Keyclick red4/17/2023 ![]() Second, Keyclick makes a noise when I use the scroll wheel. Before Keyclick, in such a situation I was left slowly noticing that nothing on the screen had changed and wondering why now I get instant feedback. That’s very important, because the MacBook trackpad button is extremely firm, so I often think I’ve clicked it when I haven’t. First, it makes a noise when I click the trackpad button, and when I release it. And so, in short order, I run the maze better and better.Īctually, Keyclick helps me even more with two further bits of functionality. Thus, as if I were a rat in a maze being rewarded for my successes, myīrain and my fingers are guided to press just the right amount to produce that satisfying pop. Even more, Keyclick tells me (by its silence) when I’ve failed to press a key, or when I’ve held down a key long enough to produce multiple, repeated characters. ![]() So how can it be helpful, as claimed on the product’s Web site, “if your keyboard seems mushy, or you’ve ever longed for the crisp feel of an older keyboard”? Why does it make me a better typist on my MacBook? It’s because the noise it makes, though little more than a faintly detectable pop each time I press a key, tells me almost subliminally that I have pressed a key. It doesn’t affect your physical keyboard at all it just makes noise when you type. That’s why I’m so enthusiastic about Keyclick, by Peter Sichel, a developer best known for his networking utilities, but who is also just an all-around nice fellow, always willing to share his expertise with total strangers who approach him at trade shows (guess how I know that?). Line,” ), but I’m not all that positive about it either. ![]() But when you’re on the road with your portable (and “the road” could be merely one end of your living room), and can’t attach an external keyboard, you must “dance with the one that brought you.” I’m not particularly negative about my new MacBook’s keyboard (discussed, when the first model appeared, in “ MacBook Fills Out Laptop In “ The Majestic Alps and the King of Keyboards,”, Adam waxes nostalgic about the Apple Extended Keyboard and enthusiastic about its reincarnation in the Matias Tactile Pro. Here at TidBITS, we’re all heavy keyboard users, and we’ve run occasional stories about keyboards we found particularly satisfying. ![]() In a way, I’ve sought ever since to recover that same keyboard feel. With it, I could type very fast and accurately. What I loved wasn’t just its changeable fonts (though these were essential to my work, letting me type in both Ancient Greek and English) something about the feel of the keyboard, shared also with IBM’s card-punch machines of a slightly earlier era, was uniquely satisfying, clear, and positive. Long before I owned a personal computer, I had an IBM Selectric typewriter, and all was right with the world. #1627: iPhone 14 lineup, Apple Watch SE/Series 8/Ultra, new AirPods Pro, iOS 16 and watchOS 9 released, Steve Jobs Archive.#1628: iPhone 14 impressions, Dark Sky end-of-life, tales from Rogue Amoeba.#1629: iOS 16.0.2, customizing the iOS 16 Lock Screen, iPhone wallet cases, meditate for free with Oak.#1630: Apple Books changes in iOS 16, simplified USB branding, recovering a lost Google Workspace account.#1631: iOS 16.0.3 and watchOS 9.0.2, roller coasters trigger Crash Detection, Medications in iOS 16, watchOS 9 Low Power Mode.
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