, but unless you reassign the EXPOSE action that F12 executes, you won’t be able to use that.

If the eject button disappears on restart or shutdown, just put the copy of the eject.menu file in the Applications folder and then open your System Preferences. In there, go to the USERS section, highlight your account and click on the LOGIN ITEMS tab. Click on the + symbol and then use the window that pops up to navigate to the Applications folder and choose Eject.menu and it will be added to the list of login/start up programs to automatically execute every time you reboot or start up.

Bla bla bla bla bla… these instructions are very similar to a Windows-only procedure somewhat infamous for complication: Changing Your Network IP Address.

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 change is good news, especially for gamers who can take full advantage of assigning different colors to individual keys (green for WSAD and red for toggle weapons, anyone?).

Luxeed is currently accepting U5 pre-orders on its (Korean) website, pricing the peripheral at only $77 (compare that to ThinkGeek’s price of $200 for the older version!)

(image screenshot of product page)

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.