From the blogs: CB Droege on Zboards

[CB]

This originally appeared in the Icrontic Blogs:

I really like the functionality of my ZBoard. In fact: ZBoard is the wheelbarrow that carries the otherwise useless FPS gamer in me through late night sessions of TF2. However, the ZBoard could be much more than it is, for the user, and for its distributor, Ideazon.

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[Winga]

I have an Adobe Photoshop Z Board interface. The inset cost me an arm and a leg but it has every little trick and short cut clearly marked on the keys, which for a Photoshop noob like me comes in very handy. So I supose that's one use other than gaming that can be used to great advantage. There must be many software applications out there that can be applied the same way.

[Buddy J]

I'd love something like it for Quark. I bet most design programs would benefit from it.

[CB]

I have an Adobe Photoshop Z Board interface. The inset cost me an arm and a leg but it has every little trick and short cut clearly marked on the keys, which for a Photoshop noob like me comes in very handy. So I supose that's one use other than gaming that can be used to great advantage. There must be many software applications out there that can be applied the same way.


I didn't see that a Photoshop version existed before now because it not anywhere on the Ideazon site. The only inserts that they list are for games.

Edit: Now that you mentioned that one, and I did some more in-depth searching, I found that they have made a few inserts for non-gaming apps. They are all still just stickered variations of the standard set. I find it to be poor marketing that these were not anywhere to be found on the page for ZBoard inserts (which is where I have been going periodically for a couple years to see if they will finally release some non-gaming inserts)

[Sidekicksol]

I do get what your saying, but lots of the customers for these cool looking keyboards are teens and under 18 gamers, who frankly don't notice that the boards are the same. They(we) also care much more about those precious stickers.

[Crazy Joe]

If you do a Google search for Zboard Insert the first two results that come up are IC. We rock!!