Adesso Erases Computing Boundaries with New Wireless Mini-Keyboard Featuring an Integrated GlidePoint Touchpad
Las Vegas (ContentDesk) January 5, 2006 -- Adesso Inc., a leading manufacturer and distributor of innovative and stylish keyboards, mice, touchpads, and Graphic Tablets, today introduced its new line of wireless keyboards with built-in pointing technology. The WKB 4000US features long-range 2.4GHz connectivity, cutting the cords that tie the keyboard, mouse, and PC to a fixed workspace.
Adesso will highlight its popular portfolio of keyboards, Cyberpads, and CyberTablets at the Consumer Electronics Showcase (CES 2006) in Las Vegas, January 5 - 8, in the Sands Convention Center at booth # 70970.The WKB-4000US SlimTouch mini keyboard is Adessos flagship model featuring 2.4GHz connectivity, an ultra-slim, ultra-stylish design with clean lines, and an integrated touchpad.
The Adesso wireless SlimTouch keyboard fits beautifully with contemporary PC systems and flat LCD monitors in modern office environments.
The simple shape and distinct design provides users with an input solution that is simple and compact.
It can sit in a conference room or office and can instantly go mobile easily fitting in a briefcase or backpack.
When on the road, the USB mini-receiver plugs directly into a notebook or another PC providing connectivity up to 100 feet.
The integrated GlidePoint touchpad takes the place of the traditional mouse. The touchpad is easy to use enabling users to simply glide their finger over the touchpad to guide the cursor.
The MSRP is $129.99.
The WKB-4000 includes two built-in buttons for familiar mouse performance as well as an embedded numeric keypad and 12 function keys for one-touch commands.
They feature low-profile tactile keys for quieter typing and membrane key switches, which ensures longer life. Our new space-saving keyboard combines the functionality of a full-sized keyboard and mouse with the freedom to take it anywhere and everywhere, said Allen Ku, CEO of Adesso, Inc. Its stylish, ultra flat design is ideal for complementing flat screen LCDs in the office or home, traveling in mobile computing applications, linking users to multimedia PCs and set top boxes in the living room, collaborating in conference rooms, or wherever space is constrained or a streamlined appearance preferred. The new line of wireless mini-keyboards are available now and available through Ingram Micro, direct vendors including AMAZON, Buy.com, PC Mall, CDW, mWave, TigerDirect, and Insight; retail stores such as Frys and Micro Center; and through leading catalogs including CDW, PC Mall and PC Connection.About AdessoAdesso was founded in 1992.
The company manufactures and markets innovative, ergonomic, industrial, programmable, wireless, and foldable keyboards as well as touchpads, mice, numeric keypads and high performance Graphic Tablets.
Adesso most successful product lines include its Tru-Form ergonomic keyboards with Glidepoint touchpads and Graphic Tablets.The company is located at 160 Commerce Way, Walnut, CA 91789. The company can be reached at (909) 839-2929 or via the web at www.adesso.com . Media Contact:Brian SolisFutureWorks 408-428-0895 Ext. 101.
The Psychedelic Keyboard Summit featuring: Vince Welnick (the Grateful Dead & The Tubes), Tom Constanten & Bob Bralove (the Grateful Dead), and band, will perform with The Great Valley High School Orchestra in Malvern, PA
(ContentDesk) September 30, 2004 - Students in the orchestra at Great Valley High School, in Malvern, PA, are about to have a once in a lifetime experience.
On October 1, the students will get the opportunity to perform onstage with alumni from The Grateful Dead.
To make matters even more exciting, the orchestra, led by Dick Sutcliffe and Doug Wilford, will be premiering an entire concerto written by Grateful Dead alumni Bob Bralove, Tom Constanten and Vince Welnick.In a return engagement to Great Valley Performing Arts Center, Bralove, Constanten and Welnick and band ? The Psychedelic Keyboard Summit, will perform new and vintage material for the first half of the evening.
Continuing the tradition of the Grateful Dead music and light shows, they will also utilize an additional visual component, integrating cutting edge video projection technology developed by Bob Bralove, something he calls "Digital Fingerpainting".
This technology allows images to...
