{"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:\/\/www.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\" data-attachment-id=\"90\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/25\/a-cool-little-keyboard\/mk_arckb_sm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mk_arckb_sm.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"130,115\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mk_arckb_sm\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mk_arckb_sm.jpg\" 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\u2019m a touch typist. There are times (like when I\u2019m 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\u2019t find a folding bluetooth (wireless) keyboard in stock and there were few choices. And for a guy that doesn\u2019t care if Zappos.com has an easy return policy, I wanted to SEE they keyboard before buying it.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough \u2013 Microsoft to the rescue. Staples has their new bluetooth \u201ccompact\u201d wireless keyboard. It includes a separate numeric keypad. $89. Not bad, I thought. But, I don\u2019t need the numeric keypad and the keyboard itself wasn\u2019t as compact as I would have liked.<\/p>\n<p>Office Depot introduced me to a second option. The new Microsoft Arc keyboard. It\u2019s 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\u2019t 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\u2019s usb port. They keyboard is small, but they keys are spaced out enough to touch type \u2013 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\u2019t need it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, um\u2026.Microsoft. Consider me impressed (although a bluetooth version of the Arc would be nicer still!). And a folding version\u2026well\u2026.<\/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\u2019m a touch typist. There are times (like when I\u2019m 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\u2019t 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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gH3K-1k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}