Posted on 10/13/2015 6:40:19 AM PDT by smokingfrog
If you are one of the many long-suffering people who have gone for a coffee break and come back to a computer screen full of gibberish or a crashed system, PawSense is for you!
"PawSense is a software utility that helps protect your computer from cats. It quickly detects and blocks cat typing, and also helps train your cat to stay off the computer keyboard" is how BitBoost described the product.
Chris Niswander, a graduate in computer science from Arizona State University, is the creator of this path-breaking product. "One day, my sister's cat, Amos, walked across her computer keyboard and managed to uninstall some software, delete crucial files and crash the machine. I figured out that he'd triggered a series of keyboard shortcuts (ALT, CTRL, F1-F2) with his paws," recalled Niswander, according to Priceonomics.
So Niswander set to work to create something that could save computer systems from falling prey to cats.
To write software that could "detect" "cat-like typing," Niswander said he "made these cardboard cutouts of cat paws, then 'walked' them across my keyboard, pretending I was a cat."
(Excerpt) Read more at hngn.com ...
My cat walks on my keyboard and my dog screws up my TV remote. LOL!
Some of my best posts here on FR are made by my cat.
LOL, another successful entrepreneur!
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I fully expect that graphic to become a standard response to bloviating trolls on FR.
kitteh ping
The pets KNOW computers and TV are works of the devil, lol.
My cat has got me in trouble on web various sites
Can it detect a two year old boy suddenly discovering that the power strip has a light on it that goes on and off when you push the little red switch a whole bunch of times?......................
I am a dog guy. About 3 years ago, we had to put my dog down. My 10 year plan didn’t really allow for a replacement. My daughter brought home a cat one day about two years ago. Tried to hide it for a few days, but I found it. Damn thing was too cute to make her get rid of it. I kind of like the damn thing now.
I call her Kittyrat.
Don’t tell any of my friends I admitted i like her, OK?
My kitteh is responsible for this post . .
“and also helps train your cat to stay off the computer keyboard”
I didn’t see anything about how it does that.
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Like that's going to work ....
Rustling a plastic shopping bag spooks our cats.
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