This review (Japanese) contains four opinions on the new Happy Hacking Keyboard Pro 2, which is a USB 2.0 model. In general, people seem to like the feel, but there was consistent concern over the fact that larger keys such as control and shift did not go down as smoothly when not pressed exactly in […]
The Avant Prime by Creative Vision Technology. This one seems to have it all.. ALPS switches, hardware programmable remapping, and N key rollover. The only thing it’s missing is USB, but that can be fixed with a ps/2 to USB adapter. Going for $149, which is not much more than the Tactile Pro, and with […]
Some lunch places that I recently went to: Boxed Food Company (245 Kearny St, SF) A take-out soup-and-sandwich place, which gives you your food in generously sized boxes. Not only are their sandwiches pretty tasty, the include a pretty good salad (with good dressing, and large parmesan slices). Maybe a tad on the spendy side, […]
Updated the keyboards section with conclusions about the Tactile Pro. Started a links section. It’s amazing to me how much more organized the Japanese keyboard enthusiasts community seems. As far as I can tell, there is one guy who started a small store in Akihabara (Tokyo’s electric town area) just to serve this community. There […]
With the cash freed up by the return of the Tactile Pro, it’s time to move on to the next candidate. This one wasn’t actually on my list until very recently. It’s the SMK-88 sold by DSI for $60 USD. It uses the black-stemmed Cherry ‘linear’ feel switches. I’m a little nervous because the Qwerter’s […]
I’ve been pretty happy with smugmug, but today I came across PhotoShelter, which purports to be a smugmug type service meant for Pro photographers. Interesting features include the ability to upload RAW images and that they provide strong backup features. It had always annoyed me that you couldn’t upload RAW images to smugmug. They probably […]
Got a reply from Matias. Turns out their manufacturer has exhausted their supply of ALPS switches, so they can’t make any more new ones. So no more new versions left. I guess that’s also why the price has gone up to $150 on their website. They should look into using Cherry switches instead. There are […]
On two fronts: Keyboard: I’ve arranged for a RMA from OWC for the Tactile Pro, since the ghosting thing is too annoying. But then I found this page: http://www.macintouch.com/keyboards.html where a MacInTouch reader describes the exact same problem that I’m finding, and goes on the recommend that fast typists stay away from the Tactile Pro. […]
The problem with laptops, is that the usecases they support are always a subset of those supported by desktops. Sure, you can “move” a laptop, but moving a computer is not a use case in itself. You end up giving up a lot of capability, for the ability to take your task elsewhere. But what […]
Well, it turns out that whenever I ssh’ed into work, the problem would reproduce itself. Odd. As I final test, I tried plugging the board into my windows desktop, and hit the “space, o, p” combination over and over again. Well then what do you know, I start to get capital o’s and capital P’s […]