Posts tagged keyboard
musingsbymattheous askedIn taking a look at those two products, I don’t see them blocking the exhaust, however the keyboard protector has me worried as it may block the airflow coming into the Mac. I believe the way the fan works inside the keyboard is that it sucks air through the keyboard and blows it out through the hinge. If that cover is on the keyboard, the air coming into the Mac is reduced, which bothers me as MacBooks have historically been known to kick the fan on for relatively little action (playing an extended YouTube video is a good example).
Regarding screen protectors… I’m not really sure what the point is. If it’s supposed to protect from fingerprints, don’t touch your screen. I don’t seem to understand why people can’t point without touching. It’s not going to protect your screen from breaking due to impact either, that’s for sure.
About the only use they may have is if you really don’t like the high-gloss that Apple is putting on their machines these days or if the protector is actually a privacy shield. These are kind of neat actually. Hate prying eyes on the airplane? Try a privacy shield. It’s a polarized piece of plastic that fits over your screen and only allows the person sitting directly in front of it to see it. Get any more than about 15 or 20 degrees to the side and all you see is a black screen. Pretty neat.
There is! Sort of! That's what the f5 and f6 key are for, I just didn't notice until one night when I hit them by accident.
Maybe someone else oblivious will find this useful.
bluesjumpedtherabbit askedHere’s your original. I think you’ve just found the “up/down” I was talking about. Maybe I should have been more clear :)
Anonymous askedQuickTime can only record one at a time, unfortunately. What you could do is record each independently and then put them together into iMovie, if that would work for what you’re doing.
Regarding the font… I think the question prior asked what the typeface on the keys themselves is, which is VAG Rounded. Yes, Myriad Pro is the typeface that Apple uses elsewhere.
Actually, on that note, Apple uses a lot of fonts, though they’re subtly different
Myriad Pro is used on their product names for the most part and on some of their collateral.
Lucida Grande is used frequently in the OS itself.
As I said before, VAG Rounded is used on keyboards.
Apple also uses Helvetica Neue in much of their software as a default typeface.
Quite interesting, really :)
jonsenandrew askedVAG Rounded. It’s a Helvetica variant.
One more question: we recently purchased a brand new 13" Macbook Pro for my wife's old, dying laptop. It's her first Mac, and she really likes it although she has a few niggles with it. The biggest one is delete. Coming from a windows world, she's used to the delete key deleting forwards, and backspace deleting backwards. She rarely uses backspace, and would prefer it if the default action of the delete key was a forward delete. Do you know if this is possible and how to do it? Thanks!
buffaloseven askedI’ve got an easy solution… hold the Fn (function) key while pressing delete. That makes it a forward delete. She’ll get used to it in a cinch.
Cheers!
wivves askedI use both the Bluetooth one and the wired extended keyboard. I actually like them quite a bit. They’re just like the MacBook & MacBook Pro keyboards and are very easy to type on.
If I had my choice, it would be the keyboard action that was on the MacBook Pro just before they went to the Unibody style. I found it very very easy to type on and I could go very quickly on it (in the 90wpm range). This new one is a bit slower.
Though, I like it.
Next, there are also occasions where my MacBook would be in shift-lock by itself when I did not click it. As such, all my alphabets would be in capital and my numbers would be in the shift mode and same goes for my other punctuation keys (like, ASDFGH !@#$% <>? instead of asdfgh 12345 ,./). My MacBook would be very very slow as a result. Whenever this happens, I would just restart my Mac but it would be in safe boot mode and shift lock still occurs and my sound button would not be launched (when I go to preferences>sounds, the audio part would be locked). Sometimes restarting would solve this issue but chances of such are low. Alternatively, I would switch off my Mac and let it cool down, say around 20-30 minutes before switching it on again. However, when all these fail, I would reboot my whole system. Is there something wrong with my MacBook? My other friends who bought the same model as me (we bought our Mac together) did not encounter such issue.
My MacBook: 10.6.2, 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Dual, 4 Gb 1067 MHz DDR3.
Many thanks in advance!
shortchangedepics askedIt sounds to me like the top case needs to be replaced. This includes the trackpad and keyboard. Though, I’m not sure what the equivalent in the unibody models is.
In any case, bring it in to your local Genius Bar and they should be able to sort it out with no problem.
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