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How much will it cost for my HP Pavilion DV6000 series laptop keyboard to get fixed? I have 2 letters that keep on falling off and they are the letters E and B. Right now I have tape over it to keep from falling out. I don’t like looking at the keyboards anymore and it feels weird bcuz there is tape on it. I want to get it fixed or at least get the whole keyboard fixed depending on how much it will cost.
Please help. Thanks.

if you take it to a shop.. you’ll be looking at over $100…
I did replace my Keyboard twice already, I bought my HP KB off the ebay for about $10 ($20 shipped) just do a google search on HP keyboard replacement, you can find few easy to follow instructions.

My nephew is turning 5 soon, and I wanted to buy him a keyboard to learn on. His parents are non-musical, and I live out of state. Will he take to this instrument? He’s very smart.

If you want to spend on a Keyboard for a child to learn get a full 88 key and have them "weighted." This makes the transition to a regular piano easy.

If you get the small Casio keyboard – the child has to start all over when they get to a Piano because of the touch.

go to www.musicianscanbuy.com – they have good deals on digital pianos with weighted keys and usually free shipping.

What is your favorite Keyboard for serious typing? I use a mac, so I am looking for one that will be Mac compatible, not overly expensive(preferably under $100) and great for doing lots of typing and graphic design work.

I use the Apple Aluminum keyboard. I like it.

I tried to connect my apple bluebooth keyboard to my blackberry. My blackberry recognized the keyboard, but
when asked to input the 4 digit codes, it did not work after
usual "0000" codes.

You should type the code that was in the packaging of the Keyboard not 0000

Made a small fix/hack to make it possible to play with friends on 1 Keyboard or use a normal (non-xbox360) controller.

link: http://rapidshare.com/files/359318454/xinputter.zip

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I do a lot of gaming and have always had a wired keyboard, however now I want to make the switch to wireless. I found what looked like a great deal, but the reviews said it would only go 1-2 feet from the receiver, and I really need it to go like 6-10 feet with my setup. I thought bluetooth devices were supposed to go about 30 feet, but now I’m not sure. Any thoughts for this prospective gamer?

Logitech is a very good reliable brand that offers wireless mice and keyboards. Usually they come together as a bundle. You can find a Keyboard/mouse by logitech that are both wireless on eBay for UNDER $30.00USD. If you buy it from a store such as BestBuy you can expect to pay about $60.00USD if not more for the same exact thing.

This is a short clip of Stan Walker on Today FM with Lisa, Baz and Sam doing the Casio Keyboard Challenge singing ‘Halo’.

The full radio interview can be found as a video response for this video or on the channel page.

Radio Interview Date: 19 February 2010

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I had a TRS-80 from radio shack in the mid 80s. This is a computer that hooked up to your TV and I could turn that Keyboard into a Piano so im hoping it wont be that difficult since this is 25 yrs later lol. Can anyone help?

get some software

This is Ean Golden’s personal club mapping for the Oxygen 8 and other 2 octave Keyboard controllers. You can download it for free by following this link:

http://www.djtechtools.com/midi-map/

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I found a way to do it using older versions of Word, but nothing for 2007. Can anyone help? Or tell me how to add custom keyboard shortcuts?

Here is a list from Microsoft of Keyboard shortcuts. See if they will help you:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290938