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Quote: | New Apple Keyboard has smart caps lock avoidance http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/10/12426/ The engineers in Cupertino aren’t historically ones to keep old technology around in their products for sentimental– or even practical– reasons. Apple was the first major computer manufacturer to move their entire product line to USB peripherals, the first to make FireWire standard, and one of the first to offer notebooks with ExpressCard instead of PCMCIA. It makes one wonder then why on earth they’ve kept that useless caps lock key around. Sure, its part of the standard keyboard layout (and arguably not for much longer– the OLPC has no such key), but since when has Apple really cared that much about standards? It seems, though, that even if Apple isn’t dropping caps lock all together, they’re at least making it less of a nuisance to those of us WHO DON’T SEND EVERY EMAIL AS IF WE’RE YELLING ACROSS A CROWDED CITY STREET. Jonathan Rentzsch of Red Shed software has figured out that the slim new Apple Keyboards are smart enough to ignore accidental caps lock activation. A quick jab at the key, such as the kind one would do on accident, is insufficient to trigger virtual screaming. Instead, users must hold the key down for a few milliseconds to get the undesired result. All the gory details, plus video, at Wolf’s site. | more info@Jonathan Rentzsch's blog: http://rentzsch.com/notes/applesantiCAPSLOCK
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