{"id":76,"date":"2009-06-25T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kai.mactane.org\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2010-06-29T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T23:13:08","slug":"musing-on-mac-keyboards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/musing-on-mac-keyboards\/","title":{"rendered":"Musing on Mac Keyboards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at a one-week contract this week, and the client uses only Macs. So I&#8217;m using an unfamiliar Mac keyboard&nbsp;&mdash; the kind with the transparent plastic casing, and the really stiff keys (by my standards, anyway).<\/p>\n<p>I <em>am<\/em> starting to get used to <a href=\"http:\/\/catb.org\/jargon\/html\/F\/feature-key.html\">the propeller key<\/a> already, and getting sort of used to using Meta-K instead of my usual Meta-E to access the search bar\/field in Firefox. But one nice thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Because of the weird keyboard, I&#8217;m hoping that I can <em>avoid<\/em> transferring these habits back to my normal, PC-keyboard typing. Maybe I&#8217;ll be able to turn this drawback into a minor advantage. (Which would be nice, because reaching for the propeller key on my home computer would be <em>seriously<\/em> annoying to me.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at a one-week contract this week, and the client uses only Macs. So I&#8217;m using an unfamiliar Mac keyboard&nbsp;&mdash; the kind with the transparent plastic casing, and the really stiff keys (by my standards, anyway). I am starting to get used to the propeller key already, and getting sort of used to using Meta-K [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,59,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}