Controlling Your Computer with Your Head

  • S05E19
  • January 31, 2012

Robbie and Hillary demonstrate an amazing piece of technology for ergonomic or accessible use which allows you to control your computer's mouse by simply moving your head.

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This episode is sponsored in part by: Liquid Image, Garden Gate Farms, Planet Calypso & Pogoplug.

Topics Covered:

  • Robbie Ferguson and Hillary Rumball present live from the Category5 studios in Barrie, Ontario.
  • Category5 on-demand video is making the switch to YouTube.
  • Category5 is working on building time travel, but it's not going well. But you can skip sections of our video, at least.
  • Category5's mobile web site lets you watch Category5 on your mobile device.
  • Viewer Postcards from Agamotto (Illinois, USA) and Robgor (Melbourne, Australia).
  • {play 14:06}Viewer Questions
  • Viewer Question: I setup a dual boot with Linux Mint and Windows 7 on my wife's laptop. I'm having trouble getting the touchpad disabled on Linux. Is there a good way to disable it?
  • Taking a boo at syndaemon.
  • Viewer Question: If you were to do a minimal backup on Windows XP, Ubuntu or Mac, what would you backup?
  • Robbie's experience installing Debian and restoring his Ubuntu backup to the new installation.
  • Also backing up Windows 7 user files.
  • Viewer Question: I ran a defrag on my computer and it was really slow, so I aborted it, but now I lost access to some of my folders. It's forcing a chkdsk now, and I still can't get access to my files. How can I get Windows to restore my files? Should I run another defrag?
  • {play 28:26}Why you should never use dodgy data recovery software, and why you should never take the risk of recovering your own data without knowing exactly what you're doing.
  • {play 30:45}Top stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom.
  • {play 35:42}Feature: The SmartNav ergonomic and assistive hands-free mouse which uses infrared sensors, allowing you to control your mouse by moving your head.
  • The various ways you can click your "mouse" when using a SmartNav cursor controller.
  • Using the SmartNav stickers to turn any object (such as a pen) into a SmartNav pointer.
  • Greetings to viewers in the chat room.
  • Hillary breaks the Internet.
  • Viewer Question: Would you ever consider doing an episode about doing a PXE boot?
  • Viewer Question: What do you think of Debian so far? I also don't like Unity, and am considering the switch. – See Robbie's Blog: http://www.category5.tv/blog/my-debian-installation-goodbye-for-now-ubuntu.php
  • What Robbie thinks of Canonical's attempt to push users into Unity.
  • Viewer Comment: I may opt to switch to XFCE.
  • Cool new web site feature: The show notes (see above) feature links which allow you to start the video at a specific point.

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