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eMedia Music Announces an Innovative Way to Learn Intermediate Piano
Seattle, WA (ContentDesk via ContentDesk Direct) January 11, 2006 -- eMedia Music Corp., publisher of the worlds best-selling and award-winning series of guitar tutorial CD-ROMs, announces its new dual platform Windows/Macintosh eMedia Intermediate Piano & Keyboard Method CD-ROM. This innovative and original approach to teaching piano incorporates the classics, blues and improvisation to create an exciting musical experience. It is the follow up to the successful eMedia Piano & Keyboard Method CD-ROM released in 2003, which was hailed as
An impressive and thorough piano teaching program (American Music Teacher Magazine) and "Simply Amazing" (Music News). eMedia Music is acknowledged to be the leader in music education software with educational endorsements including Top 50 CD-ROM for school and after school from Newsweek. 
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Monitor Keyboard Drawer Features Standard Mouse
Acnodes Corporation, of Walnut, California announces the KD 9200 20.1" ultra high resolution (1600 x 1200) 2U rackmount monitor keyboard drawer with a 20.1" UXGA TFT LCD. This monitor keyboard drawer is intended for the rackmount and military market requiring high end graphic capabilities.The 20.1 inch TFT LCD display provides 1600 x 1200 pixel resolution, .255mm dot pitch, a contrast ratio of 750:1 and a brightness of 250cd/m2. An optional touch screen is available. There is also a tempered glass installed on the fornt of LCD panel for better protection.The desktop-type mechanic keyboad provides 101 keys and includes a standard optical mouse. The keyboard and optical mouse are available in a PS/2 connector.
The stereo speaker is located on the top of LCD panel for audio applications.The clamshell style of the KD 9200 and its rugged construction lends itself perfectly to installation in mobile equipment cases. The 20.1" UXGA LCD is imperative to clearly display as much information...
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10 Time Saving Keyboard Shortcuts
Time is money.
And when you constantly have to divide your time between your mouse and your keyboard, your workflow rate really slows down. That's particularly true when you're working on a laptop, where the pointing device is even slower. The answer - short of growing another arm - is to learn a few "handy" keyboard shortcuts.
Here are 10 of the best: 1.
Make a quick exit: ALT - F4 will terminate any program immediately. 2. Flick - don't click: ALT - TAB to flick through open programs. 3. Make a quick selection: CTRL - SHIFT and move cursor with left / right / up / down arrows to quickly select areas of text.
4. Cut, copy and paste to the chase: CTRL - X / C / V to cut, copy and paste selected text. 5. Undo what you've done: CTRL - Z will undo anything.
(And to redo: CTRL - Y although this varies between programs.) 6.
Page - don't scroll: In MSIE use Page Up & Page Down to save time fiddling with the scroll bar. 7. E for explorer: WINDOWS...
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From the Giant Keyboard in the Movie “Big”, to the Magic of “Piano Wizard”, FAO Schwarz Toyland Continues It’s Landmark Music Making Tradition This Holiday Season
(ContentDesk) December 9, 2005 -- The holiday season in New York City means snow-covered sidewalks, ice-skating at Rockefeller Center, and no kids winter experience is complete without a visit to the world famous toy display at FAO Schwarz. The store's guiding principle has not changed since 1862: to provide the world's children with the most extraordinary toys, and this year FAOs Toyland will include one of the hottest new gifts on the market: Piano Wizard". One of the classic movie moments and memories is Tom Hanks hopping across the giant keyboard at FAO Schwarz in the movie Big, said Chris Salter, inventor of Piano Wizard and founder of parent company Allegro Multimedia.
In that moment, he brings out the musical child in all of us, and that is what we have strived to do with Piano Wizard from the outset. To have Piano Wizard as part of that landmark annual toy display is a delight for us and the children, because now they can play real music quickly and easily, almost...
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Keyboard Cleaning
Keyboard CleaningThere are several ways to clean a keyboard. If it is simply clogged with dust, hair and other various particles, you can use a screwdriver to remove a few keys from each side of the keyboard and then use the can of compressed air to blow all of the stray particles out of the keyboard.Just be forewarned - it is difficult to pry out large keys such as the shift keys and the spacebar without breaking them, so you should probably stick to the smaller keys. To remove a key easily, pry upward gently until the keys pops loose.If 'sticky stuff' has been spilled into the keyboard or some of the keys are still somehow obstructed or sticking after you have tried using the above keyboard cleaning method, your next option is to remove the screws from the back of the keyboard and fully disassemble the keyboard.After you have removed the plastic molding from around the keyboard, simply remove all of the keys from the front of the keyboard (much easier now) and take a damp cloth and...
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