{"id":82,"date":"2010-04-25T15:11:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T19:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-05-17T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:36:39","slug":"a-cool-little-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/25\/a-cool-little-keyboard\/","title":{"rendered":"A cool little keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mk_arckb_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-90\" title=\"mk_arckb_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mk_arckb_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>The slate is nice. But I&#8217;m a touch typist. There are times (like when I&#8217;m updating this blog) that I must pound away. Difficult to do with a stylus or a fingertip on an onscreen keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Solution? Well, I couldn&#8217;t find a folding bluetooth (wireless) keyboard in stock and there were few choices. And for a guy that doesn&#8217;t care if Zappos.com has an easy return policy, I wanted to SEE they keyboard before buying it.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough &#8211; Microsoft to the rescue. Staples has their new bluetooth &#8220;compact&#8221; wireless keyboard. It includes a separate numeric keypad. $89. Not bad, I thought. But, I don&#8217;t need the numeric keypad and the keyboard itself wasn&#8217;t as compact as I would have liked.<\/p>\n<p>Office Depot introduced me to a second option. The new Microsoft Arc keyboard. It&#8217;s not bluetooth, but it is wireless. This means that I have to plug a miniature wireless usb transceiver into the only usb port on the slate. $59. I can live with that. I don&#8217;t use the USB port often and can do without it when I want to use the keyboard. The transceiver is very small, so I can leave it in the slate&#8217;s usb port. They keyboard is small, but they keys are spaced out enough to touch type &#8211; unlike the keyboards on most netbooks (those sub $300 miniature notebooks). And it even comes with a sleeve to store it in when I don&#8217;t need it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, um&#8230;.Microsoft. Consider me impressed (although a bluetooth version of the Arc would be nicer still!). And a folding version&#8230;well&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>See the Arc at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/hardware\/mouseandkeyboard\/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=120\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/hardware\/mouseandkeyboard\/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=120<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slate is nice. But I&#8217;m a touch typist. There are times (like when I&#8217;m updating this blog) that I must pound away. Difficult to do with a stylus or a fingertip on an onscreen keyboard. Solution? Well, I couldn&#8217;t find a folding bluetooth (wireless) keyboard in stock and there &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-slates-for-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}