footpedal acts as a "pseduo-driver" for the USB foot pedal for transcriptionists by VEC. It lets you assign arbitrary keystrokes to the left, middle, and right pedal. You could find one on eBay, or it might also work with a home-built USB foot pedal.

It is useful for hands-free web surfing during your lunch break. It allows you to cycle through tabs in the browser and scroll up and down the page, among other things.

You can either assign a function to all three pedals, or leave one pedal free for cycling through different (two-)function sets.

The lsusb output for this device is:

05f3:00ff PI Engineering, Inc.

In addition to that pictured above, footpedal has been confirmed to work with these devices:

• Infinity IN-USB-2 USB Transcription Foot Pedal
• PedalPax 2-Button Pedal

After installation, the application launcher will appear in the System -> Preferences menu.